Polyana de Oliveira is an SEO Analyst at Catho Online, a Brazilian job classified website, based out of São Paulo. She is Brazilian born and American raised, which means she can samba while chugging a Bud Light simultaneously. She's a culture junkie, internet geek, has a personal blog about moving to Brazil, teaches gringoes to speak Portuguese and vice versa, and tweets in 2 languages about technology, politics, and culture @_polyana, so feel free to follow her!
I’ll get straight to the point here. Is it just me, or are there local results showing up for not-so-local searches? At SMX West last week, someone asked Carter Maslan, Director of Product Management for Google Local, about what to do if their business doesn’t have a physical location. Carter sayssss: Don’t create a Places [...]
I know this isn’t necessarily a search blog, which is why I deemed it necessary to post about the Google vs Bing so maybe those who are out of the loop can join in on the discussion! Let’s start with why I’m writing a post on how Google and Bing got beef, because you’re probable [...]
I know there are a billion “Twittiquette” posts out there, but I really don’t care and need to get some Twinger (Twitter + Anger? no? terrible?) off my chest. I’m not saying I’m a big deal or anything (although sometimes I like to convince myself I am as an ego booster?), but I think everyone [...]
As the neighborhood friendly Brazilian at MobLoSo, I thought it’s only be appropriate to clear up the CALA BOCA GALVÃO trending topic mystery here for you guys. And to my fellow Brazilians, I apologize for ruining the biggest inside joke we’ve ever had. First of all, a little on Twitter use in Brazil. Brazilians are the [...]
TigerText, the new iPhone app encourages cheating. Talk about 21st century technology for an age old habit!
Last week, Compete.com announced that their data showed Facebook had beaten Yahoo! in number of unique visitors in January 2010. Why is this such a big deal? What I want to know is: Why hasn’t Facebook had more visitors than Yahoo! already? And the numbers are really close too! This is Compete’s graph: Now how [...]
