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 Make Deal With French Anti-Racism Groups Over ‘Jew’ Search Suggestions
Google in deal with French groups over ‘Jew’ suggestion via the AFP reports Google has made a deal with several French anti-racism groups of Google offering ‘Jew’ to the search suggestions for several prominent names in that country. Our earlier story named Google Queries Reveal Potential “Underground” Anti-Semitism In France explains that the French people [...]
- Bing Adds Boatload Of New “Venue Maps” For International Markets
Microsoft announced today, that in conjunction with Nokia, Bing has added “more than 2,700 venue maps” in North America, Europe and Asia. You can access them online at Bing.com/maps (“explore venue maps”). In the US and UK markets venue (indoor) maps are also available on Windows Phones and through the Bing app for the iPhone. The following [...]
- Reliving Favorite Moments From SMX Advanced 2012
SMX Advanced is my favorite conference of the year. Hands down. The sessions are always memorable, and I get to see a lot of the SEO “old timers” – you know…the SEOs who have been in the game for at least 10 years, which is like 70 years in Internet time. In conclusion, SMX Advanced [...]
- AdWords “Flexible Reach” Brings Multiple Targeting Methods To Ad Groups
AdWords advertisers on Google’s Display Network can now use multiple targeting methods at the ad group level, rather than the campaign level, via a new feature called “Flexible Reach.” The option was first reported by Philly Marketing Labs on its blog, but it is already appearing in accounts and in AdWords Help. With Flexible Reach, [...]
- Google’s Offline Maps Now Live In 150 Countries
As of yesterday Google’s new offline mapping capability for Android devices is now live (with a Google Maps update). It was announced a couple of weeks ago at the Google Maps “next dimension” event that preceded the announcement of Apple’s new mapping platform. Offline maps are available for 150 countries, and users can save offline [...]
- Why You’re Paying More For Your Brand Terms On Yahoo
Yahoo has suffered through its fair share of turmoil over the last few years: a revolving door of CEOs, significant layoffs, investor revolts, and a declining share of the search space, both paid and organic. One recent bright spot for Yahoo was their first year over year growth in search revenues after traffic acquisition costs [...]
- Google Expands Maps & Places APIs With Reviews, Transit & More
Google announced a few upgrades and new features to its Maps and Places APIs during the Google I/O developers conference on Wednesday. On the API front, Google Maps’ Product Manager Thor Mitchell announced that business reviews are now available in the Google Places API. Developers will be able to access the top five reviews associated [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Google I/O 2012 Day Two Keynote: Chrome Browser For iOS, Google Drive For iOS & Chrome OS, Google Compute Engine Revealed
- Google+ Events Lets You Invite All Circles To An Event, Spam Ensues
- Google+ Turns One: Hits, Misses & What’s Ahead
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Google Chrome now reaches 310M active users, almost doubling from 2011, thenextweb.com
- Google’s Chrome Browser Coming to iPhone and iPad, AllThingsD
Business Issues
- AOL Sets Share Buyback of $400 Million, Wall Street Journal
- Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts, gigaom.com
Local, Maps & Mobile
- CitySearch offers new look, expert recommendations, Los Angeles Times
- What Should Your Business Listing Categories Be in MapMaker, Mike Blumenthal
Link Building
- Remove the Spammy Anchor Text from your Footer Links, Daily SEO Tip
Paid Search & Contextual
- Digging Deeper Into Google’s New Car Lead Program, DealerELITE.net
- Google Pays AdSense Publishers In New Zealand 40% Less Due To Currency Rate Glitch, Search Engine Roundtable
- Speeding up the ad experience: updating ad click referral, Google Ads Developer Blog
SEO & SEM
- Google Sponsored Box on Google Shopping?!, CPC Strategy
- 10 Ways Coding Can Help Your SEO, Search Engine Journal
- 9 SEO copywriting questions every small business should ask, SEO Copywriting
- Google Explains Why Your AdWords Express Ads Might Not Be Running, Search Engine Roundtable
- Sad Or Funny? Google Panda Victim Scrapping Google Play Content, Search Engine Roundtable
- Search Attribution: AdWords Search Funnels, Inside AdWords
Social Media
- A Few Takeaways from the Big Boulder Conference on Social Media Data, SEOmoz
- How to Measure ROI for Networking Events, Outspoken Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Other Items
- How Google Geeks Party: After-Hours Images from Google I/O, Read/Write Web
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