There’s a craze sweeping the search engine marketing world, but thus far B2B marketers have been slow to catch on. In 2007, the leading general search engines (Google, Ask, Yahoo, MSN) introduced a new feature to their search engine results pages (SERPs): blended results. Blended search (also known as universal search) presents a new opportunity [...]

Twitter developer Alex Payne made a fairly transparent post about how Twitter is working to fix its performance issues and ongoing development work. If you love Twitter, read the entire post. Here’s what stuck out the most to me : I’m constantly exploring new technologies, and I’ve also enjoyed working with Merb and Google App [...]

When Google makes a change, the entire world listens; even when its something as tiny as changing its favorite icon image. Instead of the big capital G, Google is now serving a smaller case blue g next to its URL in the navigation window of your browser : Why the switch? Possibly Google is trying [...]

Michael Dorausch has won the free pass to the SOLD OUT SMX Advanced in Seattle on June 3rd and 4th! Of the large number of people who Twittered about reasons to attend SMX Advanced, Michael’s Twit was voted by 3 of 5 Search Engine Journal bloggers as their top favorites. This was a rather difficult [...]

The Obama campaign spent $3.47 million on online advertising over the course of its campaign to date, with 82% of that budget going to Google AdWords according to the FEC and statistics compiled by ClickZ. Google AdWords scored over 82 percent of money spent on online media buys for Obama’s campaign this year through April. [...]

Google held its Google I/O developer conference yesterday, where it announced its Open App Engine to eager developers. As a take home, Google distributed Google IO t-shirts to those who attended the conference. The witty t-shirt was supposed to spell out Google IO in binary, but there seems to be a misprint on the shirt, [...]