Yahoo is rebranding Associated Content - the open article creation and distribution site - as Yahoo Voices. The transition to a new name also updates the design, standards for publication, and the content base. Yahoo Voice is "hom.

Marin Software and BoostCTR have just announced a partnership that brings crowdsourced ad creative optimization into the Marin platform. BoostCTR offers a network of professional copywriters to generate engaging, performing ads at a scale not ofte.

Yahoo's 10th annual top searches Year in Review is out, identifying the top trends and stories of the year based on the billions of searches performed by their users. This year, the iPhone was the top search of the year, a spot held by the B.

Yahoo's Small World Experiment, led by Duncan Watts and Sharad Goel, Principal and Senior Research Scientists at Yahoo )respectively(, aims to conclusively answer the question of degrees of separation. The topic has been much debated and wid.

In what they are calling the "future of entertainment search," Microsoft has announced Bing on Xbox, a new way to search your TV's guide for shows and movies, spanning broadcast TV, movie services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go, even apps and Xbox.

Do you want to shape the conference agenda and win a free trip to SES New York 2012? Well, submissions are now open for the SES New York 2012 Attendees Choice Contest. As it did for SES San Francisco 2011 and SES Chicago 2011, Incisive Media is .

Bid management is a catch-all term for a group of technologies that will look after certain "automateable" portions of PPC campaigns for you. For very large campaigns this may be the only way to give it the attention it deserves, but even smaller .

The Facebook Ads Platform is an amazing tool for targeting, though some marketers may not quite fully understand its potential outside of one-off selections )male/female, or age(, or by selecting brand names, or popular products in the interest bu.

Eric Ward is the godfather of link building )just ask Jeff Bezos, who hired Eric to help launch Amazon(. I've been learning from him since I started in the SEO industry back in 2001, and continue learning from him to this day through his LinkMoses.

Google is set to appeal the conviction of three Google execs. The conviction, which includes jail time, is for privacy violations involved in allowing Google Video content to be posted. Google will appeal the ruling as soon as January. Google's .

The European Commission )EC( will issue a 400-page document outlining its concerns with Google's alleged anti-competitive practices, according to sources at the EC. Sources in the organization revealed that the EC will issue its statement of obj.

Search engines are participating in holiday-oriented activities this year: Google is helping to track Santa yet again with the help of NORAD, while Bing has launched a "Magical Holiday Calendar" featuring deals and prizes. Google and NORAD Tail .

Facebook's Most Shared Articles on Facebook 2011 post lists which articles were shared most amongst users in the U.S. in 2011. Surprisingly, the top 40 articles came from just six online news sources, largely led by Yahoo! and CNN. The mos.

Fourteen months after CEO Dick Costolo proclaimed his company would launch a self-service advertiser platform during 2011, Twitter has confirmed that select marketers began testing such a platform in November. "Earlier [in November], T.

Each year here at Search Engine Watch, we wait with bated breath for the top searched lists to come out. Sometimes insightful and often hilarious, the lists give an overview of the topics and terms on the minds of millions in the U.S. and beyond. .

Google announced Friday that they have secured the purchase of Admeld. The New-York based business that was founded in 2008 assists Internet publishers to realize larger revenues by managing display ads from hundreds of sources and ad network.

Google has announced 10 search changes - a mix of algorithmic, crawling, and user interface updates. Better long-tail indexing and parked domain detection are among the announced changes. Additionally, Google has committed to writi.

Since giving us an early look in September, Google has continued working on their Flight Search service. Their most recent development displays the Flight Search table on the results page when triggered by flight-related queries, as opposed to req.

For many people who aren't involved in search engine optimization )SEO( on a regular basis, it's easy )or so they think(. You simply create a website, write some content, and then get links from as many sources as you can. Perhaps th.

Almost as quickly as November came to a close, news broke from StatCounter indicating Google's Chrome browser overtook Mozilla Firefox as the second most popular browser worldwide for the first time. Internet Explorer, the incumbent for year.