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When I’m asked how search needs to change, I often talk about how many new types of data and services need to be incorporated into the results to help you do something rather than just find something.  That means there could be thousands of new businesses created that Bing can tap into in much the same way we use Everyscape for our restaurant interior panoramas, or ParkingFinder.com to help you find the cheapest garage before a Lakers game.  But there is room for many, many ...

Dropbox, which enables users to easily store and share documents, photos, videos, and other files, recently announced they closed a $250 million round of Series B funding. The popular file sharing and storage service has over 45 million users that collectively save one billion files every three days and a reported $4 billion valuation. Index [...]Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

Recent reports indicated that Google is working to get some kind of online music store out to consumers. This was hardly a surprise. Many expected this to be part of Google Music when it launched, but Google just wasn’t able …

Two big Android-related launches happened on Tuesday: First, Motorola unveiled the Droid RAZR, and second, Samsung and Google unveiled the Galaxy Nexus alongside their brand new Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0. The Droid RAZR has impressed many first-lookers with …

Google announced that it is going to begin encrypting search queries with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) as the default experience at Google.com when you search logged into your Google account. http://www.google.com will become https://www.google.com. “This is especially important when you’re …

When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away earlier this month, there was a massive outpouring of support, condolences, tributes, memories and so on for a man who obviously meant a great deal to a lot of people. From the beginning, …

After weeks of speculation, the Google/Samsung mobile event lived up to its promise and delivered on both the hardware and the software that everyone wanted. At the Hong Kong event (taking place last night for those of us in the …

Quality score is Google’s way of calculating each of your keywords importance to what you’re doing. It measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad text, to a users search query, your landing page, how fast your website loads, what keywords are on your landing page and a variety of other factors. The following [...]Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

It’s coming up on a year since Matt Cutts announced that social signals are absolutely used as ranking factors for your content, but that’s not what I’m going to talk about here. I’m going to talk about other ways th...

Yahoo released its earnings report for Q3. This includes revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs of $1,072 million for the quarter, down 5% year-over-year. Income from operations also decreased 6% to $177 million compared to $189 year-over-year. The company says the …

Fall is officially here and seasonal advertising is kicking in. As usual, when we start the march toward the holidays, the advertisers dust off their PPC jackets and see what tricks they can pull out of the sleeves to improve upon their performanc...

When you are managing your own business there are many things to think of. Getting the right technology in place may not be the first thing you think off but doing so could save you time, money and help you find customers. We were at opening of ‘Technology 4 StartUp Britain Week’ to give you a live report of all the sessions via our @adCenter Twitter handle (#tech4sub) and to share the advertising tips with you here.  James Akrigg, Head of Technology at Microsoft UK gave an ...

It's perhaps one of the strangest product pitches I've heard. Asked on stage at Web 2.0 Summit by John Battelle about his Bing search engine, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer encouraged the audience to try Bing because, well, it's pretty much the same as Google. The Ballmer 70/15/15 Challenge "I would... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google caused a major stir in the search marketing community today with the news that it will begin encrypting searches and outbound clicks by default in some situations. The move means that valuable keyword referral data will not be passed to analytics programs (including Google Analytics) when... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

(Cross-posted on the Google Mobile blog) Beaming a video with a single tap or unlocking a device with only a smile sounds like science fiction. Now, you can actually do these things (and more) with a phone that fits in the palm of your hand. Wednesday morning in Hong Kong—together with Samsung—we unveiled Galaxy Nexus, the first phone designed for the latest release of Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. With a super slim profile, Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65” ...

I contacted Dennis and asked him what he thought because after working at Ebay for nearly 10 years I know referral data had to be important to him. Dennis on Google Analytics As has been said already by others online, these changes will have a large effect on how marketeers will be able to track [...]Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

Here are some articles we found after the big GA announcement about referral data from searches not being available from those logged in to Google. If you see any other articles this week please let us know and we will add them. Announcement by Google Making search more secure: Accessing search query data in Google Analytics [...]Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

GoAnimate, which offers free web applications that enable marketers to create their own animated videos, has released of a new collection of political characters and backgrounds focused on the United States Presidential election. The new collect...

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook Gestures: How Users Could Be Sharing Their OpinionFacebook “Likes” have become a universal way to share or promote a piece of content on a... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Facebook "Likes" have become a universal way to share or promote a piece of content on a blog or website (or Facebook itself). There are even T-shirts with the Like button printed on them. [caption id="attachment_96182" align="alignright" width="301" caption="Like t-shirts... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.