Google Launches Interaction Reports for Local Business Ads

As you are probably aware, Google offers local business ads, which are essentially AdWords ads associated with specific business locations. They appear on Google Maps, Google, and across Google's ad network. Earlier this year, Google announced the addition of four new links for these ads - "Get Directions," "Street View" where available, "Save to My Maps," and "Send." The links were introduced as an effort…

Newspaper Company Plans To Charge For Online Content

MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post and 53 other daily newspapers plans to start charging for online access to all its newspaper content on its websites. MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton wrote a memo to employees saying, "We cannot continue to give all our content away for free."

Twitter Changes How Users View Replies

Update 2: Biz posted on the blog again showing that Twitter is taking users' feelings on the matter seriously: So here's what we're planning to do. First, we're making a change such that any updates beginning with @username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon) will be seen by everyone following that account. This will bring back some serendipity and discovery and…

Give Away More Info On Google’s SERPs

Update: Google also posted on the Enterprise Blog about how you can utilize richer snippets for Site Search. Original Article: Today at Google's Searchology event, the company announced (among other things) that it was rolling out richer snippets. The snippets will extract and show more useful info from results than the current ones, Google says.

Wolfram Alpha Launch Draws Near

Update: Wolfram Alpha said Tuesday on a company Web site that it plans to begin broadcasting the run-up to its public unveiling Friday evening, including "behind-the-scenes views."