We have learned a lot about Facebook’s $ 1bn acquisition of photo sharing service Instagram in the two weeks following the deal. From details of the negotiations to the motivations that drove both parties to deal, a clearer picture has emerged about Facebook’s largest purchase to date. In spending a ten-figure sum to purchase Instagram,...Read More

So, display advertising. It’s a channel that many people deemed to be dead some years ago due to huge declines in CTR and conversion rates, but today online display advertising is hotter than ever. The changing technology landscape has completely re-energised the whole display advertising space. Not only are display-ad revenues growing faster than ever...Read More

Search Marketing Now will host a webcast next Wednesday, May 2 at 1 PM EDT. “Big Data Management – Forensics” will feature Brad Geddes, founder of Certified Knowledge.org — and also recently crowned the most influential SEM by his peers — and Matt Van Wagner, President… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article....Read More

Webmaster level: All Crawl errors is one of the most popular features in Webmaster Tools, and today we’re rolling out some very significant enhancements that will make it even more useful. We now detect and report many new types of errors. To help make sense of the new data, we’ve split the errors into two...Read More

The ability to marry store inventory with search and promotions is an intriguing one for interactive local media. But what closes the loop on this vision? Sherry Thomas-Zon, VP, local shopping, Local Corp. — the new name for Local.com — suggested this week at ILM West in San Francisco that inventory can serve as an...Read More