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Google Gets Smart Clock

When sitting at your computer, you can probably check the time by glancing at your taskbar, your watch, or your cell phone; gaining one more option won’t exactly be a revolutionary experience.  This option’s provided by Google, however, and the feature can determine the time in many different places.

Yahoo Shortcuts Searchers To Enhancements

Popular searches for consumer electronics, medical information, and NFL players now generate Yahoo Shortcuts in the search engine's results pages.

Ask Makes Smart Answers Healthier

Health-related information from Healthline populates the Smart Answers field in Ask's search results as an enhancement to the search engine's ability to handle health queries.

Yahoo Gets Smart About Behavioral Ads

Advertising that presents the most relevant ad to an individual viewing web content represents a way for Yahoo to improve its ad performance.

Briefly: Clash Puns, George Lucas, AdWords

Yahoo has a shortcut to its lyrics search, while Ask has a Smart Answer for the master Jedi among other May birthday celebs. Google puts everyone back to work with an updated AdWords Editor.

Gmail's Normal Spam Filtering Returns

After an extended period of time during which I simply couldn't trust Gmail's spam filter to Do The Right Thing, I'm happy to report that for the last few weeks it has been performing exceptionally well.

Jumping to Conclusions on Google's PPA

There are lots of bloggers talking about Google’s launch of their Pay-Per-Action (beta) program which is really just adding CPA ad units to Adsense with a name to not associate it with CPA directly.

Flickr, Bad Retailers, Bad Clients, Old School Nostalgia

1) Smart Use of Flickr # 273 Core 77 Architecture for Humanity held its logo design competition on Flickr and received entries from across the globe. This is a really smart use of Flickr, but an even smarter non-profit using social media to get international graphic design consultation for free.

Product (RED): Smart Social Marketing?

In a great post over at PSFK - Piers publishes the content of a conversation he had with Julie Cordua, the VP of Marketing for the often talked about Product (RED) social marketing campaign.  

Get Smart, Visit These Two Sites

Sometimes you just have to put aside the world of search engines and ad campaigns to read, or write, something a little more fulfilling.