The Electronic Privacy Information Center is considering filing an FTC complaint, even after two of the senators involved in the first subcommittee investigation suggested an FTC investigation last month. Google has cherry-picked positive quotes f.

Google's new personalized search has segments of the tech world in an uproar. Twitter is ticked and released a statement that said, in part: We're concerned that as a result of Google's changes, finding this information will be.

After reading a number of complaints about the quality of results and how often Google+ pages were featured in the Top 3 positions in the new personalized search, I reached out to the SEW authors community and had a bit of fun testing out Search P.

Last week, Google's Inside Search blog announced a recap of 30 different search quality improvements it made in December, 21 of which were improvements that were specifically new to Google. However, looking through the list, it seems that some of .

Earlier this week Google rolled out Search Plus Your World. In short, this development features personalized results from your contacts - which may be images, shared posts, or pages that have been given a +1 by your contacts; or even pages o.

What will happen in the year ahead? I'm no fan of making predictions, but there are some major social media tactics that we can expect to affect businesses in 2012. Some of these tactics already have been adopted by select companies, but thi.

It's January, and all the industry pundits are buzzing with their biggest and boldest predictions of what's in store for the year. But let's talk about what we're not going to see in 2012: the return of user search que.

Mike Essex hopes to spur SEOs into action with recommendations for protesting eight issues outlined in his video What Every SEO Has to Fight For in 2012. Koozai's Online Marketing Manager has put together a wish list of items he wants the co.

January is always a fresh time to fine tune online marketing habits. One good place to start is the social media editorial calendar. You remember, that file you started last year and haven't opened since? On the flipside it could be a dail.

A long time ago I realized that "PPC strategies" aren't just tactics to be applied to ads or keywords. I also realized that the most successful PPC managers are a special breed of people. PPC managers have to be good with numbe.

Google, Ipsos and the Mobile Marketing Association conducted a large-scale study called Our Mobile Planet in 2011 by asking 30,000 people in 30 countries how they use their smartphones to gain insights about mobile users and their behavior. .

I love link rot... and so should every marketer tasked with creating and/or promoting high-utility content. Link rot is a Force of Web-Nature that turns 30 percent of outbound links into real opportunities for you to promote high-quality content. .

Holiday season 2011 online shopping statistics show tremendous growth in mobile shopping activity, with online sessions and sales on retail sites in December double their volume from the same period last year, according to IBM.

Twitter has criticized Google's major search update unveiled on Tuesday, claiming they are "bad" for web users, as they make it harder to find information. Google explained that the "Google, plus Your World" update would now start drawing on inf.

As described in Michael Lewis' "Moneyball", Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane fielded the winningest team in baseball while spending half as much on player salaries as their nearest rival, the New York Yankees. Beane .

The post-holiday season is a great time to reflect on the year that was 2011, both from a personal and professional perspective. For many of us, the first quarter of the year means planning for the year ahead and prioritizing against a variety o.

Once again, we've rounded the corner on a new year and many of us find ourselves re-evaluating our performance throughout many of life's facets, whether it's how much we exercise or how well we eat. Just as we would to continually yearn to b.

It's been 10 years since I wrote the second edition of a book about search engines called "Search Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide". It was a very big seller and, in fact, it carried on selling through to the b.

A new Google Doodle today honors the 374th birthday of the Danish anatomist Nicolas Steno, the man widely regarded as the father of modern geology. The new inanimate Doodle features the Google logo with letters sketched out of three to five laye.

Google introduced huge new features today that bring some clarity to many of the changes they've made over the past several months, including the creation of their own social media network and the implementation of SSL search. Their latest s.