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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 7, 2011

Matt McGee on January 7, 2011 at 5:06 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:

Quora Co-Founder Outlines Plans To Deal With Growing Pains
Quora, a relatively new question-and-answer search engine that’s become a darling of the tech community, is suffering through growing pains caused by exponential growth in the past two weeks. And co-founder Charlie Cheever has outlined some of the company’s plans to deal with those growing pains. In a post today on Quora, Cheever admits that […]
Blekko Launches Spam Clock To Keep Pressure On Google
Every hour, one million spam pages are created. That’s a stat that start-up search engine Blekko has now put out — complete with a new “Spam Clock” showing a count-up of spam pages created since the first of the year. Currently, the Spam Clock estimates that there’s been about 155 million spam pages made since […]
Bing Adds FanSnap Ticket Inventory Into Search Results
Just in time for the opening round of the NFL playoffs (coughGOSEAHAWKS!cough), Bing has followed through on its plans to integrate ticket inventory from FanSnap into its search results. This FanSnap integration was first announced as part of Bing’s December search event. FanSnap isn’t a ticket seller; it’s one of several ticket aggregators that displays […]
How Human Factors May Affect Information Indexing And Retrieval
If you were to ask a search engine marketer what their main goal is for their type of work, they may tell you, “We want our clients’ web site to come up first in search results.” To make their days more challenging, they may monitor popular keywords, create landing pages which are tightly focused on […]
Reputation Conversations Start With Search Results
This is the first article in which I will coin the phrase “Reputation Conversations”. Expect to hear me use this term further in this column, in future columns for Search Engine Land, and in other intellectual property that I generate. How’s that as an opening statement? It’s a great way for me to “practice what […]
Twitter’s New Year Tweet Record Shown In Stunning Video
Twitter started 2011 with a new record: 6,939 tweets were sent at four seconds after midnight in Japan. Twitter says that TPS rate (tweets per second) is more than double the previous high of 3,283 TPS during Japan’s World Cup soccer/football win over Denmark last summer. In a blog post detailing the new record, Twitter […]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

Google Says Priority Inbox Users Spend 6% Less Time on Email (So Are You Using It?), Read/Write Web
Do People Really Want Apps on TVs?, Wall Street Journal
How to Import Your Delicious Bookmarks into Google Bookmarks in One Easy Step, lifehacker.com
Samsung and Google TV, googletv.blogspot.com
Video: Yahoo!’s Russ Schafer at CES 2011, www.yadvertisingblog.com

Business Issues

Microsoft’s new Quincy data center is in a barn, blog.seattlepi.com
Facebook Versus Google Circa 2004, Wall Street Journal
Facebook’s Microsoft Parallels, New York Times
Poised for an IPO, Will LinkedIn Look at Other Scenarios?, networkeffect.allthingsd.com
With IPO on Horizon, Facebook May Buy Larger Companies in 2011, networkeffect.allthingsd.com

Link Building

Creative Ways to Get Links from a Reluctant Target – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz

Local, Maps & Mobile

How Small Businesses Can Make the Most of Yelp, Read/Write Web
Yahoo! Local Beta Take Two, www.screenwerk.com
CloudMade Acquires Mobile Mapping Company, Goes Cross-Platform, blog.programmableweb.com
Exclusive interview: Google’s Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android, www.engadget.com
Google Places Steps: The Process For Requesting Bulk Listing Verification, searchmarketingcommunications.com
Local.com Buys Deals Provider iTwango, www.screenwerk.com

Other Items

Growing the Google Africa Team in 2011, google-africa.blogspot.com
The experiment infrastructure at Google, glinden.blogspot.com

Paid Search & Contextual

The ad your ads could look like: Looking back at the best YouTube ads of 2010, YouTube Blog
Yahoo! Ad Blog Year in Review, www.yadvertisingblog.com

Searching

Packing in the Cookies, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
Because It’s Not Google, www.cornwallseo.com

SEM Industry

4,3,2,1…In-House SEO Exchange!, www.seminhouse.com
Video: Google Penalty Emails, Drop Your Robots.txt & More SEO Topics, Search Engine Roundtable
SearchFest 2011 Mini-Interview: Joanna Lord, www.sempdx.org
SearchFest 2011 Mini-Interview: Rand Fishkin, www.sempdx.org

SEO & SEM

2011: The Year of Social SERPs, Bing Instant & Social Search, Search Engine Watch
How Accurate Are The Metrics In Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
Reciprocal linking is dead; long live reciprocal linking, www.hugoguzman.com
SEO Writers Block, www.vertical-leap.co.uk
Why Google Doesn’t Display PageRank In Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
Dropping In To See What Condition Your Condition Is In – Part I, Search Engine Guide
Our Online Reputation Management Playbook, SEOmoz

Social Media

Can Quora Survive Its Growing Popularity?, GigaOM
Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?, socialmediatoday.com
Quora Booms, But Will Marketers ‘Follow’?, ClickZ
Ad.ly: The Art of Advertising on Twitter, BusinessWeek
Is Quora A Next Generation Long Tail Play?, thefuturebuzz.com
News agency seeks to cash in on celeb Twitter pics, www.pressgazette.co.uk
Twileshare makes file-sharing on Twitter super easy, TechCrunch

Video, Music & Image Search

The Week’s Best Viral Videos, www.reelseo.com
YouTube Click Fraud & Click Bombs, Search Engine Roundtable

Web Analytics

Google Webmaster Tools Expose Analytics Lies, www.beussery.com

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

What Does a Social Media Community Manager Do? – This might be what some community managers do. Your mileage may vary.
Online Reputation Management Playbook – A comprehensive and thoughtful post with real world information on what to do when Google suggests that your company is a scam.
How much does Social Media cost companies in 2011? – Mack Collier writes about what a business owner can expect to pay for a variety of social media marketing services. Some of the numbers might be eye-openers for small business owners, but valuable information nonetheless.
Migrating the Small Business Owner and his Website Through the Five Stages of Grief – While letting go of your old, outdated website is not as traumatic as losing a loved one, it does represent change. While the small business owner may know his ten-year-old website is horribly outdated, the desire to change it seems overwhelming, unimaginable, and unnecessary. He thus steps into the first of five steps of grief.

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.