Bug: Google Social Search Goes Offline Temporarily

Nov 16, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Over the weekend, I received several emails, noticed dozens of Tweets, saw several forum posts and noticed for myself that Google Social Search experimental search feature went offline. If you have opt in to the Social Search feature at google.com/experimental you will notice an error on your Google searches that reads, “The experiment you’re trying [...]

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Track Google Sidewiki Comments Via RSS

Nov 16, 2009 at 9:24am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google Sidewiki launched in September, giving Google Toolbar users the ability to comment on your web site in a new way. Tracking those comments meant you had to have the Google Toolbar installed and check those comments manually. That is no longer true. The SEO Mofo blog, in their post How to Monitor Google [...]

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Google Gets Water On The Moon Logo

Nov 14, 2009 at 4:35pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

NASA said yesterday it had discovered water on the moon, and Google — always big on space exploration — wasted no time producing a special logo to celebrate the event. Google’s backing a contest to put a private rover on the moon. Who knows? Maybe one of those rovers will visit sources of water. And we’ll [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 13, 2009

Nov 13, 2009 at 5:08pm ET by Matt McGee   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:

Switzerland Suing Google Over Street View Switzerland is taking Google to court over privacy concerns related to Google’s Street View service. The BBC reports that Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer is leading the [...]

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Making Online Marketing Relevant: SMN Webcast Tuesday, Nov. 17

Nov 13, 2009 at 5:04pm ET by Search Engine Land   

Tuesday at Search Marketing Now, Shari Thurow and Andrew Hally will present a webcast, “Making Online Marketing Relevant and Responsive: Tactics and a Tool for Success.” The webcast will be in two parts: Part I covers how to segment your target audience via keywords, user response, geolocation and more. Part II looks at a [...]

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Switzerland Suing Google Over Street View

Nov 13, 2009 at 2:37pm ET by Matt McGee   

Switzerland is taking Google to court over privacy concerns related to Google’s Street View service. The BBC reports that Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer is leading the country’s case. Mr Thuer is especially concerned about people shown in sensitive locations such as hospitals, prisons or schools. He also said that the height of the camera was problematic [...]

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Obama: Tops For “Who Is Failure” In Google

Nov 13, 2009 at 1:35pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

I’d thought the googlebombs relating to “miserable failure” and “failure” had finally been defused earlier this year. Guess not. Ranking tops in Google right now, the official White House page for US President Barack Obama:

I’ve not heard of any active campaign to linkbomb Obama to the top for these words, so I’m guessing this is [...]

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Bing Maps Hops The Pond: Now In The UK

Nov 13, 2009 at 10:18am ET by Greg Sterling   

You may not have known this but the Microsoft Maps experience in the UK was totally different than in the US. The former was based on multiMap, a company Microsoft acquired in 2007. Here’s what the UK experience looks like with multiMap:

Here’s what a Bing Maps version of London looks like:

The Bing version is quite [...]

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Day Three: PubCon Vegas 2009

Nov 12, 2009 at 7:51pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Day three is just about complete of PubCon Vegas 2009, at least the conference sessions. I thought I share many of the session coverage I found written on the various blogs throughout the day. Here is PubCon Vegas day three coverage:

Best of PubCon 2009, Managing Greatness Competitive Intelligence: Know Thy Competitor Well, outspokenmedia.com Holiday SEO: [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 12, 2009

Nov 12, 2009 at 5:00pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:

Why I’m NOT Drinking The “Real-time Local Search” Kool-Aid I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the hype that [...]

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Yahoo Launches Mobile Site En Español

Nov 12, 2009 at 11:29am ET by Greg Sterling   

Yahoo has smartly launched a Spanish Language version of its mobile homepage. The company cites Census data that reflect a population of 46 million Hispanic people in the US. Yahoo also cited comScore data that show tremendous mobile internet growth among Hispanics, which is “outpacing that of all other groups, with 88% of Hispanics consuming [...]

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Google Buying Back Shares To Offset “Dilution” Effect Of AdMob Purchase

Nov 12, 2009 at 10:57am ET by Greg Sterling   

During Google’s third quarter earnings call CEO Eric Schmidt expressed a kind of philosophical objection to corporate stock repurchase programs. But now in the wake of the $750 million acquisition of AdMob Google is going to do its first stock buy back to prevent investor dilution from the event. During the Q3 earnings call the following [...]

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Google Upgrades Movie Search

Nov 12, 2009 at 10:20am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google announced they have made enhancements to their movie search feature. The enhancements include:

Detailed movie pages Genre filters New map view Enhanced movie portal page

Here are some screen shots of the new movie results from Google:

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Day Two: PubCon Vegas 2009

Nov 11, 2009 at 7:58pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Day two is just about complete of PubCon Vegas 2009, at least the conference sessions. I thought I share many of the session coverage I found written on the various blogs throughout the day. Here is PubCon Vegas day two coverage:

Keynote: Vegas Strip Hotel Marketing Departments, outspokenmedia.com Live from Pubcon Vegas: How do Social [...]

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Google Upgrades Keywords Report In Webmaster Tools

Nov 11, 2009 at 6:31pm ET by Matt McGee   

Google has announced an upgrade to the Keywords report that’s available in Webmaster Tools. The report now features a daily update of the most common keywords that Google found while crawling a web site.

And each keyword is linked to another report that details up to “10 top pages” where the keyword was found.

It’s a [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 11, 2009

Nov 11, 2009 at 5:53pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:

Google AdWords Expands Product Ads Google announced they are expanding the product ads within the AdWords listing that they have been testing for a while. Google said, in the U.S., searchers should see them [...]

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Google AdWords Expands Product Ads

Nov 11, 2009 at 5:51pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google announced they are expanding the product ads within the AdWords listing that they have been testing for a while. Google said, in the U.S., searchers should see them more frequently. It is however still a beta but Google will continue to expand it over time. Here are the key features:

Pay only for results: [...]

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Google Adds World Bank Data To Search Results

Nov 11, 2009 at 2:52pm ET by Matt McGee   

Not wanting to be overshadowed by today’s Bing / Walfram Alpha collaboration, Google has announced the addition of World Bank data to its search results … or, as Danny Sullivan said on Twitter, “we got structured data, too.” Google says it’s now pulling in 17 World Development Indicators from the World Bank, and uses a search [...]

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Bing Gains Search Share In October: Experian Hitwise

Nov 11, 2009 at 2:42pm ET by Matt McGee   

While Bing is happily rolling out new search features, Microsoft can also smile at the latest search engine market share report from Experian Hitwise.

Google is still light years ahead of Yahoo, Bing, and Ask … but Experian Hitwise shows Bing with a 7% increase during October, while both Google and Yahoo saw small drops in [...]

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Google Adds SafeSearch Locking

Nov 11, 2009 at 1:15pm ET by Matt McGee   

With parents and teachers in mind, Google has announced a new feature that lets users lock SafeSearch on the most strict setting. Using the new feature requires users to enter a Google account password, and when the feature is in effect, Google-colored balls will show at the top of the search results page.

As Google explains: “Even from [...]

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