Yahoo’s mantra these days is openness. To that end Yahoo may create the ability for users to view their ad profiles — the data that’s being used to target them with advertising on Yahoo and its extended network. Yahoo EVP Jeff Weiner, speaking at the Economics of Social Media conference in LA yesterday, suggested that […]

Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans from News.com reports Google is working on a new mapping system to map the Earth’s oceans. The tool might be named Google Ocean and will compliment Google Earth and Google Sky.
News.com says Google Ocean will contain 3D oceanographic maps with underwater topography, search features for spots and […]

Over the past few days, many webmasters and SEOs have been noticing an update to the PageRank score found in the Google Toolbar. Usually PageRank updates aren’t that noteworthy, but it seems something is different about this PageRank update
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Visual search engines try to show us that there s a better way to search than by looking at 1 links with snippets on a page and making an educated guess. Most try to say that they re more intuitive. Searchme really is. Keep reading to find out more….
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web
From Search Engine Land:

Google Adds Street Views To Step-By-Step Driving DirectionsThe Google LatLong Blog announced that you can now see street views turn-by-turn (when available) when you are seeking out driving directions via Google Maps. For example, when […]

The Google LatLong Blog announced that you can now see street views turn-by-turn (when available) when you are seeking out driving directions via Google Maps.
For example, when driving from the Empire State Building to Times Square, you can see that Google has street views available for every turn. A camera icon, next to each […]

By now you have probably seen a bunch of talk about Twitter. And after all of this talk you might be still thinking: OK, so what the heck is Twitter really and why should I care? How is it going to help my business at the end of the day? Rather than writing […]

As the phenomenon of local business ratings and reviews becomes more “institutionalized” and important, efforts are popping up to help businesses cope and/or take advantage of the trend. Merchant Circle is one business in the local space that has positioned itself as a platform for SMB “reputation management” as well as marketing.
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A couple weeks back I wrote a LinkWeek column here titled “Your Site’s Manifest Linking Destiny“. At the end of that column I closed with the following thoughts…
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by Mack Collier
If you’ve read my posts here or were able to hear me speak at Small
Business Marketing Unleashed in Houston, you know what a believer I am
in businesses monitoring the blogosphere.  It’s a must for businesses
to know what bloggers are saying about them, because then they can
respond.  But how do you know the correct […]