Thom Craver
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Thom Craver

2013

PPC

Google: 224 Million ‘Bad Ads’ Disabled in 2012

Once again, the Google AdWords team has reported on its continued efforts to eliminate bad AdWords ads. This year, they've…

18 Jan 2013

Social

Bing Further Bolsters Social Results With 5x More Facebook Content

In the wake Facebook unveiling Graph Search, Bing is now adding more Facebook data into its social sidebar results. Bing…

18 Jan 2013

Local

Google Debunks Dead Donkey Maps Image

Google released new images to prove that a donkey was not in fact taking a dirt nap after being run…

17 Jan 2013

Industry

Yahoo’s Shashi Seth Follows Another Exec Out the Door

Shashi Seth, Senior VP of the Connections business unit, has announced he's leaving Yahoo. During his three and a half…

17 Jan 2013

Social

Facebook Graph Search: What About Bing?

Conducting a web search on Facebook will return a new search results page featuring a two-column layout. On the left,…

16 Jan 2013

Industry

Hit the Ice in Google’s Playable Zamboni Doodle

Google's Doodle today celebrates Frank Zamboni, the creator of the standard in ice cleaning and resurfacing for ice rinks the…

16 Jan 2013

Social

Facebook Introduces Graph Search

Facebook's new Graph Search isn't a product that will compete against traditional web search of Google and Bing. This is…

15 Jan 2013

Industry

Yahoo Brings Flickr Images Back to Search Results

The new image search allows you to find photos available for re-use using the Creative Commons licensing terms using a…

15 Jan 2013

Mobile

Meet Izik: Tablet-Friendly Search From Blekko

Izik is a new search experience built specifically with the iPad and Android tablets in mind using Blekko's algorithms, sans-spam…

07 Jan 2013

Industry

Inside Bing’s Spell Checker

Search engines auto-correcting your spelling mistakes is almost expected nowadays. Recently Bing gave a sneak peak of what goes into…

04 Jan 2013