The Week We Searched For- August 5, 2011
In this week's stories, we discuss accusations of Apple, Microsoft and Oracle's "patent war" against Google Android, real time results on Google Plus and Google's acquisition of Dealmap. [...more]
In this week's stories, we discuss accusations of Apple, Microsoft and Oracle's "patent war" against Google Android, real time results on Google Plus and Google's acquisition of Dealmap. [...more]
In our just-published POV on Google Plus, we detail the various features, explore possible ways Google+ could impact search user behavior and consider ways Google+ may impact SEO and social media. Lastly, we provide a few best practices for marketers to implement before Google launches brand and business pages. [...more]
Social media dominated the headlines this week with Google+ gaining momentum and praise, Zynga's IPO prospectus, Facebook's new video chat service and more. [...more]
Google devotes a new page to real time search results and a new Gmail Voice service. [...more]
Real time search dominated this week's new stories with a new deal between Yahoo and Twitter and Google's continuing efforts to incorporate social media into their indexing mix with Facebook status updates. [...more]
The addition of real-time search results represents another major shakeup to the traditional Google results page. In a recent article in iMediaConnection, I analyze the impact on SEO strategy and highlight the best practices marketers need to manage the content included in real-time search results. [...more]
Matt Cutts recently offered his 2010 search predictions. Is the future of SEO as promising as he suggests? [...more]
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]
Like many, when Google announced the integration of real-time social media feed results into results for some terms, I was excited to try it out - and was shocked at the first few results. [...more]
Today is "privacy day" on Facebook. Facebook will be sending a request to users to review and update their privacy settings which could allow more protected Facebook data to be indexed by the search engines. [...more]