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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.
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After failing in its bid to buy local review site, Yelp, Google have launched a new mobile search tool that could be detrimental to Yelp’s mobile success.
“Near Me Now” turns your location into an automated search query and makes finding or learning about places in your immediate vicinity very easy.
Currently available for iPhone and Android phone users in the U.S. “Near me now” utilizes GPS to…
Happy New Year to one and all! It’s hard to believe it is 2010.
The web is full of predictions about what is going to happen in search for 2010 – some good, some obvious and some way out there. In the past, I have cast my predictions and even managed to get some right.
This year, I thought I would do something different – not what I thought…
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Firefox from Mozilla turned 5 this month, and celebrated by having achieved 25% of the global browser usage market share. NetMarketShare.com from Net Applications tracks global and local usage market share for browsers, operating systems, search engines and mobile systems.
“What an exciting milestone for Mozilla, particularly as we are celebrating five years of Firefox this week,” said Mitchell Baker, Chair, Mozilla. “The momentum around Firefox adoption has been…
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It’s been a while since Google went on an acquisition drive, but last week saw the search giant make one if its most significant purchases – picking up mobile advertising leader AdMob for $750 million.
We’ve discussed the potential of mobile for what seems like years, but with the proliferation of smartphones, the mobile space is on the verge of finally realizing its potential for advertisers.
Google already…
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When you think of Google, you no doubt think of world domination (in terms of search engines!), but this actually isn’t the case. Google isn’t the number one search engine in one of the world’s biggest country, China.
China’s most popular search engine, Baidu, accounts for around three out of four online searches and now it has just dealt Google another blow. Baidu have announced that many…
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would have heard about the phenomenal sales of the new iPhone by Apple. It sold approximately 1 million handsets in 3 days - which is approximately 231 handsets per second.
Now stop and think what that means for website marketing. There’s no prizes for realizing that a mobile version of your website is now becoming more important than ever.
I…
Google have gone one step further forward in its control of the search engine market with the introduction of a new option for AdWords campaigns to appear on mobile devices such as the iPhone.
The new option will be visible on mobile devices that have full HTML Internet browers, which actually means you don’t have to modify your ads or landing pages, unlike some other mobile phones.
Inside…
Within days of the 3G iPhone announcement, Yahoo! has made its own announcement in the mobile space. Yahoo! has extended the reach of its mobile services, by signing of a number of key advertising partnerships with Australasian telecos. Having announced partnerships with India’s MTNL, Hong Kong based CSL and others, Yahoo! has also launched “Yahoo Go 3.0″ in to Australia, India and South East Asia.
The Go 3.0 software…
Google has just released a version of iGoogle, their personalized home page, for the iPhone and other mobile devices.
iGoogle for the iPhone brings in Gmail and Google Search along with RSS subscription feeds, weather maps and stock reports, plus much more.
The new iPhone interface is a step up from Google’s previous offering of a mobile specific page at google.com/m which only offered limited customization options.
The iPhone lists all…
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