SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 10, 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:

• Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem

  Perhaps Google may finally have to figure out a “fix” for Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem,” now that an anti-Romney site is making it appear that anyone can rank any protest page for any politician’s name. Bing has the same problem, but no one ever seems to care about that. Spreading Romney I was pretty surprised […]

• Search In Pics: Google Sugar Cube, Yahoo Valentines & Chrome M&M’s

  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. Valentines Day At Yahoo: Source: Flickr A Google Bike: Source Google+ Google Fix It Sign (Chrome […]

• Google Moves Away From Large Navigation Drop Down Menu

  A few months ago, Google introduced a new navigation bar that was black and very large. It was part of the Google+ changes across Google’s properties. Last night, Google announced yet another change to that top bar navigation. The most noticeable change is that most of the main search options are back at the top, […]

• Google Analytics Update To Organic Reports

  As many of you know, organic traffic is auto-populated in Google Analytics reports using a default search engine list curated by Google. It is also possible to add smaller search engines manually into the tracking code snippet, using the _addOrganic method; but it’s nicer when Google does it for us. Every once in a while, the […]

• Bing Now A Full Point Ahead Of Yahoo In Search Share — comScore

  Today comScore reported January search share figures for the US market. We restrained ourselves this month, not posting on this subject before the official release, given the error that happened last time through one of the financial analyst firms and their early release of the data. Google gained share vs. last month. However, the big […]

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

• Report: iPhone, iPad Now Drive More Web Traffic Than Mac OS
• Drawing Out Your Affiliate Program Marketing Plan
• Is Yahoo About To Make Another Big Mistake — With Its Display Ad Business?
• Google Analytics For The Enterprise: Perception & Reality
• Yahoo Lifts The Curtain On Its Home Page Content Algorithm, C.O.R.E.
• LinkedIn Passes 150 Million Users, Reports Strong 4th Quarter

Search News From Around The Web:

Business Issues

• Google’s Foray Into Hardware Will Be A Total Disaster — Here’s Why, Business Insider
• What I learned interviewing with Google, Wes Bos

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Google Maps Deletes Owner Uploaded Photos?, Search Engine Roundtable
• iOS passes Mac OS in Share of Web Traffic Propelled by Sales for Mobile and Tablet Devices, Chitika Insights
• Punjab to Get Google Street View Maps for Cultural Sites, propakistani.pk

Other Items

• Ship Wars@ Google Waterloo: A virtual battle of intergalactic spacecraft, Official Google Blog
• Iran Reportedly Blocks All SSL Websites, thenextweb.com

Paid Search & Contextual

• Internet Explorer 8 Security Warning Via Google AdSense, Search Engine Roundtable

Searching

• Firefox Users May Have To Turn On Cookies To Use Google, Search Engine Roundtable

SEM Industry

• All-Access Glimpse into the New SEO for Dummies Book, BruceClay.com
• 12 Women We’d Love To See Speaking (or speaking more), Outspoken Media
• Interview With Google Places Help Forum Top Contributors: Blumenthal And Zhekov, SEO Igloo Blog
• Video: Video: Google Webmaster Report, Title Tags Missing, AdSense & Facebook IPO, Search Engine Roundtable

SEO & SEM

• 5 Must-Have SEO Skilla, Search Engine Watch
• Efficiency Updates Coming Soon to Microsoft Advertising adCenter, adCenter Blog
• Google Panda Explained [Infographic], webanalyticsworld.net
• Is Google Manipulating Adwords?, SEMimpact
• Keyword Research For Those Who Have Something Else to Do, Search Engine People
• Netflix UK – Some Technical SEO Tips for their UK Launch, SEO Consult Blogs
• Rel Publisher Implementation and Authorship Markup Resources, audiencewise.com
• SEO Lessons from Seinfeld – Domain Authority is the Internet Kavorka, Rimm Kaufman
• SEO Sanitation From A Cleaner of Other People’s $#!+, andybeard.eu

Web Analytics

• Customize your standard reports, Google Analytics Blog