Hey everyone!! It’s that time of the year again for the Spring Summit and we have some great contests going on! With the success of our Twitter #team contest (which is currently going on until midnight), we decided to roll out ANOTHER contest today. If you’re interested in winning a free ticket, then try your luck on this one!…

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Youtube Contest – Win a Free Pass to Search & Social Spring Summit

Yahoo is beefing up its Sports content site as it acquires social sport startup Citizen’s Sports.  In case you’re not aware, Citizen’s Sports are responsible for the popular Fantasy Sports Game in Facebook.

By acquiring Citizen’s Sports, Yahoo hopes to strenghten its social strategy of enriching, aggregating and distributing social content from across the web while offering social experience especially since…

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Yahoo Buys Social Sport Site Citizen’s Sports

Google continues to shower mobile phones running its Android OS including its own Nexus One phone with great features one after another. Previously it just made the cool Gesture Search available for all phones running Android OS version 1.5+.  And now,  Google Maps for Mobile has just been updated to version 4.1.

The first new feature that has been added to…

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Gesture Search, Swipe N’ Search for Google Android Phones

You have heard of Team Jolie and Team Aniston. You have picked sides with Team Edward or Team Jacob. Now it is time to make your own team. Today, gather up everyone you know and get them on Twitter. Get as many people as you can to be on your team. Have them tweet your team name, twitter name, and…

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Contest #2 Twitter Contest – Win a Free Ticket to Search & Social Spring Summit

It’s been awhile since we last heard anything from Google AdSense. Although it may be starting to lose its luster among website publishers, I would like to think that there are still tons of sites which relied on it to earn some extra bucks.  Anyway, the Inside AdSense blog just announced that AdSense publishers will now have access to Google-certified…

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Google-Certified Ad Networks for All AdSense Publishers

If you’re fond of searching for great images and photos available on the web, most often you’d probably encounter search results which don’t give you the option for more sizes available for those images. The folks at Microsoft Bing knew this and so they are rolling out a new feature of  Bing image search which actually lets you find other…

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Bing Adds More Sizes Option to Image Search

Facebook has just rolled out a new feature for its site-wide search box – search suggestion. This is is similar to the search suggestion features offered by major search engines wherein various search terms are suggested via a drop-down menu, as you type the first few letters of your search query. According to the Facebook blog, this new feature is…

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Facebook Rolls Out Search Suggestion Feature

Have you ever wanted to attend a premier industry event as a VIP, get inside secrets from industry leaders, and get treated like a rockstar?

Well this week Search & Social are giving you several ways to make this a reality.

For the launch of the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit (formerly known as IM Spring Break), the organizers are…

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Win a VIP Trip to Search & Social Spring Summit 2010!

Welcome to another edition of ’7 Days of Search and Social’ – last week was a pretty damned busy one out in the search news/blogging space and we have a TON of good reading this week. From compliant code for SEO to the ever popular (debated) SEO standards and a whack of search geeky goodiness, there was plenty out there.…

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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/16/2010

One of the most powerful features inside SEJ tools is its advanced reporting ability which makes it a lot easier to create pretty, fully-customized and data-rich reports for clients. With SEJ tools you can choose among multiple templates (or create your own), schedule reports, include any sets of data, etc. 1. Create a branded template The first thing you may…

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Advanced SEO Reporting with SEJ Tools

Its TV Portal is one of Yahoo’s strongest verticals. I personally check it out to get my fix of entertainment news from time to time. So, it is but logical for Yahoo to try to maximize the potential of Yahoo TV to generate site traffic and engagement to its site. Enter the Yahoo TV Shortcuts right smack into your entertainment-related…

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Yahoo Adds TV Shortcut on Search Results Page

Okay, so my title is fairly misleading. Google Wave HAD extensions… just maybe one or two. When Wave came out I was so excited that I totally exhausted the “poll” option. I sent out ridiculous polls to all my friends such as, “Can you make me blueberry muffins? Yes, No or Maybe?”…. to which I would always get a maybe.…

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New Google Wave Extensions Debut!

Search Engine Journal’s Official Facebook Fanpage hit the 5,000 mark last week, and is now pushing 5,600 fans who are sharing search marketing news, blog posts and comments on SEJ’s Facebook Fanpage.

Not only does the SEJ community share SEJ posts on Facebook, but we also have 5 admins sharing search engine news, SEO tips and other relevant news on Facebook…

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Just a quick update to inform you that if you’re using Google’s product search, whether on your computers or mobile devices such as iPhone or Android phones, you can now check whether a particular product is in stock on a store nearby. You can check out the product’s availability by clicking on the “blue dot” included in the search…

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Google Adds Blue Dots to Product Search Results

I have been enrolled in the Market Motive social media online course for close to two months now.  Each week I have been given a social media topic and have been responsible for viewing a certain number of films which go into detail about the topic being taught.  There have been a wide range of social media topics such as…

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I Admit It – These Videos Taught Me a Few Social Media Tricks