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360i Report Outlines How Google Caffeine Differs from Old Google
If you’ve been following Google Caffeine, you know, the new search architecture the search giant has been teasing search marketers with, then you may…
Google Maps Adds Arterial Roads to Traffic Layer with Data from Your Phone
If you commute along a heavily-trafficked highway, you’ve probably often thought – and tried – alternate ways home. This is a trial-and-error method that…
YouTube to Monetize Individual Viral Videos (Maybe, If They Want To)
One of the questions asked during the JK Wedding Dance phenomenon was why the owners of the video did not get paid. After all,…
Top 10 Search Terms by Category, July 2009
July's top 10 search terms by search volume from Hitwise
Yahoo Updates Search Results Pages
Yahoo is rolling out some changes to its search results pages, with a new three-column design that highlights Yahoo apps, related searches, and more…
Smart Move: Yahoo Acquires Major Arabic Portal Maktoob
Yahoo’s announcement of their acquisition of major Arabic portal Maktoob may be the smartest move the company has made in some time. Maktoob gives…
Social, Search, and Branding
Social media is about interacting with your target audience, creating bonds with your brand, and then giving your audience outlets to exercise those bonds.…
10 Common SEO Mistakes
Especially in larger organizations, it's common that SEO doesn't get the credit it deserves for driving traffic to a Web site. Unfortunately, this can…
SearchDay | Socialnomics: It’s a People-Driven Economy, Stupid
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Socialnomics: It's a People Driven Economy, Stupid; Google Analytics 101; Rumor: Bing and Wolfram Alpha Strike a…
Blogs Increase Traffic, Links and Indexing According to Hubspot Study
Ok, you’ve heard of this blogging thing, heard it might help your business but you’re just not sure if it will *really* bring results.…
Swiss Official Calls for Google Street View to Be Shut Down
Hanspeter Thür, Switzerland’s federal data protection commissioner, is not remaining neutral on the issue of Google Street View, according to the New York Times.…
LookSmart Launches Optimal Pricing PPC Model
LookSmart has introduced a new pay-per-click pricing method they’ve dubbed Optimal Pricing. The model prices according to traffic type, quality, and volume based on…
Google Analytics 101, Part 1
How do you know if your site is accomplishing the company's goals or not? Google Analytics is a good choice to begin gaining this…
Socialnomics: It’s a People Driven Economy, Stupid.
Socialnomics is a massive socioeconomic shift. Yet, some of the core marketing and business principals of the last few centuries will still apply.
Wolfram|Alpha Hard at Work Three Months After Launch
It’s been three months since Wolfram|Alpha launched as a search engine for structured data. But they haven’t just sat back and hoped WA took…
Nicholas Fox of Google AdWords Invites You To Shape Future of Search Advertising
Nicholas Fox, the Business Product Management Director of AdWords at Google, gave one of the three keynote speeches at SES San Jose 2009. Yes,…
SearchDay | Is Google the Lazy Man’s Marketing Method?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Is Google the Lazy Man's Marketing Method?; Search Engine Wars, the Local Front; Twitter to Launch Opt-In…
YouTube App for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 Adds More Languages
YouTube has added five languages to its application for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones. The new languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Polish Russian Swedish…
Google Rolls Out Updated Image Search to Additional Phones
Back in March, Google updated its mobile image search but just for iPhone and Android devices. Now, Google says just about every feature phone…
Rumor: Bing and Wolfram Alpha Strike a Search Deal
If a new blog post at TechCrunch is true (and that’s generally about a 50/50 chance), then Bing has struck yet another search deal…