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As we near the beginning of Q4, retailers are gearing up for what they hope will be a big holiday season. For many in SEM, this means preparing to ramp up spend, running creative testing in advance, and trying to [...]

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Last week at SES San Francisco, one of the many prevailing themes was local search. This isn’t terribly new as the conference has covered it for years, including panels I’ve sat on or moderated over the last decade.

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Google Music is one of several services that have ventured into the legally treacherous realm of cloud music storage and playback. However, a recent court ruling may be opening doors to a more efficient and effective approach for Google.

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Google+ is starting to make small appearances on other Google services. Googler Mark Striebeck has announced that Gmail will soon be displaying recent Google+ posts from those you’re in email conversations with.

The New Gmail Feature

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The European Google antitrust investigation, which has been ongoing since November 2010, is continuing to grow. According to two sources familiar with the matter, five new groups have registered complaints.

The New Complaints

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Google has acquired The Dealmap, a website that collects local deals and discounts and then makes them available via Twitter, a mobile app, and email. The service uses Google Maps to show deal locations, which could lead to more integration [...]

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Larry Page has been hacking at superfluous projects since he took Google’s reins in April. Most recently, Google halted the Google Friends newsletter – but that’s far from the whole story. Here are seven Google projects that have been shut [...]

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Four years ago, I joined a relatively new company called Commerce360 – then a digital agency with a strong focus on search. The company was formed by two serial technology entrepreneurs, Lucinda Duncalfe and Craig Danuloff, with the explicit…

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Despite public criticism for losses posted by Microsoft’s Bing, some of which even extended to calling for CEO Steve Ballmer to be replaced, the company isn’t likely to let go of their search engine any time soon. This article discusses [...]

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Despite the purchase of ITA, Google has yet to delve deeply into travel features beyond some basic flight info. However, their most recently experimental tool, the Google Hotel Finder, may signify the beginning of the search giant’s push into this… [...]