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Efficient Frontier has just released a search engine ad share report for the 4th quarter of last year. They found that Google held onto its 76% market share while Yahoo actually gained 3%.
Here are additional trends they found:

Large vs. Small Advertisers: Small advertisers in the U.S. accounted for a greater [...]

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Cyber Monday is in full swing.  What better way to bank a little coin that to take a look at the top products being searched for on Google.
So, according to Google, here are the season’s top product searches…
1. nintendo wii
2. wii fit
3. ipod touch
4. xbox 360
5. nintendo ds
6. ipod nano
7. uggs
8. nikon d90
9. zune
10. digital [...]

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I just saw a new post on the Official Google Blog that made me wonder what the heck is going on over there.
Here is the post.
Now, when I first saw this thing I thought, “Hmmm, maybe Google is pushing a recipe book as an affiliate.  Why not?  If THEY can’t rank #1, who can?”
Nah, Google [...]

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Just like that, Google SearchWiki has vanished from many accounts, according to TechCrunch and several users that we’ve heard from.
I was not a big fan of it anyway, but I’m surprised to see it vanish so quickly.
User reactions were mixed but there were several reports of comments such as, “this is lame”…and there was no [...]

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I was surprised to head over to Google today and see on their blog that they have released Google SearchWiki.  Why?  Well, I really like Google’s Search product, as is.  In fact, I just switched over from Yahoo to Google about a year ago.
The switch could be interesting anyway.  As Google states:
“Today we’re launching SearchWiki, [...]

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I’m a pretty open-minded person, but Google really threw me for a loop this afternoon when I saw a post on the Google blog entitled, “Transgender Rememberance Day”.
The blog post starts out like this…
“The post below kicks off an occasional series, entitled Interface, about valuing people’s similarities and differences in the workplace…
November 20th marks Transgender [...]

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Google has announced that they are pulling the plug on Lively, its browser-baseed virtual world application that could be embedded into other sites.
We were beginning to wonder why this program didn’t even work in Chrome, and this would seem to explain it.
The official notification says that the plug will be pulled on December 31 of [...]

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Get ready boys and girls because Google Revenge launches in just under an hour…at 12PM EST today.
What is it?  Well, it is NOT another landing page product comparison, ad copywriting and keyword research product.
Google Revenge is an in-depth look at a completely different process for massive conversions which has taken Jacobo Benitez over a year [...]

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