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Wall Street Meltdown and the 2009 Digital Marketing Outlook (Part 2)
Date : 2008 11 17
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingAs promised in Wall Street Meltdown: 11 Ways It Affects Digital Marketers, I’m wrapping up with a continuation of the 60,000 foot view of our industry in light of current economic turmoil. No doubt I’ll get back to the close-up view next time, but for now, to get all the bad news talk behind us,... read more »
Google To Change Product Development Steps; Means Major Changes To “20% Time”
Date : 2008 11 17 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingGoogle looks to users’ needs from the Australian IT reports that Google’s Stuart Smith, their new strategic planning director of Google’s Creative Lab in New York, is seeking to change how Google develops its products. Instead of Googler’s developing things they personally... read more »
See Google’s iPhone-Made Sites On Your Browser
Date : 2008 11 17 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingAlex Chitu has compiled a list of Google’s iPhone-made and optimized web sites. So, if you want to view them on your own browser, you can, but understand that they look a lot better on your iPhone’s browser. Here is the list of URLs Alex came up with for Google’s iPhone specific... read more »
Yahoo Layoffs On Dec. 10 & At $11 Yahoo Now Significantly Undervalued?
Date : 2008 11 17 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingAllThingsD reports that Yahoo’s previously announced 10 percent reduction in force (layoffs) is set to begin on December 10. However, the post also says that chief Yahoo, CEO Jerry Yang, is not considering leaving his post for now. (NOTE: See update, Jerry Yang Stepping Down As CEO; Resuming... read more »
Getting The Most From Paid Search In A Difficult Economy
Date : 2008 11 17 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingCost consciousness. Budget cuts. Workforce reductions. Hiring freezes. We’re beginning to see signs of the economic Armageddon everywhere. What a great time to be a search marketer! No, really. I’m serious. Because whatever the economic climate or business objective, search marketing... read more »
Maps Of Fires In Southern California: November 2008 Edition
Date : 2008 11 15 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingFires are burning in Southern California once again. Here’s an update on how to find maps of where the blazes are at: NOTE: Scroll down to see many key maps presented directly within this page. Los Angeles Times: Watch the newspaper’s Google Maps account here for the latest maps. Most... read more »
Eagerly Awaiting Google’s Voice Search For The iPhone
Date : 2008 11 15 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingYesterday arguably the top tech story of the day was Google’s introduction of voice search for its iPhone app. As of this morning the updated app still isn’t available in the iTunes store (that’s not Google’s fault). I spoke yesterday afternoon with Google’s Mike Cohen... read more »
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 14, 2008
Date : 2008 11 14 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SMBs, Video and Search – Looking Backward and ForwardI’ve been writing monthly articles for Small is Beautiful for about almost a year now, offering... read more »
SMBs, Video and Search – Looking Backward and Forward
Date : 2008 11 14 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingI’ve been writing monthly articles for Small is Beautiful for about almost a year now, offering observations and insights into what we’ve seen working with small and medium sized businesses from the front lines but will be winding down a bit in 2009. Our focus is still very much on serving the SMB... read more »
Search Biz: Wall St. Flips On GOOG; Google Canning Slackers & More
Date : 2008 11 14 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingWhen Google went public in August, 2004, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin made no secret of the company’s disdain for how the Wall St. system of analyst ratings and recommendations works. They wrote a letter saying they had no interest in trying to manage analysts expectations and keep... read more »
Search In Pictures: Yahoo Still Partying, Google Censorship & Yahoo Posters
Date : 2008 11 14 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingIn this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Yahoo’s Oktoberfest: Fiesta Yahoo! Purple Power 2008: Hot Yahoo... read more »
Are Our Brains Becoming “Googlized?”
Date : 2008 11 14 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingAre our brains being rewired by using the Internet? The evidence tends to be pointing that way. As somebody interested in how the mind works, I read with interest the results of a recent study at UCLA that used the sexiest research tool around today, fMRI scanning. fMRI allows researchers to see... read more »