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In analytics, there are two truths about bounce rates: if you aren’t tagging your downloads or on-page events correctly, you could be missing out on the full picture; and segmentation is everything – it helps you discern "good" from "bad" metrics.
Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia, has expanded its mapping capabilities by purchasing from NAVTEQ a license for digital maps of Europe, North America, Australia and developed countries in Asia to expand their Yandex.Maps product.
Russian search giant Yandex has added facial recognition technology to its photo hosting service, Yandex.Fotki. Yandex is leveraging Face.com's facial recognition technology to create a "smart" photo tagging service that lets users tag other people.
While Google Analytics has its own set of merits, there are drawbacks. Many people don’t want to continue to feed Google more data – and this trend is growing. Here are some ideas to help you choose the best web analytics solution for you.
Last week, Google's Inside Search blog announced a recap of 30 different search quality improvements it made in December 2011. However, Bing has had many of these features for over a year or more
If you thought today's Google Doodle looked a little creepy or kooky or even mysterious and spooky, you would be right. The cartoonist who created The Addams Family has been honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 100th birthday.
With all the new features Google Analytics has been unrolling since version 3 launched in August, the Google Analytics was in need of a new API. Just out, Google Analytics Core Reporting API is the new hotness for Google Analytics developers.
A new Google Analytics feature will allow content developers to visualize a lot more than merely website visits. Google has opened invitations to a social data hub where you can integrate feed and social networking data into Google Analytics.
Microsoft has announced Bing on Xbox, a new way to search your TV's guide for shows and movies, spanning broadcast TV, movie services like Netflix, Hulu and HBO Go, even apps and Xbox games. Bing on Xbox starts rolling out today.
Yandex announced a partnership with Seznam. Yandex developed a video search service that will be provided on the Czech search engine. Also, Yandex is now alerting website owners of the threat of malware if discovered via Yandex.Webmaster.
Google Maps has added indoor maps of malls, airports, and many other locations. These indoor maps are available by simply pinch-zooming in your Google Maps mobile app. Google Maps also has a new UI with easier access to Places and other features.
The Google+ Bar – that black navigation bar containing links to Google's properties – is going away soon. Google is trading in the black nav bar and Google+ sharing tools introduced five months agoin favor of a less cluttered looking "Google Bar."
Yandex has officially become the default search engine on Windows Phone-based handsets in Russia. Russia's largest search engine has entered a partnership with both Microsoft and many major phone manufacturers including Nokia, Samsun and HTC.
A tradition as American as apple pie, Google has decided to give thanks this year by paying homage to the turkeys that elementary school kids make by tracing their hands. The Thanksgiving Doodle is up on the U.S. version of Google a few days early.
Bing for Mobile's long-awaited update includes deals and real-time transit info. The native Bing app for iPhone and Android devices has been redesigned using HTML5, making the experience the same between the Bing mobile site and the native apps.
In an effort to help website owners improve their sites, the Bing team announced a new set of expanded Webmaster Tools. Bing aims to share more data with site owners, give site owners more useful tools and increase data transparency to site owners.
Firefox with Bing is simply Firefox with Bing set as the default home page and search engine. The timing is rather interesting, considering Mozilla's search deal with Google expires this month, with no announcement of a renewal or extension.
This morning at the Web 2.0 Summit, Google announced flow visualization reports. Flow visualization reports are a way for site owners to quickly visualize how users navigate through their sites.
Designed for quick prototyping and compatibility across multiple browsers and platforms, Google has introduced Dart, a new scripting language for client-side Web programming. Google hopes Dart will become a standard in every modern Web browser.
Facebook users can now install an app that translates fan pages written in a foreign language into their native tongue. The feature uses the Bing Translator, and is available by clicking on a Translate link and incorporates social elements.
