4 Trends Marketers Must Address In 2014: Audience, Relevance, Social & Mobile

Upon revisiting last year’s post on this topic, a couple of our bold predictions flopped and a couple turned out to be more reality than fantasy. Though we didn’t see Apple monetize the search results served up by Siri, we did see ad formats evolve to increase relevance and user…

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Brand Bias: 70% Of Consumers Look For Known Retailers When Doing Product Searches

New research from Search Engine Land and SurveyMonkey shows that consumers have a definite brand bias when it comes to searching for products online. According to data from a survey conducted last month, almost 70 percent of US consumers said they look for a “Known retailer” when…

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Bing Adds Pinterest Boards To Image Search

If image search is important to your business, this might be another reason to be active on Pinterest: Bing has just added Pinterest boards to its image search results. The boards show up on the far right of Bing’s image search results page. The board name and image count are displayed, along…

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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+

Gigya Social Sharing percentagesNew research shows Google+ lags behind Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn in terms of social sharing, accounting for only 2% of content shares.

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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+

Sorry, BuzzFeed: Pinterest Isn’t A Better Search Engine Than Google

I went on a BuzzFeed diet about a month ago, where I stopped following the site and reading the content there. I should have stuck to it, because I wouldn’t be wasting my time now dissecting one of its stupid, pageview-baiting stories. In this one, Pinterest is positioned as a better search…

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