Video and search. Why it matters.

Do you know what the second largest search engine is? No, it’s not Bing. Yahoo? Nah. It’s YouTube. Yeah, really. Did you know that almost half of search results yeild video thumbnails? And as you might guess, those thumbnails tend to get clicked on. Is it time to get serious about video? You bet.

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2011 – A retrospective

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