Yesterday members-only site Gilt offered an invitation only one-day sale on a “limited edition” version of the forthcoming Samsung “Series 5″ Chromebook — and reportedly sold out of it. The notebook will officially go on sale on June 15th. The model being sold by Gilt... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced Seattle takes place next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Bell Harbor Conference Center. Register before June 6th for a free Expo+ Pass ($50 at the door). An Expo+ Pass entitles you to: Attend “Plus” sessions that cover emerging search engine marketing topics. Plus... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The Performance Marketing Association challenged the constitutionality of the Illinois law taxing products sold by affiliate marketers residing in the state, filing a lawsuit claiming it violates federal law; as the California State Assembly passe...

The next time you’re shopping online and moving toward checkout, pause and think about the gift wrapping option. Your gift recipient gets a nice little package, but the retailer or manufacturer gets a nice little gift as well. These folks ca...

When working online, time-saving and efficiency are key. Rather than searching for information scattered around the web, you can save time with Rapportive. I've never really found much benefit to the AdWords ads that show up in Gmail. From ...

Social media budgets often takes a backseat to search. After all, it’s easier to measure the ROI of search, so marketers see it as a safer bet. First, it’s easier to tie SEO and PPC directly to sales than, say, tweets or Facebook lik...

It’s important to examine how Google and Bing's social efforts may affect your brand. How do social signals, referral traffic, and conversions contribute to social search? What improvements can be made to take advantage? Let’s examine....

Join Yahoo! at Internet Week NY 2011 for the PROVOKE Summit For the second straight year, Yahoo!’s PROVOKE Summit will bring together advertising industry decision-makers, tech enthusiasts and creatives in one unique conference designed to “PROVOKE” discussion and ideas. Hosted by Yahoo!’s dynamic Bobby Figueroa, this event is sure to spark your creativity, plus Yahoo!’s Lauren Weinberg will provide fresh insight into the world of digital advertising based on ...

A creative canvas that will make your ads rock Yahoo! Mobile Advertising offers a dynamic creative canvas that allows advertisers to engage consumers with motion and emotion. This rockin’ reel shows just how dynamic that canvas can be: To learn more about how you can make your mobile ads sizzle, visit Yahoo! Advertising Solutions. — The Team

All the news that’s fit to pixel Web ad record revenue: Marketers spent $7.3 billion on U.S. Web ads in the first three months of 2011, a record for the first quarter according the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Hat tip to AllThingsD for this intelligence. Multicultural targeting: It’s fairly easy to target for age, gender, marital status and hobbies, but how do you target for ethnicity? It’s not easy, says AdAge’s Matt Carmichael, but it’s possible. Gamers are going ...

A new Yahoo! and Digitas Health study on women over 40 reveals five tips for online marketers For marketers in the health industry, women in their 40s and 50s represent a very attractive audience. Not only do they possess significant purchasing power, but roughly three out of four women in this age range have at least one of the medical conditions studied. To help marketers create more meaningful connections with this audience, Yahoo! and Digitas Health partnered on a new study called “Health ...

This week: Twitterdeck, Zynga preparing for IPO, socializing Toyotas, Facebook Music and social media success Best long-rumored acquisition: Twitter After what feels like eons of speculation, Twitter put the rumors to rest and purchased TweetDeck for about $40 million this week. Released in 2008, TweetDeck is a free, popular application that makes managing multiple Twitter feeds, well, more manageable. Professional tweeters like me who spend most of their waking hours on Tweetdeck will be happy to ...

Join us for hot tips and cool experiences in the Big Apple next week It’s that time again: North America’s Web event of the year. Internet Week New York 2011 kicks off in New York next with all the bells and whistles (or pings and bleeps, if you prefer). Yahoo!, a presenting sponsor of Internet Week, will of course be there. In fact, it will be hard to miss us. Look for us right at the get-go, as Yahoo! takes over a huge multimedia space at IWNY 2011 HQ on Monday, June 6. This immersive ...

Those brightly-colored Google Checkout badges will disappear from e-tailers’ AdWords ads, according to a post in Checkout Help first spotted by eCommerceCircle. They’ll continue to be displayed in product search. Checkout icons in AdWords were originally introduced in 2006 and a new... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to all Analytics users. And follow Google Analytics on Twitter for the latest updates. This week we’re sharing a few new features in our Intelligence reports. Since we launched the new Google Analytics, we've been talking to many of you about the new version, and getting your feedback. One question we got was about our goals for the new version and why ...

After all the talk, Google's +1 button is now officially here. In a low-key blog post, Google simply announced that the button has launched with a handful of web properties, comprised of the usual suspects.  Google is letting people add...

As you may know, Twitter announced a partnership with PhotoBucket and the ability for Twitter users to upload photos and attach them to tweets right from Twtiter.com. The functionality will also roll out to Twitter’s mobile apps. This leaves questions …

Regardless of which side you’re supporting in this, the NFL Lockout age, there’s sure to be some curiosity over what both sides are doing now that there’s no NFL training camp, or, well, NFL anything until both sides agree. Apparently, …

Daily deals site Groupon has just announced a partnership with online travel company Expedia to bring deals to travel. The service will be called “Groupon Getaways” and will start in the U.S. and Canada with plans to expand to other …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google +1 Analytics Coming Soon; Here’s What To Expect Although webmasters can install the new Google +1 button on their websites today, it may be a little... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.