SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 11, 2013

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

From Search Engine Land:

• Yahoo Brings Back Flickr/Creative Commons Filtering To Image Search
  An image search feature that’s often used by bloggers and other content producers has found its way back to Yahoo Image Search. The company announced yesterday that its Creative Commons/Flickr search filter is available again, and that it’s been expanded to image searches on mobile devices, too. The filter is available at the bottom of […]
• Why Asking StumbleUpon To Remove Your Links Is Dumb
  Turns out, StumbleUpon is getting regular requests each week from people asking for it to remove links to their sites, people who are worried that being linked to from a popular and long-standing social media sharing site is somehow hurting them with Google. The linksanity sadly continues. Every since Google stepped up its attack on […]
• Analyst: Mobile Continues To Take Share From Desktop Search
  Later today comScore will release its US search market share numbers for December 2012. Based on early release information from Wall Street analysts this is what the numbers will be: Google: 66.7 percent (vs. 67 percent in November) Bing: 16.3 percent (vs. 16.2 percent in November) Yahoo: 12.2 percent (vs. 12.1 percent in November) Ask: […]
• Analytics Matched Search Queries Vs. AdWords Keyword Details Report
  A question recently came across my desk regarding the use of the Matched Search Queries Report in Analytics when compared to the Keyword Details Report in AdWords. The inquirer was interested in the benefits or drawbacks to both reports, also asking if they were interchangeable. I figured this was a great question to answer in […]
• Search In Pics: Panda & Penguin Speakers, R2D2 Android & Google Workshop
  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. Android Charging Android: Source: Google+ Google Goggles: Source: Google+ Panda, Penguin & Android Speakers: Source: Facebook […]

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

• The New Delicious.com Is Now Live & Looks Like A Winner
• SocialCrawlytics: Providing Insight On How Your Content Is Being Shared
• Marketing Biz: Radical Transparency & Buying Community
• 4 New Year’s Resolutions For The Affiliate Marketer
• Karma Required: Reddit Looking For $1 Million In Angel Investing

Search News From Around The Web:

Business Issues

• Exclusive Interview With Ray Kurzweil On Future AI Project At Google, Singularity Hub
• FTC Chairman Defends Google Settlement: We Did What Law Required, idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com

Link Building

• The Ultimate Guide to Phone-Based Outreach for Link Building, Citation Labs
• 3 Steps to Better Link Building from Raven Tools at #NMX, Online Marketing Blog
• Ahrefs Bids Farewell to Keyword Analysis But Introduces New Features For Backlinks, www.davidnaylor.co.uk
• When Is Link Worth More Than a Link?, Search Engine Guide

Local Search & Maps

• All the info from the adventures you share, now sitting pretty on your friends’ phones, Foursquare Blog
• A Real-Life User of Google+Local Phone Support, LocalVisibilitySystem.com

Other Items

• IBM Researcher Feeds Watson Supercomputer The ‘Urban Dictionary’; Very Quickly Regrets It, TechDirt

Paid Search

• Here’s How Marin Software’s Clients Grew Budgets and Improved Efficiency on the Yahoo! Bing Network, Yahoo Advertising Blog

Searching

• Russian Giant Yandex Has Secretly Built A Killer Facebook Search Engine App Codenamed “Wonder”, TechCrunch

SEM Industry

• How’d He Do? Score Bruce’s Predictions for SEO in 2012, BruceClay.com
• Passing an SEO Job Interview in 2013, Search Engine Journal
• Video: Twitter Human Search Algo, Google Maps Phone Support & Google Webmaster Report, Search Engine Roundtable

SEO & SEM

• Bing How To Think Like Your Customer, www.bing.com
• Building Google’s Knowledge Base and Identifying Locations in Web Pages, SEO By The Sea
• Easy Ways SEO Can Kill Your Site, SEER Interactive
• FabFriday: SEO and .pdfs….What works for Ranking!, www.canuckseo.com
• Snyde Comments: What is Authorship, Really?, www.copypress.com
• Will Spam Ruin Rich Snippets for SEO?, northcuttSEO

Video, Music & Image Search

• Creating Video Sitemaps for each Video Hosting Platform, www.distilled.net
• Imgur, Reddit’s Favorite Photo Hosting Site, Now Serves Up Over 3.6B Pageviews To 56M Visitors Per Month, TechCrunch