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Search Engine Strategies (SES) Adds Four New Members to Advisory Board of Leading Conference and Expo Series
Mikel Chertudi of Omniture, an Adobe company; Bill Hunt of Back Azimuth Consulting; Erica Schmidt of iProspect; and Crispin Sheridan of SAP Marketing join…
5 Brand Spankin’ New Updates from Google
Google announced a bunch of new features today. Let’s dive in: Real-time integration See the latest tweets, blogs, news etc. You can click on…
Bing to Expand Streetside Imaging by Partnering with Navteq
Last week, Bing unveiled Streetside imaging but you may have noticed it’s not quite extensive. Hold your horses. These things take time. Bing is…
Google Sends Scannable Decals to Local Businesses for Storefront Dislay
Over 100,000 business have been selected as “Favorite Places in Google.” Over 9,000 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states are included. The…
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Joins Hunch Board of Directors
Though Wales just shut down Wikia search last March, he still has an interest in social search. That’s what’s driving his decision to join…
MapQuest Adds and Updates Search Categories
Here are the new ones: ATM’s (Now Over 72,000!) Parks Stadium Arenas and Athletic Fields Tourist Attractions (Includes 1.5M Locations!) Court Houses City Hall…
@ericschmidt Tries Out ‘Poor Man’s Email’
Looks like Google CEO Eric Schmidt has adopted an “If you can’t acquire beat them, join them” attitude when it comes to Twitter. After…
Yahoo! Launches Consumer Tool to Provide Niche-Specific Ad Controls
The tool is called “Ad Interest Manager” and it lets you opt-in and out of ads based on interests and preferences. Here’s a screenshot:…
Usability and SEM 101, Part 1
To bridge the gap between setting the right SEM promise and delivering the expected Web site experience, we need to better understand users needs…
Local Small Businesses and Social Media Marketing
It's more important than ever for small businesses to become active in social media communities in some aspect.
Google Enables Personalizes Search for Signed-Out Users
When Google launched personalized search, it was for signed-in users only (and then only when Web History was enabled for the account). Now, guests…
Microsoft and Yahoo! Make It Official, Now Time for Some Good Ol’ Fashioned Politicking
Microsoft and Yahoo! have finalized the search agreement initially announced last July. Originally, they had planned to finalize things by late October. When they…
Bing Explains Yesterday’s Blackout
Yesterday, Bing went down for about 30 minutes between 6:30pm and 7pm PST. Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of Online Services, Satya Nadella, took to…
17 Google Updates We Ran Out of Time For
This was one of those weeks where Google unleashed a google of updates. Try as we might, sometimes we just run out of time…
New Google Analytics Code Snippet Part of Effort to Speed Up the Web
This week, Google has been pushing out features as part of its campaign to make the Internet faster. Webmaster Central released the Site Performance…
It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: Changes At Google to Increase Ad Spends
With a decrease in overall advertising, Google looks to help offset some lost ad revenue by increasing the amount they get from existing advertisers.
Search is Search: Paid and Organic Search Synergies
You don't have paid search goals and organic search goals; you have search goals. There are opportunities for synergies and savings once you understand…
Meet The New Director, Search Engine Watch – Jonathan Allen.
Today I’m delighted to welcome the newly appointed Director, Search Engine Watch, Jonathan Allen. He joins the New York team from Incisive Media’s London…
Google Launches Public DNS Service
When you browse the web, you type in the domain name of the URL you wish to visit. But behind every URL is an…
Hunch Launches New Q&A Interface
Decision engine Hunch has unveiled a new Question and Answer interface. The reasoning behind the new design is the ability to see real-time recommendations…