Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- 8 Santa Trackers For Christmas Eve 2008, From NORAD Santa To Twitter
It’s Christmas Eve, and that means Santa Claus is out doing his run. But where is Santa right now? Thanks to the internet, there’s a huge number of ways to get Santa sightings. Below, a summary that covers online video sightings, Santa’s phone number (apparently he can talk while driving), email updates, tracking him via your mobile phone and yes, even getting Twitter updates: - Find Friends On Twitter With Twitter People Search
Twitter announced that you can now use their people search feature to find friends, family or colleagues that are using Twitter. For example, I wanted to see if any of my immediate family is on Twitter, so I searched for schwartz. It looks like I am the most popular Schwartz on Twitter (ahem). But it does list another 233 people with the name Schwartz, so I will scan through them to see if I know anyone.
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Summary of Multiple Google Docs Bugs Reports, Search Engine Roundtable
Business Issues
- Baidu and Music Copyright Society of China fail to reach agreement, Interfax China
- Yahoo hiring plans on, Indiatimes
Local, Maps & Mobile
Link Building
- Gift Giving Season, Great Time For Link Building, Search Engine Roundtable
Paid Search & Contextual
- Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 4, Search Engine Watch
- Google & Yahoo Pay Publishers Early for Holiday Season, Search Engine Roundtable
- Should Small Businesses Really Avoid PPC?, PPC Hero
Searching
- Looking for a Few Good Answers Online, Wall Street Journal
SEM Industry
- Changes and Significance in Search: Looking Back on 2008, WebProNews
- Letting of Newbie SEO Steam at Google Webmaster Help Groups, Search Engine Roundtable
- Top 10 Gifts to Give Your Favorite SEO, We Build Pages
SEO & SEM
- Google Says, Bounce Rates For Search Rankings "Spammable" & "Noisy", Search Engine Roundtable
- What the heck should we call *.domain.com?, SEOmoz
Social Media
- Twitter relaunches name search, still no tweet search on site, VentureBeat
- Facebook Bails on Project Playlist, Too, AllThingsD
- OMG, We’re Not BFFs Anymore? Getting ‘Unfriended’ Online Stings, Wall Street Journal
- The plight of branded apps and the future of social marketing, VentureBeat
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- How to Build a Brand Today – The Future of Your Online Business Depends on It
- How I Decide Who To “Follow Back” On Twitter
- 8 Ways Clients Can Help Their PPC Agency Succeed
- Digg Tip #01 – Friending Too Fast
- Twitter Has Made Dell $1 Million In Revenue
- How to Build Links with Lists
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