SearchCap: Google In The News, Bing Movie Carousel & Google PageRank Dead

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

From Search Engine Land:

• Bing Shows What’s Playing At The Movies, In Remake Of Google’s Own Film Carousel
  Bing has a new way of showing you what’s playing in your local theater, a “carousel” format that lets you browse what’s playing. If you think you’ve seen this before, you have. It’s how Google already does it. The Movie Carousel A search for something like “movie times” will display movies playing near your location […]
• Yahoo Says Goodbye, ZEEF Says Hello
  Human-curated directories have long been a staple of the internet, but ultimately they’re very hard to scale. See how newcomer ZEEF hopes to tackle this challenge.
• Google Toolbar PageRank Finally & Officially Dead?
  In October 2013, Google head of search spam Matt Cutts implied we would likely not see another Google Toolbar PageRank update before the year end. Well, by accident, Google updated Toolbar PageRank in December 2013. Since then, we have had no Toolbar PageRank updates. Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Hangout video that […]
• What Do Structured Snippets Mean To Your Page-Level Content Strategy?
  Google is now showing structured snippets in search results; Columnist Jim Yu shares tips to take advantage of this new format.
• New Google Eye Tracking Study Shows The Downfall Of The Golden Triangle
  A new Google eye tracking study published by Mediative shows how the evolution of the Google search results from 2005 to today has resulted in searchers looking outside of the golden triangle. The golden triangle was coined back in 2005 based on a study on how searchers looked at the Google search results page back […]
• Google Mobile Warnings For Adobe Flash Sites Expand Worldwide
  Google’s Pierre Far announced this morning that Google is expanding the mobile Flash warnings searchers get when searching Google and finding a search result that leads to a site made mostly in Adobe Flash. The warning was first introduced back in July, and today has started to roll out globally, in multiple languages and geo-graphic versions […]
• Google’s “In The News” Box Now Lists More Than Traditional News Sites
  Google has confirmed that new “In The News” box appearing in some of its search results now lists content from more than just the traditional news sites. Discussions at Reddit, blog posts, videos and more from non-news sites may turn up. Earlier, Search Engine Land reported how content from Reddit was showing up in the […]

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

• Google+ Says It’s Thriving But Refuses To Give User Figures
• Survey: Users Show Interest In Ad-Free Social Network
• Facebook Announces “Local Awareness Ads” For SMBs
• Google Launches Custom Affinity Audiences For Display Ad Targeting
• Facebook’s Audience Network Rolls Out Worldwide, Gains The Ability To Drive Mobile Traffic
• Study: Holiday Ad Campaigns On Facebook Should Start Earlier Than You Think
• Celebrities #FeelingNuts About Testicular Cancer Awareness Campaign
• Brewing Our Own Disenchantment In Agency-Land
• BuzzFeed “Hidden Beacons” Story Gets It Almost Totally Wrong
• Optimizing Your Paid Search Bids Around The Holiday Rush
• If You Promote It, They Will Come: Putting A Spotlight On Your Digital Campaigns
• Men’s Health Magazine Trolls Female Sports Fans With A Perfectly Patronizing Tweet

Search News From Around The Web:

Link Building

• SEOs Tell Google Poland Blog To Lead By Example, Search Engine Roundtable

Searching

• The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana, Stone Temple

SEO

• Easily Analyse Your Mobile SEO Performance, State of Digital
• Google Orders 404 Crawl Errors In Order Of Priority, Search Engine Roundtable
• How to get rid of bad content, Search Engine People Blog
• On Infinite Scroll, pushState and SEO, Builtvisible
• Panda 4.1: The Devil Is in the Aggregate, Moz
• Ten easy steps to penalty recovery, Vertical Leap
• The site visits impact after the panda 4.1 update, blog.similarweb.com

SEM / Paid Search

• Bing Ads is Listening to You, Bing Ads Blog
• Everything Dynamic Ad Copy, PPCChat Streamcap
• Short Term & Long Term PPC Advertising Goals, koozai.com

Search Marketing

• Is Google Stealing Your Brand Search Queries?, 3Q Digital
• Landing Page Copy: 8 Tips For Hitting the Right Note, blog.dacgroup.com
• Preparing For A Keywordless SEM World 10/07/2014, MediaPost