Although Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search deal, but talks are around that Yahoo is trying every bit to escape from its 10-year search deal with Microsoft and join hands with Google. 

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer has also been spotted talking about not-so-happy deal with Microsoft at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in February. Here's an extract from what she said, 

Google Shopping has marked its entry in India, but is still in the testing phase. The feature has been rolled out for selected users, which means only a few of you will be able to see the product listings from online retailers on the right side of the page. 

Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search deal for one more year. Reuters spotted the extension of the agreement in the recent quarterly filing of Yahoo.

Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer was however not too happy with the deal and had given a hint that the search would expire on March 31, 2013. At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference held in February, Mayer said, "Our biggest business problem right now is [page] impressions. Basically can we grow impressions, can we get growth happening here?" Mayer also said that there's a need of better monetization on the Yahoo properties. 

Wondering what the world is watching on YouTube? Are you curious to know that the video that is a hit amongst your folks in the U.S. is also popular in Australia? Now, with the YouTube Trends Map, it will be a matter of few clicks to get regional breakdowns of popular videos, filter videos on the basis of age demographics & gender, and do much more.

The latest from the Google news is another quiet drop of a search feature, which is related to local search results within a search on the Google.

The "more results near…" link on local searches for local queries has been removed by Google. The feature was introduced in 2007 as a part of the Universal search initiative. It showed local businesses, webpages, and videos to searchers. For example, if you have searched for Pizza on Google, the feature would have shown you businesses selling pizza, webpages, videos, and other relevant results on pizza.

The most crucial element of an AdWords campaign is its Ad. It is the advertisement that depicts unique features of your business and draws the attention of users to take an action.

But, users get to see only approved or say high quality ads. So, what happens to the disapproved ads, which are prevented from showing up?

Brightlocal, the SEO Software Company conducted a survey on local SEO industry and revealed that on-site SEO and Google+ optimization are the two most in-demand SEO services.

The survey, which was conducted between January 20 and February 20 of 2013, evaluated the health and nature of local SEO industry. It focused on five key areas:

  • Agency size and turnover
  • Clients and industries

Ad Age that ranks the top performing U.S. Search Marketing Agencies every year has announced the results for 2012. The last year's Top 3 US Search Marketing Agencies have yet again succeeded in saving their positions. The rankings are on the basis of the previous year's U.S. and worldwide revenue of the companies. So, here are the top three search marketing agencies in 2012, as per the Ad Age:

Over the past year, Google Analytics team has been working on making improvements in the Real-Time reports and has also come out with updates like real-time supporting profiles, real-time widgets for dashboards, and key analysis improvements. The latest to this addition is the beta launch of new real-time goals report that will let you see how many visitors on your website are converting and against what goals.

The latest AdSense blog carries a major announcement from Google. The search giant has told that from now on, it will be removing not just the earnings that are associated with invalid clicks but also the impressions and clicks that are associated with those invalid clicks.