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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.

Is the Customer Always Right? Most people are familiar with the old adage “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” Well, that may have been true back in the 19th century when P.T. Barnum, the showman and circus owner most often credited for the quote, was wowing the crowds across America.

Successful SMI requires the full integration of your whole organization. This means departments that, before, were completely separate and autonomous, should now be contributing to your online marketing mix. And it all start with the sales team

Today, on 86 different local versions of the Google home page, including Google.com USA, Google has posted a logo to honor International Women’s Day. The logo is made up of all different kinds of female faces, not specifically famous people, just all the different shapes and colors of women….

Christopher Semturs, the Googler who is the man behind geo-specific search engine visibility topics, posted a thread at Google+ asking for feedback on the use of the hreflang attribute.

Your website is a critical marketing component. This digital entry represents a brand’s aesthetic, culture, personality, mission, vision and business proposition

Intuit Shares a Social Media Marketing Roadmap for Brands in 2013 Intuit shared an incredibly helpful infographic on their Small Business Blog to guide marketers in their social strategy this year. Path to Social Success in 2013  assigns a theme for each quarter; we begin the year by taking a social media inventory

Successful content marketing campaigns are built through experience. It is unreasonable to expect to be “hitting the home run” the first time a program is executed but the focus on quality over quantity cannot be understated.

Microsoft got hit with a €561m fine from the European Commission (EC) after the firm failed to keep its promise of offering Windows users a choice of web browsers. The EC was tipped off about the violation by web browser rivals Google and Opera