SearchCap: Duane Forrester No Longer With Bing, Animated GIFs In Bing Images & Paid Search Roundup

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

From Search Engine Land:

• The Economic Impact of SEO Media Services- November 6 Webcast
  Using an outside expert resource for global SEO and earned media services can make your search marketing campaigns a valuable investment. But how do you justify the cost to your management? In this live webcast, Forrester Research’s Dean Davison and Shar VanBoskirk will lead a discussion demonstrating how you can show a positive economic impact […]
• Bing Images Adds Animated GIF Filter
  Bing announced there is a new filter within Bing Images to let you only see animated GIF images. Animated GIFs are a grouping of images that may appear as a movie but are just a series of images. You can now filter your image searches on Bing by the animated GIF type. Google Image search […]
• Duane Forrester, Bing’s Long-Time Webmaster Outreach Manager, Loses Job In Microsoft Layoffs
  Duane Forrester, the senior product manager in charge of webmaster outreach for Bing, has lost his job as part of the recently announced layoffs at Microsoft. The move leaves Bing without one of its longest-serving and recognizable faces to the SEO and publisher community. Forrester posted the news on his blog today, saying he’s not […]
• Chinese Search Giant Baidu Reports $2.2 Billion In Revenue For 3Q 2014
  China’s leading search engine Baidu posted its 3Q 2014 earnings yesterday, reporting $2.2 billion (RMB13.520 billion) in total revenue, a 52 percent year over year increase. According to Baidu chairman and CEO Robin Li, the site’s mobile traffic surpassed PC traffic last quarter, with mobile revenue representing 36 percent of total revenue. “In the third […]
• Six Reasons To Fire Your SEO Agency
  What distinguishes a good search engine optimization practitioner from a not-so-good one? Columnist Neil Patel shares his thoughts.
• Marketing In Transit: Selling To Mobile Searchers
  Consumers are increasingly using their mobile devices to connect with local businesses, yet many of these sites still aren’t mobile-friendly. Columnist Chris Marentis offers his advice.
• Paid Search Roundup Q3 2014: From Performance Trends To Key Product Updates, What You Need To Know
  The quarterly reports and earning statements are in. Overall, all signs point to continued global growth for paid search advertising in Q3. Here’s a look at performance results and the biggest announcements and changes to come from Google AdWords and Bing Ads in the third quarter 2014. What The Search Engines Reported Google reported third […]

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

• When To Fire Your SEO Agency
• SPONSOR MESSAGE: Guide to Social Advertising 2014
• Windows Phones Flat As Xiaomi Becomes Globe’s Third Largest OEM
• Instagram Is Introducing Video Ads Today With 5 Major Brands
• Microsoft Band: Cross-Platform Wearable With Cortana Baked In
• In #TreatPromo, Honda To Give Candy To Those Who Tweet It With A Halloween Costume Pic
• New Study From CMO Council Spotlights Benefits & Challenges Of CMO-Owned Technology Strategy
• Smartphone M-Commerce Revenues Grew 141 Percent In Q3 — Report
• Ello & Tsu: Are The New Me-Too Social Networks For Marketers?
• High-Octane Conversion Tips For Product Images
• How Retailers Can Get M.O.A.R. From Mobile
• 7 Content Marketing Tips For When You Lack Time & Resources

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• In EU, Google Faces Next Chapter With New Competition Chief, NPR

Local & Maps

• Explore the haunted corners of the world… if you dare, Google LatLong

SEO

• Google Penguin 3.0 Algorithm Update Analysis, Positionly Blog
• Google Queries for Instances of Data Help Reveal the Classes Where They Belong, SEO By The Sea
• Negative SEO Is Real, SEOs Are Performing It., Search Engine Roundtable

SEM / Paid Search

• 4 Quick Fixes to Outsmart Your PPC Competition, Search Engine People Blog

Search Marketing

• Leverage Paid & Organic Results to Boost Traffic to Your Site, PPC Hero
• The Power of Google Docs and Sheets for SEM, Covario