Search Happenings

Posted by JC Longbottom, Associate New Business Manager

From the Engines:

·         Google Q2 earnings.

·         Google to launch Chrome operating system.

·         Microsoft: Bing month one stats.  Compete says different, so does comScore.

·         Facebook hits 250 million users, gains 50 million in 3 months.

Other Topics of Interest:

·         Cash for tweets.

·         Customers trust reviews from virtual strangers.

·         AdAge: What your favorite social network says about you.  71% of people say they can’t live without Facebook.

·         Local advertisers moving to social networks.

·         Chief Marketer: Making sense of consumers’ recession behavior.

Some Fun Stuff:

·         Drunken badger stops traffic.

·         The turtles and the jets.

·         Smoking will cost you.