Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Bing Maps Adds Variety Of Hi-Res Image Improvements Bing Maps has announced a series of updates to its high-resolution imagery, including expanded coverage, better mapping of ocean floors, cloud filtering and more. The prime features that Bing is touting involve what it calls “top of the world” imagery — those hi-res, top-down images. Improvements there include: Cloud cover filtering: Bing processes its base [...]
- The Real Reason Why Google Is Dropping The Tablet vs. Desktop Distinction? It’s The User Context, Stupid! There’s been some grumbling among PPC marketers over the last few weeks about a few specific changes in Enhanced Campaigns – in particular, the loss of tablet vs. desktop segmentation, which was previously a best practice for mobile advertising strategy. One of my well-respected colleagues put it bluntly: Now, if you’ll forgive my attention-grabbing headline [...]
- In Another “Right to Be Forgotten” Case, UK Officials Threaten Legal Action Against People Posting Pictures Of Convicted Killer Although slightly different than the Spanish case discussed yesterday, the “right to be forgotten” has reared its head again — this time in the UK.” UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve has threatened legal action against anyone posting pictures of convicted killer Jon Venables online. TechDirt offers a short summary of the underlying facts of the [...]
- Google Testing Android/Chromebook-Like Navigation Element For Web Site Google is testing yet another navigation method to find all the various Google services and products, one that potentially serves to unify Google’s website with behavior on Android and Chromebooks. Google Operating System spotted this new test where you click on a box and it expands to show you more search options from Google. Here [...]
- Facebook Shares How People Are Using Graph Search: Finding Friends Tops List Today, Facebook has shared information that “hundreds of thousands” of people are using its Facebook Graph Search service, highlighting that people still use it like “old’ Facebook search — to find friends. Facebook then suggests some ways to go beyond that, for those who have the new search feature. New Ways To Find Friends From [...]
- Have You Considered Privacy Issues When Using Robots.txt & The Robots Meta Tag? Understanding the difference between the robots.txt file and Robots <META> Tag is critical for search engine optimization and security. It can have a profound impact on the privacy of your website and customers as well. The first thing to know is what robots.txt files and Robots <META> Tags are. Robots.txt Robots.txt is a file you place in your [...]
- Majestic SEO Now Supports 9 Languages Majestic SEO announced that their SEO toolset is now supported in 9 different languages. The languages they currently support include English, Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. Who helped translate the popular SEO tool? The Majestic SEO ambassadors including Branko Rihtman, Dixon Jones, Alberto André, Francois Goube, Miguel Lopez, Sante J. [...]
- Live @ SMX West: Converting The Mobile Customer As many pundits predicted, the number of people accessing the internet via mobile devices has exploded. It’s not hope or hype any longer: Both comScore and Nielsen released reports this week conclusively demonstrating that 2012 was the tipping-point year in which all doubts about the disruptive impact of mobile should have been brushed aside. [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Hewlett-Packard Is First Company With 1 Million Followers On LinkedIn
- Foursquare Expands Credit Card Partnerships With Visa & MasterCard Integration
- Book Review: “Content Strategy For Mobile” by Karen McGrane
- Creating And Using Facebook Custom Audiences
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for January 2013, comScore
- China’s Largest Search Engine Baidu Launches English Site For Developers, TechCrunch
- Chrome 25 Prerender Bug With rel=next Can Lead To AdSense Impressions Loop, Search Engine Roundtable
- Drag and Drop Links to Google Translate, Google Operating System
- Upcoming Google Translate Features, Google Operating System
Business Issues
- Google Called Before EU Data Watchdogs Over Privacy Concerns, Bloomberg
- Google Helped Honor FTC Chairman During Agency Inquiry, Bloomberg
- Samsung Fails to Block Apple IPhone, IPad Sales in Japan, Bloomberg
- UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by… Samsung!, FOSS Patents
Local Search & Maps
- Foursquare CEO Looks Beyond Mobile Handsets: Anywhere There’s A Screen, We Want To Be On It, TechCrunch
Link Building
SEM Industry
- John Doherty from Distilled Teaches MnSearch about Technical SEO, mnsearch.org
- The 68 Most Authoritative Search Marketing Blogs In One Custom Search Engine, Search Engine People
- Women Are The Building Blocks Of The SEO Industry, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- 5 Myths About Google’s Algorithms, internetmarketingninjas.com
- Enhanced campaigns in AdWords Editor 10.0, Inside AdWords
- How to Use Google Authorship to Improve Your Local SEO Efforts, Ethical SEO Blog
- Is Your PPC Campaign Passive or Active?, Wordtracker
- SEO for WordPress Blogs: Getting the Basics Right, Search Engine Journal
- Social SEO Insights for the New Age of Search, Search Engine Journal
- The Poetry of SEO, iAcquire Blog
- What is SEO Cocitation?, Search Engine Watch
- What Makes a Great SEO Proposal?, quicksprout.com
- You Must Choose a Winning PPC Ad, Certified Knowledge
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