Photo sharing service Instagram made a lot of loyal users royally unhappy yesterday when they introduced their new terms of service, as reported by GizMag, Business Insider and others. The new terms state that “you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service.”
Under the fresh direction of Marissa Mayer, Yahoo has just announced a brand new advertising unit that should prove interesting to internet marketers while allowing Yahoo to profit off its search business in ways it’s simply been unable to with Microsoft.
It’s only been less than three months since Apple released their new iPhone 5 phone, which has sold over five million units within its opening weekend despite a poor critical reception to one of its most anticipated new features, Apple Maps.
It’s been about eight months since Facebook made the largest purchase in its short company history, acquiring photo sharing and limited-editing service Instagram for the cool sum of $1 billion in stock options and cash. Twitter and Instagram have had a strained relationship that has led to disabling the Instagram photo integration on Twitter starting December 9th.
People using mobile devices to access the internet increase every day and Google is responding to meet their needs, according to Google Inside AdSense Blog. AdSense text ads found in the margins of millions of monetized websites the world over.
Just a few days ago, we brought you the top searches of 2012 for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Today, we give you the top Yahoo search terms most frquently entered for the past year, a primary competitor of Bing despite the fact that both search engines work off the same search algorithms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.