Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is an avid follower of the search engine and Internet marketing industry. He Founded ISEdb over 10 years ago. He is also an Ironman athlete and a promoter of fitness and healthy living.


Google Building Amazon Prime Competitor

Behind closed doors, Google is building a same day shipping service to compete directly with Amazon Prime and bunch of other similar services according to a report by TechCrunch. According to the anonymous source, the service will be called “Google Shopping Express” and will be $10 to $15 cheaper than Amazon Prime and offer  same-day [...]

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Twitter Announces Ads API

Published on 21 February 2013 by in Social Media Marketing

Twitter Announces Ads API

Twitter announced yesterday that it will start offering ads API, which will allow marketers to buy Twitter ads via tools they already use to manage their social network accounts. As interest in Twitter has grown, our focus has been on delivering better ads for users, not more ads. We believe our system is working well [...]

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Yahoo Getting Local With Alike Mobile App Acquisition

Yesterday, the mobile app Alike that helps users discover nearby venues and places to visit based on their interests was acquired by Yahoo. From their blog: We’ve always been passionate about the growing power of intelligent mobile experiences. We believe that distilled information, deeply personalized and made accessible anytime and anywhere, is what makes mobile experiences [...]

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Google Pays Apple $1B a Year on iOS Search Default

According to Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt, Google pays Apple close to $1 Billion a year for simply having its search engine be the default search on Apple’s iOS devices like the iPhone,  iPad, and iPod touch. It was believed that Apple has a revenue sharing deal with Google on iOS search. So for every $1 [...]

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A user uncovered a strange bug on Google search where porn results are returned even when Google Safe Search is turned on. These search queries are meant to return nothing. For example: [ -s “s 2″ ] [ -title “title 4″ ] [ 4 "1 4" ] These search queries are meant to return no results. [...]

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How Does the New Twitter Search and Discover Work?

Twitter today announced an update to their Search and Discover feature on iOS, Android, as well as mobile.twitter.com. Twitter said that the update will help you better search, interact and search for people to follow. Here is a quick run down of what has changed: Search: I don’t really know why Twitter didn’t have this [...]

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Yahoo Reached Agreement to Serve Google Ads

After many failed negotiations between Google and Yahoo, Google finally reached an agreement with Yahoo to serve its Adsense and Google AdMob for mobile on Yahoo’s network. [Here is the official announcement] “we’re excited to announce that we recently signed a global, non-exclusive agreement with Google to display ads on various Yahoo! properties and certain [...]

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Google Going After Amazon With Channel Intelligence Acquisition

Google announced today that it is acquiring Channel Intelligence, a company that helps consumers find and buy products online. Google admits that Amazon is a threat to Google business. Google is built around people searching on Google for things to buy and that is the most valuable search from a commercial perspective. Google is trying [...]

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Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage Of Twitter Power During Blackout

Some say Beyonce’s electrifying half time show caused the blackout in yesterday’s Super Bowl match between the San Francisco 49er and Baltimore Ravens [here is a video to watch after you finish reading the article]. Companies were able to take advantage of the blackout. Not on TV but on Twitter. According to @TwitterAds, it took only [...]

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Google Increases Spam Detection Algorithem In Google+ Pages

Google recently made changes to improve the quality of reviews on local Google+ pages. The idea behind it is to help business and people get ratings that are  real, relevant, and trustworty. These reviews appear in Google+ Local for business and Google Maps. Googler, Dasha made the following recomendations for reviewers and businesses: For reviewers: [...]

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7 Small Business Twitter Strategies

By now, I am sure you’ve heard of Twitter. Every week, billions of tweets flow through Twitter. There are millions of Twitter addicts that spend hours daily on twitter and the number of active users is increasing daily. For a small business, it can be intimidating or confusing to understand the proper way to get [...]

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What Can You Search For On Facebook Graph Search?

Facebook today introduced a new search engine, called Graph Search. The search tool is not meant to replace, at least for now, regular web search engines such as Google and Bing. Web search is designed to take a set of keywords (for example: “hip hop”) and provide the best possible results that match those keywords. [...]

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Search Highlight Swim.com

Published on 05 September 2012 by in Featured in Search

Search Highlight Swim.com

Usually when you are trying to find something, the first thing most of us do is to head to Google, Bing, or Yahoo and use the search box to find what you are looking for. However, sometimes these search engines can fail you and display many pages of useless results. As we were searching for [...]

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