Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- The Paid Search Uncertainty Principle
In 1927, Werner von Heisenberg documented what he referred to as an “Uncertainty Principle” governing quantum mechanics. The Uncertainty Principle holds that an observation cannot precisely reveal both the position of a particle at a point in time and its momentum. The more the observation reveals about one, the less the observer can know about [...]
- Google’s First Hired Employee, Craig Silverstein, Quits
Kara Swisher reports Google’s first employee, Craig Silverstein, has decided to leave Google after about 14 years at the company. He is leaving Google to join the Khan Academy. Craig helped Google’s co-founders, Larry and Sergey, build the original Google search engine. He did this while in the Stanford University dorm rooms. Now he has [...]
- Foursquare Brings More Search Refinements To Mobile Apps
Calling it “personalized search for the real world,” Foursquare brought its mobile Explore functionality into its recently redesigned PC website roughly three weeks ago, and added some new search capabilities in the process. Those capabilities included the ability to filter places results by four categories: 1) “I haven’t been to yet” 2) “I have been [...]
- The Golden Age Of SEO
I’m a fan of SEO. Search engine optimization. Ah, yes. Just writing it makes me happy. It’s what I do. It’s my calling. I can’t think of anything in the past decade that has kept me more enthralled and engaged… besides my wife of course. In the past few years, my interest in SEO has [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Only 1 “Top Brand” Has Created A Google+ Page In The Past Two Months, Report Says
- No, Google Is Not Opening A Stand-Alone Retail Store
- AdMob To Switch To AdWords-Style Auction For CPC Advertising
- Report: Google+ & The +1 Button Are Seeing Gigantic Growth In The US
- Report: 85% Think Social Networks Are “Mostly Kind” Places, But 15% Have Ended Friendship Because Of Them
- Capture Mobile-Driven Actions For Targeted Ad Results
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Google Near Launch of Cloud-Storage Service, Wall Street Journal
- What Makes You Click?, ycorpblog.com
Business Issues
- EPIC Sues Federal Trade Commission to Enforce Google Consent Order, epic.org
- Alibaba Seeking $3 Billion Loan to Buy Back Yahoo Stake, Wall Street Journal
- Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale, Fortune Tech
- Congratulations to Amit Singhal on his election to NAE, Official Google Blog
- Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward, paidContent.org
- Google May Open Retail Store at European Headquarters in Dublin, Bloomberg
- Google’s Motorola Mobility Bid Said Likely to Win U.S. Approval, Bloomberg
- Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell, Wall Street Journal
- Montblanc Takes Google To Court To Obtain Identity Of, And Sue, Counterfeit Advertisers, TechCrunch
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Google Maps turns 7 years old – amazing facts and figures, Royal Pingdom
- Introducing MSN for iPad, MSN Blog
- Share your Google Earth adventures on Google+, Google LatLong
Link Building
- 7 Types of Content to Get Traffic and Links, distilled
- Build Your Links the Right Way, seopositiveltd.com
- Historic Index Update, Majestic SEO Blog
- How to Leverage Link Blending and Stage 2 Link Building to Maximize Your Rankings, quicksprout.com
- How to Use Government Data for Link Development, Search Engine Watch
- Setting up a simple link building strategy, Wordtracker
SEM Industry
- Interview with Brad Geddes, PPC Hero
SEO & SEM
- Should I make up filename extensions to improve my rankings?, YouTube
- Using blekko’s SEO Data to Evaluate Web Directories, SEOmoz
- 4 In-house SEOs Share What they Wish Someone Told Them In the Beginning, SEO In-house Blog
- Ecommerce SEO Strategy: A Must Read Expert Round Table, CPC Strategy
- Get Free PPC Adwords Budget with Google Grants & GrantsPro, acquisio.com
- Google Shuffle: Webmaster Noticing Significant Changes In Search Results, Search Engine Roundtable
- How to Choose the Right URL Structure, Michael Gray
- How to Find and Fix a Weird Bug with Google Previews, Rimm Kaufman
- Introduction to & Strategies for Local Search Marketing, internetmarketingninjas.com
- New Signals to Search Engines Revisited, Search Engine Watch
- Preparing your site for a traffic spike, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Three 70% Deltas Affecting 100% of Your AdWords Account (Part 1), PPC Associates
- What Is The Importance Of Freshness And Recency To Google’s Latest Algorithm Tweaks?, Search Engine People
Social Media
- 60 million users engaged with apps on Facebook mobile platform since launch; average 5 times per month, Inside Facebook
- Don’t break stories on Twitter, BBC journalists told, The Guardian
- Tracking Social Efforts – Analytics Beyond the Link Shortener, Search Engine People
- Twitter SMS: Now available for satellite providers, Twitter Blog
Video, Music & Image Search
- Google Developing Home Entertainment System, Wall Street Journal
- Time Flies! Celebrating 4 Years of The Commons on Flickr, Flickr Blog
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