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5 Million Users Hate the New Facebook? No Problem
Facebookers are annoyed that their beloved social network implemented a new design. But will their annoyance outweigh the value they get from using the…
WidgetBucks Launches Local and Travel Ad Verticals
Ad widget company WidgetBucks today announced the availability of two new advertising verticals: local and travel. WidgetBucks already has a shopping vertical which serves…
Street View and Walking Directions Added to Google Maps for Mobile
Google has added Street View and walking directions to its mobile maps. This will be especially useful for those of you lucky enough to…
Google Makes AdWords Site Stats Logo Optional
Google has made it optional for AdWords users to place the “Google Site Stats” logo on their conversion pages. Originally, the logo was designed…
Powerset’s First Integrations with Live Search
Microsoft acquired semantic search company Powerset earlier this year, and now the Live Search team is revealing the first integrations of Powerset with Live…
New Premium Ad Network for Bloggers from BuzzLogic
BuzzLogic is unveiling a new premium ad network specifically designed with bloggers in mind, and they’re launching it at this week’s BlogWorld & New…
Turn Introduces Dynamic Pricing into Behavioral Targeting Ad Solution
Online advertising firm Turn, Inc. is introducing dynamic pricing models into its behavioral targeting offering. The model will take factors such as recency and…
Google To Acquire Content Distribution Platform With Purchase of Valve
Google could be acquiring Valve which also owns Steam – one of the best content distributions, according to the Inquirer. Valve is also a…
GPhone Coming Soon, Should IPhone Worry
The oft rumored G phone is becoming a reality and given the popularity of the Google brand I wonder if the Apple crew are…
Google Now Allowing Anti-Abortion Ads After Settling With UK Religious Group
Google settled with a UK-based anti-abortion group who had sued them for not allowing them access to advertising for abortion keywords, the Times Online…
Yahoo Homepage Redesign Disses Microsoft
Michael Arrington over TechCrunch has screen shots of the new Yahoo redesign, including their third party mail access which offers AOL and Google but…
SEW Experts: 5 Million Users Hate the New Facebook? No Problem
Facebookers are annoyed that their beloved social network implemented a new design. But will their annoyance outweigh the value they get from using the…
SEW Experts: Link Marketing: What Google Can Teach You
Google’s success story has many important lessons about link marketing. In today’s linkbuilding column, “Link Marketing: What Google Can Teach You,” Justilien Gaspard explains…
SearchDay | Launch Google Freedom Now
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Launch Google Freedom Now; Landing Page Optimization -- Insource or Outsource?; Google Goes on the Defensive About…
Google Goes on the Defensive About Yahoo Ad Deal Cost Projections
Google is none-too-thrilled about a SearchIgnite study suggesting that search advertising prices would increase by 22%. Now they’re fighting back by saying the study…
SocialMedia.com and Buddy Media Team Up for Social ‘App-vertising’ Solution
Socialmedia.com is a social advertising network. Buddy Media is a social media consulting and analytics company (i.e. they have clients!). Today, they have announced…
ChaCha is Fastest Growing Mobile Text Search Service
Since launching a mobile text search service in January, ChaCha has answered 27 million queries, already gaining 7% of the U.S. mobile search market.…
Google Releases Audio Indexing into Google Labs
In July, Google launched an iGoogle gadget that enables video speech search for select election videos. The technology searches transcribed speech snippets from the…
Landing Page Optimization — Insource or Outsource? Part 2
Deciding whether to outsource your landing page optimization and testing program is not an easy decision. There are advantages to each. Here are three…
Launch Google Freedom Now
How much power should Google have? How much is too much? Why should you care? Would we really be better off in a Google-free…