It's been a busy week in the upper echelons of search and social at the enterprise level! Online marketing software and services provider Optify just announced a program for agencies to sell directly to clients. They will offer training, sup.

Google's logo today resembles a juice label, prominently featuring a pair of oranges and other fruits rich in vitamin C. The Doodle is a tribute to physiologist, biochemist, and professor Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, born on this date 118 years ago.

Enterprise SEM/SEO software providers Covario and Kenshoo have formed a strategic alliance that will see Covario licensing Kenshoo Enterprise and Kenshoo Social. In addition, the two have agreed to partner in the development of a paid and organic .

As social media gets widely adopted across organizations of all sizes we're starting to see social media and search marketing teams operating in silos. That is already the case in many organizations. It isn't unusual to have a 5:1 rati.

This week I have listened to some exciting presentations and had a few conversations with Google AdWords product evangelists regarding Google +1. The prospect for social integration with both SEO listings and paid search ads is intriguing and hold.

Signed in Google users around the world can now help Google figure out which sites aren't helpful or useful. When users block a site, Google now incorporates this data into the periodic Panda updates to better highlight "high quality&r.

An unlikely trio took a blood oath to join forces and take down the mighty Google, who snatched the display advertising crown from Yahoo in Q1 of this year. Executives from Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL shared the plan with a group of top Web publisher.

Every search engine wants to be more relevant. However, what is relevant to you might not be relevant to someone else. Further, many search terms can take on different meanings. "Summertime" might mean sun and heat to some, cold and snow or any nu.

Google is testing yet another new look for its search results pages, this time adding more white space beneath the search box where the word "Search" appears in red beneath the Google logo and the number of results appear under the sea.

The official SEC report on Google's Motorola acquisition is out. It outlines how Google bid against themselves and paid $4 billion more than the initial high-end target for bidding. The Self-Bidding War In July, Google started by floating the .

Facebook has added two new features, part of a slew of recent updates as they battle it out to remain the top dog in social media. Users can now Subscribe to friends' or other users' updates, much in the way we follow people on Twitter.

Search engine optimization is a critical part of the B2B marketing mix. SEO ranked as the fourth most effective B2B marketing tactic overall on MarketingSherpa's 2011 B2B Marketing Advanced Practices Handbook. Despite thi.

If you've been paying attention to the new business intelligence of social media, you may have seen Fast Company listed Crimson Hexagon in their top 10 list of the most innovative web companies this year. Last summer, I had the p.

Google has announced a partnership with Intel. The two companies will be working together to tune the architecture of Android to the next generation of Intel Atom processors. Initial Atom-powered Android devices will be released in the first half .

Fox News and Google are hosting the September 22 Republican presidential primary candidates debate. In an effort to promote their YouTube live streaming of the event, Google has added a link to the bottom of their search page where people can subm.

Finding "Angry Birds" or other smart phone games and apps in Russian has just gotten easier. Russian search giant Yandex launched a new search engine for mobile apps yesterday at apps.yandex.ru. "Yandex search for mobile applic.

IMG Bing has, more than any other search engine, pushed for product visibility in the media; from guest spots on "Hawaii 5-0" to "How I Met Your Mother," Bing has done everything in its power to become visible to its target audience. They&r.

Two announcements yesterday from Twitter offer benefits for users and advertisers as much as promise for Twitter investors. Promoted Tweets are now appearing in the feeds of those who don't follow the advertising brand and Twitter .

Google is launching a deal search service known as Google Shihui )shihui means "timely benefit"(. Shihui will allow users to search through information aggregated from China's deal sites. There are plenty of deal sites to choos.

Scottish bazillionaire Brian Souter made headlines this week when he pointedly accused Google of censoring him because his site dropped in the SERPs. Said Sir Brian, "It's not Google's place to decide which sites we can see .