Google Offers Bounces Back, On Pace to Double Revenue This Month
Aided by higher revenue per deal and increased voucher sales, Google has already surpassed its August revenue and could double it by the end of the month. Offers is also closing the gap in markets...
View ArticleGoogle Checkout Becomes Part of Google Wallet
Google will combine its payment-oriented services. Google Checkout users will be prompted to migrate to Wallet on their next login, while webmasters will be guided through a transition in 2012. Wallet...
View ArticleFacebook’s 40 Most Shared Articles of 2011: Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Tops List
Facebook’s Most Shared Articles on Facebook 2011 post lists which articles were shared most amongst users in the U.S. in 2011. Surprisingly, the top 40 articles came from just six online news sources,...
View ArticleIs Diego Rivera Google Doodle a Nod to the 99%?
Today's Google Logo honors the 125th birthday of Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Whilst there is plenty of artistic allusion in the piece, there may also be a hint of political sympathy in today's choice...
View ArticleFrom ‘Author Stats’ in Webmaster Tools to Newsknife’s Top Journalists
Last week, the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog introduced “Author Stats” in Webmaster Tools. And yesterday, Newsknife posted its list of top news sites and journalists for 2011.
View ArticleNew Gmail, YouTube, Blogger Users Join Google+ by Default
In another move designed to get Google product users into their identity provider program, Google now requires all new Google account users, including those signing up for GMail and YouTube, to...
View ArticleSOPA, PIPA On Hold, But a New Threat on Horizon
SOPA and PIPA protests appear to have caused enough backlash to make Congress and Senate think twice about passing controversial legislation... at least during an election year. So why is a data...
View Article3 Ways Local Small Businesses Can Use PPC
Local small businesses rarely use Google AdWords to its full potential. AdWords can be a powerful tool to generate instant traffic. You can also test messaging for later use on other advertising...
View ArticleNew Google Privacy Policy Combines User Data From All Google Services
A new unified Google privacy policy is coming in March. The big change: Google clearly states that it will combine information from signed-in users from one product to other Google products in order to...
View ArticlePot (Microsoft) Calls Kettle (Google) Black on Privacy
Did you know Microsoft truly puts people first? Instead of having horrible, evil products like Gmail, Google’s search engine, Google Docs, or Google Chrome, Microsoft saves us with Hotmail, Bing,...
View ArticleGoogle, Facebook Offer News Sites Lessons on Ad Targeting [Study]
Only three news sites - CNN, Yahoo News and The New York Times – out of 22 appeared to use high levels of ad targeting, according to a Pew Research Center study. In these cases, 45 percent or more of...
View ArticleGoogle, Bing, Twitter & YouTube: Latest Comings & Goings
Google will reportedly promote one of its own executives to CEO of Motorola. Meanwhile, Google has hired a veteran lobbyist and lost a pair of ad execs to Twiter. And Bing is for leaving. Here’s a...
View ArticleHappy St. Patrick's Day 2012 Google Logo
Happy St. Patrick's Day! On this day everybody becomes Irish. Even the search engines are Irish today. To celebrate the holiday, Google has "gone green" by posting a St. Patty's Day Google Doodle in...
View ArticleGoogle Designs S.R. Crown Hall Doodle for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
A simply designed Google Doodle today honors architect and educator Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Google’s colored letters appear within the windows of a rendering of one of his masterworks, the S.R. Crown...
View ArticleGoogle April Fools' Day Pranks 2012: 8-Bit Maps, Chrome Multitask Mode & More!
For Google, April Fools Day is the annual launch day for a slew of gag products and hoax services you’ll likely never see in real life, including 8-Bit Maps, Chrome Multitask Mode, the YouTube...
View ArticleGoogle Offers Free & Discounted Wi-Fi at U.S. Malls, Airports
Google and Boingo Wireless are teaming up to offer free Wi-Fi at eight malls and discounted access in 16 major airports. Google’s sponsorship isn’t completely altruistic; people need to subscribe to...
View ArticleBing Tries to Make Search Sexy to College Women
Bing wanted to show young women that it's worth checking out, so when it threw down the gauntlet encouraging people to test its search engine against Google's, it worked with HerCampus.com to get the...
View ArticleSEMPO Appeals to FTC for Updated Search Engine Disclosure Guidelines
Search marketing professional organization SEMPO has written the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in support of a review and revision of their 2002 guidelines for search engine disclosure of paid...
View Article10 Reasons Why Public Relations is a ‘Must-do’ for SEO in 2013
Until recently SEO and PR often made uneasy bedfellows, although this has been changing as more people realize how much they have to offer each other. These are the best reasons SEO professionals...
View ArticleGoogle Pays $7 Million to Settle Street View Snooping Case
The settlement ends a case against Google which dates back to 2010, when it was revealed that the company's Street View camera units had been illegally snooping in on local Wi-Fi networks while the...
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