Zuckerberg moves almost as fast as you can say “hoodie.”  While we were feasting our eyes on the media’s fascination regarding Mark’s choice in clothing, Facebook donned itself in two more acquisitions.  I say ‘more,’ in reference to the few-week lapse in acquisitions; as we all have heard, Facebook acquired startup Instagram as of late. 

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A Keen Mind in Sheep’s Clothing

In his opening keynote at SMX London, Amit Singhal, VP and Google Fellow, who rewrote the original Google algorithm upon his hire in 2000, said today that “Relevancy is King”.

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‘Relevancy is King’ Says Google VP at SMX London

I am sure you heard yesterday that GM stopped investing in ad space on Facebook. New research on Facebook advertising performance from WordStream may offer a few clues as to why General Motors discontinued advertising on the massive social network.  Wordstream’s research provides some important data such as: Ad Performance: Click through rates on Facebook

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Why Did GM Drop Facebook Advertising?

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Rand Fishkin, the CEO of the popular SEO software company SEOmoz, recently announced a new project related to webspam research. The goal of the project is to better understand and devalue the amount of “link equity” that passes from pages that could be considered webspam. Fishkin explained the project on his Google+ page earlier this

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SEOmoz Spam Research Project to Provide Marketers Useful Information

Pick a concern, any concern.  That’s what some Yahoo internal minds could be thinking about the brand’s present state of affairs.  Where could the trail of anxiety begin? How about at the notion of trailing another search engine with a silly name (Well, many do.) for years?  Then let’s pour on the fact that the

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Yahoo ‘Whoops’ Dominoes

We’re all familiar with the concept of making money off the internet. Some of us may have even been burned by get-rich schemes that lure people in with the promise of quick returns with minimal effort (translation: truckloads of money while you sleep).

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How to Use Social Media for Powerselling: Interview with John Lawson

Although Google has been the subject of multiple antitrust investigations related to how they arrange search results and rank Web sites, a new 27-page report suggests that Google should be offered the same First Amendment rights as a newspaper. The report, which was commissioned by Google, makes a strong case that search engines are protected

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Search Engine Results Protected by First Amendment

‘The Avengers’ is officially released today and it is a movie that action hero fans couldn’t wait for. I thought I would provide some fact-filled sites, guides and other information for your Avengers pleasure today.

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The Avengers Central – Everything You Need

In a criminal complaint filed in India earlier this year, journalist Vinay Rai alleged that Facebook, YouTube, and the Orkut social network are hosting content that “seeks to create enmity, hatred and communal violence” and “will corrupt minds.” In response to the criminal complaint, Google and Facebook promptly filed a petition to stop the criminal Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Indian Trial Court to Proceed with Google-Facebook Censorship Case