A New Meeting Room
A new Total Wine beverage store open right near us in Austin a couple of weeks. We've been looking forward to it, not only for the beverages, but for their meeting room. They open the meeting room up for wine…
Let’s Put Our Cities on the Map!
We're gearing-up for our first Local Search presentation as part of Google's "Let's Put Our Cities On the Map" program, which we'll probably do mid-October. The swag just arrived today. We'll be giving out the swag in cool Google bags…
Is your site mobile ready?
(We originally wrote this post back in 2010, and "Is your site mobile ready?" is an even more valid question than ever. The quickest way to find out these days is to run your site against Google's Mobile-Friendly Test…
I think MediaPost got this one wrong
Interesting article at MediaPost talking about how click-through rates are dropping. I respectfully disagree though with the thought that we should all move away from click-through as a measurement and go to the "reach and frequency" metrics used by traditional…
Microsoft Bing Loses Search Share — InformationWeek
Well, as predicted Bing couldn't hold that momentum of gaining searchers. Microsoft Bing Loses Search Share -- InformationWeekI just don't think that there's enough different about Bing to really grab people and make them avid Bing users. Also, there's the…
Do you think Twitter can affect your business?
Interesting article today in the Baltimore Sun about how the opening weekends of summer movies is being affected by people using Twitter to post their thoughts about the movie as soon as they see it or in some cases from…
July Search Engine Rankings
The ComScore monthly Search Engine numbers for July are out revealing that Bing made a 2% Gain in July 2009 again at the expense of Google and Yahoo.As I mentioned last month when Bing gained 3%, it's early (only 2…
Google searchers use search more than Yahoo! or Bing searchers do
In an analysis of the latest ComScore search engine numbers, there are some facts that could be easily overlooked. The numbers of people who use a search engine per month isn't really the metric that should be focused on but…
Yahoo wasn’t a search engine? That’s news to me!
I just read a NYTimes interview of Carol Bartz in which she states that “We have never been a search company”. Excuse me Ms. Bartz, but perhaps while you were busy running Autodesk, you didn't notice that Yahoo pioneered the…
Yahoo and MS deal on again
If it actually happens this time.... the deal is a good news bad news thing for advertisers and consumers. The current iteration being tossed around the media is that MS will control Search on both Yahoo and Bing and that…