SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 16, 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: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Stalls In Congress The U.S. House Judiciary Committee abruptly adjourned today without voting on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), a controversial measure that would […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Stalls In Congress
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee abruptly adjourned today without voting on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), a controversial measure that would impose radical new requirements on search engines, ISPs, ad networks and other key internet players. The hearings will resume “earliest practical day that Congress is in session” according to the chief sponsor of […]
- Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says
Search engines have “won a major victory” in their battle against so-called content farms. So says the current issue of New Scientist magazine, in an article that’s also available online. New Scientist asked University of Glasgow computer scientist Richard McCreadie to study 50 search queries that are “known to be a target of content farmers.” […]
- Search In Pics: Google Keg, Panda Bread & Lego High Heels
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. Panda Bread: Android Balloon Art: Free Chromebook Carts: Google-like Lego High Heels: Google+ Keg:
- A Beginners Guide To Finding Ad Placements & Fine Tune Conversions With Analytics Data
Many new webmasters and website marketers are under the mistaken impression that online marketing is a “Field of Dreams” and “if you build it, they will come.” Unfortunately, you can build it, but if you don’t market it, and place it in front of the audience that buys your products, nobody will come, and neither […]
- Google Revamps The Google Doodles (Logos) Directory
Google announced on their Google+ page that they have revamped the Google Doodles page. Google Doodles is what Google calls their special logos that they put up for special holidays or to remember special people from our history. The new Doodle page has a quick search box at the top, making it easy to search […]
- Bing, Yahoo Now Neck & Neck In US Search Market Share
Bing’s slow growth in US search market share continues, and Microsoft’s two-and-a-half-year-old search engine is now practically neck-and-neck with Yahoo. Both, however, remain far behind Google. The latest comScore numbers show Bing increasing its market share in November to an even 15 percent, while Yahoo’s dropped to 15.1 percent. Google holds 65.4 percent of the […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- What All Marketers Need To Know About SOPA – The Stop Online Piracy Act
- The Big List Of SOPA Links
- Hitwise UK Chart Shows MySpace’s Precipitous Decline
- Britney Spears: First To Top 1 Million Google+ Followers
- Quora Traffic Has Grown 882% In The Last Year, But It’s Still Just A Fraction Of What Yahoo Answers Gets
- Twitter Now A Top 3 Site For iPhone Users — Nielsen
- Creating A Successful SEO Strategy For An Affiliate Website
- Delicious Gets A Mini-Makeover – Updates To Design, Usability & Media
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Google Apps update alerts: The new look is now the permanent interface for Google Docs, Docslist, Spreadsheets and Sites, googleappsupdates.blogspot.com
- No More Cosmic Panda, Google Operating System
Business Issues
- Exclusive: Google CEO’s inner circle: Meet the L Team, Reuters
- Microsoft Bing makes headway in 2011, almost matching Yahoo in market share, GeekWire
Searching
- Searching closer to home, Official Google Blog
SEM Industry
- 24 Signs (You’ll Recognise) That You’ve Been Doing SEO Too Long, SEO Consult Blogs
- Supporting users by answering a different kind of query, Inside Search
- Video: Google Panda Holiday Break, Googlebot Smartphones, Hidden +1 & More, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- 2011 Inbound Marketing Review, Zazzle Media
- Advanced On-Page Optimization – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
- Extreme Makeover – PPC Account Edition, Search Engine Watch
- Google Bottom Ads – A Changing Landscape by Mindshare, WPP
- Landing Page Optimization: How to plan a radical redesign so you get a lift AND a learning, MarketingExperiments Blog
- Most Common SEO Issues 2011 Countdown – Number One: SEO, Receptional
- The Funniest SEO Forum Threads Of 2011, Search Engine Roundtable
- Zero-impression data in AdWords API reports, Google Ads Developer Blog
Social Media
- Brands Embrace Google+ in Hopes of Coming Search Boost, Ad Age
- Let’s Fly: TweetDeck, Twitter Blog
Video, Music & Image Search
- Why Google TV will win, GigaOM
- YouTube Friends And Subscriptions Are Merging, But It’s Still Confusing, www.reelseo.com
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