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Google Starts The New Year Countdown

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:59:13 +0000

New Year is just around the corner and Google has begun the countdown for the New Year already. Without giving any query to Google, just click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” option on the Google homepage

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SEMPO Announces Second In – House Salary Survey Result

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:33:55 +0000

Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) released its second In-House salary survey result . Despite the economic disorder, the result came out to be positive for the search marketers as an increase in the compensation was reported. Sara Holoubek, the President of SEMPO mentioned that even in recession period the result was good and signifies the brighter side of employment in the sales and marketing of search engine marketing sector.

Google Acquiring Teracent, the “Intelligent Display Advertising” Company

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:47 +0000

In its latest Google official blog has disclosed its plan to acquire Teracent, the technology that will improve display advertising on the World Wide Web. Can you find out the difference between the two sample display ads below?

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Google Acquiring Teracent, the “Intelligent Display Advertising” Company

Google Image Swirl Making Similar Images Exploration More Refined

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:01:17 +0000

Google has released Google Image Swirl , a similar images explorer that is using the wonder wheel flash visualization from web search results. Here's an example of working of Google Image Swirl. Suppose you enter query like “lion”.

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Google Image Swirl Making Similar Images Exploration More Refined

Google’s Mysterious Logo Appears Again

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:02:23 +0000

It seems like incidences of the mysterious logo are common on Google. Another mysterious logo appeared on Google.com which was noticed by many users.

Help Microsoft To Test Their New Image Ads Pilot

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:25:32 +0000

AdCenter blog-Microsoft Community on Tuesday announced a pilot for new Image Ads offering in the U.S from Microsoft. Microsoft is looking for small-sizes to mid-sized businesses to test it with them. Image ads are meant for displaying ads that can be easily purchased on a CPC or a CPM-basis

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New Twitter Homepage Gets Search At Its Core

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:31:35 +0000

Twitter has unveiled its new homepage , that features search box at the core. Then, the trending topics get a noticeable position below the search box with three categories. The top row with the biggest font features topics that are hot currently, followed by the second row with slightly smaller font featuring hot topics from the past day and the third row with topics from the past week.

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New Twitter Homepage Gets Search At Its Core

IxQuick Now Becomes Startpage

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:08:56 +0000

IxQuick, one of my favourite meta search engines and what it bills itself as “the world's most private search engine” has renamed itself to Startpage . Name change apart, there is no difference in the existing search engine. The meta search engine has been known for using privacy as a marketing feature, which set it part from many other search engines

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IxQuick Now Becomes Startpage

Google Shrunk Its Search Results Page- Gets A Smaller Logo

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:37:37 +0000

There are reports that Google has made changes to the way it uses to display search results. Since there is no official announcement for the same, it can be said that the search giant is still experimenting with the latest enhancement. Talking about the changes, these are actually changes that would often get unnoticed with birds-eye view.

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Google Shrunk Its Search Results Page- Gets A Smaller Logo

Product Search for Webmaster: The Best Practices

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:56:40 +0000

Google has recently disclosed a lot about the best practices for product search on its search engine through the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog . You can see Maile Ohye talking about the product search on the webmasters video. If you own an e-commerce site and want your products to become eligible to be shown in Google search results, the video would be of great help.