SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 4, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Android Now 40 Percent Of Smartphone Market According to the latest comScore data, Android handsets now constitute 40 percent of the US smartphone market. Number two Apple gained modestly, and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Report: Android Now 40 Percent Of Smartphone Market
According to the latest comScore data, Android handsets now constitute 40 percent of the US smartphone market. Number two Apple gained modestly, and RIM, Windows and Nokia were all in negative territory. Samsung, the largest Android handset maker, also had the greatest overall share of mobile users. Extrapolating from a survey base of 30,000 US mobile […]
- Google’s Patent Screed Emerges As PR Blunder
Google’s mostly ill-conceived patent screed from yesterday has opened the floodgates of discussion about Google’s (Android’s) vulnerability to third party patents owned by Microsoft, Oracle and Apple. Among the throng of comments and opinions about the episode are a few Google sympathizers, such as Forbes blogger Tim Lee who believes Google should advocate for the […]
- How Retailers Can Improve Product Visibility Using Structured Markup
How many times have you heard this before? “If you sell products online, you can have the best-designed ecommerce site on the planet, but you won’t break any sales records if your customers can’t find you in the SERPs.” While it’s an age-old saw that you need to make your content findable, a huge percentage of […]
- A Step By Step Guide To Effective Online Article Marketing – Part II
Effective article marketing is not about submitting articles to article submission sites. Effective article marketing is about writing quality articles that are useful or interesting to your market, using some on your own website and getting some published on other related websites. Previously in A Step By Step Guide To Effective Online Article Marketing, I covered […]
- Google’s Spam Report Page Gets “Biggest Refresh” In Years
Google has completely redone the spam report form inside of Google Webmaster Tools, and in announcing it on Twitter tonight, Matt Cutts called it “the biggest refresh of our spam report form in, oh, say 10 years.” If you’re logged in to Webmaster Tools, the new spam report page is accessible at www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1. And calling […]
- Google Lashes Out Against Apple, Microsoft Patent “Conspiracy”
Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond has lashed out at rivals Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and unnamed others for waging what he says is “a hostile, organized campaign against Android,” using “bogus patents.” Drummond asserts that Google’s rivals have joined together in an “anti-competitive” cabal of sorts that uses patent law almost as a pretext to […]
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Gmail for mobile, now sharper and smoother, Official Gmail Blog
- Google News highlights unique content with Editors’ Picks, Official Google Blog
- Try out a new look and keyboard shortcuts for your documents list, Google Docs Blog
- Yahoo! Search BOSS Adds Blog Search, Yahoo Search Blog
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Bing Mobile Adds a Great Feature: Maps of 400 Shopping Malls, Read/Write Web
Link Building
Searching
- It’s time for a revolution in Web search, UW professor says, seattlepi.com
- Google Logging Users: Google Logger Popup, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google to Revive Realtime Search, Thanks to Google+, Mashable
SEO & SEM
- August 2011 Google Webmaster Report: Panda 2.3, Webmaster Tools & More, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Adwords: Advanced Geographic Targeting, Alan Rothstein
- How Google, Bing & iStock Define Marketing, Outspoken Media
- Panda updates still felt, Search Engine People
- WordPress Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin Upgraded & Re-released, BlogStorm
Social Media
- Randi Zuckerberg to leave Facebook to start social media firm, CNET News
- Google Bans Facebook Product Director Blake Ross From Google+, businessinsider.com
- LinkedIn Beats The Street In First Quarter As A Public Company; Revenue Up 120 Percent To $121M, TechCrunch
Video, Music & Image Search
- Former Google Engineer Builds Turntable.fm Clone: Rolling.fm, Wired
- Introducing Yahoo! WebPlayer, YDN Blog
Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
- Link Building in 2011 – The Todd and Jim Show – Continuation of 'Link Building in 2011' by Rae Hoffman.
- Making the Case For SEO in a Social Media World – In the last few years social media has jumped to the forefront of online marketing for many small businesses. Some business owners aren't even bothering to market (or in some cases even build) their websites anymore. Are we entering an age where SEO just doesn't matter?
- Book Report: Affiliate marketing strategies for beginners, by Nick Reese – Arienne Holland reviews the book and Q & A's with the writer of Affiliate marketing strategies for beginners, Nick Reese.
- Science fair gold medalist, 17, invents better way to search Internet – Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Schiefer has found a better way to search small documents, such as tweets and Facebook statuses – all for his Grade 11 science fair project.
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