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Google Test Adds Website Names, Subtracts URLs in Search Results
Google appears to be testing a new look for search results, adding the name of popular websites including LinkedIn, Facebook, Apple, Wikipedia, Amazon.com, Yahoo,…
Authenticity in Social Media: Don’t Get Mad, Get YouTube
If you need to fight city hall or battle corporate bureaucracy, then don’t get mad, get the YouTube community on your side. Here we…
Privacy Regulators See Red Over Facebook Facial Recognition
Facebook is coming under attack from European Union regulators questioning its intrusion in to users' privacy. Facebook gave information to the EU shortly after…
Breaking 3 Old SEO Habits
Google’s constant algorithm tweaks are forcing SEOs to evolve. It can be difficult to change direction with our strategies, especially when we have watched…
3 Awesome Remarketing Ad Strategies
Remarketing ads let you get really creative with your content and conversion action. Test out some of these strategies to make your ads noticeable,…
Google Buys AdMeld for $400M
Google is continuing its investments in the display advertising arena with its purchase of AdMeld, a publisher utility targeted at optimizing ROI for digital…
Visual Health Search
New visual search tools aim to take you inside the human body to address health related concerns, improve healthy outcomes, and reduce medical errors…
Google Guitar Heroes Help Keep Les Paul Doodle Alive
The Les Paul Google Guitar Doodle has caused a storm of creativity around the web. Celebrities and amateurs alike have been strumming tunes and…
Bing Releases Slew of New Mobile Features for iOS, Snubs Android
Despite a history of conflict and tension, Microsoft and Apple seem to be teaming up thanks to synergistic services opportunities in Bing search and…
Canadian Watchdog Wants Privacy Audit Of Google
Seems auditing Google's privacy policies and actions is becoming a popular demand these days, only months after the FTC required Google to submit to…
80% of Engagement with Tweets is Clicking a Link (Rather than Reply or RT)
Twitter's President of Global Revenue, Adam Bain, said 80% of user engagement with a tweet is clicking on a a link contained inside (with…
Low Interest in Social Networks in China [Study]
While internet use in China continues to grow, Mainland China and its surrounding areas (specifically Taiwan and Hong Kong ñ collectively known as Greater…
Les Paul Guitar Google Doodle Gets Encore
Google's special playable guitar logo in tribute of Les Paul's birthday was so popular yesterday that Google is keeping the interactive Doodle up another…
SEO for Small Businesses: Get Into Action
The most important thing when it comes to marketing your business is simply getting into action. Any successful habit-forming SEO system will have these…
Social Media Study Shows Increased LinkedIn Popularity
New research shows that you need to get onto the social networks – especially LinkedIn – and communicate with your potential employees, partners, clients,…
Facebook Pics Of Ex GFs Cause Emotional Stress? You Can Sue For That In Tennessee!
A new Tennessee law makes it illegal to display or transmit images that "frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress." The constitutionality of the law…
Bing Branding Blitz on Xbox
Microsoft is bringing Bing search to the Xbox 360. The new search feature will use Microsoft voice recognition technology and the Xbox 360 Kinect…
Is Google’s Software Infrastructure Almost Obsolete?
Former Google engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna, who helped design Wave, Realtime Search and maintained the code library that resided on most of Google's Java…
Google Ad SiteLinks Adds “Embedded” Format
Google AdWords is always experimenting with new formats, and their most recent experiment is embedded Ad SiteLinks. If you have SiteLinks enabled, then AdWords…
Will Author Markup Help Google’s Scraper Problem?
Post-Panda, scrapers are outranking content creators. Will Google's new code help publishers definitively identify themselves as the authoritative author of their published work?