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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 advice.
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The Google spending spree has continued into the second half of 2010 with news that it has acquired Israeli 3D video developer, Quiksee.
The deal, apparently worth $12 million, will allow Google to enhance their own geo products like Google Maps and Earth.
This is the second Israeli company acquired by Google, following the LabPixies purchase for $25 million in…
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We know how much an impact Facebook has had on Google lately, especially with the news of a new Facebook search engine. Now we hear that Google might be developing its own social network.
TechCrunch reports that Google is conducting focus groups to gather information about consumers’ online social habits. The study will take place in Google’s Dublin…
Although it was only released last month, it seems that the hype surrounding Google Buzz is all but dead.
Online ad network, Chitika reported that the web searches on the internet in general and on its network of 80,000 sites has definitely died for Google Buzz.
The Chitika blog post explains:
February 9th, 2010 – the day Buzz
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After launching Buzz last week, Google have continued on the social track by now acquiring social search service Aardvark.
The deal, rumoured to be worth around $50 million, could see Google use the social search engine as an answer to, well, Yahoo! Answers. Through IM, Twitter and e-mail, Aardvark lets you ask full-text questions and then takes your social connections…
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…
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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:…
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As we all know, Google is by far the most popular search engine, clearly beating its main rivals Yahoo! & MSN. But what if Yahoo! or MSN provided better search results, would you switch?
This is the question that was asked by J.P. Morgan recently in a poll to determine what it would take for searchers to switch to an…
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Google, be afraid, be very afraid….Microhoo is coming!
Last Friday (1st February), Microsoft announced a $44.6 billion bid for rival Yahoo!. The bid would see Microsoft purchase Yahoo!’s outstanding common stock for $31 per share, 62 percent higher than the closing price of the stock on Friday.
Obviously concerned with Google’s continued dominance…
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