Google Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation
Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the world its first glimpse at what Google had in mind for Glass. Even though Google described it as “an early concept video,” you can clearly see that local search and navigation was a key aspect of [...]
May 24, 2013 at 12:32 pm ET by Matt McGee | Comment | Read Story
Report: Google To Bid For Waze — To Shut It Down?
According to a just-published Bloomberg report, Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month, rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online. Other parties (Apple, Microsoft) may now also be interested in the social mapping service. According to the Bloomberg report: Waze is fielding expressions [...]
May 23, 2013 at 9:20 pm ET by Greg Sterling | Comment | Read Story
Penguin 2.0 Losers: Porn Sites, Game Sites, & Big Brands Like Dish.com & The Salvation Army
Google’s fourth Penguin update — what the company is calling Penguin 2.0 — hit last night, and less than 24 hours later we’re already getting a first chance to look at what sites might be considered “losers” in terms of search visibility. In a nutshell, the list includes: porn sites, game sites and big brands [...]
May 23, 2013 at 4:14 pm ET by Matt McGee | Comments (27) | Read Story
SEARCH NEWS BRIEFS
- SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 24, 2013
- Google Voice Search Coming To iOS, Chrome For Android Gets An Update
- Bing Officially Releases Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0
- Foursquare Updates Android & iOS App With New "Super-Specific" Search Filters
- SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 23, 2013
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FEATURES & ANALYSIS
- Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live
- Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug
- Interflora Wins Five-Year Battle Over Google AdWords Trademark Infringement
- Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome
- Google Glass Diary, Part 3: How Search Works On Google Glass
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Search In Pics: Google Robots With Lightsabers, Bloomberg Cutting Google Cake & The Simpsons Street View
Search In Pictures - Barry Schwartz
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
5 Excel Skills Every Marketer Should Know
Search & Analytics - Annie Cushing
One question I get asked a lot is this: what Excel skills are most important for marketers to learn? I have whittled that interminable list down to five skills that I believe are absolutely essential for marketers to know, presented below in order of importance. Table Formatting I believe that table formatting is the baseline [...]
Programming Data Collection For SEO Research
All Things SEO - Tom Schmitz
Last month, I showed you three tricks I use when gathering data on websites. I used these techniques to download webpages into a local folder. In and of themselves, these procedures are not SEO; however, a search engine optimization professional working on a large or enterprise website ought to know how to do this. In this [...]
Google’s Hunger For Structured Markup
All Things SEO - Barbara Starr
Google is keen for structured markup — to put it mildly. In the not-too-distant past, I wrote about Google’s Data Highlighter for event data, a tool which allows webmasters to indicate structured data for events without having to actually mark up the site’s HTML code. It has the charming feature that the resultant extracted data is [...]
Welcome To The Mobile Era Of Search
Enterprise SEM - Josh Dreller
It’s rare when you can pinpoint the moment of a major game changer for an industry to a single day. Usually, these shifts happen over time; and then one day, you look back and realize how momentous a particular event really was. For paid search, there have been many catalysts that have accelerated the industry, [...]
Non-Descriptive Labeling Can Hurt Your SEO & Site Usability
B2B Search Marketing - Harrison Jones
Those who work in the B2B sector have probably seen non-descriptive labeling used on just about every site they’ve worked on. Such labels may include title tags, URLs, H1 tags or navigation labels. Aside from irritating users, poor labeling practices will also hurt your site’s SEO. The concept of “context auditing” should be part of every search [...]
5 Excel Skills Every Marketer Should Know
One question I get asked a lot is this: what Excel skills are most important for marketers to learn? I have whittled that interminable list down to five skills that I believe are absolutely essential for marketers to know, presented below in order of importance. Table Formatting I believe that table formatting is the baseline [...]
May 24, 2013 at 9:30 am ET by Annie Cushing | Comments (16) | Read Story
Programming Data Collection For SEO Research
Last month, I showed you three tricks I use when gathering data on websites. I used these techniques to download webpages into a local folder. In and of themselves, these procedures are not SEO; however, a search engine optimization professional working on a large or enterprise website ought to know how to do this. In this [...]
May 23, 2013 at 9:57 am ET by Tom Schmitz | Comments (6) | Read Story
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- Google Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation
- Report: Google To Bid For Waze -- To Shut It Down?
- Penguin 2.0 Losers: Porn Sites, Game Sites, & Big Brands Like Dish.com & The Salvation Army
- Bing News Adds Visual Carousel & Searches Years Back (Not Just Two Weeks)
- Still Seeing Post-Penguin Web Spam In Google Results? Let Google Know
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- Google Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation
- Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live
- Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug
- Interflora Wins Five-Year Battle Over Google AdWords Trademark Infringement
- Google's Impressive "Conversational Search" Goes Live On Chrome
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