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FTC Commissioner Takes Issue With Schmidt, Buzz

FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour will leave the agency next month, but that’s almost surely not soon enough for Google.  Today, Harbour criticized Eric Schmidt and the rollout of Buzz, and also asked her colleagues to adopt a tougher stance on some privacy-related offenses. In fairness to both Google and Harbour, other companies and products, including Facebook, Flickr, and Hotmail,...

Brands On Facebook And Twitter Favored By Consumers

People who are Facebook fans and Twitter followers of a brand are more likely to buy the brand’s product or recommend it to a friend, according to a new study by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies. The study of 1,500 consumers found that 60 percent of Facebook fans and 79 percent of Twitter followers are more likely to recommend those brands since becoming a fan or follower. More...

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 17, 2010

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";

YouTube Video Upload Rate Tops 24 Hours/Minute

Legend has it that St. Patrick performed a miracle by driving all the snakes out of Ireland.  Now, it seems that YouTube’s accomplishing an amazing feat of its own just by functioning.  A director of product management revealed this afternoon that a whopping 24 hours of video are now uploaded to the site every minute. Hunter Walk (who, we must note, once worked for Conan O’Brien)...

Yahoo Buys Citizens Sports

Yahoo said today it is acquiring social sports site Citizen Sports in an effort to strengthen its strategy of aggregating and distributing social content online. Terms of the acquisition were not released. "Yahoo! is in a unique position to combine our deep expertise in content and aggregation technology to offer a highly personalized social experience," said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president,...

YouTube Looking For Indie Bands

YouTube has expanded its partner program and has introduced "Musicians Wanted" aimed at getting independent bands or artists to submit music videos to the site. Interested independent bands or artist can apply for Musicians Wanted through YouTube’s Partner Program. Those who are accepted will have their own page where they can add details about where they will be playing, provide links...

Google Sponsors New Computer Science Prize

Australians who study computer science now have an added incentive to accomplish impressive things.  Today, it was announced that a certain search company will give away $10,000 once per year in the form of the Google Australia Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. Like many of Google’s contests, this has the potential to be both a nice gesture and a smart business move. ...

Would You Walk Away From It All?

Every now and again… an opportunity crops up and you have to evaluate what you really want to do with yourself going forward. That opportunity has once again stumbled in front of me… and I have been approached to be a part of something that could be very big! I’m not talking about ANYTHING to do with the affiliate marketing world, but a local opportunity that would take advantage...

PayPal To Add 1,000 New Jobs In Asia Pacific Region

Ebay’s online payment service PayPal said today it would double the number of employees in Asia Pacific from 1,000 currently to more than 2,000 by the end of the year. PayPal said it plans to add more than 100 new jobs at its international headquarters in Singapore. New jobs will be located at all seven offices including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. For its...

Mobile App Market To Soar To $17.5 Billion

The worldwide mobile applications market is on track to be worth $17.5 by 2012, according to a new report commissioned by GetJar, the globe’s second largest app store. Mobile app downloads across all handsets are estimated to climb from over 7 billion downloads in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012, a year-over- year growth rate of 92 percent.   GetJar commissioned consulting firm Chetan...

Thinking Ahead Is Key To Business Success

The fourth annual We Media Conference hosted at the University of Miami offered a peek into the future of media. The common thread from Tuesday’s mind-meld was not the same old “newspapers are dead” theme that so many of these conferences run into the ground. Instead, the focus was on the changing media landscape — an evolution that ultimately leads to a completely social and...

Google Re-Imagined As World’s Third-Biggest ISP

It’s common knowledge in the U.S. search industry that Google has a market share of about 65 percent.  Lots of people know (or at least know how to check) the search giant’s market cap, too (it’s currently at $180 billion).  But another measure of Google’s size was presented yesterday, and it turns out that Google is on par with all but the biggest ISPs. Craig Labovitz,...

To Get Clients, You Need To Pull, Not Push

In marketing, there are two main categories: Push Marketing, and Pull Marketing.   Push Marketing, also known as “interruption marketing,” is basically when you force your marketing message upon potential clients when they’re in the middle of doing something such as driving a car, surfing the web, or just spending time with friends or family. While they’re doing...

St. Patrick’s Day Logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! We typically post a collection of the various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and others for the special day. To see the past years logo see our 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 archives. Now, for the 2010 logos for St. Patrick’s Day: Google: Yahoo: Bing: Ask.com: Orkut: PPC Hero: Search Engine Roundtable: This...

Why Did You Get into the SEO Field?

A HighRankings Forums thread asks a fun question, why did you get into the SEO field? I decided to tweet the question via @rustybrick and I received some quick responses. The purpose of the tweet was to try to create a generic poll, which I could use to post here and get a larger set of responses. Here is the poll, I hope I am not missing any answers. Why Did You Get Into SEO?poll You can select...