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Bing Promotes Top Image Searches With New Landing Page

Published on January 24, 2011 By

Bing has announced a new image search landing page that contains the top image searches on Bing. The group of images highlights those top image searches with the use of images, how novel. When you click on an image from that page, you are taken to a Bing image search result. From that page you [...]

Measure how customers interact with your ads

Published on November 30, 2010 By

New AdWords features such as Product ads, Sitelinks and Click-to-call allow you to create more interactive ads. Product ads and Sitelinks help customers find the most relevant pages on your website and Click-to-call allows customers to call your business directly from the search results. As ads become more interactive, you might want to know how [...]

Yahoo Clues: New Fun Search Keyword Tool

Published on November 17, 2010 By

Today, Yahoo announced a new tool named Yahoo Clues. Yahoo Clues basically gives you insight into the types of people searching for specific keyword phrases and shows related terms based on those searches and searchers. The tool allows you to plug in one or two keyword phrases and it then plots the search trends of those keywords [...]

Google Adds Instant To Chrome Labs In Chromium (Windows Only, For Now)

Published on September 19, 2010 By

Google Instant is great — but I rarely use it. Why? Because I simply don’t go to google.com that often. That’s not to say I don’t search Google a lot — I do — I just use the Omnibox in Chrome for almost all of my searches. When Google launched Instant, they noted that it [...]

Is Facebook Place will this affect Google Places?

Published on August 20, 2010 By

One of the questions that came up after the formal launch of Facebook Places last night was: how will this affect Google Places (among others)? As an aside, I have to say it’s really strange that these products have nearly the identical name. It’s almost like Honda offering a car with a particular name and [...]

Enhanced CPC, a new Google Adwords tool to increase ROI

Published on August 19, 2010 By

We’re excited to announce the launch of Enhanced CPC, a new automated bidding feature that can help you improve your ROI on your campaigns with manual bidding. Enhanced CPC uses your campaign’s historical conversion tracking data to automatically adjust your Max CPC bid based on the likelihood that your ad will convert. As a result, [...]

Facebook SEO: Of Links and Likes

Published on August 3, 2010 By

“The next Google” label is heard from time to time, and since releasing their universal Like button, the focus has been on Facebook. The idea is that all of these Likes means that Facebook now has access to proprietary data about the popularity of pages across a vast amount of sites. Talk has further grown as [...]

Estimate: Google Mobile Search Market Share Near 100%

Published on July 29, 2010 By

Let’s be cautious about running too far with these numbers, but Royal Pingdom (using data from StatCounter) has reported/estimated Google’s global mobile search market share to be almost 100% Google is clearly dominant in mobile search across smartphones (and feature phones). However these numbers may not be completely accurate. For example, the chart above shows PC [...]

A new & advanced search engine for SEOs

Published on July 21, 2010 By

Well, the founders think that others might like the tool too, and it will go popular beyond SEOs. But from what we’ve seen, advanced users like SEO’s are going to love this search engine ! Which one you ask – Blekko, the new kid on the block ! I don’t think Blekko is the best name [...]

Up To 25% Of Yahoo’s Search Results Now Powered By Bing

Published on July 20, 2010 By

Right now, up to 25% of the Yahoo Search results are powered by Bing. Yahoo began testing Bing search results this month, currently there are live bucket tests underway on both the organic and paid side. Mark Morrissey, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Yahoo, told me that while only 3.5% of the paid ads [...]