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Roughly a year after Google settled an antitrust investigation with the US Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg is reporting that Google and the European Commission have reached a final settlement that would end the regulator’s antitrust search investigation against the company. According to… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

EMarketer has published the latest social ad revenue numbers for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others, and offers projections for 2014 and 2015. The data shows social ad revenues grew 42.9 percent in 2013, up from 30 percent in 2012

Image Source: mkhmarketing/Flickr In case you overlooked it, Pinterest has accumulated some 500,000 business pages and over 70 million users. And, the site is also beginning to turn revenues. Suffice it to say, if you’re not on of the fastest growing social media networks, you’re missing out on a great opportunity.

Google announced on Google+ a new AdWords tool for determining the attributions that lead to your conversion. The tool is named the Search Funnels Attribution Modeling Tool…

As you may have heard, Facebook turned 10 years old today.

Over the weekend, news broke that Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, has started initiatives to get Yahoo back into building its own search technology.

Posted by dohertyjf Ever since Penguin launched in 2012, SEOs who for years had built less than savory links, or companies who for years had ridden off the coat tails of these links, started to ask for links to be removed. I’ve heard many of my friends, like Wil Reynolds, repeatedly poo-poo it from the stage (Wil did it during his now famous “Real Company Shit” talk at Mozcon in 2012). As someone who has overseen link removal campaigns for clients when I was at Distilled, I am not down on link removals

Now, if you search Google for video related content, Google may return a large, playable, video directly at the top of the search results. For example, searching for [sing it loud come around] shows a large YouTube video that you can play directly in the search results