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Happy Halloween! Is Mark Zuckerburg Dressing Up as Steve Jobs?
I feel like I am writing for the wrong blog when i say this, but did anyone notice Mark Zuckerburg’s resemblance to Steve Jobs at the Bing-Facebook announcement?…
Only 13% of Visitors to Media Company Homepage Watch Pre-roll Video Ads
Video Sharing Analytics company, Tube Mogul conducted a little investigation to discover “what percent of unique visitors to a media company’s homepage…
Could Google Acquisition of ITA Kill Online Travel Sales Industry
Seems many of the larger online travel sales sites fear Google’s purchase of ITA – the technology behind 65% of all carrier-direct…
U.S. Ends Google Street View Inquiry
After two weeks of privacy complaints and threats of fines, Google has received some good news about its Street View service. The…
Impact of Google Instant on Paid Search [Report]
Marin Software unveiled key research showing that Google Instant streaming search results was a win-win implementations for users and advertisers… and Google.…
Microsoft adCenter Powers All Paid Search Advertising on Bing / Yahoo Search Alliance in U.S. & Canada
Today Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they have completed a major search alliance milestone in both the U.S. and Canada. Starting today,…
Hacking AdWords – Who Said Black Hat Was Just Organic?
Drugs. Viagra. Online casinos. Yes, even AdWords isn't impervious to black hat techniques.
Google Launches New Ad Format for Local Businesses
Local businesses in San Francisco, Houston, and Chicago, can now access Google Boost, a beta AdWords program that auto-generates search ads to…
Google Instant Arriving on Android Devices
Owners of select Android devices, including Droid, Droid X, and Incredible, are reporting the arrival of Google Instant (beta). A poster in…
Class Action Suit Targets Google for Revealing Users Search Queries
A federal lawsuit filed in California alleges that Google illegally shared the search queries of its users with third parties. The class…
How to Value Links?
Perhaps the hardest question to answer in search engine optimization is how much to budget for link building. Here's how you can…
Incorporating Geo-Targeting into Your Link Building
Searchers are getting better all the time at incorporating specific locations into their queries. Ignoring that fact is just fatal. Here are…
Schmidt’s Solution to Street View Privacy Concerns? ‘Just Move’
During the past seven days, five countries have complained about Google’s Street View cars. The growing outcry over privacy prompted Google to…
Google Fights Back in Patent Suit vs. Microsoft Co-Founder
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sued 11 corporations, including Google/YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, and AOL, claiming they built their businesses off of…
Google Sites Account for 6.4% of All Global Internet Traffic
Google is huge, and it continues to shatter records. This month, Google broke an Internet traffic record, and the search giant now…
Use Link: Search Command on Google to See ‘Shared By’ Results Per URL
Shared by results appeared in Google earlier this week and a number of people have asked how you get to see them.…
Search Week in Review for Oct. 23, 2010
Here’s a roundup of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Oct. 18 to 22, as reported by Search…
ABC, CBS, NBC Block Web Content From Google TV
The three biggest U.S. networks have blocked access to full-length episodes of television shows that are available for streaming on their websites,…
Judge Orders Google To Give Up Harassers Info
Will Tuesday’s court ruling impact Google’s policy of what information they keep in their search results? A New York ruled that Google…
Latent Semantics and How to Check it in the SERPs
Search engines use latent semantics to understand where certain keywords should be grouped. Take advantage of this for your SEO efforts when…
244,000 Germans Demand Removal of Google Street View Imagery
Google yesterday announced that 244,237 out of 8,458,084 households (2.89 percent) want images of their homes to be blurred when Street View…
Viacom Hires High-Profile Lawyer to Battle YouTube on Copyright
Viacom’s battle with YouTube is heating up again. In June, the company promised to appeal after it lost its battle with Google-owned…
Yahoo’s Bartz: ‘I’m here to stay. Do I look like a wimp?’
One day after Yahoo reported its Q3 earnings and Yahoo’s board unofficially committed to stick with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz for the…
Using Customers for Link Marketing
A few insights that will help you get your customers involved in creating links to your site.
Google-Yahoo Japan Deal May Face FTC Scrutiny
Rakuten, Japan’s largest online shopping mall operator, has asked Japan’s Fair Trade Commission to review the search deal Google cut with Yahoo…
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