SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 1, 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: Google Faces July 2 Deadline To Settle EU Antitrust Claims — Or Else European Commission (EC) antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia is engaged in what amounts to a poker game with Google […]
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 Faces July 2 Deadline To Settle EU Antitrust Claims — Or Else
European Commission (EC) antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia is engaged in what amounts to a poker game with Google — or if you like a “game of chicken.” In a highly public and slightly uncharacteristic move the EC offered to not bring a formal antitrust complaint against the company if it voluntarily addresses four issues or […]
- Using Data To Plan Your Future, Not Look To The Past
Data is everywhere, we can pull numbers from a wide variety of resources – put them in spreadsheets, compare them to each other, draw conclusions based on data – there are a lot of things we can do with data. The thing we can do, but not many of us do – is use the […]
- Bing’s New Social Search Now Available To All In US
Bing announced that the new social search sidebar which was available for testing a few weeks ago, is now available as the default search service for all US based searchers. The next time you go to Bing.com, your search will be layered in social elements on the right hand side. For more on how that […]
- Google Stung By Procedural Ruling In Book Scanning Lawsuit
Google received a procedural setback today in the long running litigation over its book-scanning project. Presiding Judge Dennis Chin ruled that the Authors Guild and a parallel trade organization for photographers could represent their members collectively against Google in the class action. Google had wanted to remove these organizations and deal individually with authors and […]
- Google’s Latest Easter Egg: Search For Lionel Richie
Oh, Google, you slay me. And it might slay you, too. Go do a search for “lionel richie” (or just click here) and — if you’ve been alive long enough — you’ll get a kick out of the joke that shows up in the Knowledge Graph box. That, for you youngins, is a reference to […]
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- With iOS Status On The Ropes, Google To Show “Next Dimension” Of Google Maps
- Google Analytics Gets New Testing Functionality: Content Experiments
- Marketing Biz: Ch, Ch, Ch, Ch, Changes
- Un-Boring Blenders: 3 Tips To Improve Your Affiliate Marketing Sales
- Leaked: Google+ To Launch Events With Google Calendar Synchronization
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Now you can polish up Google’s translation of your website, Google Translate Blog
Business Issues
- Inside Google X’s Project Glass, Part I, Fast Company
- EXCLUSIVE: Google and Facebook exploring investments in Vevo as part of broader partnership with YouTube music-video service, NYPOST.com
- Google forces advertisers to buy back their own trademarks, Harvard professor says, Financial Post
- Google Points Antitrust Finger at Microsoft, Nokia, Wall Street Journal
- How I Did It: Alexis Ohanian, Reddit, Inc.com
- Nokia calls Google’s EC complaint a frivolous waste of time, notes Android’s ‘problems with patents’, The Verge
- Who Has Your Back?, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Local, Maps & Mobile
- My CliffsNotes on the Google Places-Plus Merger, LocalVisibilitySystem.com
- Bing Bing Announces News, Sports and Travel apps for the Windows 8 Release Preview, Bing Search Blog
- Explore historic sites with the World Wonders Project, Official Google Blog
- Foursquare Teases Major Redesign, Shows Off New Maps, thenextweb.com
- Google Answers Questions On Managing Google+ Local Page, Search Engine Roundtable
- 7-Pack Upgraded – Stars Are No More, Authorship is King, Mike Blumenthal
Link Building
- Web Directory Submission Danger: Analysis of Directories Shows 20% Penalized/Banned by Google, SEOmoz
Searching
- Bing Deep Links Issue to Blame for ‘Mysterious’ Yahoo Links, Search Engine Watch
- C-SPAN’s Online Collection of More than 600 Searchable, Viewable Commencement Speeches, LJ INFOdocket
- New Resource: Library and Archives Canada Launches Portraits Portal, LJ INFOdocket
SEM Industry
- How Google’s Head Of Search, Amit Singhal, Knows Penguin Works, Search Engine Roundtable
- Links and Outings and Guidelines. Oh My!, SEO.com
- The Mob Mentality of SEOs, ShoeMoney
SEO & SEM
- 4 Secrets About Paid Search Agencies, Search Engine Watch
- Common eCommerce Technical SEO Problems, distilled
- Google AdWords MCC Bug With Linking To Google Analytics, Search Engine Roundtable
- Now 404 & 410 Response Codes Treated The Same By Google, Search Engine Roundtable
- Technical Vocabulary, Jargon, Acronyms & Client Communication in SEO, Search Engine People
- The Benefit of A Sitemap According to Googles John Mueller, State of Search
- Was There A Google Panda Refresh? Panda 3.7, Search Engine Roundtable
- Will My Rankings Return After a Google Penalty?, BruceClay.com
- Comment Marketing as an Inbound Tactic – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
- Future SEO and Paid Ads with Google Glasses?, SEO By The Sea
- Positive, Forward-looking Methods of Acquiring Links, SEO Theory
- Everything We Know About The Penguin Update, Web Gnomes
Social Media
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