Google recently added bubble ads to select Google Maps locations. The choice to create new ad space has caused controversy, with some business owners concerned about the potential for reputation warfare and poorly targeted ads. The New Ad Space .

I was recently questioned by a colleague who was surprised to learn after all the talk about mobile apps and smartphones, that Google doesn't have a library of apps. By that, I mean Google lacks native apps for platforms like iOS, Blackberry.

If it isn't quite clear that traditional )old( affiliate marketing is dead, then you've been living under a rock the last year. "Pure affiliate sites consisting of content that appears in many other places on the web is unlikely to p.

An Irish hotel was suing Google for an autocomplete suggestion that implied the hotel was in financial trouble. That case has now been withdrawn, although no details of any settlement have been released. Hotel Defamation Case Withdrawn The .

Thanksgiving recipe searches peak prior to Thanksgiving each year. "Thanksgiving turkey recipes" skyrocketed on Google )950 percent in the past 30 days( and Yahoo )968 percent in the past week(. Here's how Thanksgiving looks from.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! As has been Thanksgiving tradition, Google posted a special Google Doodle to mark the holiday in the U.S., with this year's interactive and shareable logo arriving a couple days early. Thanksgiving is the long.

Over the past years adCenter performance history has been a bit hard to understand, let alone access. This has now changed with the new adCenter Multi-Metric Trend Graphs that will allow you to more easily understand your campaign performance. T.

In what is being called the third installment of their "off-season spring cleaning series", Google announced more products are being terminated or integrated in to other products. "Overall, our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, tru.

Last week's SES Chicago was a whirlwind of sessions, tweets, blog posts, and events out on the town. Now that we're all home and settled, we can begin to digest the mass of information taken in and put it to work for us. Jonathan All.

Naver has never been known as a simple search engine. As pointed out in my recent article on Naver's paid search, it's a dynamic, complex software system appealing to an affluent yet small market by Asian standards )South Korea's popul.

Ecommerce sites face their busiest days at the end of the week, so before we break for turkey, it's a smart idea to go through a basic checklist to make sure you're ready. Have you added changes to homepage announcing your specials? Regardless.

This story originally appeared on V3.co.uk: Dan Worth wrote Google takes on Safari with enhanced iPad search app Google has announced a series of updates to its Google Search app for the iPad to entice users to search via its service rath.

Hopefully, by now, you have managed to fully assimilate the awesome tips and tactics shared at SES Chicago and have made some headway into growing your network of contacts via different social networks. If not, let Search Engine Watch )SEW( help g.

A tradition as American as apple pie, Google has decided to give thanks this year by paying homage to the turkeys that elementary school kids make by tracing their hands. The Thanksgiving Doodle, their holiday Google logo, has gone up on the .

There is a new Chosen One. It alone will stand against Apple, Google, and the forces of darkness. It is the Facebook phone, code-name: Buffy. Coming in 12-18 months. The much-rumored Facebook phone, which will run on a heavily modified version o.

Optify has launched new landing pages and one-click social sharing features, designed to help marketers improve campaign tracking and ROI. Marketers are able to create customized or template landing pages, hosted either on Optify or their own.

Last month, we wrote about how Google's human search quality raters assign URL ratings, based on their leaked 120+ page training manual. PotPieGirl, the blogger who found the original manual, did some more digging to learn more about who the.

Over the past couple weeks Microsoft adCenter has been making several changes for the 2011 holiday season. Most of the changes are centered around their user interface and making the account easier to use. In their most recent update, exact match .

Google last week tweeted another of their algorithm Weather Reports. While it's supposed to only affect less than 1 percent of searches, the results could be more impactful than that small number suggests. Given 11.9 billion searches&nbs.

One of our stated goals in the Search Engine Watch redesign was to increase traffic from Google News in order to establish ourselves as an authoritative publication on the search marketing industry. The results of our project are below: Averag.