SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Helps LeBron James Make His Decision On Live TV Once again taking advantage of top trends in pop culture and social search, Bing.com is hoping to shoot and score a […]

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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:

  • Bing Helps LeBron James Make His Decision On Live TV

    Once again taking advantage of top trends in pop culture and social search, Bing.com is hoping to shoot and score a large number of new fans as a presenting sponsor of the widely anticipated press conference, titled “The Decision”, to be aired live on ESPN (tonite) Thursday, July 8, at 9 pm ET, where NBA […]

  • Bing Search Share Up 7% In June, Google Down 1%

    At least according to the latest report from Experian Hitwise, that is. Google continues to hold 71.65% of search share, while Yahoo remained steady at 14%. Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending May 29, 2010 and June […]

  • Ask.com’s Founder Of Search Technology Leaves: Apostolos Gerasoulis

    I just got word that the co-founder of Teoma, the search engine Ask.com acquired to power natural search, Apostolos Gerasoulis has left Ask.com. Apostolos Gerasoulis was the executive vice president of search technology for Ask.com.
    If you look his Linkedin profile you will see his current position is no longer being at Ask.com. […]

  • Think You’re Ready For The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance? Maybe Not

    We’re only one month away from the first phase of the Microsoft—Yahoo search alliance. Are you ready? By now, there have been numerous opinions published on the upcoming alliance, but not much to set tactical expectations. Some experts such as Kevin Lee of Didit.com and Bryan Weiner of 360i would claim that there won’t be […]

  • Foursquare Will Make It Easier To Find Small-Town Deals

    If you’re using Foursquare to search for local offers and deals, you may soon find a lot more of them — especially if you live outside of major cities.
    Foursquare announced yesterday that it’s going to expand the reach of deals/offers in rural areas:
    The current location range for offers “nearby” is approximately 200 yards, but […]

  • How Can SEM Affect The SMB Purchase Funnel?

    Could Search Engine Marketing (SEM) companies offer more to small businesses? Are the current SEM services in the market just part of a whole suite of initiatives that a small to medium enterprise (SME) needs to grasp to be successful online? What are those extra pieces of the jigsaw and how do they fit in […]

  • Living Content: It’s What People Want

    Most web content is barely alive, even when it is first written. It is pumped out by content mills, optimized and uploaded. This kind of bulk content is often referred to as backfill content. I prefer the term “landfill content.” Dead and rotting from day one.
    In sharp contrast, living content is quality content. It is […]

  • SEO Checklist Part 2: Best Practices

    Continued from Part 1: 29 Worst Practices & Most Common SEO Failures.
    Best Practices
    Implementing the 14 best practices below (or at least some of them) and avoiding the worst practices should offer you a straightforward approach to better visibility in search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.

    Best Practice Doing now Will do soon Won’t or N/A

    1. Are the keywords you […]

  • There Are 75 Million US Adults On The Mobile Internet, More Than Half Of Them Daily

    At this point is there anyone who questions that the “mobile internet” has arrived? While marketers and many search marketers in particular are still “experimenting” with mobile, consumers are checking in, accessing social networks and searching on their handsets in stores.
    A trio of new reports released in the past two days confirm the growing and […]

  • EU Upholds Ruling That Trademarks In Search Ads Do Not Infringe

    EU Court Rules on Ad Keywords from the Wall Street Journal reports the the highest court in Europe upheld and confirmed a decision by a previous court that bidding on trademarked keywords in search engines does not infringe on European trademark law.
    This specific case was between Portakabin, a cabin maker and a competitor, Primakabin. […]

  • 3-2-1: Launch! Uploading Your Paid Search Account

    You’ve done the research. You’ve done the build. Now it’s time to launch!
    Step #1: Get an engine account
    If you don’t already have one, the first thing you’re going to need is an engine account. It’s fast and easy to sign up with any of the three major engine platforms via these pages:

    Google […]

  • WATCH! Google Street View Camera Falls Off Car

    Add this to the list of funny and interesting things that Google Street View cameras have recorded — a camera capturing its own demise.
    I spotted one of Google’s Street View cars apparently losing its camera near where I live, in Suffern, New York. Everything’s fine as the car travels westbound on Haverstraw Road (you can […]

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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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