Walmart did an analysis of all their sales in all their stores and discovered when there was a storm or hurricane coming, Strawberry Pop Tarts sales went through the roof, so much so that they move more inventory to those stores when a storm is...
Uber could have used the knowledge of hurricane conditions to give stranded customers a break, but instead, soulless pattern recognition resulted in an erosion in customer confidence. Uber's pricing system jacked up the price on its customers who...
We had clients that were significantly impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Optimizing PPC campaigns with faulty data is like driving with an upside down map. You’ll end up in the exact opposite direction of your destination.
These events ranged from the death of the legendary singer Whitney Houston, Facebook's IPO, the London Olympics (and Gabby Douglas winning the gold medal), the U.S.election (and ultimately the re-election of President Obama), Hurricane Sandy, the...
Perhaps no more challenging was when Hurricane Sandy hit NYC and we had to run the business remotely for almost two weeks while executing on disaster recovery and business continuity plans. As the year draws to a close and we are all thinking about...
An American Apparel ad for a "Hurricane Sandy Sale" sparked backlash from the Twittersphere. They want people to “Like” them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Brands want to socialize, share a laugh, hangout, join a Group and even have a...
When Hurricane Sandy was hitting the East Coast, I was glued to Twitter. No longer can we get away with creating content. It has to be newsworthy content. It has to be unique (or you'll find Twitter abuzz with people fussing about how sick they are...
Hurricane Sandy iPad 3 Hurricane Sandy Just a quick post for your coffee break, but this video is so good that we had to share it. Today, Google published their search trend data as an interactive summary called, as always, Zeitgeist.
Hurricane Sandy Hurricane Sandy Hurricane Isaac Hurricane Leslie Changing it up every year, Yahoo decided they would make the 2012 edition of Year in Review a mega list of top 10 lists for various categories.
Hurricane Sandy. What is the damage from Hurricane Sandy? That was the top trending question of 2012 from Ask.com. Spoiler alert: apparently, yes. At least for now. The big question now: is KStew pregnant with the spawn of RPatz?
While most of the East Coast was hunkered down waiting for Hurricane Sandy, comScore released the latest data from its Video Metrix service which showed that 181 million U.S. Internet users watched more than 39 billion online content videos in...
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005, Google really started to show it's "age". During Hurricane Irene, Google published a threat evacuation layer onto Google maps on the WNYC radio website to reach both browsers and listeners.
In many ways, the Florida update was like a hurricane, scooping up low-value SEO tactics into its raging cyclone. The members decided that they wanted to name the updates similarly to how hurricane names are selected: in alphabetical order, one...
The fastest-moving search terms of the year reflect current events, with Hurricane Irene, bin Laden wives, Osama bin Laden dead, Les Paul, Nick Ashford dies, and Sheen Sumped all making that list. Facebook was the top searched term in the U.S.for...
Hurricane Irene Facebook’s Memology 2011 is a pretty good representation of the people, places, and events that most mattered to people over the course of the last year. While the top search lists from AOL, Bing, and Ask.com shed light on the...
Hurricane Irene 2011 Yahoo’s 10th annual top searches Year in Review is out, identifying the top trends and stories of the year based on the billions of searches performed by their users. This year, the iPhone was the top search of the year, a spot...
Hurricane Irene: What caused Hurricane Irene? Each year here at Search Engine Watch, we wait with bated breath for the top searched lists to come out. Sometimes insightful and often hilarious, the lists give an overview of the topics and terms on...
Hurricane Irene Bing has released a list of the top searches in 2011. Bing's recap, while far more comprehensive than the 2010 edition, mainly focuses on entertainment and celebrities. In that sense, Bing’s top searches lists do serve as a sort of...
As the potentially devastating Hurricane Irene bears down on the east coast of the United States, millions are turning to Google and its new tracking tools introduced earlier this summer to search for the latest storm path information.
Google Person Finder: a tool born of disaster, from Hurricane Katrina to Japan's quake, tsunami - Los Angeles Times Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category.
