A recent example is the alliance between Baidu and major content portal Sina. Under the partnership Baidu and Sina will co-operate in five key aspects: search, content, platform, technology, and resources.
In February 2011, Google sites ranked as the top online video content property with 141.1 million unique viewers, followed by VEVO with 49.0 million viewers, Microsoft sites with 48.8 million, Yahoo sites with 46.7 million, and Facebook.com with...
Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has been open and staunch about his views on personal privacy. Linden Lab's rather unholy alliance with Facebook was doomed from the start, based on the privacy issue alone.
Doing public relations with a purely SEO objective could leave your organization open to reputation damage. A PR campaign with substance, content, story, and depth isn't necessarily legal or ethical. The elimination of link farms and content...
Unconferenced and open mic, this is the chance for any attendee to voice their opinion on the JCPenney issue and all matters both black and white hat. Well, if you're not quite sure, make a point of checking out the What Every Paid Search...
TripAdvisor Says Google Won't Stop Using Its Content - The Wall Street Journal Ways to Repurpose Content to Attract Links to Your Website - Small Business Trends Google: Empty Pages Are Duplicate Content Issues - Search Engine Roundtable
Not unlike Google Webmaster Tools (detailed below), Bing Webmaster Tools provides information pertaining to content performance: content crawled, indexed, and trafficked. Where does my content rank (on average) in the SERPs?
Examining data from different verticals from October 1 through November 30 to identify some of the impact on various metrics since the Search Alliance transition. SEO Strategies for Content Marketers - TopRank Online Marketing Blog
This week Google could be releasing Gingerbread, the lastest version of it's Android mobile operating system software, following a tweet from Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez, a member of the leadership team at the Open Handset Alliance concerned with Android.
Consumer watchdogs Progressive Change Campaign Committee, have bought ads through Google's own content network and on competitor Facebook, which redirect to an open letter to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.urging them not to move...
Google Gets a Content Guy-Netflix Veteran Robert Kyncl - All Things Digital Becomes Google's VP of Content Partnerships, in charge of landing TV and movie deals. Tips on creating content: consider the purpose, message, packaging, distribution...
Content strategist. Is Google's future success tied less to search and more to display -- to the Google Content Network and the DoubleClick Exchange? Search Alliance. Kaushik will take to the stage for an open Q&A forum.
Last month Frank Watson wrote a helpful article explaining the upcoming Microsoft and Yahoo Search Alliance transition in regards to customer service duties and approximate consolidation timeline. Unlike other PPC distribution options such as...
Google Buys Open Content Aggregator Metaweb After all, Freebase's basic principle is its open API that allows to link and interlink content across the web from a profile page. As Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo forge ahead with their Search Alliance...
Also, back in February, the National Security Agency had teamed up with the Mountain View-based company to fight cyber attacks, sparking Internet users' fears that the alliance would give the government open access to private data.
After having integrated Twitter to its user interface, Yahoo announced it has also entered an agreement with Facebook to cross-share content and social interaction on their respective platforms. The agreement is part of Yahoo's move to create a web...
As consumers and audiences shift toward non-traditional channels in their quest for content, online gaming via social media platforms have become the prime battleground for advertisers and marketers alike, spurring widely reported animosity...
Debra Mastaler, link building specialist at Alliance-Link It would be most helpful if a major search engine would become more deeply involved in contributing functionality to the open source community, so that site search powered by SOLR-family...
Justified or not, there will be renewed calls for investigations into forms of "bias" in how Google serves up content, how it downgrades the performance of its direct competitors in both paid and organic listings, etc.
The primary trigger centers around efforts from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a group of 30 technology companies committed to maximizing the mobile Web experience. Search activity takes a back seat to the ever enhancing technology available to...
