Yesterday, June 25, 2009, when the news broke that Michael Jackson had died, many people went online and went over to Twitter. We searched. And we searched for news about Michael Jackson. Soon, we began to see everyone talking about Michael Jackson's untimely death on Twitter. But we also continue to see people gaming the Twitter search engine.
Mark Jackson (no, he's not related to Michael Jackson) was recently interviewed about Twitter search.
If you have not been keeping up with the latest Search Engine Optimization developments when it comes to Google PageRank, PageRank Sculpting, and the NoFollow Tag, then this blog post is probably for you. And even if you have been attempting to keep up with it all, then let this blog post serve as an "overview" of what's going on, and the changes that you may or may not need to make to your website to improve its search engine optimization.
Just over a year ago, I wrote about Rushmore Drive a search engine that was launched in an attempt to deliver relevant search results to the black community. It apparently uses a "a dynamic layer of Black-targeted search results and user-generated content."
Well, now one year and two months later there are reports that Rushmore Drive is closing, shutting its doors.