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Checking-in on Your Local Listings Across Growing LBS Apps
Five guidelines for business to create a strategy for establishing a local identity and building visibility to take full advantage of the viral nature…
Yandex Geo-targeted Ads in Maps, Search Results Open for Business
Russian search engine Yandex has introduced geo-targeted ads to its business directory. Based on what users are searching for, Yandex will highlight the location…
President Obama and Vice President Biden Using YouTube and Yahoo Answers
There’s an old adage that recommends that you “fish where the fish are.” Well, President Barack Obama was answering questions on YouTube yesterday while…
New in Gmail: Display Ads
Next time you’re using Chrome and get one of your new Gmail message notifications, you might notice another new addition when you visit your…
Egypt Shuts Down Internet, SMS
Two days after blocking Twitter, and a day after reports that Facebook and Google were blocked off and on, major news outlets including the…
Schmidt on ‘False’ Media Speculation, Google vs. Facebook Obsession
Speculation that Eric Schmidt was forced out as chief executive officer in favor of Larry Page due to internal conflicts surrounding China are “completely…
U.K. Debates Google Monopoly, Search Neutrality
Introducing first, in the “we need search neutrality because Google is destroying Britain” corner: Graham Jones, Labour MP for Hyndburn. And in the “people…
Local Search: Your Address is the New Link
A look at some of the changes local search results are bringing to SEO -- especially link building.
Which Search Engine Would Be a Jeopardy Champion?
After taking a random sampling of 200,000 “Jeopardy” clues and performing searches on Google, Bing, Ask, Blekko, Wikipedia search, and Yandex, this search engine…
Baidu: Beefing Presence Beyond China
Baidu clearly dominates the China search market but does it have ambitions to grow outside the country? Recent developments suggest it is strengthening its…