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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Don’t wait until Christmas. Don’t wait for your birthday. Buy I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards today and read it in the next two weeks before you go to SES San Francisco 2011. W...
Microsoft and Google seem to be battling it out over email. Cloud based email services to be exact. Earlier this week Google launched a campaign promoting Gmail, calling users to stage an 'Email Intervention', and "save your friends from outdated ...
Two weeks ago, when I first wrote about the problems with Google+ and identity/pseudonymity, some people misunderstood. They believed that I was speaking about a virtual worlds issue (solely and specifically), and what's more, a personal one, even...
This month many companies that you may already be using, or a have heard about previously, updated their services or released new product offerings. As Search Engine Watch (SEW) provided last month, here is a brief roundup of the pick of the bunch...
Last month, search giants Bing, Google and Yahoo teamed up to announce shema.org, a collaborative attempting to set a new standard for data markup on Web pages. Based on a plethora of feedback, Microsoft recently announced a workshop to teach...
Google has confirmed that the Department of Justice has made a “second request” for more information from Google, as regulators continue to review the $400 million acquisition of display ad firm AdMeld. The DOJ’s 30-d...
Upon launch, Google TV ambitiously aimed to combine search, television, the Internet, DVR, music, and apps. The one missing piece: users. With more returns than “very modest sales,” Logitech, maker of the Revue box, is slashing price...
One of the toughest things many search marketers face is creating a culture of testing in their organization. While almost any SEM expert understands the value of testing, they may not have the time, the resources, the flexibility or – all t...
A term increasingly buzzing throughout the local media space is “closing the loop.” This culminates the past two years of mobile advancements, recent excitement around local deals, and finally the emergence of mobile payments. In Jun...
The time it takes for your page to load has been a ranking signal for quite some time. In the past, Google has released tools to help you determine how fast (or slow) your page loads, including Site Speed Report in Analytics, Page Speed plug-in fo...