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The end to a long relationship with Microsoft search is another signal that Facebook is concentrating on serving connections within its network. Facebook has broken up with Bing, quietly dropping results from the Microsoft search engine as part of this week’s Facebook search...

Intelligent answers and semantic highlighting are also rolling out to more markets. Bing is now using natural language generation models (models that generate text) to improve its autosuggest and People Also Ask (PAA) features, the company announced Wednesday. It is also...

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TechCrunch reports Facebook has removed the Gmail option of finding friends on Facebook. If you go to the find friends section on Facebook, you will find options to find your friends via Skype, AIM, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, MSN, sbcglobal and verizon.net, but...

How can you best evaluate a site to determine whether it’s a good linking partner? Contributor Julie Joyce outlines 15 things you need to check including site hacks, poor quality content, traffic and more. When inbound links occur naturally, you don’t look to see if the site...

Create a single list of negative keywords that can be applied to campaigns within an MCC. Google has quietly added another perk for Managed Accounts: the ability to create and share negative keyword lists across accounts. Maybe you’ve been laboriously adding the same lists of...

Check out this neat new Bing Search test, where you can expand to see more news related content in the Bing search results. Ruben Gomez found a new Bing test where they are experimenting with showing a News card that expands and shows more news. Searching in Bing for news related...

Countless marketers and business owners swear by Google’s marketing tools. This is evident in the perennial corporate increases in AdWords pay-per-click (PPC) budgets, and it makes sense. After all, online marketing yields new leads at a rate of 54 percent. But marketers who...

As severe weather pummels much of the US, T-Mobile is experiencing outages throughout the country and especially in Texas. The US is currently in the midst of a record-breaking cold snap, leading to snow, ice and other severe weather in portions of the country that rarely see...

Want your sales team to love you? Contributor Janet Miller recommends adding gate pages to indexed PDFs as a way to generate more leads and avoid lost lead and SEO opportunities. Are you leaking your gated content in organic search? Personally, I’m not a fan of finding portable...