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 […]

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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:

  • 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 […]

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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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