This is actually the second time Valentine’s Day has celebrated two events: in 2010, Valentine’s Day and the Winter Olympic Games were paired up (which you can see later in this post). This logo celebrated Valentine's Day as well as pairs skating...
Last summer, they celebrated the Olympics with a series of Olympic Games themed Doodles based on Olympic events. A Google Doodle today celebrates Frank Zamboni, the creator of the standard in ice cleaning and resurfacing for ice rinks the world over.
Open and was the most searched for in Olympic sports. Google has released its overview of what people in the UK concerned themselves with during the past year, and naturally it is a mixed bag. The top searches of the year were for football...
Moon as Olympic ring For the 12th straight year, Yahoo has announced their annual year in review. Since 2001, Yahoo has compiled lists of the top search queries entered into the search box in an attempt to determine the year's top stories, fads...
All kinds of things can impact how your campaigns behave: warm weather, Olympic games, royal weddings, news stories, payday, government rulings; all may impact your campaign in ways you can't predict or account for.
Google made an Olympic effort to be the go-to resource for timely information. Many search marketers have fixated on Panda and Penguin updates from Google this year. There have literally been hundreds of articles and blog posts written about Google...
The 2012 Olympic Games provided a unique insight into the increasing popularity of international mobile search. A huge global event like the Olympic Games presents a unique set of circumstances. The growth rates of various foreign languages also...
Just as every Olympic country has areas of strength and weakness, every region and country around the world differs in their use of search. From the early questions regarding Michael Phelps’ legacy (not an issue) to Usain Bolt’s dominance in...
The search giant revealed the data on a blog post, explaining that Olympic related searches had risen 10-fold in the first week of the Games, as people around the world keep up with results on the move.
Google has been celebrating the London 2012 Olympics every day with a unique Olympic-themed Doodle. More Olympic Doodles So here’s a wrap-up of Google’s various tributes to Olympic sports. Not so much.
If you’re promoting trips to London over the December holidays, for example, you’ll want to stay away from Olympic terms – and Google Insights can help you find those terms to negative out. Keyword research is one of the fundamentals of PPC.
Which online ads from the official Olympic sponsors are generating the most social media buzz? Unruly Media, the leading social video platform, unveiled an interactive infographic called Brand Tracker this week to track which of the official...
Here are a few tips to add to your Olympic training program. Your content is your new Olympic torch. As search marketers we are all athletes. Yes, you heard me right! That doesn’t not mean we will all be competing at this year's Olympics Games or...
The growth of social media since the Beijing Olympics has spurred an obvious need to revamp International Olympic Committee (IOC) social media policies at the games. Olympic Online Communities She shares Olympic social media rules for brands – dos...
The Summer Olympic Games are just over a month away. The Olympics are interesting because so many athletes spend their entire lives playing and practicing for one event or race where glory or defeat is attained in as little as 10 seconds.
Chinese Lightsaber Duel Yay for the Olympic remixes. It's May 4th, which is unofficially Star Wars day. However, on the web we may as well agree that today is officially Star Wars day every year, as last year's stats from Google Realtime (now...
It is also an Olympic Long Tail Judge. Dr. Lirpa received his PhD from Cornell University, where he studied with Gerard Salton, a pioneer in the field of information retrieval, the academic discipline which forms the foundation of modern search.
Google was found to have profited from illegal Olympic ticket reseller ads and mortgage scam ads within the past year, in addition to being fined $500 million by U.S. Google claims it has cut in half the number of so-called "bad ads" being...
This year is a huge year in London, as the world's hottest contenders in just about every sport imaginable, gather for the Games of the XXX Olympiad (the official title of the London 2012 Olympic Games).
BBC’s report recaps the ordeal of a woman who first found an ad from LiveOlympicTickets at the “very, very top” of Google after searching for “Olympic tickets. Selling tickets on the open market without permission from the Olympic authorities is a...
