Search Marketing News Roundup – Week June 14th-18th

Here’s a summary of what you need to know in search marketing from last week, in order of recency… Click on headlines to read stories.

Friday, June 18th
Search Agency Update – What Are Companies Up To?
Search Seen As Biggest Single Winner Of U.S. Online Ad Spend In 2010 [Study]

Thursday, June 17th
Boston Globe Adopts Open-Source Neighborhood News Mapping Platform OpenBlock
Google Commerce Search 2.0 Means On-The-Fly Customization For Shoppers And Retailers Delight
AOL Dumps Bebo For Reported $10 Million

Wednesday June 16th
AdWords Now Tells Advertisers About Competitors’ Performance
Facebook Is A Major Video Ad Player And Zynga Its Secret Weapon

Tuesday June 15th
Twitter ‘Places’ Bold Move Towards Paid Search With Foursquare, Gowalla, Localeze, TomTom Ties
Zynga To Boost Asian Presence With $147 mln Investment From Softbank

Monday June 14th
Yahoo, Microsoft U.S. Search Market Shares Grew Fastest in May – comScore
Google vs Bing On Maps And User-Content Overlays

Happy reading !

Search Marketing News Roundup – Week June 7th-11th

Here’s a summary of what you need to know in search marketing from last week, in order of recency… Click on headlines to read stories.

Friday, June 11th
U.S. World Cup Searches Point To Portugal And Mexico Teams – Experian Hitwise
Twitter All Set to Monetize With Smallthought Buy, URL Shortener Launch, “You Both Follow” Feature

Thursday, June 10th
Bing vs Google Face-Off Still On: Bing Announces Search Index Boost, Social Results & More
Kenshoo Scales Up With Experian Hitwise, Demandware/NetSuite Deals, New Kenshoo CCO Offering

Wednesday, June 9th
Google Search Index Gets Caffeine Shot
Google Rolls Out Maps Navigation, Mobile Voice Search, Improved Gmail Chat, Caffeine
Apple Blocks Admob

Tuesday June 8th
Social Sites Impact On U.S. Consumers Purchasing Decision Growing Steadily [Study]
Big Bing Bang on iPhone, Maps, Site Enhancements After CashBack Farewell

Monday June 7th
Yahoo Steps Up Social And Content Strategy With Facebook Deal
Microsoft Kills Bing CashBack, A Great Idea With Gaping Loopholes

Happy reading !

Wrapping up with my scribbles on search marketing. Week May 3rd-7th

In order of recency… Click on headlines to read stories

Friday May 7th
Social Networking Scores Biggest Rise in Q1 U.S. Mobile Use
“World Wide Web” Now A Reality With Non-Latin IDNs
Bing Wants to Socialize Shopping Experience
MSN China posts FY09 profit on operating sales of US$50-70m

Thursday May 6th
Dwell Time As Ad Campaign KPI: Yes, But…
38 Apps in the Google Analytics App Gallery

Wednesday May 5th
Yahoo Answers Hits 1 Billionth Milestone
Sysomos’ Audience Slaps Dollar Face Value With Influence Analysis To Measure Social Media ROI
Google Bets US$38.8M On Wind, Solar & Geothermal Clean Tech

Tuesday May 4th
Embeddable Tweets Likely to Create Signals for Twitter Search

Monday May 3rd
Steve Jobs May Need Anti-Scrutiny App As Spat vs Adobe Backlashes
Nachofoto Real-Time Image Search Lives Up to The Hype
How Much Will Google Bank On U.S. Real Estate Market Recovery?

Happy reading and … wishing you all a great weekend !