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Best of the Web, a directory of all the content on the web, turns 19 on April 20. SEW spoke with BOTW president and founder Greg Harnett about his company’s upcoming birthday, how the industry has evolved since its founding and where BOTW is going.

Yahoo has updated its email app for iPad and Android tablets to allow users to make use of gesture controls. Yahoo also revealed a weather app for iPhone, which brings together crowdsourced images from Flickr with local and international forecasts.

The average size of web pages has increased by 56 percent. Desktop page load times have decreased slightly. However, mobile page load speeds have decreased by 30 percent. Nearly every county is trending toward faster page load times on mobile.

Twitter’s keyword targeting in timelines means advertisers will be able to specify the keywords they wish to initiate a promoted tweet, as well as specifying the geographic location, gender, and client being used, to reach their audience.

Users are being conditioned to check (and click) the area of Google’s SERP design that prominently displays information pulled via Knowledge Graph, Maps, and (conveniently for revenue) product listing ads, depending on the intent of a search query.

Once an app is ready for download, the biggest challenge is getting users to find it, or even discover its existence. These traditional SEO tactics will help you when optimizing for app stores, mobile app pages on websites, and localization.

Search ad revenues once again broke records in 2012. Search remained the revenue leader at $16.9 billion, accounting for 46 percent of all Internet advertising revenue, although this figure doesn’t even include mobile search ads in the IAB’s report.

In trying to be more like AdWords, Bing Ads has mostly reached parity with AdWords. Importing campaigns into Bing Ads can now be done in a matter of minutes, not days. And search campaigns running on the Yahoo Bing Network often yield better ROAS.

The augmented reality eyewear yesterday turned up on auction website eBay. The listing reached $90,100.00 after receiving 28 bids, but was canceled due to Google’s terms and conditions, which state that Google Glass can’t be resold once obtained.