Here it is, kids … straight out of the laboratory, it’s the next step in Google becoming a full-blown, personalized, handy-dandy portal: http://www.google.com/ig

Customize your Google search page with Gmail, weather, news, search history and the like (be on the lookout for Blogger and RSS integration too).
For their next trick? How about developing (or acquiring) vertical […]

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From eMarketer:  Hewlett-Packard reports that small businesses are looking at blogs as a
marketing vehicle, finding that 10 percent of respondents in a survey
of enterprises with fewer than 100 employees include blogs in their
marketing plans.
I pray that employment branding and online recruitment is part of this corporate blog trend, or at the very least blogs are […]

One of the most popular topics in online recruitment recently has been the rise of vertical job search engines such as Indeed, SimplyHired, WorkZoo and Work.com. Listen to my take.
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There’s always been a lot of debate in the new media community as to where is the best place to put advertising on a Web page.
The latest analysis? Well, never fear, Google is here.
Via quite a bit of research, as I understand it, Google has done a lot of work discovering the best spots […]

It’s not quite Election Day 2000 (USA, for my international readers), but for SEO addicts like me, it’s pretty intriguing nonetheless:
RustySearch is mixing up results from Google, AskJeeves, Yahoo and MSN, then having users vote which are the most relevant. Not quite scientific, but with over 5,000 responses, it’s not exactly just-for-fun either.
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Marketing people love numbers. They love to know how much Web traffic went up, how many conversions are made and what those conversions cost.
HR people, in contrast, care much less about such metrics. As long as the resumes are flowing and openings are being filled, then all is puppy dogs and kittens.
However, where most HR […]