The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosystem

Google’s partnership with WordPress aims to jump-start the platform’s support of the latest web technologies — particularly those involving performance & mobile experience. And they’re hiring WordPress experts.

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Mozilla drops Yahoo search for Google with new Firefox Quantum browser release

After a three year partnership with Yahoo, Mozilla has switched their default search provider for Firefox back to Google.

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Google making renewed effort to help news publishers drive more subscriptions

Google effort appears to be a modified version of existing tools and approaches with some new, unspecified wrinkles.

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Everything You Need To Know About The Google-Twitter Partnership

Google and Twitter recently reached a deal that once again gave Google access to Twitter’s firehose. Columnist Neil Patel summarizes what we know so far and offers predictions and advice for search marketers.

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Google, Wal-Mart Breakup Suggests Problems Ahead For Local Inventory Ads

Research shows that when they’re ready to buy, online shoppers want to know where they can get desired products in local stores. Internet influenced offline spending is many many times larger than e-commerce and results in trillions of dollars in offline transactions annually. However offline…

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Official: Twitter To Give Google Access To “Firehose” Of Tweets

It’s official, Twitter confirms that it has a deal again to supply Google with access to its full stream of tweets.

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As Apple-Google Deal Expires, Who Will Win The Safari Default Search Business?

Will it be Bing, Yahoo or Apple itself that supplies Safari’s search engine?

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YP Joins Google’s Premier SMB Partner Program

YP is the largest of the major US yellow pages publishers (and local search providers), with roughly 4,000 sales and support reps and 575,000 (mostly small business) advertisers. The company has now joined the ranks of the Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner Program. Also on the list are fellow…

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FOX Partners With Google To Allow Voting For American Idol On Google’s Search Results

FOX and Google have partnered to enable American Idol fans to vote for the finalists directly in the Google search results. That means you no longer have to text your vote, you can do it on Google.com. How does it work? Simple, you go to Google on your…

Calling All Young Scientists: Google Accepting Submissions For Annual Science Fair

Google announced its annual Science Fair today, calling for project submissions from students worldwide, age 13 to 18. This year’s Google Science Fair grand prize winner will get a trip to Spaceport America in New Mexico to meet the Virgin Galactic team as they prepare for a space flight….

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