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Miranda Miller

2011

Industry

How Google’s Human Search Quality Raters Assign a URL Rating

A leaked URL Rater guidebook from Google’s Search Quality Rating Program offers important insight into what human raters are looking…

19 Oct 2011

Analytics

BrightEdge Launches S3 Platform with Social Site Audit

Social plugin adoption is rising, though almost half of top websites aren’t yet using any social links or plugins. BrightEdge’s…

17 Oct 2011

Social

Google Engineer Publishes, Then Deletes Opinionated Google+ Rant

Google engineer Steve Yegge posted an epic rant about the shortcomings of the Google+ social media platform on Google+. Though…

13 Oct 2011

PPC

Q3 Paid Search Spend Data Bodes Well for Google; Bing Continues to Slide

Paid search spend is up 23 percent in the U.S. and even more globally; predictions are rosy as clicks rise…

13 Oct 2011

Industry

Google Gumby Logo Honors Art Clokey’s 90th Birthday

Today Google is honoring Art Clokey, clay animation and stop motion animation pioneer. Clokey brought us Gumby; now Google has…

12 Oct 2011

Social

Twitter Settles Lawsuit, Gets “Tweet” Trademark

Twitter and Twittad have settled out of court; the trademark for the word “Tweet” will transfer to Twitter, while TwittAd…

11 Oct 2011

Industry

Bing’s New Back-end: Cosmos and Tigers and Scope, Oh My

Microsoft’s plan to stop losing money on Bing includes a new back-end search infrastructure powered by Tiger, their search indexing…

10 Oct 2011

Industry

Google Forced to Release WikiLeaks Volunteer’s Gmail Info

The U.S. government has seized the email information of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum from Google and ISP Sonic.net, though they…

10 Oct 2011

Social

Scalable Facebook Ad Campaign Tips

Facebook Ads is like chess: it’s easy to learn the rules, but difficult to master the game. The Clickable team…

07 Oct 2011

Local

Google Eye-Tracking Study Highlights Impact of Local/Places Results

SEOmoz recently conducted an eye-tracking study that looked into the way people focus on results on different Google layouts, including…

07 Oct 2011

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