Google has acquired five-month-old startup TalkBin , a local business feedback platform, the company announced on its website.

Earlier this month we asked you to take two polls in one post, we asked do you want SEO certification & standards. Yesterday I posted the results of the SEO standards poll, which showed most SEOs want SEO standards..

Earlier this month we asked you to take two polls in one post, we asked do you want SEO certification & standards.

Instant Previews for Ads, which we reported was being tested last week, are now live in the U.S. AdWords advertisers will only be charged when a user clicks through to your landing page, not if someone previews the page by clicking on the small magnifying glass next to the ad title, Google announced via Inside AdWords. Click to read the rest of this post..

Google today released findings of a smartphone-user study that the company did with Ipsos OTX at the end of 2010.

If you combine the total traffic of Yahoo and Bing (since Microsoft  does run the search algorithm and ads for both), you would have a powerful force with an entire – 25% of the market. The rest, of course, belongs to Google

Want to feel like a super-spy while learning valuable secrets that can help grow your client’s business? Here’s how you do it:  invest your time and money in PPC competitive intelligence and please shhh … don’t tell anyone. As the auction grows more expensive and more complex, it’s critical..

The world of search is run by monolithic companies with one fundamental power: the power to buy. With their immense resources, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are able to obtain both the talented minds and technical hardware necessary to run the show. Further, each of these companies routinely purchases startups

Hello and welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘. I hope this edition finds you well. Lead Story

Hello and welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘.