Search engine giant, Google is set to host an online marketing challenge which is due to run between January and June 2012. The campaign will serve as a valuable exercise for undergraduate or graduate students in classes such as advertising, ecommerce, integrated marketing communication, management information systems, and marketing or new media technologies. Final reports will be due by June 2012 and winners of the challenge will be announced late July next year.

Bing is set to host a schema.org workshop on the 21st September 2011 in Silicon Valley following many discussions and feedback received after 2 June this year when it was announced that the search engine would collaborate with Google and Yahoo in order to create and support a set of standards for structured data markup on web pages. The workshop will serve as a “working session” to all who participate covering feedback and discussing options.