Search Engine Journal:
So while U.S. Anti-Trust Regulators are planning to investigate Google’s deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues amounting to $125m, Google continues to make Book Search a better and worthwhile service for their users.If you’ve been following this issue which has been dragging on since perhaps the day Google Bo (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
At SES San Jose 2009, I've been asked to make a solo presentation to kick of the Search and Community Track. The title of the session is "How to Optimize for Search & Engage the Community."I've been working on my presentation, but it lacked a compelling case study that illustrated how a community organization had used sear (Read More)
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Different markets have different needs for marketing products or services. We all know that much. But that doesn't take away the weirdness of a company like Google advertising its core product (online search) by using ink that was printed on paper. Guilty of this hideous crime (I kid, I kid) is Google India, who apparently (Read More)
David Harry - Trail of the Fire Horse:
The hype and the realityOne of the more popular buzz words in search over the last while is ‘real time search’. For starters, that’s a bit of a misnomer; there are NO actual ‘real time’ engines… that’s simply not possible (even Twitter search updates in intervals not entirely ‘real time’). Regardless, people keep gettin (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
Like many of you, I was saddened to learn on Sunday that Billy Mays died at the age of 50. My family has been watching the Discovery Channel series Pitchmen, featuring Mays and fellow pitchman Anthony Sullivan. I had been planning this post for a few weeks, but there has been so much search news to cover, I haven't had the (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
As real-time search and Twitter’s growing importance in producing valuable information is getting into the mainstream, Bing is joining the likes of Facebook, Google and Twitter in bringing real-time search feature in their respective search algorithms. Starting today, Bing will be integrating more real-time data into its se (Read More)
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Shaun Anderson over at Hobo-Web.co.uk has just released an awesome new wordpress plugin. "Recent announcements with the way Google Pagerank flows via nofollow links at Google has bloggers all a flutter. I asked Marty if he could sit down and modify 26 Vote(s)
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Linkbuilding on its highest level. Christoph Cemper talks about co-citation. An absolute must read for every SEO.22 Vote(s)
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Search Engine Watch BlogI've been attending SES San Jose every year since 2003. And each year a healthy proportion of attendees are attending their first search engine marketing conference ever.This is healthy because it expands the number of marketers who "get it." I can't tell you the number of times when prospective cli (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
StatCounter made news fast and furious in Bing's first week when they offered up data showing Bing had surpassed Yahoo! in search. And now they're making a splash again by quickly releasing data for the whole month of June.Overall, things are relatively steady, but there's an ever-so-slight increase in Microsoft search shar (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
On Tuesday Digg announced that they were finally rolling out some major updates to their duplicate detection technology, and let’s be honest - it’s about time! The technology they had in place before was hardly reliable.The way that it used to work is that you’d go ahead and insert your URL and all the details for the stor (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
Expect more of these kinds of post in the next couple of days as search analysts will be on the lookout for statistics on Bing’s first month of operation. The latest of these data is coming from StatCounter which is reporting that Microsoft’s search market share went up to 8.5% one month after Bing’s launch.Although Bing’s (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
With Google Chrome threatening its dominance in the browser arena, Firefox certainly has got many things to consider to prevent Google’s browser from inching in closer in terms of popularity and user base. At the rate things, it seems like the Firefox folks have done their job as they are releasing Firefox 3.5.But you’ve pr (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
This week, there are a couple of executive hirings in Silion Valley related to the search and social networking industries. First up, Penny Baldwin has been tapped as senior vice president, global integrated marketing and brand management for Yahoo! Is there any room left on her business card? That's quite a long title!Prev (Read More)