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Search Engine Land » Google » Google Analytics » SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 26, 2010

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 26, 2010

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’s Street View Finds More Trouble In Europe In a letter earlier this month, members of the European Union’s data protection group urged Google to make changes to its Street View […]

Matt McGee on February 26, 2010 at 4:59 pm

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’s Street View Finds More Trouble In Europe

    In a letter earlier this month, members of the European Union’s data protection group urged Google to make changes to its Street View mapping/photo service and warned that Google might be breaking EU laws. According to Bloomberg News, the letter from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party asks Google to store unblurred Street View images […]

  • Yes, More Are Seeing A New Google Look-And-Feel

    We’re getting more and more reports from readers who are seeing a “new” Google look-and-feel for its search results. This is a three column design that Google’s actually been testing for some time. That testing appears to be accelerating. Google Tackles Its “UI Jazz” Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options Feature is our story from […]

  • Google Adds “Nearby” Local Search To Options Panel

    Google has expanded the choices in its Search Options panel with today’s announcement of a tool to refine searches by location. After doing a search and opening the “Show Options” panel, you’ll see a new link labeled “nearby.” […]

  • Click to Conversion Time & Your Revenue Attribution Window

    In my last Analyze This post, I alluded to the importance of click to conversion time, that is, the estimated conversion time of the revenue attribution window. I shall devote this article to explaining the importance of the revenue attribution window and some empirical methods to help determine the right window length. The revenue attribution window […]

  • It’s A Fatal Mistake To Copy Successful Web Sites

    At a search engine marketing conference, several of us gave a session on website usability topics ranging from usability and SEO to site architecture and requirements gathering. Afterward, there was time for questions by the audience. Someone asked, “Why don’t we all just copy Amazon.com?” I replied, “Never, ever copy what […]

  • Need To Learn Search Marketing? Come To SMX Boot Camp!

    One of the most important things to me as part of the SMX search marketing conferences that Search Engine Land runs is educating newcomers to the basics of search marketing. That’s why we run a special SMX Boot Camp track. That’s also why we created a special low-cost ticket for those who just want to […]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

  • Google 302 Redirects Secure iGoogle To Unsecure iGoogle, Search Engine Roundtable
  • Google News Tries Sharing With Facebook, But Where’s The Buzz Button?, TechCrunch

Business Issues

  • And Google Begat…, BusinessWeek
  • How Digg Found a Way to Make Money, gigaom.com
  • Twitter Search Advertising Plan Similar to Google Model, mediamemo.allthingsd.com

Link Building

  • Editors: Leave those links alone!, www.wolf-howl.com

Local, Maps & Mobile

  • Are the SEO Oneboxes Returning to the Google SERPS? Nah…..except in Duluth, Mike Blumenthal
  • Google Maps: Citation Conflation or Where have my Citations Gone?, Mike Blumenthal

Other Items

  • Google Patent Auto-Converts Print Publications to E-Articles, industry.bnet.com
  • Key Scientific Challenges Blog Series: Advertising, ycorpblog.com

Paid Search & Contextual

  • Twitter Users Don’t Click on Google AdSense Ads?, Search Engine Roundtable
  • Why Affiliate Marketing Does Not Have To Kill Your PPC Efforts, SEM Geek

Searching

  • Google Is Cloaking Results to Firefox Users, www.itstheroi.com

SEM Industry

  • Why Steve Ballmer’s SMX Keynote Is So Important, AIM Clear Blog
  • Yahoos at SMX West, www.ysmblog.com

SEO & SEM

  • Chasing the long tail with keyword research (SEM 101), Bing Webmaster Center Blog
  • Get yourself a smart robots.txt, sebastians-pamphlets.com
  • Google May Verify Your Sites in Webmaster Tools Without You Clicking Verify, Search Engine Roundtable
  • Using PPC to Boost SEO Campaigns, The SEO Scoop
  • Whiteboard Friday – 5 Things You’re Not Doing (But Should Be), SEOmoz

Social Media

  • Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated), All Facebook
  • Finally: Facebook Silences App Notification Spam, Read/Write Web
  • FriendFeed Goes Down Hard. Both Remaining Users Pissed., TechCrunch
  • Is Google Stealing Authors’ Copyright With Buzz?, Stay N’ Alive
  • Pentagon issues new policy on social networking, news.yahoo.com
  • Social Media From Across the Pond, nowsourcing.com
  • Twitter phishing hack hits BBC, PCC… and Guardian.. and cabinet minister, The Guardian

Video, Music & Image Search

  • New YouTube Design Makes Everything A Playlist, Keeps You Watching Forever, www.businessinsider.com

Web Analytics

  • My Favourite Google Analytics Advanced Segments, cse-sea.blogspot.com

Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:

  • 5 Steps to Launching a Mobile Search Campaign
  • Smart Robots.txt
  • SEO Priorities – Task ROI
  • SES London takeaways and top tips

Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.


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About The Author

Matt McGee
Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.

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