SearchCap: Pinterest Guided Search & Baidu Earnings Report

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

From Search Engine Land:

• Baidu Beats Expectations, Posts 59 Pct Revenue Growth In Q1 2014
  Chinese search engine leader and advertising provider, Baidu, released financials for the first quarter of the year reporting total revenues of $1.53 billion USD at $1.24 earnings per share. That’s a 59.1 percent increase in revenue from the previous year and beats street expectations on both fronts. Analysts had expected the company to report $1.5 billion […]
• Advanced SEO Experiments: Google’s Title Tag Changes
  Do you accept standard SEO practices? Or do you prefer to evolve beyond the basics? Before I get too far, let me state that just because you can apply advanced optimization techniques does not mean you should. In most cases, SEO essentials will provide more and speedier improvements long before advanced optimization techniques need come […]
• Search In Pics: Jamie Foxx At Google, Panda Boarding Train & Yahoo JFK Airport Ads
  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. Protesting Larry Page At Google Irving: Source: Twitter Yahoo Advertising Ads At JFK Security Line: Source: […]
• Pinterest Releases Guided Search, A Visual Discovery Tool For Mobile Devices
  Pinterest wants to help its users find what they are looking for even if they don’t know what exactly that is. The company’s solution, Guided Search, is a predictive search engine powered by social curation. Announced last night at Pinterest’s San Francisco headquarters, Guided Search was presented by CEO Ben Silbermann as a breakthrough for […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• Weather Channel Introduces New App With Real-Time Wild Posting & Crazy Green Screen Stunt
• Twitter Gives Advertisers Another Option, Website Cards, To Drive Click-Throughs
• Surprise: CTRs For Skippable Video Ads Fare Well Compared To Non-Skippable Ads
• How To Produce More Quality Content, More Quickly — Practical Tips
• The New Shopper Marketing Paradigm: Centering On The Shopper
• “Game Of Thrones” Leads YouTube’s List Of Top Trailers For Q1 2014 With 22 Million Views
• Adobe Report: Focus On Photos, Video & Posting On Fridays For Better Facebook Results
• Pinterest Announces Guided Search, Personalized Discovery Curated By Pinners
• What Would Happen If Google Really Did Kill Google+?

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• Friday Commentary: Trust and Google, State of Digital

Local & Maps

• Good News, Bad News in the Apple Mapping & Business Listing World, Mike Blumenthal
• How Winning at Local Search is Like Winning The Hunger Games, Thunder SEO
• You Don’t Need a Website to Rank Well in Google Places, Local SEO Guide

Link Building

• Penguin 3.0 is Coming Soon. Will Your Site Survive?, linkresearchtools.com

Searching

• Google tests a new “search within” box in search results, allgoogletesting.blogspot.com
• So What is Pinterest’s Guided Search?, Tailwind
• Through the Google lens: search trends April 18-24, Official Google Blog

SEO

• How Long Tail Keywords Help Your SEO, Digital Third Coast

SEM / Paid Search

• 2% Display CTR, G+ Post Amplification! Is AdWords Social The New SEO?, aimClear Blog
• Google: Too Big To Fail?, Beyond the Paid
• How To Target Similar Customers in AdWords, blog.adstage.io

Search Marketing

• Video: Google Slaps PostJoint, Schema Actions, AdWords Updates & Vic Gundotra Leaves, Search Engine Roundtable