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Today's Top Story: Carrie Hill Alternatives to Google AdWords -- Worth Your Time?  SEW EXPERTS: LITTLE BIZ Advertising on a site that serves your niche may cost less than Google. Consider these options. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Mark Jackson Hand Edits or 'Vince' at Work in Google Search Results?  SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO It's Google's job to rank the most qualified search results for their searchers. But is Google purposefully helping big brands rank higher? » Full story » Print version Liana Evans How to Earn Respect in Social Media  SEW EXPERTS: SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Just because you and your company are a big deal in the offline world doesn't mean you'll win friends and influence in social networks. » Full story » Print version News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Google Officially Launches Social Search Experiment in Labs Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 27, 2009 Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit, Google VP Marissa Mayer announced a new experiment in Labs: Social Search. Now, that experiment has officially been launched. If you'd like to participate, simply go to the Google Labs page (http://www.google.com/experimental/). Look for the Social Search experiment and click "Join This Experiment." You ... » Continue reading Google Custom Search Celebrates Birthday with Updates Galore Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 27, 2009 Google is celebrating the third birthday of Custom Search with many updates. Here they are: Custom Search Themes - Now you can customize the look of Custom Search on your site with themes, which can be tweaked for color, font, background and feature adjustments. Custom Search Skin on Wikipedia - On the ... » Continue reading Google Analytics Offers Proof of Individual Qualification Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 27, 2009 If you've passed the Google Analytics Individual Qualification test and need to prove it to your clients or your company, Google is helping validate your awesome web analytics prowess. Now, you can create a link to your web-published test record. Simply go to the Google Testing Center and sign in with ... » Continue reading IAC Sees Profit Despite Declining Revenues for Third Quarter 2009 Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 27, 2009 Ask.com and Citysearch parent company IAC released its third quarter earnings for 2009. Overall revenues came in at $336.6 million down 9% from the same quarter last year. However, profit for the quarter came in at $21.7 million, up from the $14.8 million loss suffered last year. The profits are ... » Continue reading Similar Image Search Engine GazoPa Opens to Public Beta Testing Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 27, 2009 GazoPa, a similar image search engine developed by Hitachi America, is now open for public beta testing. You don't need a login. Simply go to GazoPa.com and check it out. What you do is either upload an image, paste the URL to an image, type in a keyword - or even ... » Continue reading Google Voice Now Available with Current Mobile Phone Number Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 27, 2009 When signing up for Google Voice, you previously had to get a new phone number in order to get an account. Now, Google is allowing people to sign up with their current mobile phone numbers. You can still get a new phone number if you choose. If you sign up with ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions Google says "Below First Page Bid" even with no competion  Oct 24, 2009 I'm not understanding this. I placed an ad using Google's suggested bid (0.35) - my ad ran for couple hours then disappeared. Back at the control panel Google tells me I need to raise my bid to 0.45 to be on first page. So I do that - and my ad ... » Join the discussion Multiple sites switching IP's?  Oct 26, 2009 At this comapny we have like 30 differente sites. many of them on same IP some of the lesser sites have a PR of 2 i was going to create micro sites and market the main products but since these centent sites have pr of 2, what if i switch them ... » Join the discussion Bing and Twitter and Facebook  Oct 23, 2009 Ok the announcement is out - now what are people seeing as far as results etc go and how do you think this can help you. I see some ORM benefits - but unless you have a link in the tweet how do you drive traffic using them? » Join the discussion Should I buy a link in a directory?  Oct 21, 2009 Hello everyone. Should I buy a link in a directory? The directory is very relevant to my business and is targeted to only those companies that operate within the same market that I do. Thanks for your feedback. » Join the discussion Top Jobs » Community Developer Ubisoft San Francisco, United States » VP, Product Management & Business Development 90624 Pitney Bowes Stamford, » Communications Manager Capital One Plano, United States » Client Services Associate New York, United States White Papers

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