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Internationally known SEO expert to speak at marketing event in Oklahoma City – NewsOK.com
Feb 8th
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Internationally known SEO expert to speak at marketing event in Oklahoma City
NewsOK.com These days, many marketers are turning to search engine optimization, commonly known as SEO, as a way to help them get their content viewed by the public. SEO is the process of editing and website's content and building links in it in order to improve … |
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Google Begins Building 1-Gigabit Internet Service in Kansas City
Feb 6th
Google breaks ground today on the super-fast fiber optic network it plans to build for the lucky residents of Kansas City, Kan. They’ll get a 1 gigabit-per-second Internet connection, which will offer downloads 100 times faster than what most Americans get. Uploads will be a thousand times faster than average.
Kansas City won this privilege over 1,100 other cities in March 2011. Since then, Google and the city have been surveying, planning, and eating “way too much barbecue,” says Google’s manager, Kevin Lo. Today, they start laying cable. A few months behind the Kansas side, neighbors on the other side of the river in Kansas City, Mo. will get the hook-up as well.
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How Fast Is Fiber?
Fiber optic cable contains a bundle of glass fibers about the width of a human hair. The fastest Internet connection on record was established by researchers at the SuperComputing 2011 conference in Seattle. They were testing ways to share the enormous amounts of data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research. That connection reached 186 gigabits per second. Google Fiber is just 1 gigabit.
That’s not too shabby, though. Verizon’s FiOS network, which is among the fastest commercially available in the U.S., gets only 150 megabits per second. Google Fiber will be almost 7 times faster than that.
How Will Kansas City’s Fiber Work?
Kansas City won the Google Fiber competition because it met all of Google’s various requirements. “Our goal was to find a location where we could build efficiently, make an impact on the community, and develop working partnerships with the local government, utility and community organizations,” its FAQ says. “We believe we’ve found this in both Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.”
Lo says the network will use “thousands of miles” of cable. The backbone of the network will be built first, and then Google Fiber will be connected to homes around Kansas City. The cable work starts today after months of surveying and measuring, as well as some negotiations around how to use the city’s utility poles.
The Kansas City Star reports that Google and the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities had some disagreement over how the network would be hung on the city’s utility poles.
The Wyandotte County government wrote the plan with an unusual stipulation that Google would be allowed to hang its cables for free, using part of the poles typically reserved for utility companies to hang their own communication cables, not for third parties. Phone and cable companies typically use a lower part of the pole, and they pay a fee to do so.
The special installation for Google would also have required more specialized crews, so it would be more costly. The Star’s source says that Google will opt to pay the regular fees like any third-party provider.
Google says the later stages of this experiment will reach over 500,000 people. Google has promised competitive prices for residential Internet service, but it hasn’t been specific yet.
Why Is Google Becoming An ISP?
Google’s not just doing this to collect Internet bills from homes. When the Internet gets faster, Google’s whole business benefits. Google wants to test new, bandwidth-intensive “killer apps” to see what kinds of future services it can provide. But even for normal Web services, speed benefits Google. Put bluntly, the faster your Internet, the more Google ads you can see. That’s why Google search and the Chrome browser are so dang fast.
Google refers to this Google Fiber project as an “experiment,” so don’t get too excited about 1-gigabit fiber in your neighborhood just yet (unless you’re in Kansas City). But as Google said in its initial announcement, there are big implications for testing this out in the U.S. The country isn’t even in the top 10 for average connection speed. Google wants to push U.S. Internet infrastructure forward.
As for Kansas City, with these kinds of speeds, there’s sure to be a boom in next-generation Internet start-ups.
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Tax Relief Firm in Kansas City Hires Local SEO Marketer to Reach More Missouri … – openPR (press release)
Jan 12th
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Tax Relief Firm in Kansas City Hires Local SEO Marketer to Reach More Missouri …
openPR (press release) (openPR) – Advanced Tax Solutions, LLC, a comprehensive tax relief service in Lee's Summit, Missouri, is pleased to announce the recent launch of its new SEO marketing campaign developed in partnership with Prospect Genius, a leader in local online … |
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San Diego SEO Company ‘City Center Mall’ Gets Businesses Ranked, Placed on … – SBWire (press release)
Jan 9th
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San Diego SEO Company 'City Center Mall' Gets Businesses Ranked, Placed on …
SBWire (press release) Businesses throughout California can now turn to the San Diego SEO company City Center Mall to help gain access and get ranked on essential map listings. The company offers businesses without a physical location a centralized PO Box, … |
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San Diego SEO Company ‘City Center Mall’ Gets Businesses Ranked, Placed on … – Emailwire (press release)
Jan 9th
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San Diego SEO Company 'City Center Mall' Gets Businesses Ranked, Placed on …
Emailwire (press release) Businesses throughout California can now turn to the San Diego SEO company City Center Mall to help gain access and get ranked on essential map listings. (EMAILWIRE.COM, January 09, 2012 ) San Diego, Ca — As most companies know, the Internet is the … |
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VIDEO: Maui Signs Sister City Agreement with South Korea’s Seo-gu – Maui Now
Nov 15th
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VIDEO: Maui Signs Sister City Agreement with South Korea's Seo-gu
Maui Now Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa and Seo-gu Mayor Hwan Yong Park exchanged gifts and letters of intent during a morning ceremony at the Kalana O Maui building. “As the United States and Korea come closer in finalizing the free-trade agreement, it will improve … |
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Sewer and Drain Cleaning Company in League City Hires SEO Experts for Online … – PR.com (press release)
Aug 17th
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Sewer and Drain Cleaning Company in League City Hires SEO Experts for Online …
PR.com (press release) Using a method known as search engine optimization, or SEO, Prospect Genius will increase the prominence of Rose Sewer and Drain Service during Web searches, making locating information on residential and commercial drain cleaning and other services … |
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Local Search: Mostly A Small City & Southern Activity, Report Says
Jul 19th
Do Internet users in the southern US do more local searches than the rest of the country? Are searchers in smaller cities more likely to conduct local searches than those in New York City, Chicago and the San Francisco area? The answer to those questions is “yes,” at least according to…
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