It was a very exciting week in online marketing with Google's disappointing Q4 earning report, Wikipedia's 24-hour shutdown of its English language site in protest of SOPA, and Facebook's new Timeline app service. [...more]
We kick off the New Year with the announcement of Yahoo!'s new CEO, Google Chrome's PageRank controversy and several predictions about what 2012 has in store for online marketing. [...more]
In this week's stories, rapper MC Hammer introduces "deep search," Google introduces new data visualizations, and amps up search user security with SSL. [...more]
Google strengthens its position in local search with its acquisition of Zagat, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz is exploring new opportunities, and Twitter renews its search deal with Bing. [...more]
In this week's news, Google introduces Multi-Channel Funnels, Facebook "Likes" gets banned in part of Germany, and Google +1 gets fully integrated into Google Plus. [...more]
In this week's stories, Google expands its Panda Update to additional languages, Apple becomes the most valuable publicly traded company in the world and Google visits Burlington, VT to educate local businesses. [...more]
While Convention and Visitors Bureau websites have a wealth of information on local businesses, they rarely rank well on Google. Instead it's an array of sites that want visitors to either book a hotel, purchase a golf package, or click on AdSense ads. In this post, we look at some of the reasons why... [...more]
In this week's news, Google enters the daily-deals race with Google Offers on the same day that Groupon files its IPO. [...more]
In this week's news, Facebook launches its new coupon service and acquires Daytum, while Microsoft releases its Q3 revenue report. [...more]
In this week's search news, Yahoo reports a significant decline in search revenue, Google tests Instant Ad Previews and Wal-Mart acquires Kosmix. [...more]
