SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Yandex Launches Experimental “Wonder” Voice Social Search App For The US Yandex, the company behind the leading search engine in Russia with a presence in Turkey, has taken a radically different […]
Barry Schwartz on January 24, 2013 at 4:59 pm | Reading time: 4 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Yandex Launches Experimental “Wonder” Voice Social Search App For The US
Yandex, the company behind the leading search engine in Russia with a presence in Turkey, has taken a radically different direction to its search activities by launching a voice social search app called “Wonder” on Apple’s iOS platform for the US market. Described by the company as “experimental”, the app responds to users’ spoken queries […] - Four Ways You Can Benefit By Using AdWords Scripts
The best kept secret for saving time and improving results in AdWords may very well be AdWords Scripts, a lightweight automation tool that is easier to use than the API but more powerful than the standard interface and the AdWords Editor. As highly as I think of the AdWords UI (I helped build it for […] - The Wine Enthusiast’s Guide To Tasting SEO Success
If you live on the left coast of the US, you know that wine is an integral part of the social culture. From California through Oregon to Washington State, some of the world’s best grapes are grown and magically transformed into world-class wines. Since moving to the Pacific Northwest 20+ years ago, I’ve become a […] - Google Launches Streamlined Image Search
Like how Google Image Search works on a tablet? Good news, then. That simplified experience is coming to Google Images on the desktop. Out With The Old Currently, viewing an image through Google Image Search is a multistep process. You do the search, see several images and can hover to get a slightly larger thumbnail: […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Microsoft Reports Revenue of $21.5 Billion, 15 Percent Increase In Online Advertising Driven By Search
- Gen Y Users Most Likely To Be Interested In Mobile Wallets
- Will Larry Page’s Mobile Websites Slam Affect Google’s Ad Policies?
- Twitter Acquires Vine, Launches iOS App For Sharing 6-Second Videos
- How To Use Push Notifications Without Being Pushy
- Report: While Pinterest Rises, StumbleUpon’s Traffic Down 27% In 2012
- Quora Drops Boards, Relaunches Them As Blogs
- Apple Reports Mixed Results: $54 Billion Quarterly Revenue (Miss), $13 Billion Profit (Beat)
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Kodak Not Enough: Google Acquires Printer and Camera Patents from Silverbrook, SEO By The Sea
- Are Google Search Results Good Proxies for Secondary Meaning in Trademark Law?, Eric Goldman
- French court says Twitter must identify racist tweeters, AFP
- Google Creating Wireless Network, But For What?, Wall Street Journal
- Google refuses to censor search results accusing police of covering up crime, Telegraph
Local Search & Maps
Link Building
- A Practical Guide To Broken Link Building, SEO.com
- Good SEO for Gain: 2 Ways to Get Links While Giving Back, Luna Metrics
Paid Search
- Google AdWords Improves Visual Of Location Targeting Exclusions, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Fixes Analytics To AdWords Data Bug After Several Days, Search Engine Roundtable
Searching
- Complex Analysis and Statistics for Sports Data on the NFL, NBA, and MLB, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
SEO & SEM
- 25 Killer Combos for Google’s Site: Operator, SEOmoz
- 3 Easy AdWords Scripts to Analyze Your Account: Part 1, PPC Hero
- 5 Simple Ways to Troubleshoot PPC, Search Engine People
- Google AuthorRank for Brands, wwellpath.com
- Google’s January 17th Non-Update: Was It A Brand Push?, Search Engine Roundtable
- How to Audit Your Website for Improved SEO and Conversions, blog.hubspot.com
- How to Balance your SEO and PPC, Silverbean
- Making This PPC Copywriting Mistake Could Be Costing You Sales, marketingwords.com
- Proper Mobile SEO Site Set-up & Issue Identification, internetmarketingninjas.com
- The Advanced Guide to SEO, quicksprout.com
- Why Does Google Still Reward Content Scraping?, buzzfeed.com
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.