SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 14, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Twazzup: New All-In-One Twitter Search Engine While the major search engines continue to sit in the proverbial driveway, real-time search is in high gear and speeding along without a speed bump […]

on April 14, 2009 at 5:01 pm | Reading time: 4 minutes
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • Twazzup: New All-In-One Twitter Search Engine

    While the major search engines continue to sit in the proverbial driveway, real-time search is in high gear and speeding along without a speed bump in site. And with Twitter offering what’s becoming the default real-time web experience (more so than Facebook or FriendFeed, in my opinion), it’s no wonder that Twitter search engines are […]

  • Report: SEM Spend Down, ROI Up As Marketers Adapt To Recession Trends

    Search marketing platform provider Efficient Frontier released a report on Q1 2009 SEM trends. The report is based on data collected from Efficient Frontier’s U.S. clients “and covers 84 billion impressions and 785 million clicks on search and content ads on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search.” At the highest level Efficient Frontier said overall […]

  • Google Fixes Link Operator In Blog Search

    A couple weeks ago, we reported that Google fixed the blogroll indexing algorithm in Google Blog Search, but has not yet fixed the link operator, which returned links found in blogrolls. Google has recently updated the link operator for Blog Search to not count links in the blogroll for the link operator command in […]

  • The Politics Of The Web

    The recent launch of the UK edition of Wired, the magazine for people who keep saying that magazines have no future, has seemed incredibly apposite when considered alongside many of the stories in the news every night. Whether it’s celebrities Twittering, the Queen getting all 2.0, or news of magazines killing their print editions and going […]

  • SEO: Great For Traffic & Conversions, But Can It Fight Terrorists, Too?

    (No, this is not a holdover from our April 1 coverage, but I will be ‘optimizing’ the article with my own personal comments in parentheses.)
    A UK government agency charged with fighting terrorism has a new tool in its arsenal: SEO. (Take that, Calacanis!)
    According to The Register, the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OCST) plans to […]

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