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.

Google Expected to Deliver Amazon Prime Competitor Google is looking to create "a service that would let consumers shop for goods online and receive their orders within a day for a low fee," the Wall Street Journal reported. The move is a d.

A year ago, the Department of Justice )DOJ( and Immigration and Customs Enforcement )ICE( seized 82 domains - mostly sellers of knock-off products, but this included a couple of torrent sharing sites. It was part of "Operation In Our Sites", .

The YouTube Team has introduced a new homepage - which we saw a sneak preview of a couple weeks ago - unveiled a new Channel design, and gave the video-sharing site a fresh coat of digital paint. With more than 3 bill.

I mean, c'mon, who doesn't want to improve the efficiency of their sales funnel? Lately lots of companies have invested into companies such as Monetate, HubSpot or Marketo, hoping to leverage their customer profile and analytics suites.

AOL has released their data on the most popular searches of 2011 on the Hot Searches website, with insight into search terms and topics from the UK, Canada, and the United States. The Casey Anthony trial booted "bed bugs" from the last.

Google's AdWords Keyword Tool has been experiencing some substantial and ongoing issues over the past week. Complaints have arisen from marketers using the service that the results are showing zero search volume when performing exact match request.

Yandex announced a partnership with Czech search engine Seznam on Wednesday. Yandex developed a video search service that will be provided on the Czech search engine at Seznam.cz. Utilizing queries based on the Czech language and grammatical str.

In a patent application approved Tuesday, Google used the review/comments systems used by Amazon and Slashdot to support their method and gain approval for their "invention". The problem is the critical thinking applied to the limits of the other .

Joe Lieberman has contacted Google to demand a content pull-down from Blogger, additional content guidelines, and a flagging system. Lieberman's request may be redundant, though, as his requested features already exist. Lieberman's Letter Foll.

Geo-location social network Foursquare has announced a "Save" button for webmasters. This button allows users to store a location with a single click, then receive a notification when they're close to the location itself. The "Save" Button Fou.

YaCy, a German search company brought into being by the Free Software Foundation of Europe )FSFE( has released a peer-to-peer search that uses networked systems to index the web and deliver search results. YaCy )pronounced "ya see"( is an attemp.