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Google has reached a settlement which would end the firm's long-running data harvesting case in the U.S. The company will pay $7 million to settle a case backed up some 38 US states (which ). The following states will split the cash evenly ($192...
Marin Software registered for an initial public offering last week. Venture capitalists love the ad-tech sector, but Marin is one of the first filing for initial public offering. Marin offers workflow, tools, analytics, and optimization in what it...
There's absolutely no doubt that social networks continue to play an increasingly important part in many people's lives. EMarketer predicts there will be a massive 1.43 billion social network users in 2012, representing a 19.2 percent increase over...
Facebook reported $1.18 billion in revenue for Q2 2012 in their first earnings call as a public company. The social network just slightly exceeded analysts expectations of $1.16 billion, according to a poll by FactSet.
Social platform Meebo has announced their acquisition by Google. The deal, reportedly worth $100 million, is designed to help Google attract and keep users active within their social network, Google+.
We’ve previously reported that brands get 46 percent more engagement with Facebook Timeline brand pages, according to Simply Measured’s study of 15 early adopter brands. Actually, fan engagement increased 14 percent; content engagement was up 46...
A new study examines the CTR and user behavior for Bing. Bing's top position gets 9.66 percent click-through rate (CTR), with the top page netting 26.32 percent total CTR. While Bing received lower total CTR, the top positions have even more...
Back on August 7, 2006, Robin Antonick, The Christian Science Monitor’s chief web officer, asked my company to provide some “guidance. The Monitor was preparing to publish Jill Carroll’s story about her 82 days of captivity in Iraq.
Google’s share of China’s 4.3 billion yuan ($665.9 milllion) search market dropped once again in Q2, according to numerous reports citing data from consulting firm Analysys International. China’s search market grew 62 percent in Q2.
It's a well known and established fact that Google's withdrawal from having a direct presence in China -- or more correctly PRC -- and moving to Hong Kong has had a detrimental effect on the company's share of the market.
Bing's search market share stood at 9.62 percent in March 2010, according to Experian Hitwise. Fast forward a year and Bing, which now powers Yahoo's organic search results, accounted for 30 percent of all U.S.searches.
comScore Video Metrix today announced that 178 million American Internet users watched online video during April 2010. In other words, 83.5 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video that month.
April's top 10 search terms by search volume from Hitwise. Top 10 U.K. Search Terms by Category, March 2010 (%) IT and Internet Automotive Manufacturers Search Term Search Volume Search Term Search Volume paypal audi broadband speed test bmw paypal...
International SEO specialists like to talk about the importance of "accents," those marks that reside either above, below, or between existing characters in a piece of text in the relevant language, for search engine algorithms.
The Official Google Blog announced the launch of the Chrome Operating System - late night in California - the entry is timestamped 9:30 pm PST - but an hour and a Twitter link ago - I found it. A number they claim - "30 million regular Chrome...
Search Engine Strategies gets underway next week. If you've never been to SES New York before, then navigating the conference agenda can seem almost as complex as planning your search engine marketing strategy for 2009.
Below, the top 10 search terms by search volume. Data are provided by Hitwise. Top 10 Search Terms by Category, Four Weeks Ending March 29, 2008 (%) IT and Internet Automotive Manufacturers Search Term
Last week, the Mobile Marketing Association updated its standards for mobile display ads. In doing so, it automatically outdated Google's brand spanking new mobile ad formats. The new MMA guidelines are: x 50 pixels x 36 pixels x 28 pixels x 20 pixels
The industry breakdown of ad placements and unit types and top 25 companies placing sponsored links. The data are provided by Nielsen//NetRatings. Advertising Breakdown by Industry, May and June 2007 Industry
If you're looking for the business case for expanding your B2B SEM efforts, this is the executive summary. I recently sat down to dissect the results of Enquiro's Business to Business Survey 2007, and it's impressive.
