SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 15, 2009

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 To Newspapers: Robots.Txt You Newspaper attacks on Google somehow apparently overstepping fair use and stealing their material are just escalating, with a European led “Hamburg Declaration” coming out last week. […]

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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 To Newspapers: Robots.Txt You

    Newspaper attacks on Google somehow apparently overstepping fair use and stealing their material are just escalating, with a European led “Hamburg Declaration” coming out last week. Now Google’s blogged a response that basically says if you want out of Google, it’s easily done with a robots.txt file.
    That, of course, is what search engine savvy people […]

  • comScore: Bing Barely Gaines Share In June 2009

    Now a third major ratings service has released search engine share figures for June 2009, and like the others, they show that Bing made only a tiny gain in the wake of its launch and major ad campaign.
    The comScore figures have gone out to the financial analyst community, and the comScore press […]

  • Google Voice For Mobile: One Number To Rule Them All

    Google has created a mobile app for its Google Voice service, right now only for Android and BlackBerry with an iPhone app to come. Think of this as Skype for mobile only more so, because there’s a usable number associated with the service and integration with your phone’s contacts.
    Effectively what the mobile app allows you […]

  • Bing & Twitter Mesh With BingTweets

    Microsoft announced a new portal that combines Bing search and Twitter. The new site is named BingTweets and it basically brings together classic web search from Bing, with real-time search elements from Twitter.
    This service was built by both Microsoft, Twitter and Federated Media. It does not seem like Twitter is doing anything more […]

  • Google Versus News Organizations: What’s Fair?

    A new Columbia Journalism Review opinion piece argues persuasively (in my view) that Google “owes” something to traditional journalism and news organizations. Google, typically, is a stand-in for “the internet” in these discussions. This notion of responsibility to publishers is unpopular among bloggers and Internet denizens more generally.
    I tend to fault news organizations for not […]

  • Get Google’s Matt Cutts To Answer Your Questions

    Matt Cutts of Google has been posting dozens of videos, mostly on SEO topics, answering previously asked questions by SEOs like yourself. The videos can be seen at the Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel.
    Matt is now asking you to submit new questions, because he hopes to produce more videos this Thursday to […]

  • 6 Steps To Building A Successful B2B Search Content Strategy

    Don’t put the cart before the horse. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Walk before you run. However you say it, it means the same thing: Don’t get ahead of yourself! Yet time and again, I see B2B marketers doing exactly that as they drive traffic to their website without first having the right […]

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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