Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Trada/Google Ventures, IBM and Boostability Trada, the crowdsourced paid search marketplace, announced in a blog post it raised $5.75 million from investors. The financing round was led by...
A week after reporting its second-quarter earnings, Google is facing a probe by 38 U.S. States. This comes on top of other potential lawsuits across the globe for its collection of Wi-Fi data. Separately, it is also being investigated for its...
Google is now facing probes by a total of 38 States in the U.S., including the District of Columbia, over its StreetView Wi-Fi data collection. Connecticut's attorney general is now quizzing the search giant on the 'snooping' process. 37...
Search advertising spend is on the rise for small- and medium-sized businesses. In fact, that would be the understatement of the year: SMB ad spending in the second-quarter soared 159% from last year, according to a WebVisible report. What's more...
Localeze, the business listings identity management provider for local search, have a lot in the pipeline for the near and longer-term future. We spoke to them in a resolutely future-oriented conversation and this is what you can expect. Read on....
Yahoo reported second-quarter earnings of $213 million, soaring 51% from $141 million a year earlier. However, revenues came in below expectations, hurt by one week slowdown in June, it said… Really? Core figures Second-quarter net...
Did that just feel weird to read? It is indeed the latest patent obtained by Google, a giant innovative step for search: now the Mountain View-based company will be able to serve more relevant search results based on your mouse pointer movements...
As Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo forge ahead with their Search Alliance integration, Google is also readying to turbo charge its Search activities by purchasing Metaweb. Google Buys Open Content Aggregator Metaweb In a blog post, Jack...
As Yahoo and Bing progress on the Search Alliance, Yahoo said it is live testing results of Microsoft organic and paid search on its platform this month. In its update, Yahoo also gave a few other prospective dates and steps. Read on....
An overview of some of the weekend's ad/tech news not to be missed: watch out for multiple records. Facebook To Top 500 Million Users This Week The social site will announce its 500-millionth user this week and will celebrate by...
Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Kenshoo and Marin software with Google AdWords, Magnetic, gShift Labs Kenshoo, the provider of online demand generation solutions, said it won preferred API Pricing from Google's AdWords for...
Google's second-quarter earnings figures were good, with a 24% year-over-year increase, and yet still not good enough as they came below market expectations. This is why the forecasts we gave you earlier this week were mixed. Core...
An overview of some of today's ad/tech news not to be missed. Starbucks Biggest Brand On Facebook It's official, coffee chain Starbucks is now the biggest brand on Facebook, as it now counts over 10 million fans. The first public figure to...
Yellow Pages is set to benefit from the global growth of digital offerings and will derive 39% of its revenues from "video, SEM/SEO, mobile, social and reputation management" by 2014, according to a study by research firm BIA/Kelsey. In the...
An overview of some of today's ad/tech news. Google is in the news again. The search behemoth said in a blog post it has launched its Google Fiber for Communities website dedicated to educate and inform people about fiber networks as...
Covario, the provider of interactive marketing analytics, said it still sees global search ad spending by high-tech and consumer electronics firms growing 14% to 18% in 2010. Paid search advertising among those companies rose 16.5% in the second...
Google is once more number one search engine in the U.S. for the month of June with a market share of 65%, research firm Nielsen said in a report. Google's cut of the U.S. search pie was 65% or almost 6 billion queries out of the total 9.1...
An overview of some of today's ad/tech news Twitter's SocialAds Network Twitter is launching SocialAds, a video ad network forked out of its TwitVid. SocialAds allows you to buy your followers and re-tweets (RT) but also provides social...
Search engine studies are rife, just two days ahead of Google's second-quarter earnings announcement on Thursday. All agree that the online advertising market has experienced an uptick during the period, and after all, eMarketer did say mid-June...
Here's a shortcut to interesting news that you might have missed this weekend: Google App Inventor, Google China, Facebook closing down its gift store, Yahoo and Zillow and more… Big news: Google is launching its App Inventor,...
