Biggest Online Shopping Day in History? Cyber Monday 2012
A new press release published by comScore reveals that Monday of this week – Cyber Monday, in case you somehow managed to miss it — was the biggest online shopping day in history.
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Bing Announces 2012’s Biggest Search Trends
Microsoft’s Bing announces their search engine list of the top search trends for 2012, and it’s about double the size of last year’s list.
Although most of the 19 Bing search categories are strongly focused on pop culture – they kind of have to be, since a search trend can’t make it to the “top” unless it’s popular – they still serve as useful information to creative site owners and internet marketers within any niche.
New Social Sidebar Coming to Bing
Bing unveiled its Social Sidebar about six months ago, allowing users to see how the recent activity of their social media friends relates to their current searches. While the feature lets you know which of your friends might be able to help with whatever you’re searching for based on their social media activity, it can be a little startling visually, and lacks features that could make it a truly useful device.
New Interface Tools Come to Google AdWords
A series of useful new interface tools have been incorporated into Google AdWords. If you log into your AdWords account today, you should find a new “Keyword” column that allows you to detect exactly which word(s) from a query triggered the display of your advertisement.
Only 3% of Consumers Convert Before Doing Online Research
If your business model depends at all on online reviews, listen up: search engine marketing company McKremie just released its Online Reputation Management Survey, an informal study conducted between October 25th and November 6th of this year.
FTC Preparing Antitrust Ultimatum for Google?
According to the following news outlets, Google could be facing a major antitrust complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, if the recent reports published by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal are to be believed.
Web-Based User Profiles Come to Instagram
According to a recent post published on Search Engine Journal, Facebook-owned and operated Instagram is now adding
Google’s UK Search Market Share Makes Rare Dip Under 90%
It is common knowledge among the majority of American SEO’ers that Google’s dominance, in terms of their overall share of the search engine market, makes them far and away the most popular way in which individuals search the internet.