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Top Google Spot is Less Valuable on iPads [Study]

Search-based online advertising network Chitika has put out an interesting study showing that the top spot in Google receives 20 percent of clicks among iPad users. Top Google…

By Brent Rangen · 02 May 2011

Social

Oh Happy Day! YouTube Founders Takeover Delicious

Forget the Royal Wedding, the surprise piece of news that came out this week was that AVOS, a new company formed by…

By Jonathan Allen · 29 Apr 2011

Mobile

Women Sue Google for $50M Over Android User Tracking

Following news last week that Android devices track and store your location, two women are suing Google for $50 million and trying…

By Danny Goodwin · 29 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Doodle Celebrates William & Kate’s Royal Wedding

In honor of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine “Kate” Middleton, Google has posted a special logo in select countries…

By Danny Goodwin · 29 Apr 2011

Industry

Royal Wedding: Searching for Insights on Google, Bing, Yahoo

The overhyped Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton is tomorrow, with an expected viewing audience of up to 2…

By Danny Goodwin · 28 Apr 2011

Industry

What is the Click-Through Rate on Google’s Top 10 Organic Results? [Infographic]

Our top story last week was the revelation, or perhaps confirmation, that the Number 1 Google Result Gets 36.4% of Clicks. The…

By Jonathan Allen · 28 Apr 2011

Industry

Google AdWords Call Metrics Adding $1 Charge for Calls

Google AdWords has alerted advertisers using call metrics of an added $1 charge whenever a desktop or laptop user manually dials one…

By Danny Goodwin · 28 Apr 2011

Social

Google Adds Quora, More Social Sites to Realtime Search Results

Activity on Quora, such as asking questions, adding or upvoting answers, submitting posts, and adding comments have been added into Google’s Realtime…

By Danny Goodwin · 27 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Testing New Placements for URLs in SERPs?

Google.co.uk appears to be testing out new placement locations for URLs on their search engine results pages. As the PPC Blog spotted,…

By Brent Rangen · 27 Apr 2011

Industry

Does Anybody Care About the Search Alliance in Europe?

For many search marketers, Yahoo and Bing are simply no longer on the map in Europe. Increasingly the preference is to trial…

By Duncan Parry · 27 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Buys Local/Mobile Startup TalkBin

Google has acquired five-month-old startup TalkBin, a local business feedback platform, the company announced on its website. TalkBin describes itself on its…

By Danny Goodwin · 26 Apr 2011

Industry

AdWords Instant Previews for Ads: Free Clicks for Advertisers

Instant Previews for Ads, which we reported was being tested last week, are now live in the U.S. AdWords advertisers will only…

By Danny Goodwin · 26 Apr 2011

Local

Google Offers Accepting Business Sign-ups in Portland

Google promises businesses that the Groupon-style program, which went live last week, will help bring in new customers, with Google handling all…

By Danny Goodwin · 26 Apr 2011

Local

Groupon Counters Google Offers By Hiring Exec. Who Worked On Their Local Offerings

While Google launched their new Offers service last week – a coupon product similar to Groupon, the company that turned down a…

By Frank Watson · 25 Apr 2011

Industry

Wael Ghonim Leaving Google To Help With Egypt’s Reorganization

Wael Ghonim, the Google Middle East employee who was detained during the revolt in Egypt announced he will be taking a long-term…

By Frank Watson · 25 Apr 2011

Industry

The Social Connection between Google Panda and Google +1

Google's Panda update represents more than just an algorithm change to weed out content farms; it represents (perhaps) a first step in…

By Garry Przyklenk · 25 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Celebrating Children and Children’s Stories With Doodles Worldwide

Google Doodle logos are popping up in various Google sites around the world. While they are all different, they share a common…

By Thom Craver · 23 Apr 2011

Video

Google Video Shows Easy Method To Transfer Videos To YouTube

I received an email this morning from the Google Video team explaining how to transfer my videos from their hosting to YouTube…

By Frank Watson · 23 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Launches “News for You” – Personalized News Based on Recommendations

For the past few months, Google has been testing new news layouts in the wild. Today, they announced those tests are now…

By Thom Craver · 22 Apr 2011

Local

Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 3

Google Places tips and strategies for image optimization, reviews, and geographic targeting.

By Dave Davies · 22 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Webmaster Tools Provides Plugin for Self Hosted WordPress Sites

Google has released a new plugin that will help you verify your WordPress site in Webmaster Tools. Blogger users already know this…

By Brent Rangen · 22 Apr 2011

Industry

Google & Recyclebank Set Earth Day Challenge to ‘Green’ Your Social Graph

Google and Recylebank are on a mission to measure the impact of game mechanics on marketing green behavior, in order to learn…

By Brianna Kuhl · 22 Apr 2011

Industry

Decade of Earth Day Doodles Get Google Animated in 2011

Google have not failed to disappoint with this year's Earth Day Doodle. In fact, after 10 years of honoring the day, this…

By Jonathan Allen · 22 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Loses Linux Patent Suit To The Tune of $5 Million

A Texas jury recently ruled that Google infringed on an information storage and retrieval patent. The court verdict documents, filed last Friday,…

By Thom Craver · 21 Apr 2011

Local

Google Offers Live in Portland; Coming Soon to NYC, San Francisco

Google Offers, Google’s version of Groupon or LivingSocial, has launched in Portland, Oregon, and will soon offer daily deals from local restaurants…

By Danny Goodwin · 21 Apr 2011

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