Searchcap: the day in search, august 15, 2012
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 Says It Has A Million Public Transit Schedules, Adds Transit Features In Android Maps
Google Maps (and related data) continues to be strategic for the company. On Android Google Maps & Navigation are one of the big differentiators (at least until Q4) between the Google OS and iOS. Today Google announced several updates and upgrades for the public transit features on Maps (version 6.10). In addition, Google now reports [...]
Microsoft Revamps AdCenter For Agency Relationships
Microsoft has updated adCenter to enable advertisers to change or add agencies without losing their entire account history. With what they’re calling “Agency Enablement” features, adCenter now makes it possible for agencies to link or unlink to client accounts, onboard new clients via email requests to access accounts, control billing preferences and manage client accounts [...]
Search Convergence In SF: Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan, Mike Grehan & Brett Tabke
It might be more than foggy in San Fransciso this morning, as Brett Tabke of webmasterworld.com said after I took this picture, “that was a twilight zone moment for me”. It must have been interesting feeling for him then about 10 minutes later when Mike Grehan invited him and Danny Sullivan on stage to have [...]
Say A Prayer; Google Kills Prayer Times
About a year ago, Google introduced a new rich snippets for prayer times. That rich snippet has now been decommissioned due to lack of webmaster implementation. The purpose was to show useful prayer times for those who are searching Google for Islamic, Jewish or other prayer times in the Google search results. Here is a [...]
Yes, Bing Has Human Search Quality Raters & Here’s How They Judge Web Pages
A web page that definitively satisfies a searcher’s intent is “Perfect,” and should appear at the top of Bing’s search results. On the other end of the scale, spammy web pages and pages that almost no searcher would find useful are deemed “Bad.” That’s a bit of how Bing instructs the people in its Human [...]
Google Logo For Legendary Chef Julia Child 100th Birthday
The late Julia Child, an American icon, has her 100th birthday today after passing at the age of 91 on August 13, 2004 in Santa Barbara. She is most well known for her television cooking shows and instructions, but also for her many cook books and popularizing French cuisine in America. There is a worldwide [...]
July Search Share: Google At All-Time High, Bing Continues Slow Gains
We’re starting to see financial analysts expose July search market share figures from comScore, ahead of their formal release tomorrow. Bing grew slightly and Google remained where it was last month but ahead of its position last year. While Yahoo was also flat, the good news is that the company didn’t lose additional share, as [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
President Obama & The New York Times: Big Winners In Klout’s New Scoring SystemPinterest (Finally) Gets Serious About Mobile With New iOS, Android AppsExplicit And Implicit Email PreferencesTwitter Analytics Company Followerwonk Acquired By SEOmozPage Post Ads Now Being Shown To All (Not Just Fans) In Facebook News Feed
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
Google Has a Shopping Problem, www.thesearchagents.comInside Facebook’s Push to Woo Big Advertisers, Wall Street JournalPayments Network Takes On Google, Wall Street JournalThe Kevin Rose reboot: Our first look at Google’s newest VC, VentureBeatTop Samsung designer denies copying iOS icons while patent expert says Apple design patents should be invalidated, AppleInsider
Local, Maps & Mobile
Posting Location Shows Map Preview in Posts When posting…, #googleplusupdate – Google+Effectively Geo Targeting Single-Region & Multi-Regional Sites in Google, Search Engine PeoplePlayStation Mobile still aims to take on iOS, Android games, CNET
Link Building
Two Mozscape Updates in August! And More Info on Why PA/DA Fluctuate, SEOmoz4 Clever Natural Link Building Ideas, Search Marketing StandardHow to target link prospects when they’re most receptive, Skyrocket SEO
Paid Search & Contextual
Google AdWords Display Network – Do it The Right Way, Search Engine Journal
Searching
Google autocomplete interactive map of state stereotypes: the fat, boring, and racist states of America, Slate.comJuly 2012 US Search Market Share Report: Bing grows, Google down. AOL and Yahoo! remain flat, blog.compete.comMost searched Olympians of 2012 London games, Hitwise Blog
SEO & SEM
How to Deal With Penguin for Exact Match Domains?, Search Engine PeopleHow To: Use 3 Competitive Intelligence PPC Tools – MediaWhiz, MediaWhizProduct Listing Ads vs Product Extensions (Part 1 of 2), Search Marketing SageThe ‘missing manual’ of search marketing in China: part two, EconsultancyThe Top 2012 Presidential Campaign Gaffes in PPC Marketing, SEM GeekThe Two Types of Local Search and How Local SEO Should Reflect Them, ngsmarketing.comWhy I Love My PPC-Only Landing Page: Conversion Rate, PPC Hero
Social Media
How Optimizing My Ugly Google+ Pic Increased Free Traffic 35%, SEOmozSEOmoz PRO Member? You Now Get FollowerWonk Free! (because we’ve joined forces), SEOmoz
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