SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 21, 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 Sued By Texas Attorney General To Turn Over Documents According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google has been sued by the Texas Attorney General’s office. The […]
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 Sued By Texas Attorney General To Turn Over Documents
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google has been sued by the Texas Attorney General’s office. The Texas Attorney General is currently investigating Google’s alleged anti-competitive behavior and potential abuse of power. That investigation is essentially parallel to what’s going on at the Federal Trade Commission. The suit, filed Monday in […]
- Growing Your Business By Branding Through SEO
You’re surfing your favorite news portal before leaving for work. Almost subliminally, you notice an ad for a new book on financial planning. Next, you drop by a forum to chat, and someone is talking about the same book. You then quickly pop in to Amazon.com to select some reading material for a weekend trip […]
- Bing’s Image Search Gets A New Look, Updated Features
Bing has updated its image search today with a new look and some tweaks to its search and discovery features. The first thing you’ll notice, aside from the fact that puppies are really cute, is the tight tile-based layout that Pinterest often gets credited for making popular in the past year or so. Both Flickr […]
- Search, Social & Mobile – Webcast for Travel Marketers, June 26
Next Tuesday, June 26, at 1 PM EDT, Search Engine Land’s Elisabeth Osmeloski and PhoCusWright’s Carroll Rheem will co-present “Search, Social & Mobile – What Travel Marketers Must Know,” a free webcast about online travel and search. The webcast is aimed at travel marketers and will include topics such as how consumers are searching for […]
- Sometimes You Just Need To Go With Your Gut In Data Analysis
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown […]
- 3 Content Aggregators For The B2B Community Manager Toolkit
It’s nothing new to preach the importance of sharing non-competitive, complementary, third party content for brands actively participating in social media. To make friends, you have to be friendly – that’s true for B2C and B2B alike. Friendly friends discuss mutual interests that fascinate and benefit one another. They don’t talk about themselves the whole […]
- Google Testing New Navigation Interface: New Ad Location To Come?
Some Google users are noticing a new Google search interface with top down navigation, search options and filters. Currently, the search options and navigation are along the left hand side bar. This new interface has those options across the top of the search results. Here is a picture: Here is a video from Tecno-Net on […]
- Google Rolls Out AdWords Redesign Globally
The “simpler and more beautiful” AdWords version previewed a couple of weeks ago is rolling out to all accounts globally in the next few days, Google has announced. The most significant change is the addition of “campaign types,” which allows advertisers to use an interface customized based on the type of campaign they are creating. […]
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- WPP Bets Big On Digital Future With AKQA Acquisition
- Twitter Denies Claim That Hackers Caused Today’s Outage
- Pinterest Aims To Appease With More Attribution
- Search, Social & Mobile – Webcast for Travel Marketers, June 26
- Where Will Surface And Windows Phone 8 Be A Year From Now?
- No Surprise: Twitter Ads Will Be Going Global
- Twitter Is Down, Company Working On Problem
- Facebook Advertising Decoded
- Case Studies: Optimizing For Mobile Can Drive More Conversions At Lower Cost Than On The PC
- Facebook Likes Go Mobile
- Taking Triggered Email To The Next Level
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- CYBERsitter Sues Google for Trademark Infringement in AdWords, Eric Goldman
- Google paying $0 in statutory damages as Oracle plans appeal, ZDNet
- Analysis: With Siri and new alliances, Apple takes on Google search, Reuters
- Microsoft demurs at Motorola patent settlement offer, Reuters
- Citing sanctions, Google blocks Analytics tool in Cuba, Yahoo! News
- Google files for a patent on peer-to-peer location finding, says cell tower triangulation is for chumps, Engadget
Local, Maps & Mobile
Link Building
- Is the end in sight for directories as link building?, Search News Central
- The Complete Guide to Link Building with Local Events, SEOmoz
Searching
- Chinese search newbie Jike takes on Baidu and Google, The Register
- Bing Search Quality Insights: Scientific Research Contributions (I), Bing Search Blog
SEM Industry
- The Value of Outing SEO Spammers, ShoeMoney
SEO & SEM
- 5 Small Business SEO Campaign ROI Secrets, Search Engine Watch
- ABC’s of SEO – Z = The Google Zoo: What Will Google’s Next Move Be?, Site Visibility
- Watch Out for Long Title Tags, SEOmoz
- 8 Quick Ways to Increase Your AdWords CTR, Certified Knowledge
- Use The Nofollow Attribute For GoogleBot Crawl Prioritization, Search Engine Roundtable
Video, Music & Image Search
- HOW TO: Increase Youtube Search Rankings, internetmarketingninjas.com
- Yahoo Mail rolls out (another) photo-sharing tool, CNET News
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