Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Twitter Working On ‘Most Popular Tweets’ Search Project
Twitter’s search team is working on a project to uncover the most popular tweets for any search query, but it’s unclear when or where the project might be implemented. Taylor Singletary, a Developer Advocate at Twitter, announced and described the project today in a post on the Twitter API Announcements group. The Search team is working on [...]
- Will Google Leave China On April 10th Forever?
Bloomberg News reports Google may be pulling out of China as soon as April 10th. Bloomberg then later added that if they do pull out, it will likely be “permanent.” Bloomberg News references reports from the China Business News paper, where they said Google will likely announce their plans to pull out officially on March [...]
- Managing PPC Accounts: Improving Bounce Rates
Paid advertising has morphed into so much more than buying some traffic until your SEO can sustain your site. There are now software programs that can create a unique landing page for (thousands of) keywords on the fly, specifically designed to address the keyword phrase the user typed into the query box and the ad [...]
- John Battelle On The Future Of Search
As soon as I decided I wanted to explore the question of where search was going, I knew sooner or later I had to talk to John Battelle. John wrote what I still consider the definitive look at the industry, The Search, in 2005. Since then, in addition to running Federated Media, he has continued [...]
- Google Will Let Web Users Avoid Analytics Tracking
With privacy concerns over various Google products seemingly cropping up every week, the company said today that it will soon let web users opt-out of being tracked by its popular Google Analytics software. The news comes in a blog post today that says a browser-based plugin will be available “globally … in the coming weeks.” Over the [...]
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- A Yahoo! Contacts That Updates Itself, www.ymailblog.com
- Google aims for easier 3D Web on Windows, CNET News
Business Issues
- Yahoo’s Schneider To Oversee Sales Temporarily, paidContent.org
- Analysis Of Google And Viacom’s Arguments Over YouTube: A Lot Of He Said/She Said, TechDirt
- Viacom and YouTube: Timeline of pertinent events, www.betanews.com
- Yahoo Chief Technologist Sam Pullara Leaves To Become An EIR At Benchmark, TechCrunch
- Yelp, Extortion, Spam, and … Oh, Just Stop It!, www.traffick.com
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Yelp’s Review Filter Explained, Yelp Official Blog
- An interview with Timothy Bray, Googling Google
- Gaps In Roads on Google Maps, Don’t Drive Off Virtual Cliff, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google is Crawling Foursquare for Local Citations (but not GoWalla), Small Business SEM
- Making it easier to browse places in Google Earth, Google LatLong
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
- Finding Roots, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
- Google’s Need For Speed Is About Making You Search More, TechCrunch
SEM Industry
- Only 13% Say Google PageRank is "Very Important", Search Engine Roundtable
- Speaking at SMX Toronto Getting Local Business Listings Right Panel, devbasu.com
SEO & SEM
- Does the Canonical Tag Work Well on Google?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Webmaster Tools Users Get Spanish Version, Search Engine Roundtable
- How To Create A Powerful SEO Plan In 10 minutes, Search Engine People
- Joomla Or WordPress For SEO? Which CMS Is Better?, Hobo
- Whiteboard Friday – Faceted Navigation, SEOmoz
- Working with multilingual websites, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Your Search Engine Rankings Reports are Wrong, SiteLogic
Social Media
- Facebook Visitors Come Back Again and Again, Hitwise
- The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn’t Prove Influence on Twitter, Read/Write Web
- W. Pa. county judges ban Twitter, texting in court, philly.com
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