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Google Warns Of Malware Redirecting To Its Search Results Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 6:20AMDo a search on Google, and you might get an unexpected surprise. A big notice at the top of your results warning that your computer has been infected with malware.
Google Working On Opt-In Settlement Of Book Search Lawsuit Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 4:05AMA Google attorney told a federal judge today that the two sides involved in the long-running Google Book Search lawsuit settlement are negotiating an “opt-in settlement” in an attempt to finally put the case to rest.
Delucchi Plus and Blue Bug Digital Announce 26% Increase in Business for First Six Months of 2011 Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:43AMWASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - Jul 19, 2011) - Christine Delucchi, Owner, Delucchi Plus ( www.delucchiplus.com ), a strategic marketing communications firm , and Blue Bug Digital ( www.bluebugdigital.com ), an innovative digital public relations and social-media marketing agency , both located in Washington, DC, are pleased to announce an ...
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 19, 2011 Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:20AMGoogle is testing a variation on AdWords display that has the URLs shown above the two lines of description, but under the headline.
SPONSORED MESSAGE: Adobe Recommendations & relevant choices Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 1:20AMAbout The Author: Search Engine Land Search Engine Land is a news and information site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry. Special site announcements and occasional sponsor messages are posted by Search Engine Land.
Arizona State University Renews Its Partnership With Paciolan Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 1:16AMAchieves 300 Percent Increase in Online Renewals Over 2010
Google’s Got Logos, But Bing’s Home Page Images Attract Too Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:50PMFast Company has a fascinating article on Bing’s background images and how they are used to market the Bing service. While Google updates their logos to be fun and creative on special birthdays or occasions, Bing revamps their background with an image that stands out and leaves users asking for more.
Google Gets Chance To Appeal In Street View Lawsuit Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:35PMJust a couple weeks after the latest setback, Google picked up a small but potentially important victory today in its defense against charges that the company violated federal wiretap laws when its Street View cars intercepted personal data over unencrypted WiFi networks.
How Twitter’s Technical Infrastructure Issues Are Impacting Google Search Results Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:05PMIn the last few days, several noticed that the Google Toolbar PageRank value for www.twitter.com had plummeted to 0 (it’s now back to its previous 9 ). Was Google punishing Twitter for how things went down with the feed expiration that temporarily derailed Google’s Realtime search efforts ? Nah, Twitter’s website has just been suffering from technical infrastructure ...
SES San Francisco Conference & Expo Mobile App Now Available Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:04PMSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Incisive Media now has a mobile app for SES conference goers.
Study Shows Double-Digit Growth of Local Search in Online Portals and Internet Yellow Pages Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:46PMAs online search activity continues to grow in usage and intensity, new data show local searches now account for 13 percent of all core search activity on top web search portals as of January 2011. Â Internet Yellow Pages and local search sites also exhibited strong growth with 5.6 billion local searches in 2010, a 15 percent increase over 2009.
Intervention & Rehab Time: How To Break The Paid Link Habit Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:05PMSo you have finally made the decision to get off of the paid links crack and go straight. Do you go cold turkey? Do you take this in stages? There are great questions and the ones I will take on in today’s post.
Eli Pariser, Danny Sullivan Headline at SMX East, September 13-15 in NYC Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:20PMA benefit of attending Search Marketing Expo – SMX conferences is the luxury of participating in horizon-expanding presentations. Marketers strive to deliver action-stimulating messages at the most opportune time. But is there any danger that search personalization will spiral out of control?
6 Types Of Posts That Drive Traffic Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:14PMI’ve been experimenting for some time now on different types of posts, to see how they drive traffic to my site in different ways. From the use of Goo gle Analytics and my experience, I’ve managed to compile a list of the 6 different types of po sts I write, ordered by the amount of traffic they drive to my site and I have t o say, I was a little surprised by some of the results.
Startup Plotting a Pandora for Books Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:13AMThe Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
I-Team: Securing the Strip: Does What Happens Here, Hurt Here? Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:07AMA recent rash of violent incidents along the Las Vegas Strip has spurred Sheriff Doug Gillespie to beef up the police presence in the area over the past few weekends, and he has other ambitious plans in mind for getting troublemakers under control.
Mobile Now 12 Percent Of All Paid Search Impressions Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:55AMEarlier today Performics reported another mobile search milestone: “mobile paid search traffic is now 12% of all paid search impressions (mobile + desktop), while mobile clicks are about to cross the 12% threshold.” The search-marketing firm based this report on aggregated client data from 1H 2011.
4 More Marketing Definitions That Entry-level Job Seekers Should Know Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:44AM1. Anchor text - anchor text is a link to another page or website that, instead of showing a www., the link is displayed in text usually telling the website visitor exactly what type of site or page that particular link is pointing to.
Google offers a shorter web address to direct consumers to its services and products Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:37AMThe search engine’s g.co joins other shortened URLs from retailers and organizations.
BlueGlass TPA Conference Tickets Now on Sale Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:45AMToday at BlueGlass, we announced the opening of registration for BlueGlass TPA, our upcoming exclusive conference in Tampa, FL which will be held on September 26th & 27th. BlueGlass TPA is an extension of the conferences originally set up by Search Engine Journal and a number of the companies that became BlueGlass Interactive last year. [...] Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine ...
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 18, 2011 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:10AMInsurance-related keywords are the source of 24% of Google’s AdWords revenue, with the highest CPC coming in at a whopping $54.91, according to a study by search marketing company WordStream.
iCrossing Appoints Head of Live Media Studio Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:59AMFormer Big Fuel, NBC Universal Digital Exec Boosts Real-Time Marketing Capabilities
Criteo Crosses the $200 Million Threshold Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:39PMNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Criteo, pioneer in search technologies for the display market, crossed the $200 million threshold with 185% growth in the first half. 98% renewal and 10-market expansion also announced.
Morgan Stanley’s Grimes Masters ‘CityVille’ in Goldman IPO Duel Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:32PMWhen investment bankers fled Silicon Valley after the dot-com bust in 2000, Morgan Stanley’s Michael Grimes and his team stayed put on Menlo Park’s Sand Hill Road.
What the experts make of Google’s latest attempt to crack social networking Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:27PMGoogle recently launched Plus (+), its latest foray into social networking. But will it rival the likes of Facebook or Twitter to become a serious player in social media?
ADDENDUM Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:51AMOther items of interest Orange County Business Journal
Air Jamaica: end of an era Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:17PMA technical error resulted in sections of this article being omitted when it was first published on July 8. Here is the article in its entirety.
ADDICTION CLOTHING Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:25AMShirlee Miller and Adam Nulton have opened the new clothing store in Midtown Village, Wilkes-Barre.
Chamber of commerce readies for gas expo Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:31AMAt the July meeting of the Indiana County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, chamber President Dana P. Henry reported that the chamber, as an affiliate member of the Indiana County Center for Economic Operations, will participate in the second annual PA Gas & Oil Expo on Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.
Collection reverts to the Mall Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:44AMThe undulating architecture outside Neiman Marcus is still there, and so is the fake birch forest and the wing devoted to luxury stores like Tiffany and Louis Vuitton and Burberry. But the Natick Collection is no more.
Online reputation will shape our lives more and more Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:00AMOnline reputation will shape our lives more and more
Google+ to Challenge Facebook in Business Brand Ads Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 4:42PMGoogle+ has the potential to be a major money-making social ad platform for brand advertisers. Google, which is working on allowing business pages will challenge Facebook in this regard.
A roundup of real estate personnel notices Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 3:00PMA roundup of real estate personnel notices
Today On Google+: A Handful Of Helpful Tools, Google+ Officially Over 10 Million Users & Friday Fun! Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:40AMBelow is today’s top news relating to Google+, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Over 10M Google+ Users was shared late yesterday by Larry Page, Google’s CEO, in the midst of the quarterly Google earnings call.
10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:39AMAs computational power rises exponentially, not linearly, so does the rate of change - and that means the next 10 years should pack in far more technological change than the last 10.
Forecast: Expanded Weather Coverage On Bing Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:25AMBing has expanded its weather-related coverage with more information and resources, and also updated the display of that information at the same time. The new features are available only in English-language markets.
Exploring The Shift In Search Behaviors With Microsoft’s Jacquelyn Krones Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:25AMI first met Jacquelyn Krones, a Senior Product Manager from Microsoft, at a search show. A mutual friend on the Bing team, Product Manager Stefan Weitz, introduced her to me and said, “You have to meet Jacquelyn. You speak the same language.”
The MoVenture Begins - Ten Teams Embark on 1,900-mile Road Trip From Detroit to Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:00AM-
Google, Twitter Flaunt Social Stats … It’s Like 2003 All Over Again Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 1:55AMWhether on purpose or not, Google and Twitter are having a little back-and-forth this week about the size of their social networks — or, maybe more accurately, about the activity levels on their social networks.
Chamber rebrands Cornerstone: Welcome to JAXUSA Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:47PM“It was totally precipitated from the marketplace,” said chamber Executive Vice President Jerry Mallot, who was Cornerstone president and will continue the title with JAXUSA.
Top 3 Stories This Morning: Foursquare, Facebook & Google+ Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:41PMWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital w…
IBM Debuts Cloud-based Analytics Suite to Help Companies Boost Marketing Results Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:00PMARMONK, N.Y. , July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite designed to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across all online channels, such as web sites, social media networks, and mobile phones. (Logo: Â http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110314/NY64247-a ) (Photo ...
Nathan Newman: The Cost of Lost Privacy: How Google and Datamining Drive Economic Inequality in Our Nation Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:59PMWhy has economic inequality increased so radically in the United States over the last generation? General explanations range from globalization to the decline in trade...
Google+ Social Media Is Poised To Change Your Law Firm’s Web Marketing Strategy Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:09PMIn a new blog post, Consultwebs.com senior programmer J.R. Oakes describes the many exciting benefits that Google+ can offer for law firms’ online marketing campaigns. (PRWeb July 15, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/law-firm-web-marketing/google-plus-social-media/prweb8645607.htm
The Net Impact Migrates CSI Telecommunications Website to Auctori CMS Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:09PMThe Net Impact and partner, Auctori, successfully redesign and migrate the CSI Telecommunications website into a modernized, search engine optimized content management system. (PRWeb July 15, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8645407.htm
Tesco Achieves 40 Percent Time Savings in SEM Management With Kenshoo Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:52PMLONDON, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Innovative Desktop Application Helps Top Global Retailer Gain Unprecedented Efficiencies Kenshoo [http://www.kenshoo.com ] (http://www.kenshoo.com), a global leader in digital marketing software, today …
Google clip goes Gaga Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:27AMGOOGLE Australia entered the most expensive part of old-world advertising for the first time on Tuesday with television ads for its web browser featuring Lady Gaga harnessing the power of the internet.
Troika dishes out feel-good factor as it insists debt burden is sustainable Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:50AMCOMMENT:THE TROIKA’S third Dublin press conference since November’s EU-IMF bailout was the dullest yet despite the euro-wide crisis backdrop against which it was taking place.
Terapeak Partners with Yahoo! JAPAN Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:22AMTerapeak is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with search engine and auction giant Yahoo! JAPAN, signing the first-ever data licensing agreement with the largest ecommerce marketplace and search engine in Japan. Already a leading provider of ecommerce data to worldwide merchants through its agreements with eBay and PayPal, Terapeak will now also make data available from Yahoo! JAPAN’s ...
Microsoft Tulalip: Is A New Social/Search Hybrid On The Way? Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:10AMIt appears that Microsoft is planning a new project called Tulalip and could be positioning it as a hybrid search/social networking service.