Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Search & Real Time Madness
Make no mistake. I think real time search is indeed one of the most exciting developments that’s happened in the search space in years. But I also think search engines are acting a bit like cats getting a sniff of catnip. They’re high on real time search and acting kind of crazy. This [...]
- What’s Your Plan With A New Site Acquisition?
When companies acquire a new web property, they often integrate the content with little regard for preserving the site’s performance in the search engines. Even worse, they may simply disregard content based on branding guidelines, technical restrictions, or other reasons that cause that page to go away. Developing an SEO site acquisition strategy would ensure that [...]
- Yahoo Adds Twitter To Search Results
Just a few weeks after adding Twitter to its news shortcuts, Yahoo has announced that it’s adding Twitter to its main search results, too.
That’s a search for “climate gate” with tweets showing at the bottom of the search results page. Yahoo says this isn’t a replacement for the news shortcut tweets, and that this integration [...]
- MSN: Bing’s Not-So-Secret Weapon
The recently redesigned MSN is now in preview. We wrote about it when the redesign was announced in early November. The portal has a massive global audience of more than 600 million according to Microsoft. Different countries will have somewhat different looking MSNs, which it turns out is the source of roughly 45% of Bing’s query [...]
- AOL Returns As Independent Company, Search Decision Looms
Yesterday was the first day of trading for the “new” AOL, an independent company with a market cap of $2.5 billion dollars. When AOL “bought” TimeWarner a decade ago in an all-stock transaction worth $182 billion there was a near consensus that the combined company represented the future of media and publishing. It made a [...]
- Last Chance for Lowest Rates on SMX West: Register Now
Time’s up! You have only until the end of tomorrow (December 11) to get the lowest ticket price for Search Marketing Expo – SMX West. Register now and pay only $1095 for three days of exceptional content, invaluable connections, and all with the essential conveniences SMX events provide. SMX West will take place March 2-4, [...]
- Google Mobile iPhone App Updated With Accents & More
Google announced the new version of their Google Mobile App is available on iTunes. The new version has some new features including:
More search results on a page Web pages open within the app and not in a new Safari window The Bells and Whistles feature is now easily accessible in settings A new “waveform” setting, which is [...]
- SES Chicago ‘09: Day Three Live Blogging
Day three of SES Chicago 2009 is now complete, and that ends the standard conference sessions. Below is coverage from blogs that I found live blogging the event. Here is day three coverage:
Black Hat, White Hat: Does It Really Matter Anymore?, BruceClay.com Facebook Rockstars Roundtable: Marketing for the Other Internet, BruceClay.com Facebook Rockstars RoundTable: Marketing [...]
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Yandex to Power Search Ads on Bing, Quintura blog
- Google Was Rival Bidder As EBay Pursued Craigslist – EBay Exec, Wall Street Journal
- Google’s Terrible Hiring Question: The Document, Valleywag
- My Reaction to Eric Schmidt, Schneier on Security
- When Google Runs Your Life, Forbes
- Yahoo! CEO praises Tiger Woods infidelity, examiner.com
- Yahoo’s Morse Says Search Business Is Improving, paidContent.org
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Google Favorite Places – Yay or Nay?, LocalSearchPilot.com
- Google’s Favorite Places Discriminates Against Some Local Businesses, Small Business SEM
- Bing to Add Hyperlocal Blogs In Maps, Hyperlocal Blogger
Paid Search & Contextual
- A note about a messaging change in your AdSense account, Inside AdSense
- Discover v2009: validateOnly header, AdWords API Blog
- Google AdSense Serves Bold Text & Fonts, Search Engine Journal
- Keyword Advertising Lawsuit Survives Motion to Dismiss on Genericness Grounds–FragranceNet v. Les Parfums, Eric Goldman
Searching
- Search Appliance gets real-time: Twitter feeds now available on the GSA, Official Google Enterprise Blog
- What the Google Web will look like in 10 years, Royal Pingdom
SEM Industry
- Why Writing About Yahoo Makes Me Sad, Barry Schwartz
SEO & SEM
- First Link Priority with Images, All Things SEM
- 10 SEO Blogs Accepting Guest Posts : Promote Yourself, Search Engine Journal
- Bing Requires 3 MSNBot Crawls To Register 301 Redirects, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Barcodes and Place Rank Transforming Local Search, SEO By The Sea
- Google Promises to Speed Up AdSense for GoogleBot, Search Engine Roundtable
- Learn WordPress SEO from Joost de Valk, Search Engine Journal
- The anatomy of a deceptive Tweet spamming Google Real-Time Search, sebastians-pamphlets.com
- The Business of Search: AdWords Reform: Low-Hanging Fruit, Traffick
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
- MSN To Add Local Video Clips From NBC, Hearst, paidContent.org
- Apple Plots Reboot of iTunes for Web, Wall Street Journal
- Buy a DVD on Amazon; Start Watching the Movie in Minutes, newteevee.com
Other Items
- Vote For The Doodle 4 Google UK Winner, Search Engine Roundtable
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