Google, Facebook Offer News Sites Lessons on Ad Targeting [Study]

Only three news sites – CNN, Yahoo News and The New York Times – out of 22 appeared to use high levels of ad targeting, according to a Pew Research Center study. In these cases, 45 percent or more of the ads were different from one user to the next.

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Google, Facebook Offer News Sites Lessons on Ad Targeting [Study]

Search Engines Crazy in Love on Valentine’s Day 2012

All the major search engines are celebrating Valentine’s Day this year with special logos or pictures on their home pages. In addition to Google’s Valentine’s Day Doodle featuring Tony Bennett, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu and others are sharing the love.

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Search Engines Crazy in Love on Valentine’s Day 2012

Get Your adCenter Search Marketing Campaign in Shape for 2012

Search advertisers who employ these popular tips that emerged from a series of workshops hosted by Yahoo over the past year will find it easier than ever to get their accounts in shape for what’s expected to be a big year for paid search.

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Get Your adCenter Search Marketing Campaign in Shape for 2012

7 Steps to Prepare For the Search Alliance in the UK

After a year’s delay, Microsoft adCenter will start to power the PPC results on Yahoo UK in Q2 of 2012. Discussion of its potential for success aside, here are some useful links and an action plan for preparing UK paid search campaigns.

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7 Steps to Prepare For the Search Alliance in the UK

Yahoo Study Seeks Algorithmic Answer to ‘Six Degrees of Separation’

Yahoo’s Small World Experiment, led by Duncan Watts and Sharad Goel, Principal and Senior Research Scientists at Yahoo (respectively), aims to conclusively answer the question of degrees of separation.

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Yahoo Study Seeks Algorithmic Answer to ‘Six Degrees of Separation’

Bing’s Search Share is Movin’ on Up

Yahoo's search influence may be waning, but it seems to be all good news for Bing. In under three years, the Microsoft-owned Bing, which actually powers Yahoo Search, crept up to almost tie Yahoo's share of the search engine market. Comparatively, Yahoo has been in the search game since 1995

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Bing’s Search Share is Movin’ on Up