I heard the other day that if someone “Likes” your Facebook business page, they’re over 90% likely to never look at it again.

The last of my catch-up on our Facebook Friday Questions, our Facebook fans tell us that most of them buy ads on Google only, followed by Google and Bing, with only a small number buying Bing only. We asked those who follow our Search Engine Land Facebook page, “If you buy search ads, where do Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Android Labyrinth: Yahoo Volkswagen Buggy: Google Knuckles:..

Every single search engine has, at the heart of it, a dynamic tension that must be respected. It needs to balance user experience with revenue opportunities.

Someday, Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, Calif., wants to be an astronaut and explore space life.

The official winner of the Doodle 4 Google competition this year is a 7 year old from San Francisco, California named Matteo Lopez. Matteo Lopez’s ‘Space Life’ Logo won this year’s competition, beating out over a 107,000 submissions…

The Q1 smartphone sales figures that were released yesterday by Gartner show that Android has surged and now leading all other smartphone operating systems. These numbers are Q1 sales figures and not reflective of overall market share but the show the direction the overall market is going.

Google has rolled up its tools for consumers seeking side-by-side comparisons of financial products, launching “Google Advisor,” a one-stop-shop for consumers looking for mortgages, credit cards, checking and savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. For marketers, it’s an… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Some form of digital privacy regulation in the US is about 90 percent certain in the coming year. In Europe, where privacy rules are much more stringent, the details of new consumer protections are currently being worked out on a practical level. For example on Wednesday the EU data protection…

Putting together a decent, well informed look at what’s currently trending can be a cumbersome and irritating task. For many online marketers or webmasters who want to jump on the “what’s popular” bandwagon, it means a lot of time consumed investigating. You have to do a lot of surfing to discover what sites are visited most, which ones have a higher Alexa ranking, and how many comments and re-shares have been earned.