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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advise.
Search Engines Google’s Webmaster Tools team have again been busy working on new enhancements to the Webmaster Center – with 2 new additions to the Lab.
Today, the team announced the release of the following into the Webmaster Labs area:
The Webmaster Tools Lab is where the team release their improvements and functionality for public testing before releasing them properly into the Webmaster…
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In a recent post on the Bing Search blog, it appears that the search relationship between Microsoft and Facebook is expanding.
Microsoft secured the Facebook search deal back in July 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, Facebook integrated Live Search (which was Bing’s brand back then) web and sponsored listings into the site, providing users with a way of searching the web without leaving.
Under the newly…
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comScore has just published a report on the global search market which shows more than 131 billion searches were conducted across the web in December 2009. Leading countries in the search market include the United States, China and Japan.
Here’s the full chart on search volumes along with the percentage change:
One of the interesting things to note from the report is the relatively slow growth rate of…
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Google said last week that they are considering pulling out of China after a sophisticated attack on the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Google have explained their new position on China in a lengthy blog post on the official Google blog. Here are some of the core messages from the post:
In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from…
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It’s taken them over a month to get it live, but Google have now officially launched real-time search.
We first told you about Google’s deal with Twitter to bring up-to-the-minute search results back in October. At the time there was a lot of speculation on how Google would present this data to searchers. Well, here’s how it looks:
When compared to Bing and Yahoo!’s real-time offerings, Google is first…
Most of the talk recently from Microsoft has been around Bing, but what about the MSN portal? Have they forgotten about it? The answer is no, it has actually just undergone a cool new facelift.
The MSN portal is one of the top 5 most visited sites on the net (about 100 million visitors per month) and seeing as though it’s been 5 years since its last…
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, FriendFeed & Flickr are all pretty common names in the social networking world, but now social and search are about to combine thanks to Google.
At the Web 2.0 expo last week, Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer surprised everyone with the announcement that Social Search is coming via Google Labs.
This new search feature will allow you to see search query results from people…
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Although it’s all very new, there has been a lot of talk lately about real-time search and how it will impact your search results. Now real-time search has become even more of a reality with the announcement of a partnership between Twitter and Google which gives Google access to Twitters full feed of public tweets.
From the official Google post:
We believe that our search results and user…
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Unless you’ve been locked away on the moon, you’ll be well aware of the micro-blogging phenomenon that is Twitter.
Twitter has now been running for almost 3 three years and has become a treasure trove of information and links – which makes it hot property for the likes of Google and Bing (aka Microsoft).
The major search engines have deflected the need to talk real-time data with Twitter for some…
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It would appear the team down at Yahoo! believe their new mobile homepage is enough to win the game!
The announcement of the new Yahoo! mobile homepage appeared last week with claims that they’ve developed the “World’s Most Advanced Mobile Homepage”. That’s quite a claim
Unlike previous Yahoo! claims about new releases – this one is actually pretty close to the truth. The new Yahoo! homepage is pretty…
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