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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Today is the deadline for Google and its partners in the Google Book Search settlement to submit a new version of the settlement that satisfies the recent concerns laid out by the US Justice Department and others. But instead, as the New York Times...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

With Rupert Murdoch talking about blocking Google, Jason Calacanis suggests that Murdoch should cut an exclusive deal with Bing, which if it doesn’t Google might at least 10% search share within 6 months. I suggest Jason needs a reality check....

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Tips for using PPC, retargeting, e-mail marketing, and viral marketing to help boost holiday sales. ... Read Original Post Here ...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Mark offers tips for improving Web sites using basic search engine optimization tactics, including title tags, resolving duplicate content, link building, and much more. ... Read Original Post Here ...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Would you have more value for SEO based search results or human conversation driven results? If you knew that there were 6 conversations that provided a fantastic account of a design firm you were considering would that be more valuable to you than the...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

We’ve got a special request of our Search Engine Land visitors and SearchCap newsletter readers. Take our 2-minute audience survey! Please? If helping us keep the lights on isn’t enough of an incentive, we’ll toss in a chance to win a...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

If you visit the Google Caffeine Sandbox, you will be taken to a thank you page that reads: We appreciate all the feedback from people who searched on our Caffeine sandbox. Based on the success we’ve seen, we believe Caffeine is ready for a larger...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Facebook Fan Pages are gaining popularity due to their high adoption rates among Facebook’s 300+ million users. Currently more than 10 million users become fans of Pages each day. However, the basic fan page layout is quite cookie cutter, so adding some...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

In addition to her skills as the well known VP of search and user experience at Google,  a wardrobe including Oscar de la Renta and Armani helped land this girl from a (very) small town in Wisconsin on Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Google has acquired AdMob (www.admob.com), a popular mobile display ad company, for $750 million. Google has already built their own platform for AdSense on Mobile devices, but this acquisition gives Google access to AdMob’s more than 15,000 mobile...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

It’s the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Where’s the special Google logo for that, some have wondered. There is one, but only at Google Germany. Elsewhere, it’s apparently more important to keep celebrating the 40th...

Tue Nov 10, 2009

by Mike Moran Image by cbcastro via Flickr Not long ago, I spoke to a group of local chemical manufacturers on Internet marketing. (You can download my slides on "How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules.") After the talk, I sat next to an...

Mon Nov 9, 2009

Google has a bidding methodology called Budget Optimizer that attempts to maximize the traffic you receive for the keywords in a campaign. This is useful for early buying cycle keywords. However, every keyword should be reaching some goal regardless of...

Mon Nov 9, 2009

Justin Uberti, Google’s tech lead who I believe leads the Google Talk team, posted on his blog that Hulk Hogan visited Google’s Kirkland office. Hogan made his visit on Tuesday, November 3rd, as a signing event for his new book, My Life...

Mon Nov 9, 2009

by Sage Lewis The neocortex is the newest part of your brain. "The cells in the neocortex are arranged in six layers, within which different regions permit vision, hearing, touch, the sense of balance, movement, emotional responses and every...