SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 17, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Up Close With Google’s Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By […]

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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:

  • Up Close With Google’s Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More

    Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By Image. Rather than enter a text query, Search By Image lets you begin your search with an image and Google will (try to) tell you what it is and show visually similar images. Search By […]

  • Friday Fun: A Street View Car Made Of LEGOs … And It Works!

    From the you-knew-it-would-happen-at-some-point department: a “street view” photography car made out of LEGOs that actually works! The car/toy (frankly, I’m not sure what to call it) is the work of Mark Crosbie, a software architect based in Dublin, Ireland and self-described “big LEGO kid by night.” It uses Lego’s NXT (a programmable robotics system), a […]

  • Google Does Love Ranking Data – They Just Aren’t Ready To Admit It

    During the Matt Cutts You & A at SMX Advanced in Seattle last week, someone asked Matt if Google would ever “like” query systems that provided ranking reports to SEOs. Matt said, again, that the focus shouldn’t be on rankings, and that website should be focused on “what makes the most money.” I rebutted that […]

  • Understanding The Human Part Of The User Experience

    In 1997, a computer called Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Headlines triumphed about the victory of machine over man, as we humans were “conquered”, “vanquished” and, as a result of our defeat, “stunned.” Checkmate…Finally! The real question isn’t why we finally were defeated by a chess playing computer, but why it took […]

  • Search In Pics: PMail, Google Map Makers & Yahoo Store

    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. The Yahoo Store: PMail: Google Map Makers: Yahoo Indonesia Editorial Team Loses Leader: Barry Schwartz (that’s […]

  • Majority Of Smartphone Users Online “Multiple Times” Daily

    In New York, at the Mobile Marketing Association forum, Google presented sponsored research on global smartphone user and marketer behavior. The data come from two related studies. The first is an “an online survey of thousands of mobile consumers in 30 countries.” The second is based on “a telephone survey of 1,000 marketing decision makers,” […]

  • Facebook Launching New Features To Enhance ‘Places’

    This week Inside Facebook revealed that Facebook was planning on bringing a few new features to their Places product. Facebook Places launched almost a year ago, a product which has seen decent usage to date. The new features that are reportedly launching should make it much easier to market places, especially for those with small […]

  • Google: rel=”canonical” Now Supported In HTTP Headers

    Google announced they are now supporting the rel=”canonical” attribute within HTTP headers. This enables webmasters to set up a canonical for linking to or from PDF files or other non-HTML based files. One of the examples given by Google is that a “webmaster can signal to Google that the canonical URL for the PDF download […]

  • Official: Google Testing Display Of Click Counts On Paid Search Ads

    Intrepid searchers have been spotting click counts displaying under certain AdWords ads on Google.com, and the search giant has confirmed it’s doing a small experiment. Both Vinny O’Hare and Steven Weldler spotted the user interface test, in which a click count was displayed underneath the URL portion of the ad. In one implementation, the text […]

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  • Google Web Search Supports rel=canonical HTTP Headers – Google announced today on their Webmaster Blog that they support the rel-canonical mechanism, formerly restricted to META elements, in HTTP headers now. That's great news, because it allows to canonicalize URIs of PDF docs, text files and whatnot. Personally, that's SUCCESS: I've requested this in 2009, nagging and nudging Google from time to time. Thanks, Google!
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About the author

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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