SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 1, 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: Woman Follows Google Maps “Walking” Directions, Gets Hit, Sues Is Google responsible for giving out bad directions through its Google Maps service? We’re about to find out. After Googling walking directions […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Woman Follows Google Maps “Walking” Directions, Gets Hit, Sues
Is Google responsible for giving out bad directions through its Google Maps service? We’re about to find out. After Googling walking directions for a trip in Park City, Utah, Lauren Rosenberg claims she was led onto a busy highway, where she was struck by a vehicle. She’s now suing Google for damages.
The case, Rosenberg v. […] - Google Reportedly Not Allowing Windows OS On Computers
Google ditches Windows on security concerns from the Financial Times reports that Google is no longer installing Windows on Google owned computers. In fact, the report says that no desktop is allowed to have Windows and only under special circumstances will Google allow Windows OS on a laptop.
The report cites security as the main […] - Mythbusting Global Search Fallacies
Do people really search in English rather than their local languages? That’s what Google’s Keyword Tool seems to be saying. So that must mean English is truly a “Lingua Franca” — or is something even more mysterious going on with the Google numbers?
- Flickr Pro Users To Lose Historical Referrer Data Tomorrow
If you’re a Flickr Pro user, you have about 24 hours to download the historical stats and referrer data associated with your photos. CSV and/or Excel files are available via your stats page until 12:00 pm PDT tomorrow, June 1st. You’ll see a yellow warning message like the one below, with a direct link to […]
- Memorial Day 2010 & Logos From The Search Industry
Memorial Day is being celebrated and commemorated today in the United States. Since it is a holiday, please expect lighter coverage here today than on a normal day. Below are the logos, themes and the Google ribbon for the special day:
Google’s Ribbon/Badge: Yahoo (animated): Bing: Ask.com: DogPile: - Enhanced Brand Keyword Ads = Industrial Strength SEM
Are you still arguing with your management about whether you should buy your brand keywords or not? Good news for you: I’m here to make sure you have two more good reasons to go ahead and buy that brand and feel good about it.
A few months ago I wrote about how advertisers should think about […] - Once Again, Bing Rumored To Become Default Search On iPhone
Citing unnamed sources TechCrunch is reporting that Bing will take over the role of default search provider on the Safari browser in the new iPhone OS. These rumors aren’t exactly new and we’ve written and speculated about them before:
Report: Microsoft And Apple Discuss Making Bing Default Engine On The iPhone
Apple CEO: Google Wants To “Kill […] - Webcast next Tuesday: Building a “Content Ladder” in 5 Steps
Next Tuesday, June 1, Search Marketing Now will present a free webcast to help marketers create a strategic content ecosystem — to efficiently re-purpose and cascade your best content, while maintaining sound SEO principles throughout.
Social media expert Jay Baer will discuss how to use keywords in social media and email, how to […] - There’s No Such Thing As Advanced Link Building
Confession time: I’m headed to Seattle next week for SMX Advanced, and I still haven’t started my slide deck. I’m not a procrastinator by nature, but when it comes to slides – well, I’d rather get a root canal than do slides.
Well, maybe not a root canal, but I have managed to find lots of […]
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Implications of Google’s WebM license on open source selection, rand($thoughts);
Business Issues
- Ok Seriously, What Is Yahoo?, TechCrunch
- Google has mapped every WiFi network in Britain, Telegraph
- Yahoo Looking To Blow AOL’s Patch Out Of The Water, businessinsider.com
- Yahoo’s Former Director Of Geo Lands At Nokia, Finds Yahoo Waiting, TechCrunch
- Corporations and Hypocrisy: Inconvenient truths about Google, counternotions.com
- Yahoo signals major challenge to newspapers, Reflections of a Newsosaur
Local, Maps & Mobile
Link Building
- Build Links Backwards, Search Engine Journal
- How Do You Choose a Link Building Company?, Daily SEO Tip
- Is there such thing as building to many links?, YouTube
Paid Search & Contextual
- Did Google Beef Up Their Interest Based Ads?, Search Engine Roundtable
Searching
- This week in search 5/30/10, Official Google Blog
- Is Google News Getting Spammy?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Wolfram|Alpha Builds an Arsenal of Military Data, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
- Why doesn’t Webmaster Tools have multiple-country targeting?, YouTube
- 3 Ways To Turn Blackhat SEO Into Whitehat SEO, Daily SEO Tip
- Google’s broken date recognition, beantin.se
- How a Search Engine Might Rerank Search Results Based upon Time-Based Data in Query Logs, SEO By The Sea
- Keyword Research Tools – Build Your Own Adventure, SEOmoz
- More about generic TLDs in (say) UK results, Matt Cutts
- No Title Tag? Google May Use Text From Next "Large Font", Search Engine Roundtable
- Update Robots.txt 24 Hours Prior To Adding New Content, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Increased The Title Tag Limit To 70 Characters?, Search Engine Roundtable
- SEO Automatic Plugin Review, Michael Gray
- Should Online PR and SEO Mix?, Vertical Leap Blog
- The Ultimate Beginners Guide To Personalised Search, Site Visibility
- Tips on responding to brand reviews, Econsultancy
- Why Local SEO is Harder Than SEOs Think, Small Business SEM
- Wrong Page Ranking in the Results? 6 Common Causes & 5 Solutions, SEOmoz
Social Media
- Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News, gigaom.com
- Bangladesh blocks Facebook over prophet drawings, Yahoo! News
- Facebook Gets Vague Privacy Inquiry from House Judicial Committee, Inside Facebook
- Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban to Be Lifted, BusinessWeek
- Yahoo Expands Yahoo Updates, Tiptoes On Privacy, TechCrunch
Video, Music & Image Search
- comScore Releases April 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings, comScore
- The Yahoo Brain Bleed Continues. A “Vital” Flickr Architect Departs, TechCrunch
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