Don’t Like The AdWords Display Ads You’re Seeing? Now Users Can Mute Them
Google has long made it possible for users of YouTube to skip ads. Now, it’s adding that capability to the Display Network, letting people hit an “X” to dismiss, or mute, the curr ...
Read More »Virtual Pageviews Or Event Tracking – Which Is Right For You?
An interesting challenge came across my desk this week. A site owner had installed a new contact form plugin on their WordPress website and they were struggling with tracking the ...
Read More »Not All Bad Links Hurt You, Google Ignores Links Also
Google doesn’t always penalize you for bad links, they sometimes and very often, will ignore links completely that they find to be against their guidelines. Back in 2007, Google s ...
Read More »SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 29, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri- ...
Read More »Piper Jaffray “Street Test” Of Google vs. Siri Misses The Point
No sooner did I hit “publish” on my earlier post, Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice, than people on Twitter started responding that I wa ...
Read More »Apple Gets Judge to Block Sale of Nexus, Android’s Only Jelly Bean Phone
It’s not how Google would have wanted to end one of its best weeks ever. On the last day of a stellar Google I/O conference, where the search and software giant unveiled a slew of ...
Read More »This Paintable Battery Can Be Used Virtually Anywhere [VIDEO]
Researchers at Rice University in Texas have created a paintable battery that can be used anywhere. Also impressive — the battery is rechargeable and can hold a 2.4 volt charge fo ...
Read More »Why Olympian Nick Symmonds Is Gold on Social Media
Among Olympic athletes, there may not be a more effective — or by-the-bootstraps — user of social media than runner Nick Symmonds. How’s this for — as the phrase goes — “leveragin ...
Read More »Moms Are Biggest Brand Boosters on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
Moms lead the pack when comes to liking brands on Facebook, according to a recent survey by Burst media. Fifty eight percent of moms follow or like brands on social media sites. T ...
Read More »Custom Menswear Etailer Indochino Sets Its Sights Offline
The Spark of Genius Series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Each post highlights a unique feature of a startup. If you’d like your startup considered for inclusion, please ...
Read More »Search In Pics: Android Jelly Bean, Google Beach Party & Neon Fur Man
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they ...
Read More »Google Shopping: 7 Advanced Tips & Strategies For Merchants
The new Google Shopping is based off of your typical paid comparison shopping engine, such as Pricegrabber, Nextag or Shopping.com. It’s a move that presents significant opportuni ...
Read More »SMX Advanced Video: Google’s Matt Cutts On A Disavow-This-Link Tool
All the talk today about Bing’s launch of a disavow this link tool is a good reminder that we should go back into our video archives and post the comments that Google’s Matt Cutts ...
Read More »Newest Version Of AdWords Editor Released
It’s time again to update your AdWords Editor desktop software. Google today released version 9.8.1 which will now let users add and edit dynamic search ads and product listing ad ...
Read More »Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice
At Google I/O this week Google introduced spoken search results, which mimic Siri’s functionality on the iPhone. Siri had been a major point of differentiation between Android han ...
Read More »AMC Ramps Up Programming Feud With Dish Cable
As Pete Campbell haters everywhere know, the gloves came off repeatedly throughout AMC‘s latest season of Mad Men. Now the network is following suit — a snarky viral ad campaign i ...
Read More »Heart-Stopping Photos of Attempted Hijacking in China Go Viral
An attempted airliner hijacking was fought off by passengers in the skies above western China on Friday, and photos of the incident went viral almost immediately on Chinese microb ...
Read More »How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud
David Schoenbach is vice president of product management at Exadel Inc. There he heads product definition, marketing, and sales of the Tiggzi, a platform for mobile development. T ...
Read More »Facebook App Recommends Songs for Your Romantic Encounters
Have you ever tried to create the perfect romantic evening only to fall flat when the wrong mood music plays? Durex — yes, the condom company — has an app for that. The Facebook a ...
Read More »Twitter Drops LinkedIn Partnership
LinkedIn announced via a blog post on Friday that Twitter would no longer be partnering with the business-networking site to sync updates from one site to the other. This ends a p ...
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