search posts, articles, and infographics

How Google Works - The Scary Truth About Search

July 2, 2010 by Gavin Heaton with 1,094 views

I can remember when Google first came along, promising improved search. I scoffed. “Who needs better search?”, I said. After all, I knew the most relevant and valuable websites. I knew some people who kept and updated good site lists. I could navigate the web with confidence. I felt like a Renaissance Man of the early web. And even after... [read more]

Now Available in Real Time: Spam!

March 15, 2010 by Andy Beal with 120 views

Yep, now you can have spam delivered in real time to your search results on Google or Twitter. This is just why we all clapped for joy when Bing and Google hooked up with Twitter for real time results, isn’t it? Oh, no? Hm. I guess we’re not the only ones. Search Engine Roundtable noted a Webmaster World forum thread complaining about... [read more]

Social Media and Content Discovery: A Growing Relationship

October 6, 2009 by Andy Beal with 335 views

By Frank ReedWhile the commercial Internet age is in its teens, according to linear age it has some difficulty focusing. Just when users are getting used to a world that is search engine centric there comes along the social web or social media or social networking or social (insert your word here) to truly change how people make sense... [read more]

The Search it is a Changin'

September 15, 2009 by John Jantsch with 198 views

This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Currently, it seems like there is a lot going on in the world of search that is pretty exciting for the typical user. Today I would like to point out a few changes I’ve noticed and what they might mean for your SEM and SEO efforts. Visual Search – images seem to be getting more and more important... [read more]

Social Media, Email and Search: The "Elite Trio" of Online Marketing?

September 2, 2009 by Tom Pick with 232 views

MarketingSherpa recently published this chart revealing marketers' opinions of where social media fits among what the publication calls the "elite trio" of Internet marketing: social media, search and email. While it's hard to disagree with the 97% of marketers who believe that social media will complement (not "compliment" — a rare... [read more]

MSFT-YHOO Deal. It's Complicated.

July 30, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 160 views

The top link on techmeme right now is yesterday’s post by Jason Calacanis titled “Yahoo committed seppukku today.” It is worth reading because it powerfully (and hilariously) lays out the position that handing over search to Microsoft is a huge mistake for Yahoo. It is a position I am very familiar with, because I made much of the same... [read more]

Social Media as a Marketing Channel

March 13, 2009 by RajIyer with 228 views

I just can’t get enough of this topic. The more I think about it, the more I want to share my opinion (yes, I'm very opinionated). I originally wanted to write about both social networks and video marketing on the Web, as they are 2009’s most demanded source of marketing channels in companies. After a long debate, I decided this article... [read more]

Is Search the Anti-Brand?

March 4, 2009 by Jonathan Salem Ba... with 130 views

I wrote an entire chapter in my book, Branding Only Works on Cattle, about how the ubiquity of information available to consumers via Internet search (access, richness, and authenticity) search, would destroy the fundamental, command-and-control presumptions of branding.Thanks to a tip from a fellow dim bulber, today, now I'm thinking... [read more]

How to get onto the first page of Google

February 3, 2008 by Krishna De with 73 views

As you will know I rarely mention on “Biz Growth News” specific successes i have enjoyed for fear of being seen to brag. However I felt I just had to share something I found out today as for me it’s a great example of the power of business blogging. If you have heard me speak at live events, on podcasts or teleseminars about... [read more]

Google Set for World Domination

January 31, 2008 by Andy Beal with 133 views

If Yahoo’s earnings were disappointing and the economy slowing, there’s a piece of bright news today. Google is announcing their earnings today. The word Forbes used to describe what to expect from Google stock is stellar growth. The number in the article is a 40% increase in net income. This despite Google losing a small slice of the... [read more]