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Imagine my shock when I used Bing to search for “Where to buy knockoff products in New York” and found a treasure trove of information on the web leading me to an apparently little-known area of New York City where such products are available around Canal Street: Imagine my even further shock to discover that in today’s US congressional hearing about fending off such intellectual property theft, no one apparently asked what Bing was doing to stop this. No one seems to have asked why these major companies are hosting this information and how to stop them, either. Piracy Galore In New York City! Nor, does it appear, that US government, New York state or New York City authorities have acted to close this area down. Why, in a few simple searches on Twitter, I can find people talking about getting fake goods on Canal within the past few days. Is the area unknown to the authorities? No. According to a New York Times article from 2002 that I found in my Bing search above … [Read more...] about If Google Was New York City & Online Piracy Was Knock-Off Handbags…

Yahoo! announced expansion plans to their Dublin, Ireland operations center and their data and customer care facility located in Lockport, New York. More than 200 employees will be added over the next 12 months in Dublin to support business operations in the Europe, Middle Eastern and Africa (EMEA) region.  The Lockport facility intends to add 115 new jobs. In a statement released by Yahoo!, Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, confirmed that the expansion will more than double Yahoo!’s existing Dublin workforce, stating, “Today’s announcement that Yahoo!, one of the biggest brand names on the Internet, is expanding its operations in Dublin and more than doubling its workforce here in the creation of 200 jobs is great news and further evidence that the [Government’s Action Plan for Jobs] is working. We in Government are determined to continue building on this, to attract further investments and create the jobs we … [Read more...] about Yahoo! Expanding Dublin Operations & New York Data Center

share tweet share pin it e-mail share It’s official: Searchmetrics, Germany’s SEO specialists and leading provider of search analytics software is expanding further into the US market. On June 1, the Berlin based organization established the US company Searchmetrics, Inc. with its headquarters in New York. The purpose of the US branch is to establish direct on-site marketing and sales for Searchmetrics’ high-end software solution, the Searchmetrics Suite. The US expansion is being developed in answer to enormous interest that Searchmetrics received from industry professionals at this year’s SES. Erick Waggoner has been appointed as Vice President of Sales – North America and given charge of the New York office. Erick had previously acted as Sales Director at Code Green Networks and before that as Director of DLP Sales at McAfee. Work is already underway for the 39 year old marketing expert with our first selection of US … [Read more...] about Erick Waggoner to head the new Searchmetrics office in New York –

When I search for Pizza in New York in Google Local, I’m told that there are about 79,400 results. The top result I see is Lombardi’s Pizza, which is “0.8 mi NE” of the green arrow on the map that points to New York. Exactly what is that green arrow pointing to, and why does Lombardi’s Pizza show up number one? To rephrase that question, how does a site to become the “authority” for a region, for a business type, rather than an authority for a specific location and business name? In Authority Documents for Google’s Local Search, I wrote about a patent application that described how a specific site would show up first when searching for a specific business name and location. The author of that patent filing, Daniel Egnor, was the named inventor on a number of others on local search that came out the same week. This post is about one of those other ones, which is the only one I can recall from Google that talks about identifying specific … [Read more...] about Pizza at the Center of New York: Relevancy, Google Local, and Local Results in Organic Searches

The court voted 4-1 today to uphold the state’s 2008 law that says having affiliates in the state gives online retailers “a substantial nexus” and requires them to pay sales tax. Amazon and Overstock had both claimed that the law is unconstitutional. In writing the court’s majority decision, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman said, “The bottom line is that if a vendor is paying New York residents to actively solicit business in this state, there is no reason why that vendor should not shoulder the appropriate tax burden.” Overstock, which shut down its affiliate program in New York state when the 2008 law was enacted, said today that it may appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court. Amazon said that the nexus tax issue should be handled by Congress and reiterated its support for the Marketplace Fairness Act. About The Author Matt McGee Matt McGee is the Editor-In-Chief of Marketing Land and Search … [Read more...] about New Yorks Highest Court Upholds States Nexus (Affiliate) Tax Law