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Websites, especially ones that only provide content, have to constantly find new and interesting ways of ensuring that users click on their display advertising. This is the only way that they can stay in business. But where do you draw the line between objectivity and "advertorial"?The Next Web is a ...

In a world where Google is the most visited website, and “just Google it” is an answer to many questions, are there any up-and-coming search engines with something more to offer than the usual round-up of Google, Bing/Yahoo and Wolfram Alpha?While Google and its specialised search options (like Google ...

In light of the "Your World" ruckus that is taking the tech world by storm, including more employees who want to leave, perhaps it’s time to look at a few alternatives to el Goog. What can be assured from the get-go is that none of these pretenders-to-the-throne have anywhere close ...

In 2011 "Social Search" became a hot topic as Google introduced "Realtime Search" via the Twitter “firehose” and Bing began to index Facebook. In July, Twitter didn’t renew its deal with Google and Realtime Search was no longer offered. In the past week Google came under fire for including "your ...

Internet giant Google has launched a flight search tool in a potential challenge to online travel services.Flight Search is the first travel product from Google since its US$700 million acquisition of ITA Software earlier this year."Since then, our engineering teams have been working closely together to build new travel tools ...

If you're a search newbie and want to quickly learn the ropes of the Pay Per Click (PPC) world then using Google Adwords and a tracking program like Analytics will be quite useful. These tools, coupled with a little Excel spreadsheet savvy, can go a long way in managing a ...

As Facebook Deals South Africa goes live, it is being touted as the "biggest launch in emerging markets in the next year". Those are the words of South African marketing company Habari Media’s commercial channel manager, Michael Krynauw.Facebook has teamed up with Habari for the launch of Facebook Deals ...

Google has been making significant updates lately. Google Panda 2.3 Update is now live as part of a commitment to “return high-quality sites to Google users”. Judging by comments on forums such as Webmasterworld, keeping tabs on this is very tricky business.The initial premise was to weed out so-called “content ...

Chinese web giant Baidu said on Monday it had reached an agreement with American software giant Microsoft to provide English-language results generated by the US software giant's Bing search engine.Some English search requests from Baidu users will be automatically directed to Bing and its results will be displayed in pages ...

Facebook and Microsoft on Friday unveiled an alliance to flush out child porn and those that share such images using the social network.Facebook will use PhotoDNA technology developed by Microsoft and Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid to search for matches to pictures in a National Center for Missing ...