Google Operating Systems reports that Google has grouped your Google Subscribed Links in the preferences page under the “Search Add-ons” section.
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Google has confirmed for us that that Google Sitelinks will now show up to eight links.
The other day, we reported seeing more than the usual five sitelinks, in some cases.
The change coincidentally coincides with a new feature that will allow you to manage sitelinks in Google’s webmaster tools.
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The Multilingual Search Blog posted their Global Search Report 2007 today. It is a compilation of search engine usage and PPC statistics from countries around the world.
The report covers 16 counties including Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic | Slovakia, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia | Ukraine, South Korea, Spain, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. You can download the report as a PDF file.
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Based on a report from SearchIgnite and RBC Capital Markets, there’s considerable discussion, in advance of Yahoo’s Q3 earnings reporting later today, that Yahoo may be gaining momentum and grabbing some incremental search spending. MediaPost summarizes the report:
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In the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t game of anticipating the Google Phone or Google mobile OS on a handset, UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter issued a report that predicts “Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the end of this year.” According to the Fortune article in which this discussion appears, Schachter also believes other mobile OEMs will be involved, perhaps South Korea’s LG.
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It appears that Google is testing placing 10 Google Sitelinks within some mobile devices. I have taken a screen shot of this experiment on Danny’s smartphone.
I cannot reproduce this on either my iPhone, on normal Google search or even using Google mobile search.
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When Google launched the Official
Google Blog back in 2004, it started as sort of a ho-hum event. There wasn’t
anything particularly gripping, and some wondered if the company should be more
edgy with its posts. Since then, Google has launched more than 70 additional
official blogs over the years. Some have gotten edgy; a few even have comments, but most
important, they’ve turned into an essential communications vehicle for the
company.
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Karen Wickre, who aside from her
formal title at Google of senior manager, global communications & public
affairs, is who I’d best describe as "mother of the blogs." Karen is ultimately
responsible for how they all work, and she shared some insight on how Google makes use of blogging.
Will the big three of Google — Larry, Sergey and Eric — ever blog? Will comments come to the main Google
blog? Will Google’s blogging replace press releases? Read on….
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We all know what the KISS acronym stands for: keep it simple, stupid. In this article I want to talk about how this applies to creating content for social media marketing, namely linkbait.
You see, users from social news sites have very short attention spans while browsing these sites. They’re generally there to read multiple news stories and articles and they don’t want to spend an enormous amount of time on any one story. Thus, it’s important to keep content in a simple format so these users can digest the information as quickly and easily as possible.
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
Web Analytics
Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News
Sharing Site:
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While lunching with Danny, Vanessa, and gang (and discussing kosher vampires [Michael Gray: “Do kosher vampires only eat Jewish people?”]) at SMX Social Media, I was asked to live blog the Micro Communities session this afternoon. My first Search Engine Land post will thus consist of me recapping my boss’s presentation. Hooray.
Anyway, the Micro Communities session focuses on smaller niche sites that have a passionate community of members. The panelists for this session are Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz.org, and Liana Evans, Director of Internet Marketing for KeyRelevance.
Additional coverage of this session can be found at Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Roundtable.
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It’s the second session of the second day of SMX Social Media and it’s all about how marketers (particularly at larger companies) can get involved with social networking communities. It can be tricky and hard work. If you do it wrong, you not only won’t get benefit from it, but it could hurt your brand. We’re going to find out how to do it right.
Speaking at this session are Rob Key of Converseon, Sarah Hofstetter of Emerging Media and Client Strategy, and Adam Sherk from Define Search Strategies.
Additional coverage at Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Journal.
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Late last month, at its “Searchification” event, Microsoft introduced a wide range of search enhancements and improvements. The company also said there would be additional updates to follow. Those are now rolling out and include feature and content enhancements for maps, local and mobile services. The biggest news is the introduction of a new voice search product called “Live Search 411,” built on Tellme’s content and voice capabilities. In addition to local business listings the service provides movie show times, weather and airlines information.
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InfoSpace recently sold both its local and directory assets and its mobile platform business to Idearc/Superpages and Motricity respectively. So what’s left? Specifically Dogpile and its cousins Metacrawler, Webcrawler and the domain InfoSpace.com. The company also owns the kid-friendly search site Zoo.com. Amid all this, JD Power & Associates has just named Dogpile “highest in customer satisfaction among search engines” for the second year.
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There has been a lot of buzz recently about Google Reader Stats are Bullshit (With Proof) from Mashable calls these statistics downright incorrect. Why?
A default feed, in case you don’t know, is a feed which is presented to users on signup. Google Reader, for instance, pushes new users to these feed bundles: instead of searching for feeds you like, just grab a bundle on a certain topic. This is a great boost for those sites that can get themselves listed in these bundles: often by striking a deal with the feedreader company or being friends with the owner.
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Google has informed us that today they are releasing a new update to Google Webmaster Central’s tools. The new features include a way to manage your Google Sitelinks, more historical query statistics, an extension of sitemaps to support code search, an improved message center and a warning that may help notify you of possible duplicate content problems.
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The third session at SMX Social Media is covering topics such as Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine and social news sites. Neil Patel from ACS, Chris Winfield from 10e20 and Tamar Weinberg from RustyBrick are the speakers for this panel.
There is also coverage at Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Journal and aimClear Blog.
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It seems so obvious, yet many B2B marketers don’t focus on the most fundamental element of any successful search ad campaign—the copy. I’ve found that writing great ads comes down to five simple principles:
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Here’s the earnings release. They slightly beat the street. Revenues were up, earnings were down however. Search monetization and traffic are improving. Henry Blodget live blogged the earnings call with some good detail and quick analysis. Yahoo shares are up about 10 percent in after-hours trading. Below are the top-level numbers from the release:
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The closing session for the first day of SMX Social Media is a keynote conversation with Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us & Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon. We’re going to learn more about the landscape and future of social networking.
More coverage at Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Journal.
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Google Operating System discovered that Google is now attempting to fix search typos of URLs.
For example, a search on http://searchengineland.com/googles.php returns:
No results found for http://searchengineland.com/googles.php.
However, there are results from websites with similar addresses
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The nice folks from Google were in for a visit a week or so ago. One of the topics on the day’s agenda was Ad Quality. If you read extremely closely, much of what they presented in their briefing is also described at the AdWords help center (see What is a ‘Quality Score’ and how is it calculated?). They also presented some new angles and dispelled a few myths.
Here are some of the key takeaways on Quality Score (herein abbreviated “QS”):
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Local search and directory provider Superpages has announced video advertising on a national basis after a several-month test in selected U.S. markets. All the major U.S. yellow pages advertisers are now offering video advertising, though all are in early stages of rolling it out. To my knowledge Superpages is the only performance-based model where bidding would be involved.
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Conferences
Local, Maps & Mobile
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Other Items
Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News
Sharing Site:
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I’m back for more live blogging of SMX Social Media. This session is all about social bookmarking and tagging. You can categorize and share information using things like De.licio.us, StumbleUpon, and Technorati. This panel includes Guillaume Bouchard of NVI, Michael Gray of Atlas Web Services, and Neil Patel of ACS.
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Yahoo execs called to testify about ‘false information’ from MarketWatch reports that Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan were told by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to testify on November 6th about Yahoo’s involvement in giving information in the jailed Chinese dissidents case.
The statement released by Chairman Tom Lantos said they want the two to discuss:
How the Internet company gave false information to Congress about its role in a human rights case in China that sent a journal