Posted on Friday, January 29th, 2010 by Camille Canon
This week’s stories are primarily concerned with local and social base search, as AT&T joins the race with Buzz.com and Google introduces their new social search services. [...more]
Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 by Grant Simmons
Matt Cutts recently offered his 2010 search predictions. Is the future of SEO as promising as he suggests? [...more]
Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Bradd Libby
Search Engine Land recently published my article entitled "The Pitfalls of Budget-Constrained Bidding", where I examine the downsides of both over- and underbidding on keywords. [...more]
Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Alex Campbell
Did you ever see a really compelling PPC ad for one of your competitors and wish you could make it less effective? Or make it reach fewer people? With AdWords, frighteningly, you can re-write or replace your competitors ads. Learn how. [...more]
Posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Camille Canon
This week’s stories are highlighted by growing competition in the mobile market as Nokia raises the stakes with new navigation technology and Apple looks to replace Google with iPhone as the default iPhone search engine. [...more]
Posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Bradd Libby
Paid search advertisers are acutely aware of the dependence of click traffic levels on their ad's position. But recent changes to how Google apparently serves ads in search results on its own site might have a toxic effect across the board. [...more]
Posted on Monday, January 18th, 2010 by Chris Stout
Increased concerns over security and censorship have prompted the world’s biggest search engine to reconsider its approach to the Chinese market. Some have praised the move as “a victory for freedom and free enterprise.” Others contend that Google’s decision to take the moral high ground on censorship is really more of a business decision than anything else. [...more]
Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Alec Green
Real-time search brings a whole new set of results to searches for popular brands or companies. What is the impact of having news results and latest results appear on page one and what can a marketer do when their own site no longer shows up at the top? [...more]
Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Camille Canon
This week’s stories include Google’s threat to remove their search engine from China, Google’s failed Nexus One launch and Facebook’s continuing efforts to improve their privacy policy. [...more]
Posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Mark Fillmore
Mark Fillmore recently had his post on URL Confusion nominated for a SEMMY award in the search tech category. It goes without saying: "We like you, we really like you."
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