Google Transitions Map Maker Info To Mainstream
Google Maps just got a lot more accurate, and as PBS likes to say, "this . . . was made possible, in part, by . . . viewers like you." Or to put it another way: maps of 16 countries have been transferred from Google Map Maker to Google Maps.
Economy Shapes Online Search Behavior
Searches for a number of terms related to the economic downturn have shown significant gains in the past year, according to comScore.
The most notable increases were searches relating to the declining job market, including searches using the term "unemployment" (up 206 percent to 8.2 million searches) and "unemployment benefits" (up 247 percent to 748,000 searches).
What You Got In Your Drawers?
So, by now you’ve heard you’re supposed to be incorporating social media into your marketing campaign. How exactly you do that they’re not so clear on. And while the possibilities really are endless, sometimes we need a case study in how it’s done to get the creative marketing juices flowing.
Do You Want Your Search Experience Personalized?
In recent months, there has been a whole lot of talk about where search is going, and what search is lacking. This is commonplace for months encompassing the changing of years.
A big part of the discussion is personalized search. Many SEOs aren’t entirely thrilled with the idea. It changes the way they have to do things. Do searchers want it though?
New Media Gives Our Kids A History We Never Had
Think about what you know about your great, and great great grandparents. Unless they were famous for something, chances are what you know about them is limited to what your eldest relatives can tell you and, if your lucky, there’s documentation of some kind, somewhere, perhaps decaying in a trunk stored in a decaying attic.
How to Notify Google About Content Theft
If you’re a blogger who has been at it for a while, you’ve probably run across other blogs stealing your content at one point or another. These are commonly referred to as scrapers, and will often use your content to post Google AdSense ads and make money off your work.
Ticketmaster Agrees To Change Online Sales Policy
Ticketmaster has reached an agreement with the state of New Jersey about how it handles online ticket sales after complaints from users about how it redirected them to its reseller site TicketsNow and charged them up to 50 times the face value for Bruce Springsteen tickets.
B2B Buyers Engaged With Their Peers Through Social Media
A new report from Forrester Research, outlined by Groundswell, takes a look at how B2B buyers interact with social media—and by and large, they’re more engaged than their average peers.
The report breaks down the use of social media by Social Technographic role by type of social media involvement (types explained in this PPT):
Facebook Needs To Follow And Not Lead On Privacy Policies
I took last week off, and it was a big week for Facebook watchers. Facebook decided to change its terms of service, putting its millions of users on notice that Facebook owns their data and isn’t planning any opt-out mechanism. Now, to many observers, including Chris Brogan and me, it’s not news that free Web services own the data posted to them, but this Facebook announcement caused a firestorm, and Facebook backed off before the week was out. Watching this play out caused me to realize why Facebook is dumber than Google.
Kid’s Brains Affected By Social Media
You may have thought that the headline should read “Social Media Changes Minds” because of all the wonderful things that social media adds to our lives (I’ll let you determine what wonderful things it does for you). But across the pond there’s concern that social media is actually changing the brains of young users.