Several updates have been announced for Google Trends, making the data it provides more useful. It will now work to determine user intent where there is more than one meaning for a word and will take misspellings into account, among othe...
Google Webmaster Tools has made some changes to their crawl errors page to include specific smartphone crawl errors that the Googlebot-Mobilebot discovers while crawling the web as a mobile useragent.
In a recent Google Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts addressed the question of "stitching" -- taking bits of content from multiple sources and putting them together to create a new article or web page. Cutts said this practice does not ad...
Twitter has announced the launch of Tailored Audiences, a retargeting option for advertisers that allows targeting of Promoted Tweets and Accounts based on external user data. Is it an FBX competitor, or will advertisers see the value in...
Curious about the most popular people, places and things in 2013? Bing, Yahoo and Ask reveal the most memorable through search queries that dominated the engines in the past year. Top celebrities, top news and events, and top destination...
A first step in introducing a new way to explore the world, the Bing Maps Preview app hits the Windows Store today. Built from the ground up for clarity, detail and scale, the app provides a seamless and dynamic way to experience mapping...
Use this 5-step approach to ensure action aligns with performance in your 2014 multi-channel marketing plan. Columnist Rebecca Murtagh shares tips to help marketers better allocate earned, paid and owned resources for optimal results.
Google AdWords Call Extensions are fundamentally important for online advertising; having a phone number published with your text ad gives you a baseline of how many potential leads or customers are willing to pick up the phone and call.
In several examples, AdGooroo researchers found CPG brands whose top keywords seemed to have little if anything to do with the product itself and would actually put the brand in competition with advertisers outside of its CPG category on...
Android users can now see apps in search results when searching on their mobile device. When the best answer to a query is an app, Google Search will now display the app and make it easy to access or download from Google Play.
Imagine a big important football game. Imagine the match-up takes place in a huge stadium. Like any big game, there is a lot at stake for the players, the coaches, the owners and of course, the fans.
Imagine a big important football game. Imagine the match-up takes place in a huge stadium. Like any big game, there is a lot at stake for the players, the coaches, the owners and of course, the fans.
Researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs have discovered a database with over 1.58 million website login details. Users of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and LinkedIn are reportedly affected by the botnet attack.
Google and NORAD have launched their respective Santa Trackers, each with new functionality, games and maps to track Santa's flight. NORAD's site had a complete makeover to HTML5 this year, with help from Microsoft to make it web and mob...
A US Magistrate in San Jose has dismissed a class action lawsuit challenging Google's universal privacy policy, finding that plaintiffs failed to prove any injury caused by Google's co-mingling of their data across all services used.
Video production company Definitive Television is refusing to remove a racist commercial for law firm McCutcheon & Hamner from their YouTube channel. The alleged client claims they never contracted the company to produce the video.
Facebook announced changes to its News Feed algorithm that give favorable placement to high-quality content including links to articles -- especially for mobile users. Additional changes include story bumping for posts with comments and ...
Stephen Wolfram recently shared a sneak peek at his new knowledge-based programming language -- a system he promises is "insanely more ambitious" than Google's Knowledge Graph. The possibilities for marketers warrant keeping a close eye.
How do you tap into the experiences of the sales team in a way that allows for the agile adaptation of your content strategy? Columnist Brad Miller offers 5 practical tips.
Analysis from Conductor reveals several strategies that superstar SEOs use to achieve success. Learn how Superstar SEOs approach content in today’s post-Panda/Penguin/Hummingbird quality content landscape and more.
Video ad sharing has increased almost 50x over the last eight years. Unruly’s latest interactive infographic visualizes the explosive growth of video sharing since 2006.
A new Google Webmaster Help video features the head of webspam explaining how linking guidelines work and how many links webmasters should have on a page.
Wired found that the block list on Android contains 1,400 odd words. Some are obvious, others less so, and Wired said that even "butt" and "geek" are no no words.
Amazon announced plans for a futuristic fleet of delivery drones that would drop purchases in 30 minutes or less. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the service is only about five years away, but critics speculate the launch of such a service is...
Google is disappointed about a court ruling in France that orders that they - as well as Bing and Yahoo - remove sixteen video streaming websites from the search index.
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