Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Apple Does The “Miracle On 34th Street” Thing, Promotes Third Party Maps In App Store
In the beloved holiday film Miracle on 34th Street, people at Macy’s department store in New York begin sending shoppers to rival Gimbels and other stores when they haven’t got what customers want. That’s essentially what Apple did today — first with its apology letter and now with its promotion of third party maps in [...]
- After Apple’s Apology, What’s Next For iOS 6 Maps?
It’s official. Apple’s new Maps in iOS 6 have problems so serious that even Apple CEO Tim Cook has issued a public apology about them. What does Apple do next? Going back to Google-powered Maps is unlikely but not out-of-the-question. More likely, Apple will push through the pain. However, it could reconsider whether maps really [...]
- Search In Pics: Google Slot Cars, Psy At Google Korea & 149009
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Googler’s Car Hits 149009 On Google’s Birthday: Source: Google+ Psy At Google Korea:
- Apple CEO On Maps To Customers: “Extremely Sorry” & Try Google, Bing, MapQuest Or Others
Apple CEO Tim Cook has issued a letter apologizing for the current mediocrity of Apple Maps. The letter is striking in a couple of ways. First, it’s noteworthy for its direct admission that Apple Maps “fell short” and, second, for its recommendation that people try other, competing map apps or services such as Google, Bing, [...]
- Why Clean Source Tagging Is Worth Your Time
Messy, incomprehensible analytics make my stomach churn. Just knowing that I’m going to spend the next several hours cleaning up sloppy data puts the kibosh on my day. The problem with Google Analytics, or any analytics package for that matter, is that even if my site is properly tagged and I’ve developed a systematic inbound [...]
- Did Motorola Use A False Address To Slam Apple Maps?
Right as all the negative Apple Maps stories were coming out, Google’s Motorola division created an ad and Twitter campaign to argue that, unlike Apple Maps, Google Maps won’t get you lost. The campaign #iLost, also promoted on Google+, used a specific address as an example of one that Apple wouldn’t get right: 315 E 15th [...]
- Google Shows Movie Trailers Right In Its Search Results
If you’re searching for movie information on Google, you can now watch trailers right in your search results. Google posted about the change this afternoon, saying that a new “trailer” button will appear on searches for specific movie titles, and on queries like [showtimes nyc] or [movies nyc]. On that more generic type of search, [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Klout Adds Facebook Pages Into Its Scoring Mix
- Chart: Instagram’s Dramatic, 6-Month Rise To Having More Daily Mobile Traffic Than Twitter
- Marketing Biz: Mapageddon & Authority Wars
- Older Yahoo Product Strategy Memo Appears To Inform CEO Mayer’s Current Vision
- Yahoo Resurrects Its Publisher Network In Partnership With Bing And Media.net
- Facebook Gifts Get Real: Users Will Be Able To Present Friends With Physical Gifts
- The Biggest Losers Of The Great Facebook Like Purge Of 2012
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Data firm hits Craigslist with monopoly claim, gigaom.com
- Google obeys Brazilian court order, blocks YouTube political video, Reuters
- Google Nears Microsoft Value After Hot Quarter for Stock, Wall Street Journal
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Mobile Ads: What Works and What Doesn’t, Wall Street Journal
- Categories Not Showing On Google+ Local Pages, Search Engine Roundtable
- Foursquare and OpenTable just made it even easier to plan your perfect night out, Foursquare Blog
- Imagery Update: Virtually visit more places in high-resolution, Google LatLong
Link Building
- New improvements to the Majestic API, Majestic SEO Blog
Searching
- Canonical adds a ‘kill switch’ for Ubuntu’s Amazon search, PCWorld
- Travelers can now access Flight Search from their tablets, Inside Search
SEO & SEM
- Author Stats: How to Utilize Google Authorship, 97thfloor.com
- Costco, Walmart, and the Battle for SEO Shelf Space, blog.intrapromote.com
- Google Penalties May Not Have Major Impacts On Rankings, Search Engine Roundtable
- My Google Authorship Images Have Disappeared, SEO Unique Blog
- Practical SEO Truths We All Seem to Forget, Search Engine People
- Product Listing Ads Part 2: Setup, Search Marketing Sage
Social Media
- Facebook Tops 63 Million Users in China Despite Ban, Report Says, Bloomberg
- Calif. law passed to halt employer snooping on social media, CNET
- More Tweets to discover, Twitter Blog
- Social Fridays: Track and measure the performance of your +page, Inside AdSense
- Twitter For iPhone May Not Be Displaying All Of Your @mentions, thenextweb.com
Video, Music & Image Search
- YouTube’s Updated Design Experiment, Google Operating System
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