Facebook’s new promoted posts are an excellent way to buy your way into more news feeds and drive visits to your content. Before you turn on promoted posts and call it a day, here are a few things to understand before forking over your media spend.

Nextag isn't ranking on Google, so their search results must be biased, argues CEO Jeffrey Katz. But really, creating a compelling website that will rank atop Google’s search results is “gritty, at times miserable, and above all bloody hard work.”

The online ad industry raked in more than ever in a first quarter this year, though the rate of growth has slowed since Q1 2011. The Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that online ad revenue hit $8.4 billion in the first three months of 2012.

Social shopping app Glimpse aims to fill in the gaps in data collected by Facebook and retailers themselves by marrying their crawl data with Facebook’s Open Graph, allowing for activity analysis, social recommendations, and a fun way to shop.

Bing has announced an alliance with Encyclopedia Britannica that will see the search engine present snippets of encyclopedic information – a brief overview, coupled with a thumbnail image and other facts – within its organic search results.