SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 7, 2011

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.

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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.