Senior Vice President of Yahoo! Search Products, Shashi Set, said, ” I am proud to announce that the transition of organic search between Yahoo! and Microsoft is complete.”

A Bing blog post stated:

Today I am happy to share that Bing is powering Yahoo!’s search results in the US and Canada (English only for now, the other languages will come in the weeks and months ahead).

So what’s next? We continue to work hard on the migration to adCenter, and are optimistic about completing this phase later this fall. As we have said all along, our primary goal is to provide advertisers with a quality transition experience in 2010, while being mindful of the holiday season.

This is a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo! and our customers, and we are happy to report the transition has gone smoothly and we feel great about the progress our search alliance has been making over the summer.

The full transition from Yahoo powered search results to Bing powered search results began roughly a week ago and is now fully live.

Those looking for proof that Bing is now powering Yahoo can simply conduct a Yahoo search and scroll to the bottom of the page. At the bottom, there will be a small “Powered by Bing” tagline.

For more information about Search Engine Optimization, contact KEO Marketing.

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It offers attendees the opportunity to learn from industry experts and corporations that have been successful in social media and digital marketing. SMAZ aims to bring together the best and brightest in digital marketing to share their knowledge and experience with businesses.

Presenters will range from Fortune 200 executives to SEM architects and Social Media authors all with years of experience and willing to share the challenges and rewards of implementing external and internal Social media strategies. This event is a great opportunity to network with the best and brightest social media minds and learn policies, processes, tool sets and monitoring techniques from the experts.

Social Media AZ will be held on Thursday, September 9, 2010 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the MadCap Theaters located at 730 S. Mill Ave. in Tempe, Ariz.

Interested Parties can register for Social Media AZ online at http://smaz3-KEO.eventbrite.com/ or for more information visit http://socialmediaaz.org/.

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This marketing survey will attempt to compile lead generation and nurturing practices of Arizona companies. The survey should take less than three minutes to complete and once finished respondents will receive a complimentary copy of the results and will be registered to win an iPad.

For more information about this survey or to find out if you are qualified to participate visit http://www.allegramarketingaz.com/survey.

KEO Marketing is committed to developing marketing strategies and plans that help clients succeed online. Some of the world’s largest brands have depended on KEO for marketing programs that deliver tangible and substantial results.

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Starting today, if you’re a verified Google Places business owner, you can publicly respond to reviews written by Google Maps users on the Place Page for your business . . . For example, a thoughtful response acknowledging a problem and offering a solution can often turn a customer who had an initially negative experience into a raving supporter. A simple thank you or a personal message can further reinforce a positive experience. Ultimately, business owner responses give you the opportunity to learn what you do well, what you can do better, and show your customers that you’re listening.

Google has even provided business owners with a guide and some helpful hints on how to respond to reviewers. However, Google Places does not allow business owners to respond to all reviews that appear on Google Place Pages, just those that are written by Google users directly at Google.

Google is not the first local search site to allow customers to respond to customer reviews. Many yellow page Web sites as well as Yelp and TripAdvisor have allowed business owners to respond to reviews for quite some time.

Still this illustrates that Google wishes to build direct relationships and deepen engagements with small business owners through Google Places.

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