Archive for May, 2012

Ford Retains Confidence in Facebook Ads as GM Quits

2012/05/16

Automaker tells ClickZ it will continue advertising on the social site. While General Motors may halt Facebook advertising, according to a Wall Street Journal story today, Ford has a different attitude toward paid promotions on the social site.

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Ford Retains Confidence in Facebook Ads as GM Quits

2012/05/16

Automaker tells ClickZ it will continue advertising on the social site. While General Motors may halt Facebook advertising, according to a Wall Street Journal story today, Ford has a different attitude toward paid promotions on the social site.

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9 Lessons from 1,000 SEO Questions

2012/05/16

Posted by Dr. Pete I spend a lot of quality time in Private Q&A here on SEOmoz, and I recently passed a milestone – 1,000 private questions answered since we re-launched the system (just over a year ago). Not surprisingly, we see a lot of the same questions and concerns pop up over time, and I’d like to think I’ve learned a few things along the way ( please tell me my suffering wasn’t in vain).

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A Keen Mind in Sheep’s Clothing

2012/05/16

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

2012/05/16

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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Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links

2012/05/16

Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages…

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Google Update Brewing? What Is Going On?

2012/05/16

These are typically signs of an update happening in Google. Maybe a Panda or Penguin refresh

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‘Relevancy is King’ Says Google VP at SMX London

2012/05/16

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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With Fix In Place, Wolfram Alpha Explains How Siri “Recommended” The Lumia By Mistake

2012/05/16

It wasn’t Siri that was recommending the Lumia as the best smartphone to some last week; it was Wolfram Alpha. That won’t happen again, now that Wolfram Alpha has made changes to to fix problems it had dealing with customer reviews

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Facebook Update: Higher Target IPO Price Resulting in Stakeholder Liquidation

2012/05/16

On Tuesday, the world’s largest social network raised the target IPO price range to $34 to $38. If Facebook shares sell at the upper limit ($38), the social network will raise about $12.8 billion and its market value will be approximately $104 billion. As a result of the higher target price and rich valuation, a

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