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Startup America: Google, Facebook Among Companies to Lead White House Entrepreneurship Initiative
Less than a week after announcing a commitment to entrepreneurship during the State of the Union address, the Obama administration announced Startup America, a national campaign to help…
Advertisers Benefit More From Top Ad Spots on Google Than Bing [Study]
People who use Google spend more time looking at the top three paid ads above the organic results than Bing users, according…
Google’s Social Acquisitions – SayNow is the Latest Conquest
Last week, Google announced two more acquisitions of companies into their collective. SayNow, a voice/telephone service was announced first. The very next…
Who Is Duncan Watts and Why Is Everything Obvious … Once You Know the Answer?
The keynote speaker at SES New York 2011 is Duncan Watts, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the…
Search Engine Optimized vs. Search Engine Friendly Websites
Having a search engine friendly website structure isn't the same as optimizing a website for search engines. Here's how to make sure…
Search Week in Review for Jan. 29, 2011
Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Jan. 23 to 29, as reported by Search…
D.C. Gets a Street View of New Anti-Google Video
Consumer Watchdog is at it again. In the new video “Mr. Schmidt Goes to Washington,” the group demands Eric Schmidt be called…
Google’s War on Spam Begins: New Algorithm Live
Google’s Matt Cutts today announced the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and reduce spam in Google’s…
Yandex Geo-targeted Ads in Maps, Search Results Open for Business
Russian search engine Yandex has introduced geo-targeted ads to its business directory. Based on what users are searching for, Yandex will highlight…
New in Gmail: Display Ads
Next time you’re using Chrome and get one of your new Gmail message notifications, you might notice another new addition when you…
U.K. Debates Google Monopoly, Search Neutrality
Introducing first, in the “we need search neutrality because Google is destroying Britain” corner: Graham Jones, Labour MP for Hyndburn. And in…
Baidu: Beefing Presence Beyond China
Baidu clearly dominates the China search market but does it have ambitions to grow outside the country? Recent developments suggest it is…
Google Blacklists Some Piracy Terms in Instant, Autocomplete
Search terms like BitTorrent (and several other combinations of the word “torrent”), RapidShare, and Megaupload are among the new banned words in…
Retargeting: An Introduction to a New Opportunity
What retargeting is, why you should care, and what you can do to start offering it to your clients.
Yahoo Reports More Layoffs, Q4 Revenue
Prior to releasing their Q4 results, Yahoo announced it is laying off another 1 percent of its workforce — approximately 135 of…
Google To Buy Sentiment Analysis Engine, fflick
Google has started a process of acquiring sentiment analysis startup, fflick, for $10 million according to TechCrunch. It seems unlikely that fflick…
Want to Work at Google? Company Plans to Hire More than 6,000
Fresh off record earnings of $8.44 billion and the arrival of Larry Page as CEO, Alan Eustace, Google’s SVP Engineering and Research,…
Disastrous Pilot Puts Eric Schmidt’s TV Career on Hiatus
Google’s Eric Schmidt was looking at expanding his career horizons before it was announced he will step down as chief executive officer…
Bing’s New Top 20 Popular Images: Cute Squirrels, Jesse James, and Todd Palin
click to enlarge Bing has introduced a new search landing page that highlights the most popular image searches of the day. Quite…
Google Gives Eric Schmidt ‘Unprecedented’ $100 Million Equity Award
Outgoing Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt will receive a $100 million equity award from Google, the company has confirmed. The award “includes…
Search in the European Union: A Different Perspective
An overview of the role of currencies, taxes, legal issues, and cultural elements when optimizing for search in Europe.
AdWords Display URLs Now Showing in Lower Case
Two weeks ago Google announced that the domain portion of all AdWords ads would soon show in lower case. It appears this…
SMB Must-Haves in 2011
Make sure you stay on top of Google Places, Facebook and Twitter, and monitoring and tracking this year.
Search Week in Review for Jan. 22, 2011
Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Jan. 16 to 22, as reported by Search…
Schmidt Canned: How Will Page Rank as Google’s CEO?
The speculation has already begun. Was CEO Eric Schmidt really forced out and why? Was there friction among the Google triumvirate? Will…
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