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Bing Expands Partnership with Localeze
Since 2005, Microsoft has partnered with Localeze to provide local business information in search results. Now, that relationship is being expanded with the renewal of the pair’s partnership.…
Learn affiliate marketing secrets at SES New York 2010
If you haven’t scrolled down the conference agenda for SES New York 2010 lately, then you might have missed the news that’s…
Google Increases Analytics IQ Passing Score
The search community is doing well on the Google Analytics IQ test. A little too well. It’s apparently so easy, that Google…
Yahoo! Earnings: Revenues Down but Profits Up
Yahoo! announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 today. Revenues came in at $1.7 billion, which was down 4% compared…
Public relations industry should go to Search Engine Strategies
If you work in the public relations industry, you should beat a path to the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo this…
Factery Labs Launches Fact-Based Search Engine
Factery Labs has launched what it is calling a Real Time Fact Engine. Go to the Factery Labs homepage and you’ll see…
Yahoo! Launches New Canada Homepage
Yahoo! Canada is getting the homepage treatment that the U.S. page got not too long ago. The new homepage, which goes live…
Dentsu Acquires Innovation Interactive
Dentsu has announced the acquisition of Innovation Interactive. If you’re not familiar, Innovation Interactive is the parent company of 360i, SearchIgnite, and…
Google News Recrawls for Updates; Reader Offers Non-Feed Tracking
The nature of news is that it is constantly developing. For example, we first heard about the Haiti earthquake. Then we learned…
Google’s Answer Highlighting Bolds Facts in Results
Google is updating its search results to provide fact-based answers directly in the results. The feature is called Answer Highlighting and it…
Brin and Page to Sell 5 Million Shares of Google Stock
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have filed plans with the SEC to sell five million shares of Google stock each…
Google Unveils New Rich Snippets Format for Events
Rich snippets allow webmasters to include structured data that search engines can include in their search results. Google is introducing a new…
E-mail Marketing 101
Tips on e-mail marketing providers, how to build an e-mail database, e-mail frequency, spam compliance, landing pages, graphics, social media, and more.
Bing Serves Up Recipe Search
Foodies, get excited. Bing has added a new recipe search to its repertoire. Pulling from popular recipe sites such as delish.com, epicurious,…
comScore says global search market grew 46 percent in 2009
comScore has just released a study on growth in the global search market in 2009. The study revealed that the U.S. remains…
How to Know if You’re Censoring the Internet (This One’s for You, China)
As we learned in the last post, China says that the United States’ accusations of Internet censorship are baseless. Perhaps, China just…
China: Censorship Accusations are Groundless
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out against Chinese Internet censorship at a speech she gave at The Newseum…
Google Revenue Up 17% in Q4 2009
Google has released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the news is positive. Revenue for the Mountain View, CA…
Baidu Accuses U.S. Domain Name Registry of Hacking
Chinese search engine Baidu was down for a bit last week, and they’re blaming it on blocked access due to hackers. Users…
Google AdWords Enables Mobile Device and Carrier Targeting, Plus Special Link for Mobile Apps
If search ads for mobile search on full internet browsers is part of your overall search campaign, you’ll be glad to know…
Google Earth Updates Winter Olympics Venue Imagery
The Google Boulder office has been working hard on developing models of venues for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver this February.…
44% of Visitors to Google News Just Scan Headlines
Outsell has released data showing the continuing demise of print newspapers in favor of digital technology. They surveyed 2,787 US news consumers…
5 Bing Updates to Know and Love: Data Retention, AutoSuggest, Maps, and Apps
If I had to guess, I would say the Bing team’s 2010 resolutions are to continue growing fast and furiously. If the…
Google Now Bolds Some Synonyms in Search Results
When it comes to teaching machines how to understand human languages, one of the key ingredients is synonyms. Yet what is easy…
Report: Apple, Microsoft in Talks to Set Bing as Default Search on iPhone
Yes, those are pigs you see flying through the air. According to Business Week, Apple and Microsoft – yes, Microsoft – are…
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