Anyone using YouTube for business purposes has a nice, new analytics tool at your disposal: data that shows the popularity of your videos down to the second. Talk about getting granular with analytics.It’s called “Hot Spots,” and Google announced it yesterday as an extension to the YouTube Insights analytics tool.The Hot Spots tab in Insight [...]

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As part of its birthday celebration, Google is letting users search an old version of its index — and the results show just how much things have changed over the years. You can step back in time to search Google’s index from January 2001. What was happening that month? George W. Bush first took office, [...]

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Google Blog Search just had a big change announced today — top blog posts are now clustered on the home page around particular story topics, similar to how Google News (or Techmeme) operates. You can also drill into various categories of posts, such as technology or politics. It looks interesting and [...]

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Three people in the search marketing space have had job changes this week: Lisa Barone, Kevin Ryan and Natala Menezes. Below, a look at where they are heading.Natala Menezes is known to many as a dynamo who advocated for Microsoft adCenter as lead product manager. But it’s her last day today at Microsoft, [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:SearchPerks - Microsoft’s New Prizes For Searches ProgramMicrosoft’s Live Search Cashback program has failed to grow the company’s search traffic significantly (as I expected), so now it’s try again [...]

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