With over 850 million users, businesses and web entrepreneurs are flocking to Facebook to acquire a social following of their own. However, until this week, Facebook did not have a good self service tool for managing advertising on their site.
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against Motorola with the European Commission over what it sees as a clear abuse of its industry standard patents, with Google's tacit backing. This follows a similar filing by Apple demanding EC intervention.
Twitter unveiled a new site design yesterday during an event at the site of its future headquarters. The major revamp includes enhanced profile pages, Twitter’s version of brand pages already offered by social rivals Facebook and Google+.
Facebook will acquire privately held social networking firm Gowalla for an undisclosed sum in a bid to improve its location-based networking operation; is testing a new negative feedback feature is in Facebook Page Insights; and is hiring in NYC.
Richard Kirk, Head of SEO at Performics, took issue with a recent column on SEW and asked to post a rebuttal. Given this is a thorny issue that has divided the industry, we agreed. Isn't it time everyone just calm down about encrypted search data?
Steve Jobs, 56, Apple cofounder and former CEO, has died after a long battle with cancer. A visionary and inspiration to millions, his influence was far reaching, as demonstrated by the mourning in the tech world and beyond of a life cut short.
Microsoft's Bing engine continued to grow its U.S. market share in February, according to data from comScore.
Explicit core share of U.S. searches shows Microsoft's growth.
Yahoo's share of U.S. searches has fallen while Bing and Google grow.
Bing continues to grow its share of U.S. searches.
Give credit where credit is due, Jeffrey Hayzlett rocked the house yet again at SES Chicago today. Was it due to his overly energetic delivery, or his curse words, or maybe his cleverly inserted punch lines? Perhaps, but below the surface of...
Introduction of Google Instant boosts search giant's market share.
That was the question posed just now by Eddie Choi from the SES Advisory Board & Managing Director, Frontiers Digital at SES here in Hong Kong. During the keynote panel, Increasing ROI through B2B Lead Generation, myself, Matthias Baur,...
New comScore methodology reduces search market share for Microsoft and Yahoo.
I'm afraid this will be my last blog entry at SES San Francisco, but it's been a blast. I don't know how you're feeling right now, but I'm knackered. Luckily we can end on a high with a fix of Augmented Reality. Gene Becker (Lightning...
We are almost at the finish line, but there are still a few more sessions to go so hang in there with me. Next up we have Trackur's Andy Beal (Trackur) going solo. I follow Andy on Twitter. Andy is the Indiana Jones of reputation...
Everyone needs a good tool. So are you ready to hear about the latest and greatest? Me too. I actually changed sessions to be here today after Alex sold me on his toolbox at Schmoozefest yesterday. Anyway, we have Simon Heseltine (AOL Inc.)...
Good morning peeps. Can you believe we've reached the final day of SES? That's nuts! But here we are on Day 3. It's my last day guest blogging for Search Engine Watch and I would kill for a good hand masseuse right about now. So, PPC or SEO?...
We're approaching the end of Day 2 here at SES San Francisco, and it's almost time to don your hat for tonight's Black Hat, White Hat event. But hold your horses -- we've got one more session to go. Bryan Eisenberg is back to moderate...
Twitter and automation, eh? Hmmm… Sounds like milk and orange juice to me. Lovely Matt McGowan will be moderating speakers, Tracy Falke (Freestyle Interactive), Paul Madden (Crea8 New Media), and Jeff Pulver. I'm sitting here as a...
