UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions. The concessions come following the European Commission's ongoing antitrust investigation into Google's search business.
This chapter gives you the basics on how to create your search engine optimization plans. The third edition of his "Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing" is fabulous for budding SEOs, and still proves...
Nearly every business today must decide how much to spend on search engine optimization (SEO). Instant results often involve SEO practices that are against webmaster guidelines put out by search engines.
The difference between then and now is that with advent of search, social media, and mobile devices, advertisers can no longer rely on TV and radio (or banner ads for that matter) to deliver a captive audience.
The side-by-side comparison, pitting Bing results verses Google results, was the spawn of a survey conducted by a third-party research firm. Based on a comparison of web search results pane only; excludes ads, Bing's Snapshot and Social Search...
The search giant reported that requests were at 1,811 from January to June 2012. The search giant complied with the U.S.slightly more at a rate of 45 percent. However, the firm sent the MP's notice to the blog's creator who willingly took the...
They are the children who can point out that the emperor has no clothes, or even worse that the fancy new parallax site is invisible to search engines. Local Search: Ad spend on local search is projected to grow from $1.2 billion to $9 billion by...
Yahoo has launched an iPhone app using Summly's technology less than a month after buying the firm. The Yahoo app lets users search for news topics they are interested in and displays summarized versions of chosen articles.
He highlighted the firm's commitment to developing products that may not hold much value in the near term. The search giant reported revenues of over $13 billion for Q1 2013. The smartphone maker earned the search giant a little over $1bn for the...
He also said that the search results lead to him losing his job, and now he can't find another one. In March, Google was told to change its autocomplete feature, but reports claimed that because Google's search functions aren't based in Japan, the...
While tweaking its search engine results may put an end to the EU's investigation into Google's search practices, that isn't the only trouble the firm is in at the moment. Google reportedly has reached a deal with European Union (EU) regulators...
Meaning, they don't search until something triggers them to get up off the porch and do something about whatever pain or longing they've been passively suffering until now. That joke contains a significant AdWords secret: most people search for a...
Google competitors have repeatedly accused the firm of owning a vertical search monopoly. The firm remains one of Google's main search competitors. Google has submitted proposals to address European Union (EU) concerns that the company, which owns...
Social media management can be problematic for businesses of all sizes but is arguably most complicated for large multi-location brands, particularly following the advent of Facebook Graph Search and updates to Facebook Nearby.
Search marketers know plenty about campaigns that revolve around bidding, but that doesn't always mean they know the ins and outs of real-time bidding (RTB). If you’re making the transition from search to display, you can’t afford to forget creative.
The move comes after French data protection regulatory CNIL confirmed that Google had made no attempt to meets it concerns over its renewed privacy policies, first unveiled in March 2012, despite its numerous complaints that the changes were...
A mobile search for pizza in the middle of the day should compel a different ad than a late p.m.search from home. Its impact on mobile and local search was the focal point – following my last column, and leading up to SES New York where it will...
According to the firm, Adblock Plus "interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner", which Google said is a violation of section 4.4 of its Developer Distribution Agreement.
The European Commission (EC) hit Microsoft with a €561 million fine Wednesday, after the firm failed to keep its promise of offering Windows users a choice of web browsers. Both Google and Opera develop rival web browsers, and in the case of Google...
Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement authorities to hand over user data, and while the firm was one of the first to publish transparency reports, it took until today for Google to work out a way to publish statistics about...
