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Searchcap: the day in search, august 17, 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:

Search In Pics: Domo At GooglePlex, Google Subway Bench & Google Fiber Van

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. Google NYC Subway Bench: Source: Google+ Google Fiber Van: Source: Google+ Google Pool Table: Source: Flickr [...]

Easy To Advanced Uses Of Cell Formatting In Excel

In my post on table formatting, I demonstrated how to transform your static data into a simple yet sexy database in a matter of seconds. If you don’t know how to use table formatting, go read that post and then come back. Otherwise, your data will look like one of those housewives who goes to [...]

Google Adds 13 New Languages To Voice Search

Google announced they have added 13 new languages to Google Voice Search. The new languages include Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, European Portuguese, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak and Swedish. This brings the total tally of supported languages in Google Voice Search up to 42 languages supported. Google says that adding these 13 new [...]

AdCenter Creative Rotation Feature Goes Live

The Microsoft AdCenter rotation feature — which lets advertisers optimize for clicks or rotate more evenly — is live today, having been announced back in July. The option will be available through adCenter online or through the adCenter API (version 8). It’s seen at the ad view level where keywords are connected to ad copy. [...]

Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

Facebook Back At No. 2 On ComScore Video RankingsNot All Developers Hate Twitter’s New API RulesMarketing Biz: New Facebook Metric, Mobile Payment Dark Horse & Rio SEO AdvancesGoogle Changes Smallest, But All-Pervasive, Element Of Brand Identity – The FaviconFruji: Inexpensive Twitter Analytics For The MassesPublisher Perspective: Choosing An Affiliate ProgramUsing Star Trek To Explain Winners & Losers In Twitter’s New Ecosystem “Quadrants”Twitter Announces New API, Details Its Vision For Developer Ecosystem

Search News From Around The Web:

Business Issues

Exclusive: Yahoo Conducting a Search for a COO As No. 2 to Mayer, AllThingsDTrulia Goes After Zillow’s Real Estate, Files $75M IPO; Now Has 22M Monthly Users, TechCrunchZuckerberg Admits Facebook’s Plummeting Stock Is ‘Painful’ To Watch During A Company-Wide Meeting, Business Insider

Local, Maps & Mobile

Local Search Discussion – Impact of Service Magic Phone Number Masking, Stingray17 Questions with Darren Shaw – Creator of the Local Citation Finder, LocalVisibilitySystem.comShould You Upgrade To New Local Google+ Pages?, Search Engine RoundtableTour Brazil and prehispanic Mexican cities with more Street View imagery in Google Maps, Google LatLong

Link Building

10 Reasons Why Your Content Doesn’t Attract Links, CopyPressed8 Link Building Tips – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz

Paid Search & Contextual

Heads Up: Get Ready for New API Features in adCenter, adCenter API Blog for DevelopersHow to Look Better in Personal Google Results [Infographic], inspirationfeed.com

SEM Industry

How “Big” is the SEO World on the Web?, Canadian SEOVideo: Google’s Next Penguin Update, DMCA Request Penalties & I’m Feeling Lucky, Search Engine Roundtable

SEO & SEM

Impact of Gmail in Personal Search Results on Email Marketing and SEO, A Covario BlogWhy relative URLs should be forbidden for web developers, Yoast5 Reasons Small Business Should Love Local SEO, Search Engine Watch54 Conversion Rate Optimization Tips To Improve Your PPC Campaigns, PPC HeroBing How to create search friendly content, Bing Webmaster Center blogGoogle Ranking Update? A Search Results Shuffle?, Search Engine RoundtableGoogle Webmaster Tools Treats Subdomains As Part Of Main Domain, Search Engine RoundtableHow to create sitelinks for a Yandex PPC ad, Russian Search TipsThe Google Rank-Modifying Spammers Patent, SEO By The Sea

Video, Music & Image Search

comScore Releases July 2012 U.S. Online Video Rankings, comScore

Web Analytics

Using Analytics to Inform Your SEO Strategy, getstat.com

Related Topics: SearchCap

About The Author: Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry’s personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here. See more articles by Barry Schwartz

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