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Mercedes Takes Maps From House To Car

No matter how comfortable your car is, odds are that your house is even more cushy.  The house is also likely to have a better computer, monitor, and keyboard.  So it’s an important breakthrough that will allow American Mercedes-Benz owners to send directions from their computers to their cars.

SES - Lee's Day 3 Wrap Up

Another great day is how I’d characterize day three of the San Jose Search Engine Strategies conference.

SES: In House Big SEO

In a recent session at SES San Jose a panel examined the topic of in house of SEO for large companies and organizations.

KickApps Catches $11 Million

KickApps was already doing quite well, and the company has now received $11 million in fresh funding.  According to various reports and statements, the money will go towards making KickApps faster, bigger, and generally better than ever.

Google Takes On NC Telecoms

Once again, it appears that Google’s looking out for the little guy.  Only in this instance, the “little guy” is both the average consumer and local governments.  According to Google - and Intel, Alcatel-Lucent, and Tropos Networks - a bill in the North Carolina General Assembly has the potential to be a monopoly-maker.

Bringing SEO In House - Insight from the Experts

After yesterday's post about the 10 Great Resources regarding Bringing SEO In House got me thinking, wouldn't it be useful if I got insight from some of the Top In House SEOs (amongst other Industry professionals)? I asked a few SEO Experts the same 2 questions: 1) What is the biggest advantage for an organization to bring Search Marketing In-house? 2) What is the biggest challenge in accomplishing a transformation to In-house SEO?

Bringing SEM In House - 10 Great Resources

Bringing SEO In house is quickly becoming one of the hottest topics across the Industry. With businesses looking to cut down on marketing budgets and wanting to expand on preexisting In House teams it will be difficult for traditional SEM Firms to continually offer the same services (at the same premiums) as they have been in the past. Businesses are looking to strengthen their relationships with their online marketing departments and what better way to do this then removing the 3rd Party SEM firm out of the picture.

House Passes Weak Spyware Bill

The I-SPY legislation that made it through the House of Representatives lacks consent provisions that could help protect consumers. House Passes Weak Spyware Bill

Speaker Pelosi Queries Yahoo Answers

Yahoo's efforts at heightening awareness of global warming has drawn a question from a very high-profile person for the Yahoo Answers audience.

The Best Defense Against Bad Word of Mouth

Uber customer service snafus like Jet Blue aside, a business is bound to catch a customer on a bad day – or vice versa. This can spawn a fiery blog post which, in plain view of Google, can morph into an issue with “negative fiscal ramifications” for the business in question.