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Rob D Young

2011

PPC

Google AdWords “Interests” Graduates

Google AdWords has graduated an experimental feature known as "Interests" to mainstream availability. The feature lets advertisers target users by…

24 Jun 2011

Industry

Google to Expand Display Ad Business to 20 Billion+

Google may be the big fish of search, but they're still in third place for display advertising. That's about to…

24 Jun 2011

Industry

The Developing FTC Google Search Antitrust Case

The FTC is preparing to launch an antitrust case against Google's search division. The company is facing accusations of unfairly…

24 Jun 2011

Industry

Concrete Details on Google Music (Beta)

After months of anticipation and weeks of dedicated waiting, I've received an invite to the Google Music (Beta). Here are…

23 Jun 2011

Industry

Play Blekko’s New “3 Engine Monte” Game

Blekko, the world's favorite upstart search engine, has made some major recent updates. One fun extra included is called "3…

23 Jun 2011

Industry

Blekko Unmasks New Search Results With “Zorro” Update

Blekko, the hard-line anti-spam search site, has revamped their search results page format on the front- and back-end. Known as…

23 Jun 2011

Industry

Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark

Roughly one in seven people around the world visit Google monthly. How do we know? Google has just become the…

23 Jun 2011

Mobile

Foursquare Hits 10 Million Users: Yeah, That’s 1,000% Annual Growth

Foursquare, the geolocation social network that started the whole "check-in" ball rolling, has hit 10 million users. To commemorate, they've…

23 Jun 2011

Industry

DuckDuckGo: Ditch Google, Bing for Unfiltered Search

DuckDuckGo, a small-time search engine, focuses its promotions on showing ways it's (supposedly) better than Google. The current message: DuckDuckGo…

22 Jun 2011

Local

Google Street View Halted in Bangalore

Just a few brief weeks after Google Street View cars started driving on the streets of Bangalore, India, Google has…

22 Jun 2011