This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Christopher Heine wrote Google's Daily Deals Are Becoming More Targeted An all-too-familiar email inbox scenario: the plumber, the school teacher, the accountant, the lawyer, the retail clerk, and.

Google's U.S. search engine market share climbed back up above 65 percent in September, while Yahoo's share declined after two months of growth, according to comScore. While comScore shows Google market share just above 65 percent, Hitwise s.

Google, which for the first time topped $9 billion in revenue in Q2, once again set another company record as it delivered a strong third quarter with $9.72 billion in revenue, a 33 percent increase over the $7.29 billion reported in Q3 2010. Ne.

Google engineer Steve Yegge posted a from-the-heart, no holds barred, balls to the wall indictment of Google's failings in planning, launching, and developing the Google+ social media platform. Unfortunately, it was late at night. He's.

Q3 paid search spend reports from Covario, Rimm-Kaufman Group and Efficient Frontier/Context Optional show the despite economic concerns, paid search growth is strong, with 23 and 24 percent year-over-year increase in spend in the U.S. and globall.

Every once in a while, something shows up on the Internet that creates a game-changing shift in the way we view the world. In the context of online business, this happened to me in the fall of 2008 when I first saw the Conversation Prism deve.

I recently took a trip to Nicaragua, where dogs roam the streets as a matter of course, and sitting outside at a restaurant is an exercise in self control as you try your hardest not to give part of your dinner to every stray that comes begging )f.

Topsy, the "real-time search for the social web," has launched a Google+ post search. Along with that search, Topsy offers trend data for Plus. Topsy is best known for its Twitter-search capabilities, which ranks all tweets according to the auth.

Google has changed its toolbar navigation to direct users to Google+ Photos instead of Picasa. This may indicate that Google is phasing out Picasa in favor of a socially integrated image and gallery service. Is Plus Replacing Picasa? A rece.

Much of Walmart's success lies in their use of Chinese manufacturing and the expectation of their vendors to follow suit. Now as they prepare to try and conquer the social media space, recent acquisitions and new apps show they mean to attack this.

Google +1's have arrived on display ads according to Google. As we explained in our earlier preview of the addition of +1 buttons to display and mobile ads, user photos and recommendations will now appear on the ads themselves. If you are running.

YouTube is starting a competition for students to suggest an experiment to be done in outer space and prizes include space training. As part of their newly launched Space Lab channel, YouTube wants to inspire future space travelers and those inter.

The role of social media in providing platforms for public figures to communicate with their followers just took on a holy spin. The Dalai Lama and retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu held a Google+ Hangout. The exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism use.

Developers beware, there's a new scripting language for client-side Web programming. Designed for quick prototyping and compatibility across multiple browsers and platforms, Google introduced Dart at the GOTO Conference this week. GOTO is an .

There is a saying that goes something like this: "Are you working in your business or on your business?" Translate that to social media, are you working in social media or on social media? If you are "in" it, it'.

Because I hand-build links at relatively large scale, and always look for ways to go bigger, I must continually test my link building processes and beliefs. For example, when you have 80+ guest posts to place in a month you don't have the luxury t.

For the past year, I've been banging on about how the future of ecommerce is multilingual and international, for three simple reasons: Foreign languages are growing rapidly online )Internet World Stats (. People need information in the.

Google's homepage is paying homage to the godfather of clay stop motion animation Art Clokey with an interactive Gumby Doodle. The logo is in honor of what would have been Clokey's 90th birthday today. Whatever your generation, you may rem.

This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Zachary Rodgers wrote Yahoo, Google, AOL Vie for Premium Video Dominance Yahoo, Google, and AOL are investing more heavily in original video content, motivated by rising consumer demand for short-.

This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Zachary Rodgers wrote Inside Google's Debate Over Search Retargeting Google sits on a huge pile of search intent data, but does not use it directly to improve display ad targeting - a busine.