YouTube began offering caption support in 2006. In 2012 over 135 million videos have enabled automatic captions. This is over triple the number from July of last year, when YouTube began offering speech recognition captions in Japanese. Automatic captions with …

The more obvious reason there is a signing frog on the Google home page is because today is a leap day, happens about every four years and Google decided to leap with a frog. But the reason the frog is signing like in an opera is because it is the 220th birthday of Gioachino Rossini. [...] Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning made quite the splash early this month when it launched on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. It was the first game from 38 Studios, but had the backing of fantasy heavyweights like R.A. Salvatore and Todd …

In honor of Leap Day, Pandora has announced that listeners today will hear fewer interruptions in their music, thanks to a deal with Lexus. Pandora’s first limited interruption experience spans all Pandora platforms – web, iOS, and Android. Listeners on …

The moment you hear your client say these words, your SEO radar goes on alert: “Are you sitting down?” In other words, beware of what clients decide to do on their own when you’re at a conference. Upon returning from SES San Jose in August 2009 and embarking on a conference call with the client [...]Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Today is a strange day, as it’s February 29th – a Leap Day. A day which only happens once every four years. Why you ask? Well during a Leap Year a Leap Day is added, this is to keep our …

Link opportunities are everywhere. You just have to stop thinking about Google in order to see them. It isn't easy. Yes, Google is important, but nothing is better than doing significant business regardless of which way the Google winds blow.

Opportunity abounds for nimble brands that embrace Google+. Local marketers have a new but challenging opportunity to tackle. Here's why brands should launch a local marketing Google+ pilot program and which metrics to focus on and track.

If you visit a newsagent and scan past the magazines on offer you’ll see an array of headlines trying to stand out in a cluttered space. Whatever your interest -from philately to photography- publishers try to entice you to choose their publication and read their stories. How to stand out from the crowd Running a small business is difficult enough at the moment never mind finding out how you can make potential customers choose your business out of all of those on offer. If you want to get ...

The frogs are back, and this time it’s musical. Today’s leap year Google Doodle on Google’s homepage marks two occasions: the extra day that shows up almost every four years on February 29, and the birthday of composer Gioachino Rossini.

Uptake was an ambitious travel site that never quite broke through. It used social data and sentiment analysis to try and provide better travel discovery and decision support to its users. Originally called Kango, we wrote about the site in 2008 when it relaunched as Uptake. AllThingsD... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum loses two primary races to rival Mitt Romney, perhaps he can console himself with, ironically, another loss. Spreading Santorum, the page defining “santorum” as a by-product of anal sex, has finally dropped from the top results on... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Yahoo has warned Facebook it will take legal action if it doesn't sign licensing deals for patents Yahoo believes the social network is using for its advertising systems, according to reports. Is Yahoo looking for some stock in Facebook?

Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts continue to prevent Google’s new privacy policy from being implemented this Thursday, March 1. French regulators call the policy unlawful while privacy group EPIC continues its fight.

Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts continue to prevent Google’s new privacy policy from being implemented this Thursday, March 1. French regulators call the policy unlawful while privacy group EPIC continues its fight.

SMX West day one is just about over and I wanted to post the live blogging I have found throughout the day. Here are some of the sessions that were live blogged today. Creating Conversion Friendly Mobile Landing Pages, Search Engine Roundtable Creating Conversion-Friendly Mobile Landing Pages,... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

This morning I am speaking at SMX West, in the " Best Practices With adCenter For Bing & Yahoo " session. Specifically, my presentation will focus on the different features of the adCenter desktop tool that I love. To accompany my presentation I thought...(read more)

Scientific researchers at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. say they have come up with a quantum computing solution that harnesses the underlying quantum mechanics of Matter. The researchers say that they could deliver the technology within the next decade. …

More than half of all Netflix viewing is now television. The company known best for featuring feature films is becoming an Internet streaming service for television shows. For over a year, Netflix has been bulking up on old TV shows …