Official Google Blog:
We're both huge foodies, and we always love spending time in the kitchen with friends and family, especially around the holidays. Particularly during this season, many of us turn to Google when searching for recipes. But, in addition to spicing up your recipe repertoire, Google can be a huge resource in the kitchen. From he (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
AdGooroo is launching a new academic program that provides free resources to educators wishing to teach their students about search marketing. The program provides free academic licenses to AdGooroo's SEM Insight."Supporting the academic community is a top priority for AdGooroo, and we're offering them free access to SEM In (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
iPerceptions has launched a new integrated web analytics solution called A&B Interactive Dashboard. The tool is designed to draw out behavioral and attitudinal data to provide marketers a clearer idea of what's drawing conversions and why. It's compatible with web analytics programs such as Google Analytics, Omniture, Corem (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation are investigating loyalty programs from companies including Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion that generated $1.4 billion with credit card information given to them by their marketing partners - which include Yahoo - without the knowledge of most of the custo (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
The search industry has seen a lot of new engines developed moving towards a diversity of specific needs. Recently, "real time" search has been a hot topic with the use of social media in search.This week a new engine was launched by FacteryLabs - an search technology company founded by Paul Pedersen and Sean Gaddis who hav (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo will be stopping support for Go January 12 and is telling people to migrate to m.yahoo.com - their mobile portal, Cnet noted.As CNet reports "Killing Yahoo Go is in line with Yahoo's mobile strategy, says Yahoo's global head of mobile product marketing, Adam Taggart. "In the past 18 months, browser quality has been in (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
comScore has released their search market share rankings for October 2009 and the news is good for both Google and Bing - they both gained 0.5% in search share. This came at the expense of Yahoo! who lost 0.8% and AOL, which lost 0.1%. Ask.com stayed steady.After experiencing a slowdown in the rate of growth in September, B (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
When Internet users conduct searches at Ask.com, they pose their keywords as questions three times more than any other search engine. So, it makes sense that Ask.com is focused on improving the Q&A experience on their site and on the web.Last summer, Ask launched a specific Q&A section with 300 million Q&A pairs in their da (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
Last spring, Time Warner announced that it would spin off AOL as an independent company. The announcement was made shortly after hiring Tim Armstrong away from Google as President. This fall, they've named members to the future Board of Directors and hired key financial executives needed to run the publicly traded company. (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
I was at PubCon last week in Las Vegas. It was a tremendous show with an excellent turnout. I had quite a few conversations about Search Engine Watch, ClickZ and Search Engine Strategies for 2010 and had a lot of great feedback from PubCon attendees. But it seemed that quite a few people hadn't noticed one of the new events (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
Video solution provider Fliqz has announced the launch of a new online video search engine optimization (SEO) tool. The tool is dubbed SearchSuccess and Fliqz says that companies who tested the product are experiencing early success.A whopping two-thirds of the videos submitted by these early customers have reached first pa (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
Wordstream has released an update to their keyword research tool that integrates Google Analytics. The reason for the integration is to pull information about what keywords are actually driving traffic to your website to give you a comprehensive view of your keyword landscape.Keyword tools are good at providing information (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
The Oxford English Dictionary has published its list of new words that have been added this year, with a major amount of them coming from the worlds of social media and search. This morning the Oxford University Press announced that its 2009 Word of the Year is: unfriend.unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
During the past nine weeks, I've shared nine significant reasons for going to either Search Engine Strategies Berlin or SES Chicago 2009. For those of you who want to join in the chorus, they are: "nine trainers training, eight days a-learning, seven tracks amazing, six booths astounding, five brand new things, four keynot (Read More)
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Search Engine Watch BlogIf you use AdSense for Feeds or Google Feedburner to manage RSS feeds on your site - and you use Google Analytics - then you'll be glad to know Google is connecting the two. You'll be able to iew click data for your feeds services in Google Analytics. Analytics will tag the Source as "Feedburner" an (Read More)