Experian Hitwise today announced that Bing's share of searches has increased for the third straight month. Click to read the rest of this post.

OneUpWeb recently released the results of an eye-tracking study on Google’s new real-time results integrated into SERPs—and it looks like the search giant might have just wasted $15M (the estimated cost of Google’s deal with Twitter). The study segmented web users into two groups: consumers and information...

Over the years, there have been more than a few arguments about whether online news sites are killing newspapers.  Now, due to some almost startling comments made by the president of CNN, it looks like the next round of old media-new media disputes might concern social networks and cable news organizations. According to the AFP, Jonathan...

by Vera H-C Chan Was there a calculated generational appeal happening on " American Idol " during the ladies' round? Tuesday night's repertoire included crusty classics from the Animals, Fleetwood Mac, Carole Bayer Sager, Patsy Cline, and even one Charlie Chaplin-penned ditty. The strategy's not necessarily bad, aside from the risk of being...

Posted by jennita Note: This post will make you smile, possibly even laugh. It won't however teach you much about SEO. You've been warned. Last week I attended SMX West in Santa Clara, California and took a couple flip video cameras along. I thought it would be fun to do "man on the street" interviews, somewhat along the lines of Jay Leno's "...

Just in time for spring, Google is helping you enjoy the great outdoors by adding bike trails to Maps. Click to read the rest of this post.

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Two Google executives have again assured onlookers that the company is dealing with the situation in China. While in Abu Dhabi, Eric Schmidt indicated today that something will happen sooner rather than later, and Nicole Wong told politicians in D.C. that leaving China is still an option. Unfortunately, not a lot of other details and/or promises...

Hi all â€" Renata Dionello, PayPal's Director of Consumer Business Development, here. I'm honored to have been chosen to be a part of this year's Media Summit in New York. I will be speaking on the "Digital Money â€" Virtual Currencies: Experimenting and Developing a Micropayment Economy" panel today, .

The last six months have been exciting for Digg's engineering team. We're working on a soup-to-nuts rewrite.

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Census jobs (Searches increased by +655%). Out of work? The government is hiring 700,000 door-to-door census takers this summer . Gabourey Sidibe (+264%). The Oscar-nominated actress has a new job : A recurring role on the new show "The Big C," starring Laura Linney. Vote for the Worst...

MySpace launched a new gaming experience at myspace.com/games today. The company says it empowers developers with new tools, analytics, and opportunities for driving usage and revenue. "Gaming is core to the overall entertainment value of MySpace; we are replicating our success from MySpace Music for this next round of platform improvements," a...

by Mike Krumboltz There was always something tragic about Corey Haim , even before he died Wednesday at the age of 38. A cautionary tale of the highest order, he reached career heights at a young age, only to see his success undone by addiction. It was impossible to talk about one Corey without mentioning the other. The day after troubled actor...

Google fulfilled a much-made request March 9 with the introduction of bicycle directions and bike trail data for some 12,000 miles of trails on Google Maps in the U.S. Bicycling directions appear as an option in the drop-down menu when users search for directions in Google Maps. In my hometown, we have a popular bike trail that spans a few towns.

Last week, Chinese officials reported that Google was in talks about their threats to leave the country (or only partially) if they’re forced to continue censoring search results. Also, Chinese officials reported that Google was not in talks with the government. Google CEO Eric Schmidt declined to comment on the state of...

It's being rolled out to Direct Messages first, where much of the spamming occurs. Click to read the rest of this post.

Nearly all consumers (97%) now use online media when researching products or services locally, according to a new report from BIA/Kelsey and ConStat. Among consumers surveyed, 90 percent use search engines, 48 percent use Internet Yellow Pages, 24 percent use vertical sites, and 42 percent use comparison shopping sites. "The Internet has indeed...

It's a contribution to the digital renaissance. Click to read the rest of this post.

The significance of longtail keywords can be exemplified by thinking about the following two people: Bill is a cafeteria worker who spends his spare time fishing and has heard that his favorite TV shows will look even better on on this new-fangled technology called HDTV. He might as well upgrade from his 20 to something a little larger while...

February was a quiet month for the search market; we're not going to suggest any companies either break out the champagne or fire their CEOs as a result of the small changes that took place. Still, for those who are curious, comScore believes it was Google and Bing that came out looking like winners. Google managed to increase its share of the...

Rome wasn’t built in a day. A journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step. If you’re going through hell, keep going. It’s always the darkest before the dawn. Whatever the cliché being thrown around in Redmond, it must be working, because Bing’s US search share continues to nudge ever...

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month period between October 2009 and January 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone...

Lots of cool Twitter statistics coming out of Barracuda Networks new study (pdf). Where do I start? 21% of Twitter users are actually using the service–meaning that have at least 10 followers, follow at least 10 people, and have tweeted at least 10 times. 74% of Twitter users have less than 10 followers! However, that...

Google is launching ads on the home page, search page, and browser page on the mobile version of YouTube in the U.S. and Japan. "This is a great way for advertisers to reach YouTube viewers across multiple platforms," says Google Strategic Partner Development Manager Taylor Cascino. "In fact, at launch YouTube will immediately provide one of the...

Ten years ago, the best-available translation software analysed the source text to determine its structure: subject, object, nouns, verbs, phrases, etc. From the structure tree, a new text could be generated in the target language. The precise details of Google's translation algorithms are not published, but the structure tree is not the main...

There’s good news for online retailers: Forrester is predicting a 10% growth rate for you guys! In fact, online sales will increase from $173 billion this year to a healthy $249 billion in 2014. Along with that growth comes a nice bump in online retail’s share of all US retail sales: up from 6% to 8% share. Forrester...

While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement , here's a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider - biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps. Google has been gathering these bike...

Google has partnered with Rails-to-Trails (RTC), a nonprofit focused on creating a network of trails from former rail lines, to add biking directions to Google Maps. Google Maps now has biking route details for more than 150 U.S. cities covering more than 12,000 miles of trails and bike lanes. Google says it plans to continue to add new trail...

Have you heard of the Streisand effect? Long story short, in 2003 Barbra Streisand sued a photographer for $50 million because he took photos of her home. She said the photographs invaded her privacy. Unfortunately for her, the rest of the world had no clue of the existence of these photographs until after she filed the lawsuit....

Clicking on links that different people send can often be a cross-your-fingers experience, considering that there are malicious tricksters, unknowing victims, and hijacked accounts to watch out for. So Twitter's attempting to make the experience less dangerous by checking (and sometimes rewriting) the links found in direct messages and email...

Actor Corey Haim, best known for roles in movies like the Lost Boys, License to Drive, and many others (a number of which also featured Corey Feldman), has reportedly been found dead of an apparent drug overdose. The LA Times reports: The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had...

Last night at Campfire One, Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace , where developers can create apps that integrate with Google Apps and sell them to users. According to Google, they can reach over 2 million businesses and 25 million users. Right off the bat, the Google Apps Marketplace launched with over 50 applications from companies like...

A lot of today's top copywriters got their start in direct mail, broadcasting and catalog pieces.  Back then, the medium was strictly rooted in the "Push" era â€" we shovel out the content, you take it all in and buy this widget. When the web started coming of age, people realized that they didn't have to "take it all in" â€" they could...

Xmarks is one of those FireFox plugins that I've been using for ages. I mentioned it in my one of the first FireFox tool overviews and I still find it awesome. With some (arguably) great "social" features added Xmarks has turned a cool search engine as well. I find it quite relevant and precise. Sure, the database is not as huge as Google's but...

"Burningly it came on me all at once, This was the place! those two hills on the right, Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight; While to the left, a tall scalped mountain' Dunce, Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, After a life spent training for the sight!" Robert Browning "Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came" I'm sure you've all...