SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 8, 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: Twitter Hits 100 Million ‘Active’ Users Started just 5 years ago, Twitter announced today at the “State of the Union” that they have officially reached their 100 millionth ‘active’ user. Of […]

on September 8, 2011 at 5:10 pm | Reading time: 6 minutes
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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:

  • Twitter Hits 100 Million ‘Active’ Users

    Started just 5 years ago, Twitter announced today at the “State of the Union” that they have officially reached their 100 millionth ‘active’ user. Of the active users, 55% use Twitter on their mobile devices. Each month over 400 million unique visitors use Twitter.com alone. Today Twitter is posting a billion tweets every five days, about […]

  • All Sales & No Service: Google’s Small Business Priorities Are All Messed Up

    Google is, again, wiping the egg off of its company face this week after the New York Times exposed yet another way in which some users are manipulating Google Places to the detriment of unsuspecting small/local business owners. The latest issue involves unscrupulous individuals/companies marking other businesses as closed in Google Places. It’s a process […]

  • Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX Social Media Marketing

    We’re pleased to announce that we’re launching a new conference: SMX Social Media Marketing, debuting in Scottsdale, AZ on December 5-6, 2011. SMX Social Media Marketing is a two-day, tactic-rich conference that covers all key issues for getting the most out of social media networks, whether you’re tasked with driving organic traffic, managing paid campaigns, […]

  • Twitter CEO Dick Costolo’s “State Of The Union” Address

    100 million active users. 1 billion tweets every seven days. Plans to grow the ad business. These stats and facts are part of a “State Of The Twitter” talk Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gave to the press today. Live blogging below! Dick arrives. Nothing big, he says. “I just wanted to give you a state […]

  • Google Buys Zagat Ratings, Rocks Local

    Google is buying the venerable Zagat survey, which is the original local reviews provider and has been in business for more than 30 years. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Rumor had it that Zagat has been “on the block” for some time, as the company increasingly struggles to compete in a world that has […]

  • MicroData & Retail Products: Not Ready For Primetime?

    If you are in the search engine business, the functionality in the Microdata specification sponsored by Google, Yahoo and Bing is a very attractive way to theoretically improve search results. Enterprise search engines are well-versed with named entity extraction tools and techniques, which is how this information has been generated in the past decade. The […]

  • Tricks For Taming Keywords With Regular Expressions

    So far my articles about technical SEO have focused on how to adjust a site’s configuration or architecture to make it more crawlable and indexable. In this post, I’m writing about the other end of the technical SEO process: using analytics data to analyze traffic and user behavior by keywords. When looking at keyword data, […]

  • Last Call – Search Engine Land’s SMX East Starts Next Tuesday in NYC

    Time is running out! Search Engine Land’s conference – SMX East begins next Tuesday September 13th in New York City. Register now to reserve your place! Your investment in coming to SMX East will pay off many times. We guarantee it. Register for your All Access pass and get 3 days of cutting edge search […]

  • Why “Second Chance” Tweets Matter: After 3 Hours, Few Care About Socially Shared Links

    There have been various studies suggesting that if someone doesn’t see a tweet or a Facebook post within a few hours, they’ll never see it at all. Now link shortening service Bit.ly is out with another. After three hours, Bit.ly has found, links have sent about all the traffic they’re going to send. So start […]

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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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