SearchCap: Bing’s 5th Birthday, Connect Google+ Pages & China’s Censorship

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• New: Connect Your Google+ Business Page To Your Google Maps Listing
  Google has now enabled those with Google+ business pages to connect their page to their local business listing on Google Maps. On the help page Google gives detailed directions on how to connect your Google+ business page to your Google Maps verified listing. This process will connect your current page to Google Maps and apply […]
• Google AdWords To Drop Support For IE9 This Month
  If you’re among the 8 percent of Internet Explorer users still on IE9, you’ll soon have to seek out an alternative way to access AdWords. Google announced Tuesday, that as of June 30, 3013, AdWords will no longer support IE9. Google regularly ditches AdWords support for legacy browser versions; IE8 was phased out last July. If […]
• A New Easter Egg In Google Maps: Travel By Loch Ness Monster
  There is a new easter egg on Google Maps, one that gives you travel and transit directions by Loch Ness Monster. If you get directions from Fort Augustus to Urquhart Castle when in Google Maps, Google will show the option of traveling via Loch Ness Monster. You can try it yourself by clicking here or […]
• Right To Be Forgotten Requests Keep Coming, Now 41,000
  As of the end of last week there were roughly 12,000 requests that had been officially submitted to Google under Europe’s judicially created “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) rule. Google launched an online form last week to field the requests. According to the Wall Street Journal the 12,000 have now turned into 41,000. That’s roughly […]
• China Engaged In Total Censorship Campaign Against Google
  The cat and mouse game between China, Google and the internet continues. Today and tomorrow are the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Fearing another anti-government uprising, every year at this time China cracks down on its citizens’ ability to access information about the event online. However this year, China is going to greater […]
• Discover Who’s Eating Your SEO Lunch… And How To Beat Them
  The combination of web analytics and a thoughtful SEO strategy is a winner. Here’s one of my favourite strategies to ensure you’re beating your competition at SEO linkbuilding.
• 7 Things I Wish Execs Knew About Link Building
  Whether it’s your CMO, your client or your client’s boss, we’ve all worked with someone who just doesn’t quite get search. And that’s OK. We can’t expect everyone to understand the intricacies behind what goes into that No. 1 ranking. SEO is easy in theory, but it’s a daunting task to take on, and Google […]
• Update Your All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin Now
  The Sucuri Blog issued a notice that a popular SEO plugin for WordPress web sites had a major security vulnerability. The plugin name is the “All in One SEO Pack” and the fix is easy, just make sure to update the plugin immediately. The vulnerability opened up WordPress blogs that used the plugin, that had […]
• Bing Celebrates Its 5th Birthday With A Walk Down Memory Lane & Extra Search Reward Credits
  To celebrate its 5th birthday today, Bing has posted a retrospective of the last five years and is offering Bing Reward credit perks for any users who search on the site between now and June 9. Going all the way back to 2009, Microsoft’s search engine outlined its initial goals of leveraging semantic search. Bing […]
• Check Out the New MarTech Sessions and Speakers from Adobe, HubSpot, IBM & Marketo – Lowest Rate Expires Friday
  Keeping pace with emerging marketing technologies, determining the best fit, and getting the most from your investment are daunting challenges. At MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference, industry leaders will help you understand marketing technology and its impact on your organization. Register by Friday, June 6th to save $300 on MarTech. Sessions Just Added The MarTech […]
• At Five Years Old, Bing Has Come Far Yet Has More To Grow
  Microsoft’s Bing search engine has turned five this week. There are good reasons for some birthday celebrations at Microsoft. The company has created a solid competitor to Google, grown its market share and created a search platform for other Microsoft products. But when it comes to mindshare, Bing is still far behind rivaling Google as […]

Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• Will Facebook And Twitter Have To Implement The “Right To Be Forgotten”?
• AdSense Gets Two New Large Format Ad Sizes
• Domino’s ‘Steady Pizza’ to Eliminate #deliveryfail
• Bing Marks 5th Birthday With Retrospective & Extra Reward Credits For Users
• Did Privacy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Pay To Be Included Apple’s Safari? That’s Private!
• Study: Business Executives Turn To Email Newsletters First For Their News
• Optimize LinkedIn Like A Pro To Boost Your Personal Brand
• Report: 60% Of Social Media Users Vary Their Actions & Connections Vastly Across Social Sites
• Study: More Than 30 Percent Of Consumers “Mobile Only”
• The Secret To Better Online Marketing: It’s Not What You Think
• Wearables, Connected Homes, Mobile & The Future Of Analytics
• Check Out the New MarTech Sessions and Speakers from Adobe, HubSpot, IBM & Marketo – Lowest Rate Expires Friday
• Yosemite’s Popular Tweet & Facebook Post Invite Mac Users To Try Its “Natural Operating System”
• Gigya Adds Tumblr To Its Share And Follow Button Options
• Infographic: TV’s Top Twitter Moments This Season, From Breaking Bad To The Oscars

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• Want To Scrub Google Search Results In The US? Tough–O’Kroley v. Fastcase, Eric Goldman
• Google Home IQ, Google Operating System
• If Google can get rid of personal data, why can’t it purge the pirates?, The Guardian

Searching

• Yahoo! tests new interfaces for video results, allgoogletesting.blogspot.com

SEO

• Announcing MozBar 3.0: the Free, Completely Redesigned SEO Toolbar, moz.com
• Get To a Running Start with SEO: Knowing Your Business, Search Engine People Blog
• Googlebot is Crawling JavaScript: Is Your Site Ready?, RKG Blog
• How Long is a Piece of Content?, SEMrush Blog
• How To Build Panda (And Penguin) Proof Affiliate Sites, top5seo.co.uk
• SoundCloud SWOT Analysis – Not Your Mom’s MTV?, blog.similarweb.com
• The Worst Local SEO Advice I’ve Ever Heard, epointdigital.com
• Why Analytics Should Be Part Of Your SEO Strategy, koozai.com

SEM / Paid Search

• Bing Ads Academy – Share of voice report, Bing Ads Blog
• Creating & Manipulating Variables In AdWords Scripts, PPC Hero
• New to PPC Marketing: Resources for Getting Started with Bing Ads, Bing Ads Blog

Search Marketing

• It’s Google Analytics Reporting, Only Better, Raven Blog

About The Author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.