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Information Urgency: Search for TurboTax Up by 450% in the Google Search Engine

By admin on April 17, 2011
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Instant information is badly needed when it comes to filing taxes within a deadline. The official Google Blog reports today (April 17, 2011) that the search term for TurboTax has gone up by 450% since mid-January. And not surprising, the search term for Tax Extension has also gotten up. Click here to view the full statistics on tax terminology searches.

SERP Expert? Sounds Fancy. What exactly is SERP?

By admin on April 17, 2011
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We have been noticing that some SEO professional are now calling themselves SERP Experts. This is not so much because SERP is that different than SEO (it is one type of SEO) but because SERP still sounds fancy and its meaning is not that known by the general public who doesn’t work in the SEO industry. Continue reading SERP Expert? Sounds Fancy. What exactly is SERP?

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More Google+ In Gmail: Improved Circle Integration, Circle Search and Quick Access To Contact Details May 16, 2012
The folks over at Google just love their Google+ social network and more and more Google+ features have been creeping into Gmail lately as well. Today, Google is bringing even more of Google+ to its email client. With today's update, Google is especially focusing on adding a deeper integration with Google+ circles. You will now, for example, see profile […]
Frederic Lardinois
Forrester: 32.1 Million U.S. Households Now Access Online Video On Their TVs May 16, 2012
Almost 115 million households in the U.S. currently own at least on TV set and 36 million own four or more. That's a huge market and as Apple, Google and Microsoft try wrestle more of this business away from the traditional content and hardware players, the old-school cable and satellite providers now suddenly have to content with this new group of chal […]
Frederic Lardinois
Google Just Got A Whole Lot Smarter, Launches Its Knowledge Graph May 16, 2012
Today, Google is launching one of its most ambitious and interesting updates to its search engine in recent months. Starting in a few days, you will start to see large panels with additional factual information about the topic you were searching for take over the right side of Google's search result pages. The panels are powered by what Google calls it […]
Frederic Lardinois

Join Google Analytics on Google+ May 17, 2012
Google Analytics users are part of a passionate community. Many of you go beyond using the product and actively seek a connection with Google team members and other GA users to stay at the edge of what’s next. For example, more than 80,000 readers subscribe to the Google Analytics blog through our RSS feed, our videos on YouTube have been viewed more than 3. […]
Google Analytics team
Two new Analytics webinars -- for advanced and beginning users May 15, 2012
Interested in learning how to use Analytics to make better decisions for your business? Here’s your chance; join us next week for two webinars. We’re partnering with the Learn with Google team to present an introductory session on Getting started with Analytics, and a more advanced session covering one of the most requested topics - Digital Attribution […]
Google Analytics team
Looking Ahead at Next Generation Measurement May 14, 2012
Marketers today have no shortage of data. In fact, there are more than 40 million online touch points measured every minute by Google Analytics. Technology advancements are helping marketers understand their customers more across channels and devices, and better analysis tools are finally making that massive amount of data accessible and actionable. This is […]
Google Analytics team

Facebook IPO: Did Twitter Crowdsourcing Just Give Us the Closing Price? May 18, 2012
When you get a lot of smart and interested people together to make a prediction in aggregate, it can be scary accurate. Anyone who has read the… […]
Chris Taylor
Viral Vinyl! Record Stunts Were Actually Guerilla Marketing [VIDEO] May 18, 2012
Remember the jaw-dropping vinyl record tricks we showed you Wednesday? Well, they’re still amazing. The video is real. But the reason given for… […]
Christine Erickson
Twitter Wits Roast Facebook IPO May 18, 2012
In case you’ve been living under that metaphorical rock these past several weeks, Facebook‘s much anticipated IPO happens on Friday. The F… […]
Sam Laird
4 Steps to Cultivating Online Trust May 18, 2012
You’ve likely heard that the secret to building relationships with your customers is to “be everywhere your customers are.” As a result… […]
Wendy Lea
First Online Presidential Primary Fails to Find Candidate May 18, 2012
Americans Elect, a platform that set out with the hope of becoming the first online presidential primary in U.S. history, has failed to field a… […]
Alex Fitzpatrick