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Google Realtime Shuts Down as Twitter Deal Expires
Google Realtime, the specialized search that lets users see social updates and other at-the-moment data from the web, has been shut down for the time...
Google’s Mayer on Attracting Women to Tech
Marissa Mayer is, without a doubt, one of the most influential women who has earned the “techie” title. As a proud geek, Mayer has spent...
Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Sitemap File Types & Expanded Navigation
Bing has made great efforts in recent months to improve their webmaster tools. The most prominent feature updates happened when the company removed the need...
Google Maps 5.7 Updates Search Suggestions and Transit Directions
Google Maps has become an important part of how many people – especially in generation Y – interact with the world around them. From finding...
How To Get More SEO and AdWords Clients in 2011
How do you get more clients? I went freelance just about a year ago (for the second time in my career), and though it’s been...
Google Social Search; the Lost Update
Can you imagine there being a change at Google that pre-dates Panda, (and subsequent incarnations) the +1 button, the attribution algo updates and few if...
Google+ Review – Can It Beat Facebook?
A good friend of mine who was one of the first people on Google+ shared a photo of his wife with me yesterday. As he...
Top 15 Free Things Every E-Commerce Website Should Do After Launching
Here is a list of the top 15 things every e-commerce owner/marketer should do after launching their new site. I am not including anything like...
Winning Your Link Independence
It’s the 4th of July! And while we’re all enjoying our hot dogs and sparklers Will Smith is off somewhere punching an alien in the...
How to Conduct a Quality Score Audit
You know Google’s got this “quality score” (QS) thing – and you know it matters. It matters because AdWords uses this 1 to 10 scale...
HOW TO: Use Wildcard Search with Various Google Services
I confess, I love Google advanced search operators and playing with search results. Often, to struggle the burnout or lack of inspiration, all I need...
Details on Yahoo BOSS V2 Updates
We announced a while ago that Yahoo BOSS V2, the new version of Yahoo’s do-it-yourself search back-end, was in the wild, but many of the features were...
7 Repeat Business Strategies for Small Businesses
The Internet is no longer an untapped resource of revenue for small businesses, as it once was in the past. Competition is extremely heavy, and...
A Look at Google+ – The Long-Awaited Google Social Network
I’ve never been quite so excited to talk about a new service. Maybe it’s just the “waiting for Christmas” phenomenon, where the anticipation over the...
Google’s Schmidt Fears Arrests of Google Employees
Google’s Eric Schmidt, speaking the Dublin summit on extremist violence (which we discussed earlier today), talked about growing problems with internet censorship and the risks faced...
Google Hosts Summit on Violent Extremism
Violent extrism happens in many forms, and while most Americans think of jihadists – radical Muslims who believe that they are in the moral right to wage a holy...
Google’s Inside Search Event: The Big Points
Google is no stranger to big events, especially since the company runs plenty themselves. One event that happened recently was the Google Inside Search event,...
Google Tests Black Interface Elements
As part of the search giant’s ongoing efforts to refine its look, feel, and functionality, Google is testing a lineup of new looks that focus...
Google Demonstrates Commitment to Transparency with Report
Google has been under pressure from governments the world over, but the most recent domino in the pile – the U.S. FTC antitrust investigation –...
Google Offers: Will It Win the War Against Groupon?
We’ve had the great pleasure to discuss Google Offers in several instances – including discussion of the Groupon bid, the possibilityof Google building their own competitor (which, of course, would...
Google Sites Adds Mobile Rendering Feature
There are a great many sites around the web that went to the extra effort of putting together a mobile version. It makes plenty of...
Google Antitrust Review Officially Begins
On June 23rd, Google received a notification that their company was being investigated by the U.S. Government for potentially anti-competitive practices in their search. While...
Google Releases List of Popular Automated AdWords Rules
The Automated Rules feature of Google AdWords has been around for several months, and many advertisers have taken great advantage of the chance to set up some...
Google Retiring PowerMeter and Health
There can be no doubt that Google is an innovator. The real question is how many of those innovations actually see success. Historical turns and...
Baidu Buys Qunar.com for $306 Million
Baidu, the leading search engine in China, is expanding its technical reach by purchasing companies in a number of other technology fields. The most recent...
Google’s Schmidt Predicts Broad NFC Adoption by 2013
In the Cannes Lion ad conference, Eric Schmidt made quite a stir on a number of fronts. One of his most ambitious declarations, however, relates...
Blekko’s Rich Skrenta Discusses Zorro Upate & Curation
It’s hard not to have a soft spot for Blekko. Not only have they willingly stood up against Google, Bing, and every other search site that...
Google Sued for Showing Defamatory Results
In New Dehli, Arindam Chaudhuri filed a major lawsuit against Google and several other sites for publishing and distributing “defamatory, libelous, and slanderous articles.” His action created a maelstrom...
Who Should Buy Hulu?
Yahoo! may have gotten the ball rolling on the Hulu sales deal by coming at them with an offer, but Hulu leveraged the position by pushing for a number...
Interview: Kyle James, Owner of Rather Be Shopping
I couple of weeks ago I felt so inspired by a few successful entrepreneuship stories that I shared them as a guest post 5 Hugely...