SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 1, 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: Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they […]
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: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this. As a result of the apparent monitoring, Bing’s relevancy is potentially improving (or getting […]
- Google’s Content Farm Algorithm Not Live Yet
Last Friday, I reported that Google has launched a new content based algorithm to improve their search quality. I made an assumption that this was related to the content farms algorithm being live, but I was wrong to make that assumption. After we spoke with Matt Cutts today, we learned that the new algorithm that […]
- Google Finally Adds Check-Ins To Latitude, With A Couple Twists
Google has finally added full check-in capabilities to its Latitude product, following in the footsteps of Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Facebook, and others that have been doing check-ins for some time now. Latitude has been a tool that lets one user share his/her location with friends, but now it goes further and allows users to check-in […]
- Google Pledges Crack Down on Unscrupulous AdWords Resellers
Attention AdWords resellers falsely trumpeting your “special” relationship with Google and the discounted pricing you can offer as a result: Google is coming after you. The company today rolled out new policies for third parties, such as agencies, who offer their clients AdWords as part of their services. Under the terms, agencies must provide their […]
- Bing Admits Using Customer Search Data, Says Google Pulled ‘Spy-Novelesque Stunt’
Bing has formally responded to Google’s charges that Bing is copying search results, accusing Google of trying a “spy-novelesque stunt” and defending the use of customer activity to influence Bing’s search results. Harry Shum, Corporate VP at Bing, is speaking right now at the Bing/Big Think “Future of Search” event (see Danny Sullivan’s live coverage […]
- Live Blogging Bing’s Future Of Search Event
Bing and Big Think are hosting”Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box,” a four hour event today in San Francisco looking at the future of search. We’ve got various luminaries lined-up. Google will be on a panel. There’s that whole Google says Bing is copying them thing that just happened. Plus, Blekko’s here — and it […]
- Blekko Bans Content Farms From Its Index
TechCrunch reports Blekko, the SlashTag search engine, has made the bold move of banning some “content farms” from their index completely. Rich Skrenta, Blekko’s CEO confirmed the ban with us today. He told us Blekko has decided to ban the “top 20 spam sites from blekko’s index entirely, based on our users click /spam on […]
- Speculation, Intrigue Surround Google’s Delayed Cloud-Tunes Music Service
Google’s streaming-from-the-cloud-to-any-device music service was supposed to launch at the end of last year. Vic Gundotra demonstrated it at the 2010 Google developer conference. However music-rights and licensing issues have so far delayed it according to several reports. This, despite Google offering boatloads of cash to music labels. Now several outlets are reporting that the […]
- 5 Social Sites You May Not Have Heard About (Yet)
Sure, the current social buzz might be about Quora, Tumblr and Twitter, but there are a variety of great upcoming social sites that can help you accomplish tasks and are quite frankly fun to use! I have highlighted my five favorite social up-and-comers and how you can use them to benefit your causes and social […]
- Yandex & Seznam: Local Powers That Be In Europe
A few weeks ago, the Czech online industry suddenly was in an uproar. The search engine Seznam was seemingly outranked by Google in market share. With almost the entire of Europe being dominated by Google, the Czech Republic, together with the Russian Federation, held an exceptional position. In these countries, Google isn’t the most dominant […]
- A Link Building Blueprint: The Foundation
Over the next several months, I plan to use my column here at Link Week to lay out a link building blueprint you can use as a guide in your linking efforts. We’ll start with foundational tactics and some of the side opportunities they offer, and keep going into the more detailed “advanced” techniques toward the end. If you […]
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Massive Loophole Enables Squatting in Google Apps for Domains System, lockergnome.com
Business Issues
- EBay Hires Bing and Facebook Veterans to Build Better Search Features, AllThingsD
- Bing Engineer Accuses Google Of Profiting Off Search Spam, Business Insider
- Google’s Childish Response To Microsoft Using Google To Increase Bing Relevance, TechDirt
- In Defense Of Google, thefuturebuzz.com
- LEAKED: AOL’s Master Plan, Business Insider
- Now Microsoft confirms Yahoo! as the data leak culprit, Windows Phone Secrets
- Yes, Bing Has Been Copying Google Search Results FOR YEARS, businessinsider.com
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project, Official Google Blog
- Google Responds To Google Maps Review Reply Issues, Search Engine Roundtable
- New Online: Interactive Street Level Crime Maps For England and Wales, ResourceShelf
- Street View’s Most Breathtaking Rides, Google Sightseeing
Link Building
- Finding Internal Links Pointing to your Target URL, Shimon Sandler
Paid Search & Contextual
- Discover v201008: Product ads and criteria, AdWords API Blog
Searching
- 6 Search Operators I’d Be Lost Without, outspokenmedia.com
- Bing Bing Trends: Top football search trends, Bing Search Blog
- State Library of Kansas Releases State History Database, Powered by Gale, ResourceShelf
SEO & SEM
- SEO Guidelines for Mobile Websites, Bruce Clay Australia
- Critiquing An SEO Interview Email, Search Engine Roundtable
- Domain names and SEO, Vertical Leap Blog
- Five Ways To Rank Better TODAY In The Localized SERPs, SEO.com
- Is comma a separator in a title tag?, YouTube
- Is SEO Immoral?, SEOmoz
- Mobile SEO – How can Search Results and Conversions differ on mobile, Bruce Clay Australia
Social Media
- A New Design, Promotion Stats and more Notifications, Digg About
- Where Are Social Media Marketers Seeing the Most Success?, eMarketer
Video, Music & Image Search
- Updated Community Guidelines!, Flickr Blog
- Use YouTube to Build Your Blog’s Audience, ProBlogger
Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
- Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results – From Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land: "Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this."
- Purchased Link Penalties: There’s No Time to Waste – Bruce Clay himself with a guest post that is probably the strongest caution against paid links that I've read to date.
- After Just A Year, Even Google Surprised By Success Of Click-To-Call – Fascinating information coming out of Google regarding the success advertisers are having with mobile "click to call" ads.
Related stories
New on Search Engine Land