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First rule of politics for incumbents: During an election year, try not to highlight your general uselessness, especially if you share a…
A majority of online shoppers (74.5%) said they use a company's Web site to get information about a product or service, but less than half (44%) said the information met their needs a new study from ServiceXRG, "Influencing the Online Experience," found.The study surveyed around 1,000 companies and online shoppers to find out how people use search for online support, do product research and take…
Gygax co-created Dungeons & Dragons, a roleplaying game that likely occupied some time for the geeks you know today. We bid farewell to him.
Thanks to the diligence of a marketer (i.e., not to an announcement from Google), it is now known that Google instituted a new factor in determining the quality score for AdWords ads: landing page load time. In brief: slow landing page load times negatively impact quality scores, which increases minimum bids and ad placement rankings.
When people talk about Google Street View, the conversations tend to focus on either privacy or its undeniable "neat" factor. Thanks to Google's success in other areas, profitability just doesn't come up. But EveryScape has built its business around similar virtual tours, and the company just raised $7 million in funding.
Retaining search data helps Google improve its search results, despite privacy concerns that such retention could end up in the hands of the government via subpoena.
