For the eighth year in a row, Google has made into the top five of an annual survey of the U.S.general public on corporate reputation. Google was fourth in the 2013 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient report, with a score of 81.3 percent – one of just...
Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November and December 2012, according to a recently released comScore qSearch report. Microsoft sites processed 4.477 billion queries and Yandex did 4.844 billion.
Now that Google Catalogs is integrated into Google Shopping, the catalog platform is more relevant than ever to merchants. Google has reformatted the Google Shopping home page. The redesign includes prominent placement for Google Catalogs, with...
Search industry body, SEMPO, have launched their annual salary survey in conjunction with Search Engine Watch's (SEW) sister site ClickZ. It's the 4th survey of it's kind from SEMPO and it is open to everyone with no SEMPO membership required - all...
Over the holiday period we will be counting down the top most read articles of 2012. It's always interesting to see what is the most popular content of the year. But. Any content writer knows that it is impossible to predict what content themes and...
Trekkies and geeks worldwide will certainly rejoice at today's Google Doodle that celebrates the 46th anniversary of the original "Star Trek" TV series, which originally aired September 8, 1966. Complete with animations and its own storyline...
With Labor Day weekend approaching, it’s time to think about firing up the BBQ grill again. Summertime means barbecue – a seasonal tradition for friends and family to relish cooking and eating outdoors.
The search for U.S.aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart has yet to turn up any evidence in the 75 years since she vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Earhart, who was born on this date 115 years ago, is the subject of the latest Google Doodle.
Happy Fourth of July to all of our readers in the United States! Just as barbecues and fireworks have become tradition on this date, so too have holiday Google Doodles. Today, Google has checked in with its 13th Independence Day themed logo...
Google’s homepage logo today celebrates Robert “Bob” Moog, electronica pioneer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer, who was born on this date in 1934. In what just might be the coolest interactive Google Doodle ever featured, their logo is...
Last year, ABC News posted a story, leading with the words, "Help me, Google, you're my only hope .to figure out why everyone on the web is wishing each other a Happy Star Wars Day. It's May 4th, which is unofficially Star Wars day.
As smartphone ownership continues to grow, going mobile and mobile optimization are becoming a business necessity. To coincide with the annual Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Google has revealed smartphone usage stats and some 2012...
comScore reports significant YoY increases in online holiday shopping revenue, with a new record of $37.2 billion in retail e-commerce spend over November and December. In addition, paid search budgets increased 31 percent over 2010, while click...
Just because your SEO campaign is experiencing hiccups doesn’t mean you aren’t a good SEO practitioner. Certain situations like this force you to look at the alternative factors that can affect SEO success.
You've just been given one day to do an SEO audit for a site, and you're asking yourself what to do with so little time. Instead of following your instinct to yell at the person who made the request, today's column will outline a practical approach...
On July 14, 1789, as the French citizenry stormed the feared Bastille in what would become the act of the French Revolution that most symbolized the overthrow of the monarchy, ideas of Google Doodles were more than 200 years away.
Searches for firework locations get a big play leading up to the Fourth of July in the United States and Yahoo has included them in their annual Search Trends article for the holiday. The travel editor over at Yahoo, Deborah Hopewell, offers her...
If you remember, back in the early days of Google when you did a search for "French military victories" you would get a result which asked if you meant "French military defeats". Well it seems the people over at Google Insights for Search may be...
This year marks the 12th Doodle dedicated to US Independence Day and is the second longest event honored by Google on its logo. Only Thanksgiving has a longer tradition, having first appeared in 1999, while the Fourth of July Doodle started in 2000.
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