Google PageRank Update : June 2009
Google PageRank (the visible toolbar PageRank that is) was updated around the web on the 23rd and 24th of June, changing the visible PageRank scores...
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Microsoft Bing Adds Three Former Yahoo & Google Engineers to Team
If you can’t acquire them, just hire them! Microsoft, which made a play to acquire Yahoo via hostile takeover last year, has forged ahead and...
Google Chrome Security Issues Fixed, Update Released
Google updated their Google Chrome browser yesterday with a new release (version 2.0.172.33) which includes a major fix of a critical security flaw in the...
Google Execs Facing Trial for Privacy and Defamation in Italian Court
Four Google executives have been the target of criminal privacy charges in a Milan court over a video of a bullied disabled child which was...
Google Opens AgencyLand : Education Portal for Ad Agencies
Google has developed and is expanding usage of an educational portal for advertising agencies to use to educate their staff on Google Advertising and also...
Track Iran Election Protests Online : Social Media & Search
It is unquestionable that the largest news story of the week has been the protests in Iran led by opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, and the...
Google Joins Twitter in Iran Election Buzz : Adds Persian Farsi Translation
Given the global buzz and controversy over the Iranian protests after the questionable results of the Presidential election on Twitter, Facebook and other social media...
Yahoo Selling Off Domain Names : Unloads Contests.com for $380K
Yahoo, which we all know has been cutting back substantially and looking for sources of extra revenue, has devised a new plan to bring in...
Google Chrome to Grow Search Share Via Expanding Overall Web Usage
Google’s Marissa Mayer discusses an interesting strategy from Google in terms of expanding their search share, which also means expanding user profiling and ad targeting,...
Top 50 SEO Blogs from Invesp Blogrank
Invesp has listed the Top 50 SEO blogs based upon their blogrank ranking structure, which looks at over 20 different factors to rank blogs such...
Facebook Receives $200 Million Investment from Russian Tech Firm
Facebook announced Tuesday that it has received an infusion of $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet firm, which has a 1.96% ownership...
Ann Smarty Named Director of Media for Search & Social
I’m very happy to announce today that Search & Social Media, LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has hired Ann Smarty as our...
Find Cheap Gas Prices Online for Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend usually marks the beginning of the summer vacation months, warm weather, remembrance, outlet store sales and of course, travel. Many Americans will...
Yahoo Targets Social Media Acquisitions : But Who?
Yahoo is about to start making some aggressive moves again in the social networking arena according to a piece in Reuters today which quotes Yahoo...
Search Engine Journal Merges with Search & Social, LLC
I am very happy to announce today that Search Engine Journal and our client services division has taken a new direction, merging with Search &...
Google Opening Up Trademarked Keyword Bidding on June 4th
Google plans to open up trademarked keywords to AdWords advertisers in June according to Michael Orey of Business Week. Beginning June 4th, companies will be...
Google Chrome Commercials Come to TV via Google TV Ads
Google is getting more and more aggressive in promoting its Google Chrome browser, as its Google Chrome advertisements have gone beyond the Google homepage, search...
White House Targeting Google with New Antitrust Policy
The New York Times is running an article by Stephen Labaton this morning about the Obama White House’s plans to get aggressive against corporations which...
Twitter Search to Start Indexing Pages and Launch Reputation Algorithm
Some rather interesting changes are headed for Twitter search according to Cnet’s Rafe Needleman and Twitter’s new VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram. Jayaram, formerly the...
Google AdSense for Feeds Updates with Doubleclick.net Clickthrough
Google AdSense announced yesterday that along with the normal AdSense ads running on websites, AdSense for feeds now also runs using the googleads.g.doubleclick.net clickthough URL,...
Google Pushes BlackBerry Apps as Blackberry Outsells iPhones
With the blackberry Curve outselling iPhones in the US, one might start to wonder why Google seems to be putting so much emphasis on the...
WikiAlarm.com : Email Alerts When Wikipedia Page is Edited or Sabotaged
Want to keep tabs on when your (or a competitor’s) Wikipedia page’s accuracy is edited? WikiAlarm.com is a free new service to allow brands and...
Google Awarded Floating Data Center Patent
Google has been granted a US patent for its floating data center idea which the company originally filed with the patent office on February 26,...
Google Hires 200 Goats to Munch their Weeds
In kind of an offbeat story this weekend, Google announced on Friday that the company has contracted California Grazing, a goat herding company, in an...
Google Serving Forum Info in Serps : Threads & Authors
Google has been testing new search results which include specific details on forum threads including the number of posts in an indexed forum thread, the...
Google Book Search Deal Investigated by Justice Department
The US Department of Justice has launched an inquiry into the deals that Google set up with authors and publishers with its Google Book Search...
Google Launches Digg Style Social Voting Service : What’s Popular
If you can’t beat them (or don’t feel like putting out the cash to acquire them), then join them! Google has implemented a new Digg...
KnowEm.com Launches : Check & Register Usernames on 100+ Social Media Sites
KnowEm.com (formerly CheckUserNames.com) launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of social media sites for social media identity theft, helping brands to secure...
Google Maps Adds Over 9000 Webcams
Google Maps has added a ‘layer’ of over 9000 Webcams so users can get live footage of different areas where they may be driving, working...
Google Q1 Earnings : Expanding Google AdWords Network will Save GOOG
Here we are ladies and gentlemen, the day of reckoning, not only for Google, which is releasing its Q1 earnings report today, but also for...
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