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Jun 04, 2011 - AdSense Publishers To Get Phone Support
It sure sounded like Google’s SVP of advertising Susan Wojcicki was promising phone support for all AdSense publishers “in the next quarter,” at yesterday’s annual shareholder meeting, but a Google spokesman now tells me it’s...

Jun 03, 2011 - Search In Pics: GoogleBot Cookies, Yahoo Planking & Wall Of Googlers
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. GoogleBot Cookies: Google Boat:...

Jun 03, 2011 - Google CEO Larry Page Plays Nice With Investors At Annual Meeting
Many on Wall Street think that Larry Page hasn’t been visible or accessible enough. In part because of investor uncertainty about the former and current Google CEO (and a number of other factors) Google’s share price has dropped about $100 sin...

Jun 03, 2011 - New My Client Center feature provides easier account management across agencies
Today's post comes cross posted from the AdWords agency blog:We’ve just released a new My Client Center (MCC) feature called multiple links, which makes it easier for agencies, SEMs, AdWords API developers, other 3rd party providers and clients to work ...

Jun 03, 2011 - Google Images Gets Shinny On Google?s Search Results
The Google Search Blog announced two new user interface changes for image results on the Google web search results. Google has added a larger thumbnail image when you hover your cursor over image and Google will show more images when Google can detect you...

Jun 03, 2011 - Google +1 Increases CTR in Organic SERPs, Ranking Boost Likely [Study]
Dutch company, SEO Effect, have put out a whitepaper detailing their experiment in using Google +1 to augment their search rankings. Collaborating with over 70 plusone account holders, Keesjan Deelstra and Gerard Klein set out to find out what t... ...

Jun 03, 2011 - Google Apps Could Soon Not Work In Your Browser
In a quiet announcement on their Docs blog, Google said they would not be supporting Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3 or older browsers as of August 1. They warn "in these older browsers you may have trouble using certain featur... ...

Jun 03, 2011 - A New Hidden Paid Links Method?
As I often find myself – I was looking at some competitor link profiles this morning and something caught my eye. I noticed one site had increased their links considerably over the last few weeks (and seen good ranking increases too). So I trawled t...

Jun 03, 2011 - Google, Bing and Yahoo Sitting in a Tree, S-C-H-E-M-I-N-G
In a joint move, Google, Bing and Yahoo! have announced they will work together in a combined effort to create standardized tags to better search and index structured markup data on Web pages. Markup data allows site owners to tag various attribut... ...

Jun 03, 2011 - Google Offers and Payments: It?s all about Search
If you’ve been awake for any of the past 48 hours, you probably heard about Google’s new Offers product. And you’ve likely read at least one headline that included the words “Groupon Killer”. Most of this coverage has... ...

Jun 02, 2011 - Goupon Files For IPO While Google Offers Could Be Its ?Next Billion Dollar Business?
Google took its first daily deal baby steps yesterday with the launch of its first Google Offer in Portland. It was reportedly a hit for the business owner and a success for Google. According to CNET and ClickZ the first customer hit Floyd’s Coffee ...

Jun 02, 2011 - Google Maps? iFit Aims to Make Workouts�Funner
If you’re like me, you absolutely mean to work out about a hundred times more often than you actually get around to working out. Part of the reason may be that you don’t have access to the right facilities, or that you don’t have the tim...

Jun 02, 2011 - Google, Bing, and Yahoo! Unroll Markup�Project
You know how dogs and cats really don’t get along? Do you know who’s even worse than cats and dogs? Bing and Google. There are times when I’m pretty sure one or the other is literally trying to bite the other’s head off. Take, for ...

Jun 02, 2011 - Phishing Attempt Targets Google Accounts of U.S.�Officials
“Phishing” is a part of the 21st-century web. As anyone who’s used Facebook can testify, users plainly can and do fall for fake links, sites, or applications that then take over all or a portion of their account. When it comes to a norma...

Jun 02, 2011 - Schema.org: Google, Bing & Yahoo Unite To Make Search Listings Richer Through Structured Data
Today, “in the spirit of sitemaps.org“, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have announced the joint alliance of schema.org. This alliance provides a common foundation of support for a set of microdata types — some that previously existed and s...