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Last year we announced that Search Engine Journal entered into a partnership with Market Motive to help provide search marketing certification courses; and I’m happy...
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Google Mobile Instant Is Globally Available After Just 35 Days
Google is good at unleashing products quickly when it wants to, and it has certainly tried to focus more and more on a global market,...
TripAdvisor Blocks Google’s Review Streaming
Both Google Maps and Google Places aim to help consumers find the right business for their needs, and do so using reviews from the public...
Google Insights Show 5 Popular Holiday Gifts
While there are plenty of gift guides to be found on the web, Google is able to offer something more than a prediction of hot...
Google Voice’s Newest Celebrity Client: Santa Claus
Ever since Google retired their Goog 411 service, they’ve been promising that their voice team is pursuing enticing new avenues. One of them seems to...
Google Nexus One Receives an OS Update and an Heir
The Nexus One was one of Google’s most prominent contributions to the smartphone market. The impressive specs were present and accounted for, but more important...
Clickbooth CPC : Can it Compete with Google AdSense?
Clickbooth, a CPA/CPC affiliate network based in Sarasota, FL, has stirred up some news this week with buzz around their CPC offering for publishers who...
Local Search Tips Whitepaper from Location3 Media
Location3 Media has shared with us their Local Search Tips whitepaper that covers big picture strategies and small hints to maximize local search campaigns. They...
Google AdSense Rolls Out New Interface
Google AdSense has rolled out a major interface change that they have been testing for a good month or so, which has the new ability...
The Bing-Facebook Partnership’s Features Roll Out Today
A few weeks ago I posted about the Bing-Facebook partnership; their plan was to make search more social. This morning on Bing’s Search Blog Group...
Google’s “Related Searches” Now Include Brands, Types, and Stores in Results
Over the past few months Google has been testing out 3 new categories in “related searches”: brands, stores, and types. Search Engine Roundtable tried out...
Slashtag Search Engine, Blekko, is Now Live
Yesterday, alternative search engine, Blekko finally went live after 3 years of development and just over 3 months of beta testing. Back in July, Search...
Zemanta & BOTW : Special Offers for SEJ Readers!
The BlueGlass Florida conference will be held at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL (outside of Ft. Lauderdale) in only 5 days, and we’re...
Google Visualizes Local Search and Places Pages
In an effort to improve local search and its Places pages, Google announced a project six months ago, in which it would supply interested business...
Google Faces Opposition to Purchase of Flight Search Technology, ITA
In mid-September news broke that Google was in talks to purchase ITA Software Inc, which is the leader in flight data information, for $700 million...
Google Will NOT Resume Wi-Fi Location Information Collection Using Street View Cars
In the wake of mistakenly collecting Wi-Fi payload information, Google announced that they would no longer use their Street View cars to collect information on...
Google Tests “Shared by” and “Recent Updates” Features in News Results
Making good on their promises to add social layers to its search platform, Google has added “shared by” and “recent updates” links to the bottom...
The Bing-Facebook Partnership – the Continued Socialization of Search
In the wake of the Bing-Facebook press event, major announcements have been made by the companies; some that will be going into effect almost immediately...
Bing to Power Chinese Retail Search Engine, Etao.com
Looking for a little traction in China, Microsoft has partnered with the country’s largest online retailer, Taobao.com (whose parent company is Alibaba Group, owners of...
Yahoo Elaborates on More of Their New Search Enhancements
In the wake of Yahoo’s announcement that they would be releasing new search enhancement features in the coming weeks, today and yesterday they announced on...
UniversalBusinessListing.org Announces New Verification Process to Ensure Search Results’ Credibility
UniversalBusinessListing.org is a site that provides home-based and micro businesses with the service of having their business profiles distributed to major search outlets, social networks,...
Google Talks Their Self-Driving Car
Sebastian Thrun, a software engineer at Google, posted on the company’s official blog over the weekend that they have been developing technologies that will allow...
Yahoo Adds New Search-Enhancing Features
Yesterday on Yahoo’s search blog they announced the launch of the first series of search features that integrate news and entertainment results in one area....
Twitter’s Search Function, Now Powered by Lucene
Even though they have had their new search out for a few weeks now, Twitter’s new real-time search engine is just now starting to get...
Display Ad Creation Platform, Dapper, to be Acquired by Yahoo
Looking to not only maintain its rank as the “most successful force in display advertising”, Yahoo has a signed a deal to acquire Dapper, a...
Greg Boser & 3 Dog Media Join BlueGlass Interactive
Today I’m very happy to announce that BlueGlass Interactive has entered into an acquisition of 3 Dog Media which includes the additions of Greg Boser...
Twitter Adds New Feature to “Promoted” Products – Promoted Accounts
Twitter launched Promoted Tweets in April of this year, to allow businesses to highlight ordinary tweets that they would like to reach a wider audience....
Self-Regulation Program to Help Protect Internet Users’ Privacy
There is an on-going battle between Web users and the amount of access advertisers have to their information. A new program is going to be...
Touch Screen Startup, BlindType, Acquired by Google
Touch screen technology startup, BlindType, announces that they have been acquired by Google. If you are unfamiliar with BlindType, the short and long of it...
Visual Search Engine, Quintura, Sells The Patent for Their Technology
Visual search engine, Quintura, announces that it has sold its patent technology to an unnamed buy for $600,000. According to CEO Yakov Sadchikov, the price...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
Forbes
January 11, 2022
If you manage e-commerce digital marketing campaigns, these strategies can save you time and help grow your traffic, sales and your bottom line. See More
Eight Ways Businesses Are Adopting Innovative Streaming During Social Distancing
Forbes
May 20, 2020
Streaming video technology is more important than ever. See More