Last weekend, rather than read stories about the US diplomatic cables that Wikileaks has released, I decided to read them directly myself. In doing so, I better understood why no one — certainly not the US State Department — is going to shove those cables back into the darkness. Finding Wikileaks My first step was […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: It’s Alive: The Google Chrome OS Laptop Launch Event Google has announced that Chrome OS laptops are now available to consumers through a pilot program for early adopters who prove themselves […]
Looking for the Wikileaks website? Having lost one domain, and having its second site going down temporarily, it’s a challenge, even for the search engines.
Want to explore the “Cablegate” material that Wikileaks released last week for yourself, but have no idea where to start? There’s a new search engine for the material. Cablesearch: A Google For Cablegate Called Cablesearch, it’s a project from the Eccar: The European Center of Computer Assisted Reporting. Gary Price from ResourceShelf tipped us to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Blekko & DuckDuckGo Partner On Search Results It’s not exactly a case of If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, because Blekko has insisted all along that it’s not trying to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Not Optimizing For Bing-Yahoo Means Loss Of Traffic From an SEM-SEO resource-allocation perspective focusing on Google historically made lots of sense for small and even medium-sized firms. Some firms didn’t […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Foursquare’s Crowley Can Feel Foursquare Fatique, Has Plans To Fix It Feeling Foursquare fatigue and perhaps wondering what’s the point of checking in at times? Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley sometimes feels […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hot At Sphinn: SEO’s Bad Reputation, Google ‘Pollutes’ The Web & More A news article about Google from The Guardian was popular last week on Sphinn, as was last week’s member […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Says Its New Facebook Like Integration Really, Really Is Live The Bing Search Blog officially announced that the Facebook integration on Bing is live. Last week, we reported some were […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Schmidt: Forcing Carriers To Provide “Clean” Android Would Violate Principle Of Open Source One of the disturbing things about the Skyhook Wireless lawsuit against Google is the allegation that Google made […]
Google’s Street View continues to face resistance, particularly in European countries where the service has more recently been rolling out. Today brings news that privacy officials in the Czech Republic are refusing to allow Google to resume capturing images with its Street View vehicles. According to a story in The Guardian, the Czech Office for […]
We’ll have to wait and see what emerges from the reported discussions between Verizon and Google. However prospect of a patchwork of agreements between large internet companies and ISPs like Verizon over web traffic is highly undesirable. (See update below.) The private Google-Verizon talks are an apparent response to the slow pace of progress on […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Doctors Warn Against Relying Too Much On Google Chances are good that you’ve searched for health-related information via Google, Yahoo, Bing, or some of the other health-specific portals. Both Google and […]
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 Street View Collected Emails, Passwords (Social Security Numbers, Your Dog’s Name….) Google’s Street View cars that were logging wi-fi locations also collected private information such as email messages and passwords, […]
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 “Augmenting” Street View With Local Biz Information Google started playing with “augmented reality” — I’m using the term here loosely — in the PC version of Street View several months […]
Yesterday, I moderated a panel on real time search where one of the topics was how to get the balance between showing recent tweets versus the most “relevant” ones right. Today, there came a perfect example to test — the trending topic of #nickcleggsfault. For those unfamiliar with Nick Clegg, he’s the leader of 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: Internet Ad Revenue Hit Record High In Q4 2009 Recession? Economic slowdown? Financial gloom-and-doom? Not online, and not as far as Internet advertising is concerned. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) says […]
Yesterday, several blogs noticed that the Google executives page was showing up in Chinese language. The initial suspicions was that someone upset about Google’s decision to redirect Google China to Google Hong Kong and they hacked the page to show in Chinese. As more reports came out, some users noticed the page was also coming […]
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 Maps Finally Welcome To Home-Based & Service-Based Businesses Google Maps is rolling out what it hopes will be a solution to one of the Local Business Center’s longtime shortcomings: the […]
Apparently, Google’s Sergey Brin now believes that the US government should make fighting Chinese censorship a high priority, is disappointed with Microsoft for continuing to censor and is surprised that some question Google’s sudden U-turn in China. I’d say Google needs to get a little time under its belt being outside of China and setting […]
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 Stops Censoring In China, Hopes Using New Domain Meets Legal Requirements Beginning today, Google is no longer censoring results on its Chinese search engine, the company has announced. But rather […]
Beginning today, Google is no longer censoring results on its Chinese search engine, the company has announced. But rather than the expected “pullout” from China, Google hopes to continue operating within the country. It all comes down to whether the Chinese government decides operating off a Hong Kong domain — rather than the main Chinese […]
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-Viacom Court Documents Out; Google Says Viacom ‘Secretly’ Uploaded Videos The three-year-old lawsuit in which Viacom is seeking $1 billion from Google over copyrighted videos on YouTube moved a step forward […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Hits All-Time High Market Share: Nielsen The latest search market share numbers from Nielsen are out, and it’s more good news for the folks in Redmond. Nielsen says Bing’s market […]
Microsoft is about to roll out a “a multimillion-pound TV ad campaign” for Bing in the UK market, where it has less than a 5 percent share of searches. Google by contrast has roughly 90 percent. According to the Guardian: The ads feature ordinary people asking for information and receiving nonsensical, “speaking-in-tongues” answers; one early […]
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’s Street View Finds More Trouble In Europe In a letter earlier this month, members of the European Union’s data protection group urged Google to make changes to its Street View […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Geo-Targeting For Local Placement: Just How Narrow Is OK? Advertising exists to help merchants sell products and services to people who need those same products and services. Bringing the merchant together […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: When In House Should Opt For Outsourcing There are not too many times when I advocate that an in-house SEO program should turn to outsourcing. Far too many times I have […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Good Bye Winter, Hello Santa Clara. PPC Marketer’s Dream Agenda I suppose the next best thing to dreaming about leaving the cold New Hampshire winter is to actually do it! Can’t […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Paper: Google Using Legal And Accounting Tricks To Avoid UK Taxes The Guardian in the UK is reporting that Google is using “a cross-border network of subsidiary companies to ensure it […]
The Guardian in the UK is reporting that Google is using “a cross-border network of subsidiary companies to ensure it did not pay a penny in corporation tax on its £1.6bn advertising revenues in Britain.” The publication says that most of the UK-based revenue is recognized in Ireland where tax rates are lower: While much […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: URL Shorteners Come To Google & Facebook Google announced a new URL shortening service Goo.gl. It doesn’t replace Bit.ly and others because it only works right now with the Google Toolbar […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Furor Over Google CEO’s Comments On Privacy One of the big themes of the week is privacy. Facebook just did a major overhaul of its privacy settings to promote more public […]
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 Suspends Local Listing Ads — For Now Today Google announced that the company was suspending Local Listing Ads, for the time being: “Starting today, we will no longer accept new […]
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 Caffeine Now Live On One Google Data Center As expected the Google Caffeine index is now live on one Google data center. Note, it will not be added to more […]
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 Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle” Google Social Search is rolling out, a new service from Google that allows you to easily find material written by […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: An Open Letter To Derek Powazek On The Value Of SEO Derek Powazek launched an attack on SEO yesterday that really said nothing that others haven’t ranted about before. I’ve responded […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Is Choosing Search Engines Over Users A Fatal Flaw In SEO? I recently read an article by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, entitled “Terrible SEO Advice: Focus on Users, Not Engines” that […]
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 Lets You Tell Them Which URL Parameters To Ignore A new feature has appeared in the Site Configuration Settings Sections of Google Webmaster Tools. The setting, called Parameter Handling, enables […]
It appears Google has pulled together a bunch of statistics throughout the web and created a small landing page named Google Internet Stats on the Google UK front. The page explains that this service “brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place.” Google collected this data from many third party vendors, […]