Twitter recently unveiled a number of changes to their desktop user interface. This is a major redesign for the microblogging platform, and one with important implications on both SEO and social media marketing. [...more]
Google and Verizon net neutrality proposal has received a lot of criticism this week from net neutrality activists, who claim that, if passed, the Google-Verizon proposal will privatize the web. [...more]
This week's stories are filled with disappointing quarterly revenue reports from many of the industry's leading companies. [...more]
Twitter enters the second stage in their monetization strategy with @earlybird deals -- a new handle created to promote special deals and bargains. [...more]
In this week's stories, Twitter and YouTube both try to expand their market base with new, more targeted strategies. [...more]
Google dominates this week's stories with their planned acquisition of the travel software company ITA and the redesign of their Google News platform. [...more]
In this week's segment, we discuss Facebook's new VP of Global Policy, the possibility of a Google version of iTunes, and Twiter's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. [...more]
Twitter dominated this week stories with their acquisition of Smallthought Systems' Trendy, an analytics company. [...more]
Google dominates this week's stories with some big announcements from their I/O Conference and Eric Schmidt's response to the latest privacy breach. [...more]
In this week’s column, we discuss Google’s relationship with Germany, as it tries to push forward with its Street View product, Mark Zuckerberg's views on privacy, and Steve Jobs’ recent attack against Adobe. [...more]
This week’s stories are dominated by Twitter’s first annual developer conference, where the Twitter leadership appeared in San Francisco with a strategy to bring more features in house, and start generating some serious revenue. [...more]
Promoted Tweets represent a new way for advertisers to place their tweets at the top of the search results page... and for Twitter to start generating some significant new revenue. [...more]
This week's stories are on the move as Apple previews a new OS and ad platform for the iPhone, Google tries to finalize its acquisition of mobile ad firm AdMob, and Rupert Murodch gives the iPad a spin. [...more]
We wind up March with Google's decision to ignore China's censorship laws and a huge win for Google against Louis Vuitton in the Europe. [...more]
In this week's stories, Facebook and Twitter push towards geo-search, while Google launches its new app marketplace and continue to face problems with censorship in China. [...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]
With geo-targeting, Twitter becomes a local advertising platform player, offering new opportunities in high street and main street marketing. [...more]
It's been an interesting week in search, as Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal gains governmental approval, Salesforce ventures into corporate social networking and Apple fights to keep e-book prices down. [...more]
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]
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]
The Search Agents have dusted off their crystal ball to predict the biggest opportunities and greatest developments to come in 2010. [...more]
December 19th's stories from the world of search are dominated by FTC legal troubles, as Facebook is forced to justify their new privacy policy settings and Intel is required to prove they aren't the high tech chip bully. [...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]
Social media seems like the wild west of interactive marketing, with many brands trying new tactics without a solid strategy in place. Read more to learn the five most common social media missteps, and what you can do to avoid them. [...more]
This week's stories are dominated by Facebook, with new data confirming its strong influence in holiday gift purchases. The social network also sparked controversy this week with their redesigned user privacy policy. [...more]
We start of December with a flourishing rivalry between Google and Microsoft, as they head off to chart the best map. Google also responded to criticism from Rupert Murdoch and other traditional news outlets with a new policy to limit access to content on subscription sites. [...more]
In this week in search, we have two game changing developments from Google, with their unveiling of their highly anticipated Chrome OS operating system and YouTube's integration of automated video captions. [...more]
This weeks stories are quite seasonal. Yahoo, Microsoft and Google kick off the holiday season with the gift of free WiFi and, if your cold has got you down, Google just introduced their new flu shot search feature. [...more]
With Google’s introduction of their new service Google Dashboard, MSN’s makeover and Twitter’s new retweet, this week's stories are all about how social media is changing the nature of search and prompting new internet privacy boundaries. [...more]
This week’s results are fully of controversy and competition, especially for Google, as they compete with Bing over Twitter, Facebook over music and AT&T over the political future of the internet. [...more]
