Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Microsoft Turns Off Streetside Imagery In Germany Over Photo Blurring Concerns
Here’s a shocker*: Microsoft’s Streetside service has hit a bumpy road in Germany. The company says it’s shut down Streetside imagery in Germany after complaints about the way the company was handling blurring requests. Microsoft spokesperson Thomas Baumgartner tells PCWorld that he’s not sure if or when Streetside will be reinstated in Germany. A Microsoft [...]
- New Design & Features Come To iPhone Google Search: Version 2.0
Google has announced a new version of the Google Search iPhone app. The new version is version 2.0 and was completely redesigned focusing on speed, usability, new features and making it beautiful. Here are the main new changes you will find in version 2.0: Complete App Redesign Full Screen Mode Option Faster Search Autocompletion Faster [...]
- Who Has Search Engine Marketers’ Backs? No One – We Need Lobbyists
Did you know that Google spent $5 million to influence politicians just last quarter? And that was doubled from the quarter before and may double again this quarter. Facebook spent a boatload too, but not as much Google. Microsoft spent even more. Issues like the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA which received so much [...]
- 10 Essential Tools For B2B Conference Coverage Domination
Congratulations! You’ve finally convinced the boss-man that attending and covering an industry conference on behalf of your B2B company is fantastically worthwhile for a multitude of reasons. As an attendee, you’ll absorb rich information from true thought-leader s– info you can bring back to the office so the whole team stays on the cutting-edge of [...]
- New Exact & Phrase Matching Behavior: Early Findings
In a world where lots of search marketers are still reluctant to use broad match type due to its lack of relevance and control, Google has released two features to have more advertisers show their ads on all those very long tail queries: The broad modifier feature was rolled out in July 2010 in the [...]
- Google’s Latest Interactive Logo: The Moog Synthesizer
People absolutely love Google Doodles and today Google has went way over the top to pay respect to Bob Moog, the man who is credited for revolutionizing modern day music. He invented the first electrical music device, he named the Moog Synthesizer. The Moog Synthesizer was first introduced at the Audio Engineering Society convention in [...]
- What Can We Learn From The Latest Brand To Be Called Out For Paid Links?
Move over JC Penney. Another brand is getting attention over buying links, this time Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation. Today’s news is less news and more a reminder of lessons that SEO companies, clients and publishers all need to keep in mind, to avoid trouble. Josh Davis drew attention to the DBCC situation in his [...]
- Bing’s Visual Search Is Gone (Has Been For A While, Actually)
The fact that almost no one noticed might be one reason why Bing has dropped its Visual Search feature … something that apparently happened months ago. To be clear, this isn’t traditional image search that we’re talking about; that’s still available at bing.com/images. We’re talking about the “Visual Search” tool/interface that Bing launched in 2009 [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Google Scores Total Victory Against Oracle In Patent Suit
- Content Marketing: What Kind of Content?
- Staffing Your Email Team — 8 Key Roles
- Facebook Sued Over IPO Non-Disclosure Of Q2 Revenue Weakness
- Facebook Tests A Sleeker Timeline Layout For Profiles
- Facebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit, Terms Not Yet Disclosed
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Google’s Big Tent event: porn, copyright, Eric Schmidt and all – live, The Guardian
- Google Privacy Inquiries Get Little Cooperation, New York Times
- Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc., Sean Haufler
- Software downloads in Syria, Official Google Blog
- French Watchdog Seeks Answers in Google Privacy Probe, Wall Street Journal
Link Building
- Five Questions A Good Link Builder Should Be Able To Answer, Search Engine Watch
- Win/Win: Block Unwanted Links In Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- 5 Simple Tips to Improve Local SEO, dailyseotip.com
- How the Filter Bubble Impacts Google, Bing Search & What It Means for SEOs, Search Engine Watch
- Why the Marketing World Needs More Correlation Research, SEOmoz
- How to Make Meta Descriptions That Get More Clicks From Rankings You Already Have, internetmarketingninjas.com
- How to Recover from Google’s Penguin Update, SEO Theory
- Link Building Experts talk about Google Penguin, cognitiveSEO
- Metricless PPC Management Revisited, PPC Associates Blog
- My Thoughts on Where Yext Fits Into a Local Search Marketing Plan, Mihmorandum
- The impact of Twitter in Google SEO – Part 1, intelligentpositioning.com
- Updated for 2012: The Beginner’s Guide to SEO, SEOmoz
- When Penguins Attack, PPC Associates Blog
Video, Music & Image Search
- 30 Mind Numbing YouTube Facts,Figures and Statistics – Infographic, Jeffbullas’s Blog
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