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Catching Up With Google on a Busy – And Short – Week

MJ — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:13:34 +0000

Google made a number of changes in the past week or two that are causing quite a stir. Some were directly related to others and some were not. Here is a quick recap of the major tweaks for those still recovering from the holiday weekend and a short workweek. - Early this week Google stopped its Realtime Search feeds. When Realtime Search was up and running, social media website Twitter.com’s realtime posts, called tweets, were a part of Google’s realtime feeds along with posts from...

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JC Penney Puts On Its Party Dress: Google Time-Out is Over

MJ — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:52:39 +0000

Sometimes when you’re bad and you get caught, you’re punished. JC Penney experienced this with Google back in February, when the retailer’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices were deemed questionable. Google investigated a claim in The New York Times and decided that the nationwide department store had misbehaved. As a result, JC Penney was manually removed from Google’s search engine results pages. In other words, it was given a time-out by Google. The company could not compete online in the free, organic listings except through...

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Is Google to Thank for Decision Engine’s Infinite Wisdom?

Lindsay Martin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:01:13 +0000

A recent Google sting operation involving illogical inserted search results has asserted that Bing uses Google data to make their search results more relevant, a claim Bing isn’t denying. Bing has reported the use of opt-in Google clickstream data, along with 1000 or so other signals for their algorithm, and has cited Google’s honeypot as a “creative tactic by a competitor” to be taken “as a back-handed compliment.” Google waited to expose this news alongside the kickoff of Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box, a...

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Google Instant: Because Real-Time Wasn’t Fast Enough

Liz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:49:46 +0000

Now Google can be your new best friend and finish your sentences for you! If you’ve been looking up anything online in the past two days, you’ve probably noticed the new phenomena called “Google Instant.” It’s kind of like the “Google suggest” list that pops up underneath your search bar while you type, trying to predict what you’re searching for; however, with Google Instant, instead of just a changing lists of suggestions, you’ve got an entire changing page of results as you type. According to...

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Google Jumps on the Mobile Marketing Bandwagon

Liz — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:38:52 +0000

Not convinced you need to get your company into mobile marketing yet? This week could be a great time to change your mind. Yesterday Google announced on their blog that they’ve just acquired AdMob, one of the first (and biggest) exclusively mobile marketing companies out there. With all the time people spend on their smart phones, the marketing possibilities abound and AdMob has been on top of them from the get-go. What’s so cool about AdMob is that they’re device specific, meaning that they have...

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Social Networking Giants At Fisticuffs This Week: Google Buzz

Liz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:36:40 +0000

It’s only Wednesday and it has already been one of those weeks where internet giants pull out all the stops to one-up one another. This time the fight is over who can have the most comprehensive social network, and as time goes on, more companies are stepping up into the ring. In one corner we have Facebook. Now don’t think that Facebook is standing there alone, because this week they also seem to have AOL and Microsoft crowding into onto their side, allied against one...

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Search Engine Marketing Seminars in January

Liz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:19:18 +0000

Update: New dates for February If you work in Virginia Beach marketing, or really in any local business, chances are you’re interested on some level in one of the following: -harnessing the power of Google -increasing your website’s online presence -driving the highest qualified traffic to your site -or even increasing your sales. The good news is – we can help. Customer Magnetism used to host classes on search engine marketing, and in 2010 we’re starting up again! Register for one of the upcoming hour...

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Even Google is Feeling Festive

Liz — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:38:56 +0000

Has anyone else noticed these? I’ve never seen the likes of this before. I mean, I’ve never had reason to search for just “Christmas” or “Hanukkah” before though either. Btw, Happy Holidays!

Google Suggest Spells Relief for Quicker Searches

MJ — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:59:02 +0000

Google’s been busy. Two new features rolled out in the past week to increase search productivity. The first is universal search in Google Suggest; the other, Quick Scroll in the newest version of Google Chrome. As users request more sophisticated and specialized searches, Google is stepping up to the plate and serving faster ways to get there. And sometimes we don’t even have to click to get to the page we want. It’s right there in black and white… or blue. I found the Google...

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Yahoo! Following in Google’s Fail-Footsteps: Real Time Search

Liz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:00:49 +0000

While I understand that no one wants to be left behind when a competitor takes a step forward, Yahoo! is apparently missing the point. Really Yahoo!, if Google takes a step in the wrong direction, you’d do best not to follow. Everyone has been abuzz about Google’s real time search results, aka Google’s real time spam results. If you haven’t noticed, thanks to Google now anyone can show up on the first page of search results, even for just a few seconds, with whatever spam...

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