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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Yelp Adds Restaurant Menus (And Images) Following on the heels of Foursquare, YP and a few others in the local segment Yelp is adding restaurant menu information and pricing. With the unfortunate headline “Yelp Menus: Connecting People with Great Local Food Porn,” the Yelp blog explains that menus will be paired with users’ uploaded food images: Now you can not only […] Google May Go Public With Its Human Search Quality Rater Guidelines Google is considering offering its search quality rating guidelines to the public. The news comes near the end of the latest webmaster video just posted today on YouTube. In it, Google’s Matt Cutts answers a question about how Google uses the data it collects from its human search evaluators — in short, “those folks don’t […] New Google Search App With Siri-Like Voice Responses … [Read more...] about The Day In Search, October 30, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Verisign Blames Google For Drop In Domain Registration & Renewal Rates The number of new domains being registered, and existing domains being renewed, is slowing down and Verisign — the company that operates the .com and .net domain registries — says Google is a main reason why. On the company’s Q3 earnings call yesterday, Verisign shared the following data related to domain registrations and renewals: total […] Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You Got a shiny new Microsoft Surface with Windows RT and want to search with Google? No can do. The Google Search app, billed for being for Windows RT, turns out not to work. Anyone searching the Windows Store for the the Google Search app and using Windows 8 will find it easily, as shown below: […] Search In Pics: Pumpkins, Benches & Telsa Model S In this … [Read more...] about The Day In Search, October 26, 2012

This week in Germany world leaders gathered to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The tearing down of the Wall, a potent symbol of East German oppression since 1961, marked the end of one era and the start of a new one. Strange though it may sound, the tearing down of the Wall in 1989 was a significant influence on how we do search marketing in Europe today. When doing SEO in Europe, you are bound to run into some issues which that originated in some way from the fall of the Berlin Wall. In this column I’ll try to give you a little historical insight which will help you look at search in Europe through that lens, offering a somewhat different perspective than usual. With this background you’ll benefit when entering the European market by knowing more about the wants and needs of your target audiences, increasing your chances of actually reaching them. In one day, Europe suddenly became much bigger One of the obvious consequences of the fall … [Read more...] about SEM Lessons From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

With two high-rankingGoogle executives leaving the Big G within a month’s time, I thought itwould be interesting to go back throughGoogle’s executivemanagement page over the years and see how it reflects changes among thehigher-ups. Below, there are a series of tables and commentary that hopefullylet you understand the shifting currents at-a-glance. Some notes. First, I think who gets listed on this page — and the order inwhich they are listed — is important. This has to be a perk for some execs —that they’ll get to show up and be profiled on that page. In addition, the orderis not always alphabetical. With the exception of the big three — CEO EricSchmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin — I think who shows up first when it’s anon-alphabetical listing can be significant. There can be some exceptions tothis, and I’ll note them as part of the charts. Let’s dive in. The charts below reflect the exact order people were listed on … [Read more...] about Google Executive Management Changes, 2000-2008

Exalead is one of those great search engines that most people haven’t heard of. And that’s a shame, because it offers some really powerful and unique features that most information professionals love. Exalead is also the name of an enterprise search company, co-founded by today’s Q&A participant, François Bourdoncle. Working on web technologies from the very early days, he co-founded Exalead in 2000 with the goal of revolutionizing the search engine software market by providing users with a unified technology platform to access information in the enterprise. Exalead.com, the web search engine, showcases the company’s capabilities in search. Francois and Exalead also play a key role in the development of the government-funded pan-European search engine Quaero, which has had its share of controversy. Read on for our Q&A… You have a long history in web search, having worked on the LiveTopics search refinement tool for AltaVista back in … [Read more...] about Q&A With François Bourdoncle, CEO Of Exalead