Google, which collected payload data (including emails, email addresses, user names and passwords, telephone numbers) from unsecured WiFi networks – triggering numerous government investigations and some fines – is trying to get a class-action...
Startup search engine Blekko has recently begun to test search ads on its site, according to MediaPost. It works with several large brands through feeds from Google and Bing but doesn't have direct relationships with any confirmed brands as of...
Kantar Begins Reporting Paid Search, Amazon Dominates Spending - MediaPost Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category. Search Industry News All eyes on new CEO as Google reports first-quarter...
Google Ordered To Disclose 'Parked Domain' Metrics - MediaPost Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category. Search Industry News Google Products Lacked Key Government Certification, DOJ Says...
Yahoo's Search Future Found In 'Web Of Objects' - MediaPost Search Engine Optimization Is Syndication Killing Your Rankings? An 8 Point SEO Inspection by Simon Heseltine Syndicating stories can get more people reading your content, but it can also...
Critics Strike At Google's New 'All-It-Can-Eat' Privacy Policy - MediaPost It's quite easy to use the Twitter API to access your personal information and obtain all the DMs inside your Twitter inbox. When you allow access to log-in to some website...
A well known SEO for being innovative and candid about 'frontier' tactics he has used, Friesen writes for Mediapost and does not seemed to have slowed down in the role change, sharing some interesting stats from SMX east earlier this week.
In the age of the Web, the sourcing and reliability of information has become ever more crucial," the AP states in an advisory about the new policy, MediaPost noted. Only two years ago, the Associated Press tried to stop bloggers from using their...
The site provides detailed information and recommended tactics for multiple varieties of political campaigns, ranging from fund-raising to location-based get out the vote efforts," MediaPost reported.
IBM is building an analytics platform for marketers and advertisers, Michael Haydock, IBM global lead for business analytics and optimization, told MediaPost. Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Trada/Google Ventures, IBM and...
The magazine's roughly 7,000 Foursquare followers can get tips and suggestions for approximately 5,000 restaurants, 1,600 bars and 5,500 stores listed on the site," MediaPost reported. Data Power Speaking to The Telegraph in an interview...
District Court in the Western District of New York, arguing that "It is clear even from the sparse filings in state court that [Ceglia] is not entitled to any preliminary injunctive relief in this case," Mediapost reported.
According to MediaPost, the pricing model is that of price-per-action, meaning that impressions that do not result in actions won't be charged for. An overview of some of today's ad/tech news Twitter's SocialAds Network
AOL has launched the beta version of its Open.MapQuest.co.uk platform incorporating crowdsourced content, MediaPost reported. Here's a shortcut to interesting news that you might have missed this weekend: Google App Inventor, Google China...
The person could well come "from Zimba, which Yahoo bought for $350 million and then sold to VMware," MediaPost reported, citing a source close to the deal. Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Sysomos, Blueglass, Kontagent and more.
More letters are about to go out as Privacy International will be writing to over 200 European organizations this week on the issue, according to Mediapost. Mediapost reckons that the Declaration calls for the retention of search data for up to two...
The real question, as raised by MediaPost, is whether such consolidation should be considered as "a positive move or for the search marketing industry", or if it should be seen "one struggling to survive?
MediaPost's Laurie Sullivan explained that "Ads will run across the Google Display Network similar to the way they have in the past within the Content Network. Google has the blogosphere and the media buzzing after a report from Italian daily La...
At the OMMA Video event this week, MediaPost columnist Steve Smith called the Gulf Oil Spill Tracker created by PBS NewsHour the "biggest online video of the year. He added, ""There is no better example of the power that online video has.
Or, you can read Gavin O'Malley's story in MediaPost Raw, Live and Unadulterated, which is entitled, "A Different Perspective. As for seizing opportunities, the best advice that I've read comes from Josh Spector, who recently posted "Five Ways To...
