SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 14, 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: Google In Privacy Flap With Germans Over New iOS Maps According to a report in Computerworld, Google has violated German data protection and privacy rules with its new Google Maps app […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
According to a report in Computerworld, Google has violated German data protection and privacy rules with its new Google Maps app for the iPhone. When users install the app and agree to the terms and conditions there’s a check box that authorizes Google to collect “anonymous” user location data. The fact that this box is […]
Bing has announced that searchers on the iPad will start seeing its “social sidebar” over the next few days. That includes the iPad Mini. Today’s announcement comes just days after Bing finalized a new design for those social results. The social sidebar integrates friend and expert content from a variety of social sources that might […]
- Reporting On Social Media Engagement
I was in this industry when people were starting to throw around the phrase Web 2.0. Video marketing was in its infancy, Facebook was only for college students, and MySpace was where you sold things to a 12-year-old. Along with my time in the industry, social media has grown from a conversation we had with […]
- Search In Pics: Yahoo Tropical Party, Google Zeitgeist Wall & Matt Cutts Face Palm
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. Binary Google Door: Source: Flickr Google Zeitgeist Wall: Source: Google+ Happy Holidays From Google San Francisco: […]
- Yahoo Announces Secure Search Partnership With AVG
Yahoo and AVG announced a new partnership deal where Yahoo will power AVG’s secure search, which will protect AVG’s customers dangerous websites and online threats. The process uses AVG’s LinkScanner technology to protect their users from malicious web sites. As we reported a couple of days ago, there was an 80% increase in the number […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Google+ Android & iOS Apps Get Communities Support, Other Features
- Marketing Biz: Yahoo Organic Search Ads, Sinistar & Lots Of Smartphone Screencaps
- Survey: 91 Percent Have Gone Into Stores Because Of Online Promotion
- The Top Apple iOS Apps Of 2012
- Study: Affluent Consumers More Likely to Use Digital Coupons Than Lower Income Groups
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Is Google Becoming a Tyrant?, SiteProNews
- Levchin Says Mayer’s "Very Ballsy Move" to CEO of Yahoo Was Inspiring, AllThingsD
Local Search & Maps
- Google Maps for iOS: Should Businesses Delete The Apple Maps App?, applemapsmarketing.com
- Google Maps’ return to iOS may not be permanent, says analyst, Computerworld
- What Matt Cutts Says about Local Search, LocalVisibilitySystem.com
SEM Industry
- 95 Tweetable Takeaway Tips from #BlueGlassX, BlueGlassX
- Our Looking into the Crystal Ball of 2013 Predications Post (and a couple of rants), SEO Book
- Video: Google December Update, Searching For Porn, Google Zeitgeist & Chanukah & Festivus Decorations, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- 3 Things You Aren’t Doing with Sitelinks (but Should Be), PPC Associates Blog
- 8 Principles of a Lead Oriented, Demand Centric Content Marketing Strategy, Search Engine People
- Are You Giving Google The Reconsideration Information They Want?, David Naylor
- From rankings to revenue: How one SEO helps clients make the metrics shift, raventools.com
- Google Tackles Geographic (Map) Spam for Businesses, SEO By The Sea
- Google Webmaster Tools Over Verification Can Hurt The Server, Search Engine Roundtable
- Make the Leap to Account Management, PPC Associates Blog
- Methods for Optimizing Pagination, Shimon Sandler
- Overcoming the Google Panda, EMD and Disavow Updates, Search Engine Journal
- Segmenting by Conversion Action Name in AdWords, VerticalLeap
- Setting Up for Local Success, SEER Interactive
- The plain English guide to SEO, VerticalLeap
- Top 1 SEO Tips for 2013, SEOmoz
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