Given that Google+ results are dominating so many SERPs these days, Google is clearly leveraging its power in search to build up Google+. My source is pretty direct about this: “Google has decided that beating Facebook is worth selling their soul.”). The next four results are from Google+. ”). MORE >>

doubt building Facebook search today is akin to building Google ten years ago - bigger, most likely, in terms of data, algorithmic, and platform challenges. He profiles the ongoing feud between the King of Search, Google, and the upstart, Facebook. In other words, right where Google is now. So far, the answer is a definitive NO. MORE >>

101 Examples of Social Business ROI Blog Post A few years ago, I put together a list of social media marketing examples. The list contains 324 examples of brands putting social media to use and at that point in the social media industry’s evolution, it was the best of what was around (and still might be). Twitter, 2011). MORE >>

There are two schools of thought to the Twitter value debate. For the uninitiated - or those who tried Twitter once or twice and just didn’t “get it&# - Twitter is a nonsensical waste of time. Here are ten ways Twitter can be a productivity tool: 1. The Love - Feel the Twitter Love. MORE >>

Talk naturally turned to the implications of Google’s controversial  integration of Google+ into its search results – a move that must both terrify (OMG, Google is gunning for us!) as well as delight (Holy cow, Google is breaking its core promise to its users!). Google+: Now Serving 90 Million. MORE >>