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Google+ Opens For Businesses — Potential And How To Get Your Face In The SERPs
The new kid on the block has opened itself to businesses in two principal ways. Unlike Facebook, which focuses on admin-managed pages, and Twitter, which couldn’t care less if a person, place, or animal is represented in a feed, Google initially maintained its focus on people in its business-level implementation …
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What’s the REAL Organic Search Market Share?
If you work in interactive marketing, you’re are probably familiar with comScore and its monthly estimate of the United States search market share that consistently looks like the following graph, reflecting data collected September 2011. It’s safe to assume that these numbers apply to the websites that you promote as …
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Courtroom & Boardroom – Google Acquisitions 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Full Size References List of acquisitions by Google German Govt. Says Google Analytics Now Verboten Europe Inquiry Focuses on Google Business Practice Google Says “Ciao” To Antitrust Claim In Italy Google Set For US Senate Committee Anti-Trust Investigation Google Book Search Settlement Rejected By Court Microsoft Comes Out Of Shadows …
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Google-Groupon Faceoff: Google Daily Deals Enter The Arena As Other Social Media Backs Off
Just four months after jumping into the daily deals pool, Facebook abandoned its efforts with regard to small business space (at least those not related to check-in services). Given that the business in question had to have a Facebook profile and only about 15% of the average business’ fans are …
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Can Bing Ever Compete with Google?
If you keep up with what’s in the news in the world of search engines, you know that there’s been a bitter little rivalry between Bing and Google for some time. In early February, Bing accused Google of stealing their search results. It didn’t help Bing’s case that they didn’t deny the claim …
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Pittpatt Puts Google Acquisitions To 100
Thursday, Google acquired Carnegie-Mellon University spinoff project PittPatt, which specialized in facial recognition software for businesses like GE. We’ll be a bit naïve here and take Google at their word when they claim they won’t implement full facial recognition software without “strong privacy protections” and intentionally excluded the feature from …
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Google Antitrust Case – Google+ Defiant in the Shadow of Harvey Birdman
Over the past few years, Google has been investigated by the FTC over most aspects of their business, largely circling around their aggressive acquisition of properties to vertically integrate other services into their core search. As Google has added features such as Products, Maps, and Video searches and integrated them …
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Results Pagination in Google Places View
For a while now, Google has been showing “Related Places” AKA “The Competition in places view. While looking at the results for one of our clients who has recently opened a new office for his law practice in a New Orleans LA suburb I came across this. Clearly Google is …
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Google Transparency – Is It Really That Bad?
Could it hurt Google to be a little bit more clear? Mr. Kohn at Blind Five Year Old thinks not. Google’s public persona can be unclear and capricious, while the size of their user base is so large that noise from their algorithm can have deep effects on the livelihood …
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Quora: More Than the Average Q&A Site
I first discovered Quora just a few months ago, and quickly grew addicted. When searching for opinions, recent history, or even anything involving the tech world, Quora becomes my first stop. The site’s main strength lies in the quality of its users who also create quality questions and answers. Many …
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