Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Close-Up With Google’s New QR Code Generator
At first blush, generating a QR code while shortening a URL seems like a great idea. If you need to generate unique QR Codes for your printed or mobile advertising strategy this is one way to get the job done. The process is straightforward. You simply type or paste a URL into the text box, press [...]
- Irony: Facebook’s New Groups Give Me Less Control, Not More
I missed Facebook’s press conference yesterday about the new Facebook Groups feature that promises that you can share comments, photos and other information more tightly among only people you trust. But I learned about the feature firsthand soon enough, when I found myself added to a group without being asked. And that was worrisome. Robert Scoble [...]
- Google News Testing Twitter Integration With “Friends”
Google is testing a new feature that lets you connect your Twitter account to Google News. Some people are seeing a “Friends” box on the right hand side of Google News inviting them to do this. The friends box asks you to enter your Twitter username and click “Save.” When you click save, [...]
- Google To License Street View Imagery To Game Developers
Will driving games soon be featuring images of real places and roads courtesy of Google’s Street View? That’s the word from the Kmeme blog, which says that Google will make its imagery available to game developers: A game company will be able to license the entirety of the real world’s roads and all the surrounding [...]
- An Introduction To Content Targeting
We’ve spent virtually this entire year on buying paid search through the engines and now it’s time to dive into some of the other products that they offer for marketers. As a search marketer, you’ll be able to tap into some very powerful tools and ad inventory sources that can help supplement and compliment [...]
- Yahoo Rolling Out New “Accordion” Search & Other Features
Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovation that the company has been promising since the Microsoft search deal was announced. It’s part of Yahoo’s bid to remain relevant in search by spicing up the user experience and trying to bring more utility to page [...]
- Twitter Hits 1 Billion Queries Per Day, Announces New Search Tech
If Twitter were like an old-style McDonald’s, the sign outside would have changed to “1 Billion Queries Served” today. And to keep serving up those queries to humans and machines alike, Twitter is now using a new underlying search technology. The news was announced in a post on Twitter’s Engineering blog today. Let’s take the technical [...]
- Retargeting Is The New Black
If you’re an in-house online marketer like me, no doubt your inbox also seems to be coming increasingly inundated with solicitations to try the exciting world of retargeting or remarketing or remessaging solutions. In the seemingly endless sea of provider choices, are any of these types of retargeting worth the technical effort involved and how [...]
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Logitech Revue with Google TV details: $299; free iOS, Android apps, accessories are extra, Engadget
- Sizes And Pricing for Sony Google TV Family Leaked, Sony Insider
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Yahoo! Announces Partnerships with Sprint and T-Mobile; introduces Android Apps, Yodel Anecdotal
- Google Maps Changing Verified Listing to Owner-Verified Listing?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google’s Blurry Street Views & Embed Option Bug, Search Engine Roundtable
- Virtually travel the Northeastern U.S., Google LatLong
- Yelp.com & Unique Vistors: Would the Real Number Please Stand Up, Mike Blumenthal
Searching
- Intellectual Property: New Online Database: WIPO Lex, ResourceShelf
- A New Online Database from the EPA: The Bed Bug Product Search Tool (Approved Pesticides), ResourceShelf
- Compare industry trends by month or quarter, Blog Indeed
- Control over your Autocompletions, Google Custom Search
- More Google Properties Get Instant, Search Engine Roundtable
- Time Travel the Web With MomentoFox and the Momento Protocol, ResourceShelf
- United States: Elections: A Recently Released Online Database from Project Vote Smart Named VoteEasy, ResourceShelf
SEO & SEM
- YSM/adCenter Feature Comparison #3: Keyword Normalization, Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog
- Find information faster with mobile Ad Sitelinks, Google Mobile Ads Blog
- Five Lessons for Making the Most of International Search Engine Optimization (ISEO), Search Engine Journal
- How to Diagnose and Improve Website Crawling, Michael Gray
- How to Rank in Google Real Estate Search, Distilled blog
- R.I.P Google Keyword Tool. Long Live SEO!, AIM Clear Blog
- Using AdWords to Test Key Phrase Overall Traffic, Search Engine Journal
- Why You Need To Invest More In Your SEO Campaign NOW., Search Engine Guide
- You Have Invested in SEO and SEM – Now What?, Search Engine Journal
Social Media
- Digg Tries To Bring Back Inactive Users From The Dead, TechCrunch
- How To Monetize The Twitter/Facebook Bubble Before It Bursts, Search Engine Journal
- LinkedIn Platform: Announcing Early Access to Our New Javascript API & OAuth 2, The LinkedIn Blog
- Lockdown: An Interview With Mark Zuckerberg & Justin Shaffer On Today’s Facebook Launch, TechCrunch
Video, Music & Image Search
- PubSubHubbub for YouTube Activities, YouTube API Blog
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