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When Larry Page took over the CEO role at Google last year the company was doing well. Now it’s doing better and so Investor’s Business Daily has named him “CEO of the Year.” The publication summed up its rationale as follows: [Page] reorganized the company’s management structure, redesigned the face of the company’s products and pushed forward with a multibillion dollar deal to acquire a cellphone manufacturing outfit. He also launched two other products aiming at Groupon, the leader of online coupons, and Facebook, the top social networking site. Google (GOOG) in the past two quarters blew away analyst views while boosting revenue by 32% and 33%, respectively. Page officially took over from Eric Schmidt in April (with the CEO switch announcement almost exactly a year ago). We wrote a number of articles at the time speculating about the rationale for the change and outlook for Google under Page’s leadership: Page has done a number of major … [Read more...] about Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily

It’s been roughly 100 days since Tim Armstrong was named CEO of AOL in anticipation of a spin-off/IPO of the company from corporate parent TimeWarner later this year. There are a slew of interviews out this morning in which Armstrong assesses his first 100 days, the state of the business and gives some indications of where AOL is headed. Among the highlights: AOL sees content and its display ad network reach as its primary strengths It will have many brands built on more unified platforms that simplify the back end The new AOL will be divided into the following areas (per AdAge): content production, the display-ad network, local information and services, communications and AOL Ventures Armstrong gives mixed signals but suggests that when the Google search partnership deal is up next year, he’ll shop it to others (read: Microsoft/Bing). The ISP business won’t be separated from AOL after all Bebo is “in a very competitive space” (read: AOL paid too much, … [Read more...] about AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: “The Model Is Disney”

This week, we've got the latest on a strange glitch appearing in Google's mobile search, a new beta search engine launched by Creative Commons, and the decline of brand hashtags in Super Bowl ads. Plus, a new report has indicated that consumers don't find the vast majority of brands meaningful; and Google reveals that custom 404 pages are not beneficial to SEO. Google's mobile search glitches, indexes desktop sites If you've been keeping an ear to the ground - or the Twittersphere - in the world of Google SEO, you might have heard that strange things have been happening with Google's mobile index over the past few days. Last week and early this week, some astute observers noticed that Google's mobile search was indexing desktop websites where it would normally be indexing the mobile version of that site. The suddenness of the switch, coming on the heels of Google's newly-implemented penalty for intrusive mobile interstitials and ahead of its planned rollout of a mobile-first search … [Read more...] about Five most interesting search news stories of the week

SEJ Summit is closing out the year in New York City with some of the best speakers in search. If you missed Google’s Maile Ohye and John Brown at SEJ Summit Santa Monica this past April, do not fret. You can still catch them at The TimesCenter in New York on November 2nd! Get the best rate for your SEJ Summit ticket by purchasing before August 5th. Register now and save $300. SEJ Summit New York Speakers & Panelists Maile Ohye: Developer Programs Tech Lead, Google Since joining Google in 2005, Maile has worked closely with Google’s Search and Webmaster Tools teams as a Developer Programs Tech Lead. Her goal is to support and advocate on behalf of all site owners. A few of Maile’s projects include rel=”canonical” (co-author of the IETF RFC), and rel=”next” and rel=”prev” for paginated content. Maile often speaks publicly about SEO, including keynotes at SES Chicago and SMX Munich. She also co-authored Building Web Apps for … [Read more...] about Announcing #SEJSummit NYC Speakers & Panelists

International Women’s Day is March 8th, so it seemed like the perfect time to recognize some of the fantastic females around the world who are making things happen in the marketing space. Looking for women I’d want to include led me to tons of blogs, social channels, and brands. The good news is, there are tons of people to include, but the challenge is—there are tons to wade through! There are a number of other lists out there, so to make this list a bit different, I did a couple of things: First, I tried to remove anyone that I had already seen on multiple “who to follow” lists. Not because they’re not awesome, but because chances are, you’re already following them, so this is an opportunity to find some new faces. Second, while I am including most Twitter handles in the list, not all of the women on this list are necessarily avid Twitter users. I extend my definition of “follow” to mean that you should check out their blogs, … [Read more...] about 50 Women Marketers to Follow