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 Maps Adds Photo Albums
The experience of viewing place photos in Google Maps got a little easier this week. Google has announced that it’s now showing certain place images in a photo album. The album pops above the place as an overlay — similar to what you’ve probably experienced before via the Lightbox javascript application.
The photo albums only appear [...]
- Schmidt: Listing Google’s 200 Ranking Factors Would Reveal Business Secrets
Google’s been under fire in various quarters, including the New York Times, that it should open up about how its ranking algorithm works. I think offering the exact formula would be difficult plus potentially give away trade secrets. But how about just listing some of the basic “ingredients?” Nope, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt, this [...]
- Bing Maps Adds Transit Directions
Bing has announced they have added transit directions in 11 cities. Transit directions can be used to determine the best way to get from point A to point B via bus, subway, or local rail. Bing released this feature for Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington [...]
- Where’s Yahoo’s “Big Vision”? Maybe It Doesn’t Need One
There are a number of critical articles, even complaints, coming out of yesterday’s Yahoo press event featuring new Chief Product Officer Blake Irving. The main portion of the event had Irving and CTO Raymie Strata discussing Yahoo strategy and reiterating that Yahoo wasn’t simply a media company but a company with deep technology as well. Some [...]
- You Say Law Firm, I Say Lawyer
You have a dilemma: you are considering a couple of keyword phrases that are similar. How do you choose, and does it matter? It often does. In this analysis, I show that consumer search behavior can be different depending upon how they start their search. Here I contrast the phrase law firms with lawyer [...]
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Get Ready… Yahoo! Mail Beta Is Coming, www.ymailblog.com
- New in Labs: Video chat enhancements, Official Gmail Blog
- Search Gmail & Docs with Google Mobile App on BlackBerry, Official Google Mobile Blog
Business Issues
- Is Google a Monopolist? A Debate, Wall Street Journal
- Yahoo’s Internal Three Year Plan: 1 Billion Users And $10 Billion In Revenue, TechCrunch
- DOJ, Tech Firms Near Deal in Hiring Probe, Wall Street Journal
Local, Maps & Mobile
- View Near Real-time Flights over the U.S. in Google Earth, Google LatLong
- Android vs. iPhone: Wait just a minute!, Fortune Tech
- Google Places Coupons Now Integrating Open Graph Coupons from CitySearch?, Mike Blumenthal
- How to Update Business Listings in Scandinavia, Google Maps Water Cooler
- Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy the Scores, Y! Mobile Blog
Link Building
- Does Google Really Know If Your Links Are Paid?, Search Engine Roundtable
Searching
- Frowns, Sighs, and Advanced Queries — How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?, Official Google Research Blog
- Lights, Camera, Movie Data!, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
SEM Industry
- Google Doesn’t Pay Forum "Top Contributors", Search Engine Roundtable
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: September 17, 2010, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- Brand Ads Serving on Non-Brand Searches, Rimm Kaufman
- Optimizing SEO Resources – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
- Poll: How Has Google Instant Impacted Your AdWords Campaigns?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Video Sitemap Best Practices – Free Webinar With Google, www.reelseo.com
Social Media
- Details Of The Google Social Layer Emerge, TechCrunch
- Facebook Places goes live for the UK, thenextweb.com
- How to Confidently Pick a Social Media Tool, outspokenmedia.com
- The Story Behind Twitter’s First Video Ad: 1 Million Views In One Day, Forbes
Video, Music & Image Search
- Yahoo! Announces New Partnership with Toshiba increasing Distribution in North America, Yahoo! Connected TV
Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
- Why We React Strongly When Web Sites Change – "When Sphinn Editor-At-Large Danny Sullivan announced Sphinn Says Goodbye To Voting, reaction wasn’t long in coming—much of it negative. Was Danny prepared for the backlash? Yes. But what about the hostility? What could have possibly warranted that?"
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