“Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want,” said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, in a phone interview late Wednesday. “These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It ...
Although it is in beta testing and currently only available to a small number of approximately 20 advertisers, Twitter has finally launched its self-serve ad platform. The new platform, which enables advertisers to use a self-serve system to purchase advertising without speaking to a ...
New homepage: The YouTube homepage makes it easier to find and follow a user’s favorite Channels. On the left side of the homepage, users with a YouTube account can create their own, personal, customizable YouTube Channel line-up. They can browse recommended Channels; customize their ...
What started out as a friendly rivalry between Bing’s Duane Forester and Google’s Matt Cutts resulted in $17,000 for the Movember, a moustache campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, specifically prostate cancer. Mike Halvorsen set up the competition while at SMX Ad...
Well, for those of us in the online video world, the Earth stopped momentarily yesterday when YouTube announced their new redesign. The majority of the early reaction appears to be negative, which is to be expected with an overhaul as big as this one. But one thing ought to bring joy ...
A year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized 82 domains - mostly sellers of knock-off products, but this included a couple of torrent sharing sites. It was part of "Operation In Our Sites", the domain name seizing initiative designed...
Matt says he wanted to create the definitive cloaking video; I think this is a great educational video. You can learn more about cloaking in Google’s Webmaster Tools help section
Hey Mozzers. I'm Carlos del Rio . I own a consultancy called Agillian , and I am the author of "User Driven Change: Give Them What They Want" and a "Strategic Framework for Emerging Media," which is kind of a mouthful. Even I have trouble saying it. I am here today to tell you how to ...
I chose the “Girly Girl” geek gift ideas because I think buying for this demographic has to be one of the harder ones. I consider myself a geek and obviously a girl, but I would love Storm Trooper, Marvel or DC Comics items just as much as I love pink/girly items. Finding girly geek g...
AOL has released their data on the most popular searches of 2011 on the Hot Searches website, with insight into search terms and topics from the UK, Canada, and the United States. The Casey Anthony trial booted “bed bugs” from the last year’s top spot as most searched term, followed b...
Setting false expectations for guests by depicting experiences that are dramatically out of sync with the rooms or the service that the average guest is likely to receive, and; Dedicating a lot of footage to people talking about the property. “Again, travelers want to be inspired, so ...
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Movember SEO Moustache Competition Raises $17,000 For Cancer Research What started out as a friendly rivalry between Bing’s Duane Forester and Google’s Matt Cutts resulted in $17,000 for the Movember, a moustache campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, specifically ...
Earlier this year I attended LinkLove New Orleans a search conference put on by Distilled and SEOMoz and learned a lot of advanced SEO tactics. One of the things that really piqued my interest at the conference was Rand mentioning that retweets can affect rankings and he mentioned a p...
A vitally important first step to the attribution management process is to gather all the data associated with the “touches” that have been experienced by your target audience both as a result of being exposed to all your marketing efforts and direct traffic. Each “touchpoint” associa...
Google's AdWords Keyword Tool has been experiencing some substantial and ongoing issues over the past week. Complaints have arisen from marketers using the service that the results are showing zero search volume when performing exact match requests. Issues with the popular Google serv...
Yandex announced a partnership with Czech search engine Seznam on Wednesday. Yandex developed a video search service that will be provided on the Czech search engine at Seznam.cz. Utilizing queries based on the Czech language and grammatical structure, the search engine, itself, uses ...
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I mean, c’mon, who doesn’t want to improve the efficiency of their sales funnel? Lately lots of companies have invested into companies such as Monetate, HubSpot or Marketo, hoping to leverage their customer profile and analytics suites to oil and optimize the conversion funnel. With s...
According to dealReporter (via the Financial Times) , the first stage of the formal European antitrust investigation against Google is almost complete. Google will shortly receive a 400-page “statement of objections” presenting findings from the European Commission’s investigation. It...
Today we are happy to announce the launch of our new AdWords Help Center for opted in U.S. users. Based on your feedback we redesigned the Help Center to make it much easier for you to find the information for which you're searching. Here are some of the changes we've made: 1. Simplif...
previous article about Mixpo's new interactive video ads , called Frameworks (formerly Project Matisse I'm told), you know I had some questions I thought might need some expansion to get a better grip. So I went straight to the source, Walter Harp, Head Product Marketing dude (and mai...
As we announced earlier this week, we'll be sharing insights and daily tips this month on Think with Google's Plus Page , to help you make the most of your holiday marketing. Here are the four search ad related insights we covered this week (and a fun factoid): Click on the titles to ...
Much news has been circulating this week about those hoping to buy part or all of beleaguered search engine Yahoo. Even as overseas interests make a play, though, Yahoo's biggest concern might come from much closer to home.A Washington Post video reported that China's Alibaba is prepa...
Given the homepage’s new focus on helping you find and organize your favorite Channels, we would be remiss if we didn’t update the look and feel of the Channels themselves. Today we're launching an improved Channel design focused on what matters most: helping users find great videos. ...
In my travels within the heavily forested circles of Search Marketing I have noticed that agencies act as various tribes, fiercely guarding the heavenly manna of insider information regarding their SEO and Link Building rituals. It has been difficult to pin down exactly what would be ...
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 2, 2011 Today is our 8th anniversary of the Search Engine Roundtable, wish us a happy birthday... 8 Years Covering The Search Industry This site has turned 8 years old today. 8 years ago, on December 2, 2003, I started this site to keep tr...
In a patent application approved Tuesday, Google used the review/comments systems used by Amazon and Slashdot to support their method and gain approval for their "invention". The problem is the critical thinking applied to the limits of the other companies has not been applied to Goog...
Pubcon Las Vegas 2012 To Be Held On October 15 – 19 by, Lane R. Ellis on December 2, 2011 Pubcon, the premier search and social media conference, is happy to announce that Pubcon Las Vegas 2012 will be held October 15 - 19, 2012 at the massive Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas,...
theoretically this improvement in search quality would minimize unqualified traffic to your website if you happen to be getting some. For example, using the example above if you were selling “red widgets” but not “rare red widgets” (what the person searched for) then the traffic your ...
