SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 31, 2012

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

From Search Engine Land:

• Search In Pics: Google Belly Dancer, Ask.com Summer Party & Android Claw Crane

  In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Floppy Disk Google Logo: Source: Google+ Ask.com Summer Party: Source: Flickr Android Based YouTube Claw Crane […]

• The Right Time To Start Analyzing Data

  You’re a product person. You’ve bootstrapped together your website, dropped relevant metadata, setup an e-commerce platform, installed analytics, and are generating solid original content on your site and/or blog. You’re doing everything by the book. But the question remains: when it is the right time to dig in and try to understand what people are […]

• Kenshoo: Filling the Gaps That Search Marketers Desperately Need

  I remember the first bid management tool I ever used was GoToast back in 2003. It was absolutely amazing. I could manage bids on multiple engines from one location. SCORE! At the time (I almost started with In my day…, ha), there were many different engines other than Google and Bing that were viable options […]

• New iOS 6 App Store Search Results Look Like Chomp

  Earlier this year Apple acquired Chomp a site and app dedicated to app search and discovery. That purchase was a signal that Apple was going to revamp its app store. That overhaul has apparently happened in iOS 6, which will become available to the public later this year. Some developers are now seeing new-look app […]

• More Than 10 Is The New 10 Blue Links For Bing

  Bing has been experimenting with showing more than ten search results on a page, while Google is showing seven search results on a page in some cases. Now, Bing has decided to stick with the experiment in the June update. There have been some observant searchers who picked up on the change over at WebmasterWorld, […]

• Maria Montessori Google Logo: Google’s Founders Childhood Education

  It is well known that Google’s co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as children were educated under the Montessori education system. They are proud of it and consider it one of the fundamental reasons they are so successful today. Today is the 142nd birthday of the late Maria Montessori, who founded that education model. To […]

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

• WolframAlpha Launches In-Depth Personal Analytics For Facebook Profiles
• App.net’s Baby Steps: 250,000 Posts, 17,500 Users
• Marketing Biz: Twitter Tightens The Screws, Vicarious Search & Didit Buys Inceptor
• EMarketer Lowers Its Facebook Ad Revenue Estimate
• Facebook To Remove Fake Likes
• Google Shuts Down TV Ads In AdWords
• Apple Goes 1 For 2 As Japan Court Rules In Favor Of Samsung
• Report: Facebook Testing Targeting By Email, User ID And Phone Number
• TripAdvisor Top Mobile Travel Destination — comScore

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Three labs graduations and advanced search autocomplete…, Gmail – Google+

Business Issues

• Google’s HR Software Upgrade Is a Coup for IPO-Bound Workday, Bloomberg
• China dissident jailed on Yahoo info is freed, The Associated Press
• Could Apple and Google Be Headed for Detente Instead of Nuclear War?, AllThingsD
• Exclusive: Amazon teams with Nokia, snubs Google for maps – sources, Reuters

Local, Maps & Mobile

• 30 Shocking and Unexpected Google Street View Photos, DeMilked
• IBM Is Turning Watson Into A "Supercharged" Siri, Read/Write Web
• Identical City Names Foster Mixed Google Results, SEO Igloo Blog
• Employees in Google Offices Around the World Pose for Street View Cameras, Betabeat

Link Building

• 79 Link Building Resources for 2012, KISS Metrics

Searching

• In Battle With Amazon, Walmart Unveils Polaris, A Semantic Search Engine For Products, TechCrunch
• New Search Engine Monitors The Internet And Streams Price Changes, Forbes

SEM Industry

• Navigating the Google / Client / Agency Triangle, Certified Knowledge
• SEO The Game, State of Search
• Video: Google & Bing Search Updates, Playground Ads, Apple Beats Samsung & Montessori Doodle, Search Engine Roundtable

SEO & SEM

• 5 Minute SEO Tips: Check your robots.txt, VerticalLeap
• Bing How to Verify that Bingbot is Bingbot, Bing Webmaster Center blog
• Bing Search Update: August 2012, Search Engine Roundtable
• Four Advanced PPC Mistakes, holisticsearch.co.uk
• Google Merchant Center – One Hot Mess, netmeg.com
• How to Create a Successful Global PPC Campaign, Search Engine Watch
• Publishers Worried About Accepting Guest Posts Due To Google Penguin, Search Engine Roundtable

Social Media

• Custom URLs for Google+ – What it Means for SEO, Covario Blog
• Ten Painless Tactics To Earn Attention On Twitter – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz

Other Items

• On Google Doodles’ 14th Anniversary, A Look At How They’re Made (SLIDESHOW), huffingtonpost.com