SearchCap: Daily Search Engine News Recap http://searchengineland.com SearchCap is a daily recap of search engine news. Subscribe, and at the end of each business day, you'll get a summary of what happened in search that day. This will include all stories we've covered on Search Engine Land as well as headlines from sources from across the web. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:15:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://searchengineland.com/http://searchengineland.com/images/sel-logo-144.jpgSearch Engine LandSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with FeedLoungeSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with inclue!Subscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIX SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2009 http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchcap/~3/sN7fQV0B0e4/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-2-2009-21948 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-2-2009-21948#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:07:11 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=21948 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 Blog Search Sees Twitter Trends & Raises With Blog Search ‘Hot Queries’

    A lot of the innovation in search these days is all about What’s happening right now? Twitter is the poster child where real-time search is concerned, and despite its ongoing spam problem, Twitter Trends has become one of the primary places to get a snapshot of what’s happening now. Google Blog Search is getting in the [...]

  • What Ads Types Are Most “Helpful”? Search Ads Follow Newspapers, TV

    Trade magazine AdWeek and pollster Harris Interactive conducted a survey in early June among 2,521 US adults. People were asked what types of ads they found most “helpful” and what types of ads they ignored. Below are the top-line results as well as the age and geographically segmented data. Most helpful in making purchase decisions:

    37 percent [...]

  • The Collusion Of Editorial & Advertising; Plus: Cheap Ways To Buy Exposure

    Many reporters would like you to believe there is a firm wall between content and advertising, but often they merge…particularly for niche or trade related publications. When my wife was getting started in business and wanted to promote her first website, a trade magazine kept trying to push her for an ad and she kept [...]

  • Google News No Longer Wants Newsmaker’s Comments

    In August 2007, Google News released a feature to allow newsmakers to add comments to stories found in Google News. That feature has gone away very quietly. When Google News launched the feature, not only did we find it “weird,” but we felt that Google didn’t “know what they’re getting into.” Google told the [...]

  • Google Expands Universal Search To More Phones In More Countries

    Of the big three search engines, one could argue that Google is directing the most focused, ongoing effort toward mobile. Clearly Yahoo and Microsoft see mobile as a critical part of their business but Google is more or less continually doing things that seek to improve the mobile user experience. First, of course, there’s Android itself. [...]

  • It’s All About Local Organic Domination

    Lately I’ve been speaking with SEM experts about what small business owners should do to increase their online visibility. While opinions vary, most experts agree about the importance of ranking high on Google’s various organic search results. Listening to them explain what a local business can hope to achieve, I found that the language was hardly [...]

  • Google Book Search Lawsuit Gets Conference Treatment

    New York Law School will host a three-day conference about the Google Book Search lawsuit starting on October 8 — one day after the rescheduled fairness hearing that may decide the case’s future. You may recall that the judge in the case has already given tentative approval to the $125 million settlement, but about six weeks [...]

  • Hunch Doing ‘Pretty Well,’ Co-Founder Says

    Barely two weeks after its launch, Hunch is already taking stock of its progress. “How well do we think Hunch is working?,” asks co-founder Chris Dixon. “Pretty well, although we still have a ways to go.” Writing on the Hunch blog, Dixon explains that the decision engine is using what it calls “success rate” as its [...]

  • Bing Adds Twitter Smart Answers

    Bing has announced they are now displaying Twitter results for a few thousand “prominent and prolific” Twitterers in their search results. The Twitter results show the person’s latest Tweets and a link to “see more tweets” from that user. For example, if you search for [Danny Sullivan Twitter] or [Danny Sullivan Tweets or [@dannysullivan] in Bing, [...]

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]]> http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-2-2009-21948/feed http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-2-2009-21948 SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 1, 2009 http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchcap/~3/CR8pHJU59Ic/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-1-2009-21845 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-1-2009-21845#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:33 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=21845 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 Book Search Now With Cloud Tag

    The Google Book Search Blog announced a neat new feature that allows you to peek into the book via what is known as a cloud tag. The cloud tag shows you the most common terms and phrases used in the book, with the bigger the terms, the more that term is used in the [...]

  • Legistalker: What Happens In DC Doesn’t Have To Stay In DC

    As a nation, the US seems to be more interested in politics than we’ve been in a long time. Voter turnout in last year’s presidential election was 61%, the first time it passed 60% in 40 years. When President Obama was inaugurated in January, Google reported spikes in search activity. Yahoo said that inaugural search [...]

  • Su Content Es Mi Content: Leveraging In-House Content For SEO

    It hardly needs saying that content is important for SEO: a properly structured site with frequently updated, keyword-rich content is the best foundation for high search engine rankings. Quality content that is interesting or useful to users also has an excellent chance of receiving unsolicited links, further enhancing a website’s ability to rank well for [...]

  • Google Toolbar For IE Adds “Advanced” Translation

    The Google Blog announced the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE (Internet Explorer) has new “advanced translation” capabilities. The translation features include:

    Automatic detection of languages other than your default language One click translation Client side (does not communicate with Google) language detection Automatic language translation on page clicks Real-time translation for dynamic content Auto translation feature (bypass [...]

  • 5 SEO Tips For Nabbing International Search Real Estate

    Though the housing market continues to plummet in the United States, “real estate” on the search results page is as competitive as ever as marketers try to nab as much as possible. But accomplishing this in foreign markets can be challenging. For example, even if you have a dot-com version of your website that ranks [...]

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]]> http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-1-2009-21845/feed http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-july-1-2009-21845 SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 30, 2009 http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchcap/~3/s0KPyY-Z1BM/searchcap-the-day-in-search-june-30-2009-21798 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-june-30-2009-21798#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:00:05 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=21798 Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search

    Search and display. One often hears how they work together, but there’s still plenty of skepticism out there, especially in the SEM community, about the value of display advertising. Indeed, during the recession search has prospered (relatively speaking) while display has suffered. But a new study from the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and comScore argues [...]

  • Stephen Colbert Does Send-Up Of Twitter & Jeff Goldblum Death Rumor

    Last week, we covered how a rumor that Jeff Goldblum was dead spread on Twitter and even Google . This week, Stephen Colbert did a great send-up of the rumor, including a visit by Goldblum himself. The clip starts out with Colbert saying: “I was on the Twitter this weekend, and I saw a tweetening of the [...]

  • Are You Link Building Or Just Keeping Up With The Joneses?

    If there’s one link development tactic that has been used to death, it has to be “see who’s linking to your competition and get them to link to you”. There are tools galore to help you do this, software you buy and install on your desktop, or web based apps. It’s a fairly simple technique [...]

  • Google Releases AdWords API v2009 (Beta)

    The Google AdWords API Blog announced the new AdWords API v2009. The new API promises “more speed, scale, and flexibility to developers, at a lower cost.” The AdWords API v2009 will ultimately replace version 13, and there are “significant” differences between the two. The biggest additions include:

    Partial failure acceptance - We plan [...]

  • YouTube To Launch “Call-To-Action Overlay” Ads

    TechCrunch reports that YouTube is adding a new ad type to its ad mix named “Call-To-Action Overlay” ads. These ads are very simple, they basically allow you to add a link to a third-party site, off of YouTube. The ad is a transparent background with an ad description and link to any site [...]

  • The Toolbar Factor: Engagement’s Role in Social Voting

    Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to their front page. Digg.com has been the center focus for spamming and gaming in social media because a front-page promoted story equates to thousands of visitors and hundreds, or even thousands [...]

  • Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News

    Yahoo News was the web’s number one choice last week for information about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson. In a post on the Hitwise blog, Heather Dougherty shows a chart detailing how the major online News & Media sites fared:

    Late last week I wrote about how each of the major search engines handled the [...]

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]]> http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-june-30-2009-21798/feed http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-june-30-2009-21798 SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 29, 2009 http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchcap/~3/-SrNL8W6QHk/searchcap-the-day-in-search-june-29-2009-21733 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-june-29-2009-21733#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:08:36 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=21733 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 Long Tail of Paid Search Account Effort

    If you spend enough time sitting at your desk in summer, you can go slightly insane. That aside, daydreaming sometimes leads to back-door observations, studies show. Glancing out the window, it’s evident that it takes a lot of resources and coordination to run a neighborhood. Schools, crossing guards, street sweepers, garbage collection, public pool maintenance, snow [...]

  • Google Tests Dropping Off Country Specific Search?

    The SEO Home blog has noticed that Google UK is now testing removing the radio button to only show “pages from the UK.” If you visit google.co.uk you may notice the radio button, but some are noticing that the radio button for that country specific option is now missing. Google UK With the Country Specific [...]

  • Google: We’re Not Really That Big But If We Are, We Aren’t Bad

    The NY Times offers a broad article about Google’s efforts to define, explain and clarify its place in the market in the face of increasing anti-trust scrutiny (Google Makes a Case That It Isn’t So Big). There are currently three Justice Department investigations pending that involve Google, concerning its Book Search settlement, overlapping directors with [...]

  • Google Slides On Ranking Issues

    The Google Webmaster Central blog posted slides on traffic drops and site architecture issues. The slides are from an SMX London 2009 presentation.

    For more information, see the Google blog post.

  • Funny: “Googling With Bing”

    Monday’s can be rough for many people, so I thought I share with you a funny video named “Googling with Bing.” It basically is a Bing commercial, but they replace the word “search” with “Google.”

    See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Hat tip to TechCrunch for spotting this.

  • Next Great Thing: Bing Draws On IYP Connection

    Everyone seems to be chiming in with their reviews of Microsoft’s new search engine — oops, I mean “decision engine”. Can it compete with Yahoo? Will it become a verb like Google? Why’d they name it after the Chandler character on “Friends?” I don’t know if Bing will grow legs or if it’ll get lost amid [...]

  • Riding The Rail: Plenty Of Time To Ponder Search

    I’m going just a bit off topic this month. It may seem a stretch, but bear with me, there is a modicum of relevance to this column. You see, most of my ideas for Industrial Strength columns, as well as the bulk of my SEL column writing, take place on either the Capitol 523 or [...]

  • Google Thinks Michael Jackson Died At Age 65 In 2007

    Oops. Bad, Google. Occasionally the service inserts direct answers to searches at the top of its results. It makes guesses at this, and in the case of michael jackson died, it’s making the wrong guess. Henry Elliss tipped us that Google’s showing that Michael Jackson died in 2007, at age 65. The problem? Google’s drawing on [...]

  • The Bogus Google Give-Away

    Here’s a new one on me. I just got an email telling me that I’ve won nearly $1 million from a “drawing” randomly selected from those searching on Google. Suffice to say, it’s a scam. I can assure you that Google’s done no drawing like this. Add the spam to those about missing fortunes in [...]

  • Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search

    An extraordinary day of breaking news on Thursday led to record-breaking traffic spikes as people searched online for information about the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and, especially, Michael Jackson. And just like their counterparts in traditional media, the news divisions of Google, Yahoo, and Bing responded with sometimes extraordinary measures to ensure they were giving [...]

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From Search Engine Land:

  • AdWords Conversion Tracking: How To Optimize Your Account 10x Quicker

    Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could get data 10 times faster so you could make your bid & ad decisions in days instead of weeks or months? If you are presently only tracking sales conversions in AdWords, there may be a better way.

  • One Week Left To Pitch Sessions Ideas For SMX East

    Want to speak at our SMX East SEM conference, happening Oct. 5 to 7 in New York? The very best way is to pitch a great session idea, and you have through the end of next week to do it. Use our Session Pitch Form to send in your ideas. The form [...]

  • Search In Pictures: King Albert II, Yahoo Girls & Pamela’s Pegman Piñata

    In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Yahoo Bike Girls: King Albert II Visits Google Data Center: Max Morgan performs @ Yahoo: Yahoo Police Women?: Happy Birthday Pamela [...]

  • Focus Group Study Offers Good & Bad News For Bing

    TechCrunch yesterday reported on the results of a focus group conducted by NY design firm Catalyst Group comparing usability on Bing and Google. The study showed that in many instances Bing was preferred but that users already familiar and comfortable with Google would likely stay with Google. What’s partly interesting about this is that the [...]

  • How To: Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part 3

    In this continuing series (part 1, part 2), I’ve shared some tips and tricks specifically for the search marketing professional using Microsoft Excel. The feedback has been great (thank you!), so I’m going to expand these posts to not just include tasks associated with SEM, but into a mini-Excel training course for search marketers [...]

  • Jeff Goldblum Is NOT Dead (Despite What Google Says)

    I can’t believe I’m writing this post. But on a day when both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson have died, people are clearly ready to believe anything. And a rumor that Jeff Goldblum has passed away is making the rounds, unable to be squashed because all the sites talking about it keep crashing under the [...]

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From Search Engine Land:

  • 26 People Who Mislead You On Twitter

    Earlier this month, I covered various ways people are spamming Twitter in my Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem article. Since then, I’ve been diligently reporting some of the more annoying spam I see. Despite this, none of the reported accounts have been closed. So, it’s time for a public spam report [...]

  • Kayak Says Bing Isn’t Playing Air Fair, Hakia Sees Near Mirror Image

    Kayak travel search launched a formal attack on Microsoft’s Bing Travel yesterday in an article that appeared on Wired, Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us!. Apparently, Kayak’s executives are more than a little steamed by the eerily similar look and feel, and even went so far as to put Microsoft on legal notice (presumably a [...]

  • AOL’s Truveo Relaunches As Improved Video Search Destination

    According to comScore the average watcher of online video in the US took in 385 minutes-worth in April. And according to Nielsen, in May, “year-over-year, unique viewers, total streams, streams per viewer and time per viewer were up, led by a 49 percent growth in time per viewer.” The leading video site is Google/YouTube by [...]

  • Google Export Adviser Beta

    Google has released a new tool for AdWords advertisers, focused on international (not US based) advertising. The tool is named Google Export Advisor and aims at helping businesses “reach new markets and grow internationally.” The tool combines the Google Keyword Tool, Google Translator and Google Traffic Estimator to come up with a neat [...]

  • Google Gives Presentation On Search Engine Optimization

    The Google Grants Blog posted that they have given a presentation in their D.C. office on search engine optimization. The presentation was to help educate a group of “issue campaign managers” on the principles of SEO. Galen Panger from the Google for Non-Profits team posted the 31 slides they presented to this group. [...]

  • Google Wants Your Feedback On Webmaster Central

    The Google Webmaster Central blog is asking SEOs and Webmasters to submit and vote on feedback at the Product Ideas for Webmaster Central. When you go to the products idea page, you will be asked to sign in to submit or vote on submissions. The more votes a submission receives, the more likely Google will [...]

  • Shopping Search 2.0: Finding Deals & Coupons On Twitter

    It didn’t take long for commerce to move online when the WWW was invented in the early ’90s, and it hasn’t taken long for the same migration to happen as new social networks become important parts of our everyday lives. Don’t be surprised if, in the not too distant future, you find yourself using social [...]

  • Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment

    City Tours is a new addition to Google Labs that puts Google squarely in the tourism business: Give it a city name, and Google not only suggests sites to see, but it also maps out a multi-day itinerary and proposes a minute-by-minute travel schedule for you to follow. And what’s really impressive is that City Tours [...]

  • Cuil Maplines: A Good Idea That Needs Work

    Cuil has announced an interesting new map-based tool called Maplines. On some queries, the Mapline shows in the right column of Cuil’s search results above the Timeline feature. What’s a Mapline. Here’s Cuil’s explanation: “Just as our Timelines show a concept across time, our Maplines show a concept across a map.” It’s an interesting idea, but seems [...]

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  • How Twitter Might Send Far More Traffic Than You Think

    Over the past year, I’ve seen many people report that Twitter can send tons of traffic to a web site. Certainly I’ve seen first-hand how Twitter has become one of the top non-search referrer sources for Search Engine Land and for some other sites I oversee. But as much as you think [...]

  • Google AdSense for Mobile Applications Goes Into Public Beta

    Google had been testing AdSense on mobile apps for the iPhone and Android in a kind of private beta with roughly 10 partners, including Pandora, Shazam and Urbanspoon. Now the program is opening up to apps developers and publishers who meet some criteria (among them, a 3 month commitment, 100K+ page views). Google said that [...]

  • Google’s Matt Cutts On “Over Optimization”

    Matt Cutts of Google has been producing daily videos answering questions from the SEO community. Many of these videos have useful information for all levels of SEO. I wanted to share Matt’s most recent video and then point you to his other videos. The latest video is on “over optimization” where Matt answers the [...]

  • Display URL: Traffic Tricks Used By Brand Hijackers

    The display URL is the part of your ad copy text that tells consumers where they will go if they click on your ad. Therefore, it is a very important tool for branding yourself, as it is how consumers will recognize you in list of sponsored results. Each of the major search providers typically enforces the [...]

  • Google Wants The Web To Go Faster

    Google wants to make the internet faster. By speeding up the “most important computing platform of our time,” Google believes that consumers and businesses will experience a wide range of benefits, many of which we can imagine, some of which might be revealed over time. There’s no product or specific consumer offering here. Rather Google is [...]

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From Search Engine Land:

  • The Link Builder’s Guide To Analyzing SERP Dominators For Link Opportunities

    This article walks you through the tools, processes and strategies for identifying the most powerful players in your keyword space and then analyzing their link sources and link building tactics.

  • Wired: Facebook Trying To Dominate Web, Marginalize Google (Run For Your Lives!)

    The coverage of the competition among the big internet companies is not unlike the classic Japanese monster movies of the 1960s (e.g., King Kong vs. Godzilla): titanic struggles for control of everything as we know it with only one possible winner. A more thoughtful but still sensational installment of that saga is the Wired piece: Great [...]

  • Google News Hyperlinks Author Names

    The Google News blog announced it is now easier to find other articles by authors. They have now hyperlinked the author’s name, when available, in the Google News search results. Here is a screen shot that shows it in action:

    I believe you have been able to search by author for a while now, [...]

  • Online Holiday Retail 2009: Are You Ready? SMN Webcast Thursday

    This Thursday, June 25 at 1 PM Eastern, Search Marketing Now hosts a free webcast “Online Holiday Retail 2009: Tips, Tactics & Timelines for Success,” sponsored by Performics. Eli Goodman of comScore will provide an overview of the current state of online retail. With Q1 e-commerce revenues flat—vs. down in Q4 2008—can we expect growth by [...]

  • The 6 Types Of Annoying Social Media Promoters

    You could be the next “Will It Blend” but if nobody knows about you, then it doesn’t matter how creative and awesomely original you are. One of the most important factors in social media is the promotion of your content, and this often leads to annoyance. There are many annoying social media habits, but perhaps [...]

  • Former Live Search Director Launches Oyster.com, Hotel Review Site

    In February 2008, when Vanessa Fox wrote that Eytan Seidman, Program Management Director over core relevance at Microsoft Live Search (now Bing.com) was leaving Microsoft (and Seattle) for a start-up, she may not have known that he was jumping into murky waters of travel search. Today, Eytan’s start-up site was unveiled - Oyster.com, a site [...]

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  • It’s Official: Wikipedia Is A Google News Source

    Google’s “experiment” in using Wikipedia as a news source on Google News is over, at least in the U.S. and Canada. The experiment was obviously a success, because Google has confirmed for us that the idea has been expanded. Says Google spokesperson Gabriel Stricker: “As with many features on Google News, these links were initially launched [...]

  • SEO Tips For Building Your Personal Brand

    Most firms now recognize the importance of developing a powerful online brand. Now, an increasing number of professionals have started to recognize the benefits of developing a personal brand. Many people recognize that a personal online brand could be as important (possibly more so) than a company brand when looking to win a new client, get [...]

  • Google Showing Facebook Friends On Profile URLs

    Google Blogoscoped reported that Google seems to be testing showing Facebook friends in the Google search results for some Facebook profile URLs. For example, a search for facebook marissa mayer, I see the following search snippet:

    Why is this showing up? As Philip notes, it doesn’t seem like Facebook is using the rich snippets [...]

  • Google Researchers Create Landmark Image Search Engine

    When most of us travel, we like to visit famous landmarks in the area we’re touring. It’s easy to find famous landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower or the Great Pyramid, but can be difficult to find lesser known sites. And for armchair travelers, it can take time to search for images of landmarks even with [...]

  • Yahoo Debuts SMB DIY Display Ad Builder

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  • iPhone’s Spotlight Search

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  • Google Maps Let’s You Discover “What’s Here”

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  • Google To Test New Product Ads

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  • Google Goes Rainbow For Gay-Related Searches

    Google Operating System notes that Google is once again flying rainbow colors to support gay pride celebrations happening this month throughout the world. Certain searches get topped by a rainbow-colored divider, symbolic of rainbow flags often flown by those in the gay community or in support of them. To see the colors, try searches for gay, [...]

  • Google Truncating Display URLs In Search Results

    Google has always truncated the display URLs in the search results when it went beyond two lines, I believe. But now new reports from several sources are noticing that Google may be truncating the URLs to a single line, when applicable. Below is a screen shot of Google shortening URLs. As you can see, [...]

  • Search In Pictures: Yahoo Cast, Bing Messiah Girls, & XL Google Rubic Cube

    In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Dual Yahoo Casts: Bing Beer Messiah Girls?: Large Google Rubic Cubes:: Italian Yahoo Bikes:: “If Binging Is Wrong, I Don’t Want [...]

  • Google Now Indexing Flash From External Files

    The Google Webmaster Central blog finally blogged Google is now indexing the content of files that some SWF files load externally, technically from “external resource loading”. Flash often loads external files to generate what you see in the SWF, so if the SWF is calling an external HTML, XML, another SWF, etc files, Google [...]

  • The Impact Of The Internet On Human Behavior

    CNN’s online news site recently posted a poll that asked, “Are you tired of social networking?” When I had checked their results, it showed that 74% chose “YES.” Yet according to Inside Twitter by Alex Cheng, Mark Evans and Harshdeep Singh, after analyzing information disclosed on 11.5 million Twitters accounts, 72.5% [...]

  • Google Flipper: A Visual Version Of News?

    TechCrunch is reporting that “Flipper” is a visual version of Google News, enabling people to see images of publications — and presumably “flip” through the pages accordingly. Immediately I was struck by two thoughts, this is somewhat like Google’s News Timeline, which offers a more visual presentation than the current News, and that it bears a [...]

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