Gmail Lets Users Share Their Location With Recipients

Perhaps you're a hard-charging businessperson who wants clients to know their questions will be answered even if you're on the beach.  Or maybe you're just someone who feels a need to quietly brag about vacationing overseas.  Either way, Google's got you covered with a new "add your location to your signature" Gmail feature.

Yahoo Doesn’t Seem Worried About Gmail

Gmail is growing rapidly. Yahoo has long dominated the race against Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail, but Gmail is on pace to overthrow the other two. I got in touch with Yahoo Mail's VP John Kremer to try and find out some expectations Yahoo has for Yahoo Mail.

Measuring Search And Offline Marketing Success

The session "Measuring Search & Offline Marketing Success" touched on the importance of tracking offline conversions that start through search. (Coverage of SMX West continues at Webproworld Videos.  Keep an eye on Webproworld for more notes and videos from the event this week.)

Is Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers?

It’s tough to keep things quiet these days, especially with all that Twittering. Unnamed engineers drowning their overhead redundancy woes over the weekend passed on the news—with documentation—to a Berkeley grad student Bay Area executive that Google was trying to keep engineer layoffs out of the press.

Getting Ranked In Google Maps

In the session "Up Close with Google Maps & Local" the panel focused on factors that influence what appears and how it is ranked.