SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 29, 2012

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: Apollo’s Giant Leap In Computer Power Is One Small Step For Searchkind With the Apollo moon missions on many minds, after the death this weekend of the first moonwalker, Neil […]

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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: Apollo’s Giant Leap In Computer Power Is One Small Step For Searchkind

    With the Apollo moon missions on many minds, after the death this weekend of the first moonwalker, Neil Armstrong, Google has an interesting post out about how a single search uses as much computing power as consumed by the entire Apollo program. Much as been written about how little power the Apollo flight computers had, […]

  • A Birds-Eye View Of The Search & Display Lumascapes

    Ah, the Display Lumascape. While I’m not an expert in Slideshare, I’m pretty sure that no other ad-tech related slide has received close to the amount of views as Terry Kawaja’s ubiquitous representation of the digital ad industry.   But despite how helpful and how many views the Display Lumascape has received, few people seem aware […]

  • How To Engage The ZMOT To Be Findable, Relevant & Trustworthy

    As search engines continue on the path of rapid evolution, marketing is evolving in tandem as people search in different places at various times across different screens. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift where push messaging and mass consumption are evolving into a new paradigm of Relevance, Findability and Trust. It is […]

  • AdWords Adds Geo-Targeting Options in 11 Countries, Including Canadian Postal Codes

    Google is introducing some new geographical targeting options and tweaking others within AdWords, including making the switch to Nielsen DMAs for US metro areas and releasing postal code targeting for Canada. The changes come as the company rolls out city-level targeting and location extensions to new countries. In the US, the change means goodbye to […]

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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