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Using Your Phone As Your Credit Card Could Be Coming To U.S. Soon
While using your mobile phone to make purchases has been around in Eurpoe and Asia for a number of years, there always seem to…
Second Life Tinfoil Hat Theory, Part 6: The Search For A Better Search Engine
How users gamed the search engine and why search is critical to Second Life.
Essential Black Friday Tool: Google Launches Desktop Store Inventory Checker
Just in time for the hectic shopping season, Google has rolled out a desktop app that many people venturing out on Black Friday will…
Are the Unsung Heros of Search and Social Media Marketing Sartorially Challenged, Too?
On Thursday, I asked, ” Are the Brains of Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization Sartorially Challenged?” And I put together a list…
Search Week in Review for Nov. 20, 2010
Here’s a roundup of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Nov. 15 to 19, as reported by Search Engine Watch,…
Google to Delete U.K. WiFi Data
“Data that should never have been collected in the first place can, at last, be deleted,” according to U.K. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, in…
Google Blurs Its Own Building in Germany as Street View Expands
Street View images of Germany’s 20 largest cities, including Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, are live in Google Maps, Google announced yesterday. One funny note…
Google Plans to Hire 2,000+ Worldwide; Salaries Revealed
Earlier this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that “people are dying to come and work here,” and that media reports of people abandoning…
Can Twitter Help Sell Cars and Other Big Ticket Items?
There's a fine line between making sales and annoying potential customers. Some dos and don'ts for promoting sales on Twitter.
Could A New Technique Change How Search Engines Work?
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a machine-learning technique that gathers and stores word associations to enhance the search process. The technique uses, from…
How to Keep Up To Date in Search
The search space is changing on a daily basis. Here's are some tips on how you can keep track of the latest happenings in…
Google Chrome Releases: 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
The creative team that gave us Google Chrome has released an online book “20 Things I learned About Browsers and the Web” and it…
Forget Clicks, iProspect Study Shows Ad Impressions Drive Purchases & Boost Brands
By now you should have heard of the ‘last click’ attribution methodology and how it is a wrong headed analysis that risks biting the…
SearchIgnite DSP Makes Display Advertising More Like Paid Search
Most companies manage their display advertising and search marketing activities in ‘silos’, having separate teams and platforms to manage it all. This week, SearchIgnite…
Forget “The Social Network” SEOktoberfest The Movie Is Here
The 2010 movie of the SEOktoberfest conference is now available thanks to Marcus Tandler – the event organizer and prominent German marketer. It is…
Shaky Yahoo Could Undermine Bing Search Efforts
eWeek has written an interesting article about how Microsoft is worried that an unstable Yahoo could seriously impact the efforts of Bing in the…
FBI Seeks Google’s Help in Wiretapping
FBI Director Robert Meuller met with execs at Google and Facebook on a trip to Silicon Valley earlier this week, the New York Times…
Why Google Chrome OS & The Cloud May Be Bad Ideas
Reconsider the cloud operating systems before you find yourself without any choices and your computer a slave to the powerful companies that now run…
Are the Brains of Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization Sartorially Challenged?
The Boston Globe has just published it’s list of “The 25 most stylish Bostonians” and I’m not on it. And I’m starting to think…
Instant Answers About Google Instant Previews
What effect will Google Instant Previews have on conversion rate optimization? Not much, at least not yet. But stay tuned to see what GIP…