Goodbye Net Neutrality, Hello Gilded Age Internet
Here is a good way to spread the word about Net Neutrality in an entertaining video anyone can understand: http://vimeo.com/fiorecartoons/gilded-age-internet
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Who’s Tops? Bud Light Is Unseated As Number One Super Bowl Advertiser On Google And Bing
It looks like we have an upset. Bud Light appeared to be the clear front runner among Super Bowl advertisers running paid search ads on Google and Bing, It turns out the King of Beer’s less filling counterpart is merely the runner up on both search engines. Volkswagen has garnered the top…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 31, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Nadella Would Bring Search Cred To Microsoft CEO Role Based on several reports is appears very likely that Microsof…
Nadella Would Bring Search Cred To Microsoft CEO Role
Based on several reports is appears very likely that Microsoft will announce that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO. He brings an engineering background to the C suite. He’s also a B-school grad. For the past three years Nadella has run Microsoft’s Server & Tools business. Before…
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Google Dramatically Increases International Categories
Google’s categories for many international dashboards have been woefully inadequate. Fortunately Google has just announced a major increase in the number of categories available internationally. Based on merchant feedback, we’ve been working to improve business categories. One of the key areas we thought we could quickly improve is expanding the breadth of available categories globally. […]
Robots, Humans, and Using Basic UX Principles For Content Strategy Development
Google’s purchase of the London based artificial intelligence startup DeepMind created plenty of headlines earlier this week. And the majority of the initial reporting revolved around speculation of Google’s plans to dominate a robotic future, (including more than one reference to Terminator’s Skynet.) Image credit: terminator.wikia.com However, a few days after the headlines more in depth […]
What Time Does Super Bowl 2014 Start? Look Up!
Along with the Super Bowl, there’s another annual big game that happens — sites trying to be number one for “What Times Does The Super Bowl Start?” This year, I want to win by pointing out that no one should click on any of the articles competing. Just look up, searchers…
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Yahoo Updates Its Local Search Results
Yahoo gives its local search results a facelift with merchant snapshots that offer detailed business information, including a company overview, hours of operation, parking availability and more. The results looks a lot like Google.
AdWords Patent Infringement Costs Google Big Money
The court in Virginia has ordered Google to pay a royalty for all AdWords advertising revenue to Vringo for patent infringement, for infringing upon two patents it owns. Google is appealing the judgment, which could be worth billions of dollars.
Who is the Most Responsive to Social Customer-Service questions?
What industry and what companies within are responding best to customer care questions on Social Media? Find out here.
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Who is the Most Responsive to Social Customer-Service questions?
4 Content Marketing Strategies That Still Build Links
Does anybody else hear R.E.M. (video autoplay) playing in their heads every time they open a post about link building? Link building as we knew it is changing drastically; and seriously folks, it’s getting hard to write about. What’s the latest breaking news? Spammy guest posting for…
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Bing Ads Editor Update Gives The Lowly “Sync Update” Window Real Functionality
In the newest update to Bing Ads Editor, the Bing Ads team has given the Sync Results window some useful functionality Like AdWords editor, the new synch window in Bing Ads Editor shows the total number of changes and the number of those that have been…
The 10 coolest Google Business Views
1. Chataigner Yves
A Parisian cheese shop.
2. Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Iran
3. uShaka Marine World, South Africa
4. Toy Joy
An Austin toy shop. I couldn’t embed this one but you can click to explore.
5. Emirate A380
An aeroplane!
6. The Catalonia Parliament, Barcelona
7. Nasir Al Mulk Mosque, Shiraz, Iran.
8. Uncommon Objects
An Austin antiques shop.
9. Sarastro
A London restaurant.
10. Lung Shan Temple, Hong Kong
Your TV is Just Another Screen
With the Superbowl just around the corner, we thought it was a great time to start talking about the role TV advertising plays in our vision of the future of marketing.
Index Your Content Faster With the Fetch as Google Tool
Have new content that you’d like to be discovered and found in Google’s search results more quickly? Within Google Webmaster Tools is the Fetch as Google tool, which gives users the opportunity to submit new URLs to Google’s index.
Google Q4 2013 Earnings: Revenues Up, Paid Clicks Up & CPCs Down
Last night, Google announced earnings – the results were mixed where revenue targets were beat but earnings-per-share was lower than targets. In after hours trading last night…
Bing Rewards Adds iOS & Android Support, Windows Coming Later
Bing announced they are bringing their Bing Rewards program to mobile devices. Well, not all mobile devices, just iOS and Android for now. Some what ironically, Windows devices are currently not supported…
Do-It-Yourself Glass Frames Beat Google’s $225 Frames?
As you know, Google released prescription frames and now some have actually received them and been trying them out.
They aren’t cheap, they cost $225 and you have about five styles to choose from. Better yet, they don’t fold, like normal Google Glass…
Can You Rank In Google Without Content?
A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who has a site that doesn’t have any real content. It is basically statistical downloads and specifications downloadable as PDFs or Zip files…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 31, 2014
This week in search, I first apologize for how I sound and feel in this video. Googleâs Matt Cutts announced they penalized a French link network named…