SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 19, 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: Matteo Lopez Wins The 2011 Doodle 4 Google Competition Google has announced the winner of the 2011 Google 4 Doodle, “What I’d like to do someday.” The winner is Matteo Lopez […]

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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:

  • Matteo Lopez Wins The 2011 Doodle 4 Google Competition

    Google has announced the winner of the 2011 Google 4 Doodle, “What I’d like to do someday.” The winner is Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, California for his logo named “Space Life.” Matteo Lopez’s answer to the question “what I’d like to do someday?” was “become an astronaut and explore space life.” Here is […]

  • Search Engines Don’t Like You? Don’t Jump To Conclusions

    One of the most frustrating things about technical problems with a site is that the ways they show up in search engines are usually unexpected or subtle. What looks like a penalty can actually be a problem introduced with a new version or new feature of a website. Because the true causes of problems like […]

  • Skyhook Case Giving Google PR Headache

    Ultimately Google will probably prevail in the lawsuit that Skyhook Wireless filed last year, but not without taking a few hits along the way. In that action Skyhook claims Google interfered with its relationships with two hardware manufacturers, Motorola and “Company X” (Samsung). Both OEMs were reportedly committed to using Skyhook’s location-positioning system vs Google’s […]

  • How To Avoid SEO Pitfalls With Timely Alerts

    In the world of SEO, there are big updates like Panda, Mayday, Vincent, Florida, but there are also smaller internal issues that can creep up on you leading to traffic and revenue loss. The ability to identify and prevent self inflicted nicks and cuts along the way is key to a successful SEO program for […]

  • Bing Webmaster Tools Enables HTML5 Interface

    I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that Bing Webmaster Tools no longer requires Silverlight. Now, if you login to Bing Webmaster Tools without Silverlight installed on your computer, you can see all the reports, graphs and charts that you were unable to see days ago. In July 2010, Bing revamped Webmaster Tools […]

  • Google Launching Social Search In 19 New Languages

    Google announced they have begun their international rollout of Google Social Search, which launched in October 2009. Social Search is being pushed out to 19 new languages over the upcoming days and weeks. Google promises even more languages in the near future. Google said, “with these changes, we want to help you find the most […]

  • Google’s Search Team (Finally) Gets Its Own Blog

    Google launched a new search blog today: Inside Search – The official Google Search blog. You’re probably thinking one of three things right now: Cool! I’m tired of finding search news and articles from them scattered in several places. Didn’t they already have one? Great. Just what Google needs: another company blog. Don’t they have […]

  • New Google Tool Lets You Preview Instant Previews In Webmaster Tools

    There’s a new toy available now in Google’s Webmaster Tools: It’s an Instant Previews preview tool that lets you see what any page on your website will look like in Google’s Instant Previews. The tool actually pulls double-duty, also showing a preview of what the page will look like in the Chrome web browser, too. […]

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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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