PPC is as significant as ever, the SEM industry is stronger than ever and projected to grow 16 percent this year, and the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance was well-received. Those are just a few of the takeaways from SEMPO's State Of Search...
Google has decided to drop the Hotpot name and merge it with Google Places, which is how Google should have set it up initially. The Foursquare-like recommendation engine touted 1 million monthly reviews and allowed users to connect with...
Google's mobile ad business, AdMob, has conducted a survey of 1,431 users to find out how people use their tablet devices.
Far behind third-party tools, like Mr. Tweet, Twitter finally launches a user directory. The Twitter blog posted an announcement of the new feature, entitled "Discover new accounts and search like a pro", however the feature set is limited...
Microsoft today filed a formal complaint in Brussels accusing Google of curating a monopoly of the search market and unfairly promoting their own products. The chief concerns from Microsoft is the monopolization of YouTube indexing, the Android...
Google is planning for higher quality Gmail ads; more targeted, useful, and tailored towards desires. Although Gmail is said to be implementing changes in the ads already, the personalization-based ads could still be a month out. Gmail...
Topsy.com, a market leading real-time search engine, has recently entered the realm of real-time video search. 1. New Video Search Feature Topsy trending videos provides the top 100, 1000, 5000 videos for each day in a chronological stream....
Google's autocomplete feature no longer contains the word scam. The autocomplete feature offers results based off search volumes (i.e., if you're seeing something suggested, it is being heavily searched for). However, search queries containing...
Places Search is the latest Google property to add Instant results. Just like web search, the Instant feature is enabled by default. Users who wish to turn off instant can easily do so by clicking disable in Google's settings when signed...
Google (UK) released a new web site, a digital magazine layout, brings forth resources in the form of interviews entitled; Think Quarterly, also available for mobile users. It has been called a book, a newsletter, a magazine, but what it...
Bing News is now streaming in Twitter results on the search pages sidebar and displaying relevant tweets in the news results. It seems as though they are using tweets from any profile that contain the keyword(s) in the search query. By clicking...
Page Speed for Google Chrome has the same key features as the Firebug add-on with two new improvements. The Page Speed tool, previously available for Firebug/Firefox, can be downloaded and installed as an additional component of Google Chrome...
Majestic SEO announces a "freshness index" tool to the Site Explorer, Clique Hunter, Advanced reports and Standard Reports. The new feature is a big announcement, so big that all the data they provided up until this point has now been renamed...
Nachofoto, dubbed the world's first "Semantic Real Time Image Search Engine" (try and say that with a mouth full of corn chips) is finally out of beta. Strictly speaking, it's not the world's first semantic image search engine as Macroglossa is...
European Union justice chief Viviane Reding, says sites like Google and Facebook must abide by data privacy rules or else they will face court action. Reding's speech outlined the new stipulations for personal data storage.The new rules...
Google has announced that Blogger will roll out major changes sometime in 2011. Blogger, ranked as the sixth most popular website in the world (by Alexa), has had many updates in 2010, few of the notables related to the administrative...
Announced at SXSW, StumbleUpon has introduced a new ad platform which promises 100% engagement. StumbleUpon Paid Discovery delivers an engaged target audience directly to you: no clicking through ads or links. 100% engagement, 100% of the...
Facebook is unveiling a new set of tools launched to squash bullies from having free reign across the social space. In 2008, the Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre discovered nearly 30.2 percent of students reported they had been...
Buying ads based on a competitor's name doesn't violate trademark law, a court has ruled, overturning a lawsuit over AdWords and adCenter ads displaying trademarked names. A hearing between Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced Systems...
Google has added Instant Previews to specific mobile devices. Similar to Google Instant Previews for desktops, which Google implemented in November, the mobile version has a magnifying glass icon next to each site listing. From there, users...
