Google AdSense has rolled out a major interface change that they have been testing for a good month or so, which has the new ability to bring in more of a ad manager type interface style in the AdSense dashboard. With further integration of video ads and retargeting as part of the AdSense makeup, Google …
A few weeks ago I posted about the Bing-Facebook partnership; their plan was to make search more social. This morning on Bing’s Search Blog Group Program Manager, Paul Yiu, posted that they have successfully and completely deployed the new social features they have created in partnership with Facebook. According to Yiu, the teams on both …
Over the past few months Google has been testing out 3 new categories in “related searches”: brands, stores, and types. Search Engine Roundtable tried out the new feature using the terms “diamonds” and “cameras”, while I performed queries using the key words “laptops” and “smartphones”. Both searches displayed the new “related searches” refinements and gave …
Yesterday, alternative search engine, Blekko finally went live after 3 years of development and just over 3 months of beta testing. Back in July, Search Engine Land did a write up on the new search engine, highlighting some of its shining features and big flaws. One of, if not the main feature, that might lure …
The BlueGlass Florida conference will be held at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL (outside of Ft. Lauderdale) in only 5 days, and we’re looking at another sold out event with amazing speakers, an intimate setting, three meals a day, and intense networking. For years we (Search Engine Journal, previously Search & Social, and …
In an effort to improve local search and its Places pages, Google announced a project six months ago, in which it would supply interested business around the United States, Australia, and Japan with photographers that would take high-quality photographs of their businesses. Since that time business in over 30 cities have participated and today Google …
In mid-September news broke that Google was in talks to purchase ITA Software Inc, which is the leader in flight data information, for $700 million and it has made a lot of people very unhappy. A group of very popular online travel companies have formed a coalition called FairSearch.org and planning on taking their cause …
It has been over a year now since the localized suggestions have appeared in Google search results and the search powerhouse has been tweaking the feature so that it offers up all the best suggestions in your neck of the woods. Over the weekend Google rolled out a global version of Autocomplete (formally Google Suggest) …
Google’s mobile blog posted yesterday that it has launched four new languages in Voice Search. Czech, Polish, Russian and Turkish are the newest additions to the Google Voice Search family. Users need only change their language preferences on their smart phone devices and if you don’t already have Voice Search installed, you can download it …
Announced this week is a new partnership between Rasmussen College and Market Motive, one of the leaders in Internet marketing and training. With this partnership students in the Rasmussen Business Management Bachelor’s program can opt into a specialization in Internet Marketing. Top notch training in this program will come straight from Market Motive leaders including …
