When we recently added the ability to comment on your friends' status updates to the Facebook mobile site , we didn't expect that we would receive nearly a million status comments in the first 24 hours. This may not seem like much, but it was actually part of a really important change. As people on Facebook share more and more information each day, status updates have become one of the most popular ways for people to connect quickly and easily on the site. Before,

by Claudine Zap It's official. The country is going to the dogs. The Fido frenzy was kicked off by President-elect Barack Obama, who revealed?that among the many decisions he will make in the transition to the White House will be the appointment of First Pup. The pet-owner-in-chief admitted the adoption of a dog to be " a major issue ." Apparently, many of you agree.

It can be very difficult at times to find the actual search terms your PPC traffic arrives from, so this is a Google Analytics trick all advertisers should know. Google's search query report can be useful but for high-traffic phrase or broad match keywords being told that 8 of your clicks arrived on "85 unique queries" doesn't really give you the complete picture!

There is an old adage that says that "all news is good news." This was never truer than in search engine marketing and yet, companies like Circuit City persist in wallowing in the bad without reaping the good. Circuit City announced this morning that they are filing for bankruptcy . This is becoming more common in our post-economic boom landscape with many retailers feeling the pinch of reduced consumer spending.

Hi, I'm Mary Anne Gillespie, vice president of sales for PayPal's merchant services division. With Thanksgiving almost here, many Americans are making plans to spend time with friends and family this holiday season.? Whether waiting in line for check-in or going through airport security, traveling during the holidays requires a .

Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, A Jury awarded 4.8 million USD to NetQuote after finding that its competitor, MostChoice , submitted more than 3,500 false applications for insurance quotes to the NetQuote website. The jury was so disgusted with MostChoice that it actually awarded double the punitive damages that NetQuote asked for in the lawsuit. Getting punitive damages is unusual; Getting double what you asked for is extremely rare.

Funny how things evolve in high-tech, with some deals lasting what seems like ages and others, announced with so much enthusiasm, dying out. I want to talk about an example of the latter. Slightly more than three years ago, in October 2005, Google and Sun Microsystems embarked on an interesting partnership.

If you do any business online then you are aware of the fact that at least 80% of searchers who type in a search query click on organic searches. But do they close sales? It really depends on the niche that you are in. Businesses like SEO and Internet marketing services tend to be scrutinized a little more heavily with regard to paid search. If you have to pay for your advertising, some people think, then you can't be that good at what you do. There is some validity to that.

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager Our friends at the Toolbar team recently launched Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer out of beta in 40 languages. To celebrate this occasion and Toolbar's upcoming eighth birthday , we upgraded our Google News Toolbar gadget: You'll now find tabs with different Google News sections embedded directly into the toolbar, so you can read the news as soon as it breaks, browse top news headlines and images,

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