SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 4, 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:

• The Fleeting Nature Of Twitter: 17 Percent Of Top Searches Change Every Hour

  Nearly 20 percent of the top search queries on Twitter at any given moment won’t be a popular search query just one hour later. That’s according to a new research paper that Twitter will present this week at a social media conference. Twitter researchers Jimmy Lin and Gilad Mishne analyzed all search queries on the […]

• Report: Siri Coming To iPad With iOS 6

  With its latest iPad — “the new iPad” — Apple introduced voice dictation capability (via Nuance) but not its virtual assistant Siri. Now comes a report that Siri will soon come to the iPad with the iOS 6 update, which is also supposed to mark the debut of Apple Maps/iMaps. Next week is Apple’s WWDC […]

• Google Acquires KikScore Technology And Assets To Complement Trusted Stores

  In an effort to expand the kind of information available to online shoppers via its Trusted Stores program, Google has acquired the technology and certain assets of KikScore, a trust seal company serving mostly small businesses. The cost of the acquisition wasn’t disclosed. According to a post on KikScore’s site, the standalone service is being […]

• Study: 66% Of Consumers Would Recommend A Local Business Based On Special Offers

  In March and April, we (BrightLocal) published the findings of Parts 1 and 2 of the Local Consumer Review Survey 2012. The data and charts below are the 3rd and final installment of this survey. About Local Consumer Review Survey 2012 This online survey was conducted between 15th January – 1st March 2012. A set […]

• WSJ: Google Prepares “Business Builder” For Small Business Marketers

  The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that Google is planning to combine a number of its products (internally developed and acquired) into a suite of tools and services aimed at small business marketers: Google plans to have its newest small-business service—which at one point it was calling Business Builder—up and running as early as […]

• Marketers React To News Of Google Shopping Changing To Paid Inclusion With Hope & Concern

  A few days after Google upended the ecommerce marketing world with the announcement of upcoming changes to what will now be called Google Shopping, many retailers and marketers we spoke with are positive about the switch, though there are definitely some serious concerns. You’d think taking a product from free to paid would cause an […]

• Amid Advertiser Complaints, Google Makes Changes To New AdWords Rotation Feature

  It looks like the powers-that-be at Google are listening to thoughtful feedback like Matt Van Wagner presented just a few days ago in these pages. The company is making changes to recently-implemented AdWords rotation settings, and also allowing advertisers to opt-out of the auto-optimization altogether. As a reminder, in late April, Google said that a […]

• The Definitive Guide To Google Authorship Markup

  At SMX Advanced 2011, Matt Cutts announced the Google initiative to begin attributing content to original authors. Since that time, the process in which authors and websites attribute content to authors has evolved. A lot. Many times over, in fact. If you’ve heard about Google authorship markup, but have been confused as to how to […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• How To Cross-Promote Social Media And Mobile Applications
• Facebook May Consider Letting Children Under 13 Create Accounts
• The “Paid Organification” Of Facebook: Why Facebook’s Plan Isn’t About Display Ads
• EFF Rates Google, Apple, Facebook On Protecting User Data Privacy
• Twitter May Top $1 Billion Sales Revenue In 2014, Bloomberg Says
• Google, Apple Control 82 Percent Of US Smartphone Market — comScore

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Firefox 13 arrives with major new features — get it NOW!, betanews.com

Business Issues

• Ex-Employee: The Worst Thing About Google Is Google+, Gizmodo
• Yahoo and Facebook in Advanced Negotiations to Settle Patent Lawsuits, AllThingsD
• Confirmed: Google Is Buying Meebo, The Startup That Turned Chat Into A Business, TechCrunch
• Google Project Glass Is Codenamed “Wingman”, TechCrunch
• Salesforce Lines Up Against Oracle On Social Push; Buys Buddy Media For $689M, TechCrunch
• The Oracle v. Google aftermath, Ars Technica
• Twitter Acquires DC-Based Design Studio Nclud, thenextweb.com

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Bug in Google+Local Prevents Links on Page From Resolving Correctly, Mike Blumenthal
• Foursquare App Will Get a Face-Lift in a Few Days [PICS], mashable.com
• Exclusive: Instapaper for Android launches (hands-on), The Verge
• Here’s What Happens When Google Street View Can’t Map Narrow Belgian Streets, WebProNews

Link Building

• 2 Quick Ways to Perform Bad Link Archaeology, Search Engine Watch
• An Internal Link Juice Tool, SEOmoz
• International Link Building, Search Engine People
• The Definitive Guide to Qualifying a Link Prospect [with Video], SEOmoz

Searching

• SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation, Microsoft Research

SEM Industry

• I bought the Developer Shed Network, internetmarketingninjas.com

SEO & SEM

• Forget SEO: Here’s How to Write a Post That Goes Viral, quicksprout.com
• Google now showing author image only once in results, v1seo.co.uk
• High five: the 5 best SEO copywriting video how-to’s, SEO Copywriting
• How to Mimic Enterprise SEO Tools & Gain Actionable Insights, Search Engine Watch
• June 2012 Google Webmaster Report: Penguin 1.1, Panda 3.6, PageRank & Knowledge Graph, Search Engine Roundtable

Social Media

• Is a Google Timeline in our Future?, SEO By The Sea

Video, Music & Image Search

• The Apple Television Is Coming, And This Is Why It’s Going To Be Revolutionary Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-television-what-to-expect-2012-6, Business Insider

Web Analytics

• Google Analytics Custom Reports: Paid Search Campaigns Analysis, Avinash Kaushik
• [New Feature]: Conduct Browser-Size Analysis Within Google Analytics, Google Analytics Blog