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YouTube MP3 Conversion Website Told to End Download Service
Large Youtube to MP3 conversion website Youtube-MP3.org has been threatened with legal action, and seen its servers blocked from accessing YouTube because its MP3 extraction procedures convert YouTube…
Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor Resigns
Facebook's Chief Technology Officer has announced his resignation from the company. Bret Taylor, who in the past also worked for Google, said…
Facebook Settles Privacy Lawsuit, Buys Facial Recognition Company Face.com
Facebook has been ordered to pay $10 million to charity to settle a U.S. lawsuit over Sponsored Stories for using images of…
Father’s Day 2012 Google Doodle Celebrates #1 Dads With Animated Logo
Happy Father's Day! Google’s tribute to dads in more than 70 countries – from Japan, to India, to the UK, and most…
Google, Facebook Top List of Sites Tracking Users Most [Study]
When it comes to user tracking around the web, Google and Facebook seem to be the biggest offenders – their properties combined…
Syncapse Acquires Clickable, Gains Enhanced Search & Social Management
Social performance management platform Syncapse has announced their intention to acquire Clickable, bringing its ad technology and knowledge into their fold. The…
Google U.S. Search Share Hits Record High as Yahoo Falls to New Low
Google increased its stranglehold on the U.S. search engine market, reaching a record high in May, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s share…
Google, Facebook, Twitter, AOL & IAB Alliance Aims to Stop Badware
The Ads Integrity Alliance aims to stop malware and counterfeit goods ads, among other threats in advertising, by developing policy and sharing…
Google Pays $18.6 Million Applying for 101 New gTLDs
ICANN today revealed its big list of applicants for 1,930 new generic top-level domains. Google has applied to claim 101 of those…
Chuck Norris Facts Featured in New Google Knowledge Graph Easter Egg
Google users are being treated to a variety of fun “facts” about the television and movie actor via the Knowledge Graph feature.…
Paid & Subscription-Based Keyword Research Tools
Insight into what people search for online is key for search marketing success. While several free keyword tools are available, paid and…
New in Bing Search Results: It’s Qwiki-pedia!
Bing’s search results now feature Qwikis – short, captioned videos that turn text on Wikipedia pages into words that are spoken by…
Google Updates Hot Searches With Less of What People Are Searching For
Google Hot Searches no longer features the 20 trending U.S. searches. Google has opted to remove 17 of those searches but has…
Nextag’s Fatal Sense of Google Entitlement
Nextag isn't ranking on Google, so their search results must be biased, argues CEO Jeffrey Katz. But really, creating a compelling website…
Bing Adds Encyclopedia Britannica Answers to Search Results
Bing has announced an alliance with Encyclopedia Britannica that will see the search engine present snippets of encyclopedic information – a brief…
BloomReach Incorporates Real-Time Freshness For E-Commerce Optimization
BloomReach has announced a real-time freshness update to their big data cloud marketing Web Relevance Engine, allowing companies to serve up more…
Google Adds State-Sponsored Attack Security Warnings
Google has unveiled a new warning system that can alert users if their account is compromised by a state-sponsored attack. Once warned,…
What ‘Doctor Who’ Can Teach Search Marketers
What does a 49-year-old television show about a time traveling alien with a British accent have to do with search marketing? There…
Drive-in Movie Theater Stars in Animated Google Doodle
Camden, New Jersey gave birth to the first U.S. drive-in movie theater 79 years ago. In honor of the anniversary of the…
3 Reasons Why the New Google Shopping is Bad for Ecommerce Merchants
Google will transition Google Product Search away from being free for merchants to list their products into a commercial model built on…
Google Search in Mainland China Now Shows Censorship Warnings
Google has launched an anti-censorship tool for Chinese search users, while carefully dancing around any direct mention of government censorship. Search users…
Google Acquires (and Shuts Down) Trust Seal Company KikScore
Google’s second acquisition of the year is trust seal provider KikScore, based out of Washington, D.C. and Denver. Terms of the deal…
Google Search “Lionel Richie” for New Knowledge Graph Easter Egg
Google has a new Easter Egg, this time for searches on musician Lionel Richie. Google's latest surprise in the search results showcases…
Google Bids on New gTLDs .google, .youtube., .lol & More
While Google didn't disclose just how many domains it had applied for, Google chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf said in a company…
Google Failing on Piracy, Claims RIAA, Hollywood Agent
The Recording Industry Association of America says Google's current process isn't working and urges the company to make some changes to their…
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