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Newsletter Archive: 2009

Google Wants More Accurate Search Results
The Official Google Blog is talking about the new features that have been introduced by Google to give faster search results to visitors.

Date: 2009-09-30

The Goog, Can You Resist?
In the purest sense of the word I am not a Star Trek fan. I cant stand the old show for a lot of reasons but it has produced some pretty funny William Shatner / Capt. Kirk impressions over the years (Chris Farley in Tommy Boy? I ... have...an...idea...).

Date: 2009-09-29

Get Your Website On Google Sidewiki
As you may have heard, Google has recently introduced Google Sidewiki, as an add-on to the Google Toolbar. Google's Sidewiki is an option that allows anyone to make comments on any website, and those comments can be seen by anyone who has the Google Toolbar with Sidewiki installed (and running) in their web browser.

Date: 2009-09-28

Outages Plague Google
Every time Google has an outage the press immediately jumps on the idea that somehow cloud computing itself is to blame. This is a wrongheaded viewpoint, because it is not simply a cloud issue, it is a total systems issue, much like anything else that has to do with any computing, outages happen anywhere in the link chain...

Date: 2009-09-25

Google SideWiki
Google Side Wiki is a new Google Toolbar Feature has launched today. This feature looks to be their latest attempt to build communities around web sites in their index , perhaps as a way to better utilize social signals for ranking both web pages and social media profiles.

Date: 2009-09-23

Will New Marketing for Yahoo Be Successful?
Who's responsible for the recent turmoil at Yahoo? Who's responsible for Yahoo signing a deal with Bing? Who's responsible for its stagnant search share? Its You!

Date: 2009-09-22

Will the Next Media Company Be Google?
Think about this for a moment, Google mail, YouTube, Google book search, soon to come Google Wave, and a plethora of other stuff, the only thing that Google is missing is a distribution contract with RIAA and the MPAA.

Date: 2009-09-21

Google is More Powerful
Continuing to make sure that everyone knows that whatever Google does in the online world is for the greater good, the company has announced its DoubleClick Ad Exchange on the Official Google Blog.

Date: 2009-09-18

Breaking Search Barriers
In 1886 John Wanamaker coined the phrase that would define traditional marketing: I know that 50% of my advertising is wastedI just dont know which half!

Date: 2009-09-17

Court Bans Jurors From Searching Google
There's now a place in the US, where using Google can land you in jail: a San Diego courtroom. According to the Union Tribune, a case going before a California jury will be the first to enforce a rule preventing jurors from using...

Date: 2009-09-16

Bing Goes Visual!
Of late, Microsoft has conducted a study that shows that images give the users 20% faster search results than the text only. Hence, it has become clear that images play a key role in various search activities for movies, cars, news and different products.

Date: 2009-09-15

Yahoo Released Ad Reports and Charging Models
A few months ago, Yahoo! alerted advertisers to an upcoming change to their advertising charging. The new changes were aimed at aligning charging from partner sites with the quality of traffic.

Date: 2009-09-14

Bing Shares Tips and Tools
The Bing train continues to roll on as it slowly eats into Googles search market share. So I bet you want to know how you can make sure your website is included in Bing, dont you?

Date: 2009-09-11

Google Search Ads with More Video
Back in March 2008, we first saw video live in Google search ads. However, eighteen months later, video ads are still scarce in the SERPs.

Date: 2009-09-10

Suicidal AdWords Advertiser?
Search Engine Roundtable blog reports that a Google AdWords Help thread had an Indian advertiser who was threatening to suicide, in case Google didnt respond to him in the next few hours.

Date: 2009-09-09

Google Explains Itself
In a recent interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked a series of questions, some of which were a little bizarre, including What is Google?

Date: 2009-09-08

Google Search with Insight
Over at TechCrunch Michael Arrington has been doling out portions of his interview with Googles Grand High Pubah (thats code for CEO) Eric Schmidt.

Date: 2009-09-04

Spreading the Word of SEO
If you could tell the web 2.0/read-write/blogging/crowd-sourcing crowd one thing about search marketing, what would it be? In a recent talk, given to bloggers, by Google Engineer Matt Cutts, Matt posed the question: "What Do SEOs know that bloggers might not know?"

Date: 2009-09-03

What If Gmail Was Gone?
Many of the readers of Marketing Pilgrim likely had a rough 100 or so minutes yesterday when Googles popular Gmail application crashed and went dark via the web.

Date: 2009-09-02

2009 Search Engine Ranking
Recently, SEOmoz released a fantastic biennial search engine rankings report. Every two years, SEOmoz interviews the top 100 minds in the SEO industry.

Date: 2009-09-01

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