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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. Enterprise SEO Tools 2013: A Buyer’s Guide Are you responsible for SEO in your large organization? Wondering about tools that can help automate and cut the time it takes to manage huge, distributed projects? Search Engine Land’s sister site, Digital Marketing Depot, regularly takes deep dives into areas we can’t always cover in depth while we’re keeping up with the rapid change […] Newly Launched Bing Offers Pulls Deals From Across The Web Bing is appealing to fans of daily deal sites with the launch of Bing Offers, a one-stop shop for online deals and coupons. Boasting one of the largest collections of local deals on the web, Bing Offers pulls deals from various partner sites. Users can search by business name, category or keyword to locate specific […] Webcast: Effective “Big Data” Management = Successful Online … [Read more...] about The Day In Search, April 25, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Ask CEO Doug Leeds Proclaims Search Wars “Over,” Says Yahoo Can Be Great Again Ask.com has 3.5 percent of the search market according to comScore. Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds told Bloomberg that number may seem small but it makes his site the seventh largest in the US, “with 100 million people every month.” Rather than claiming that his search market share will continue to grow, Leeds proclaims that “the search wars […] An Illustrated Guide To E-Commerce Markup Using GoodRelations In How Search & Social Engines Are Using Semantic Search, I started this series with an overview. This article will give you a walk through on generating local and organization markup for a store. We will look at an alternative vocabulary, namely GoodRelations, and take a deeper dive into the specifics of generating semantic markup […] How To … [Read more...] about The Day In Search, October 11, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Google Releases Penguin Update 1.1 No matter that it’s late Friday night on the start of a three-day holiday weekend in the U.S., Google has just pushed out the first update to its recent webspam-fighting Penguin algorithm. Let’s call it Penguin 1.1. Google’s Matt Cutts announced the news a short time ago on Twitter, calling it a “data refresh” that […] Microsoft: Yes, We Do Send Takedown Requests To Bing, Too Microsoft says it does send copyright-related takedown requests to its own search engine, Bing, in addition to the multitude of requests that it sends to Google. This comes on the heels of yesterday’s news that Microsoft is the number one submitter of copyright-related URL removal requests to Google. It sent more than 500,000 such requests […] How To Panic-Proof Your Link Campaign All too often, I get a fair amount … [Read more...] about The Day In Search, May 29, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Four Seriously Cool Information Resources As a librarian, researcher and frequent blogger, I’m constantly coming across incredibly useful online information resources that are most effectively searched using their own site search tools, rather than relying on general-purpose engines to surface their valuable content. I plan to start writing about these on a regular, ongoing basis, using a bullet-point format that […] Search In Pics: Google Fish, Yahoo 17th Birthday & Googlighting Tie 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 Fish: Source: Google+ Googlighting Tie: Source: Google+ Android Noogler: Source: Flickr Google Purim Costume: Source: […] Pew Report: 65% … [Read more...] about The Day In Search, March 9, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Did A Google Employee Just Register Hiybbprqag.com To Help Recruit New Employees? That’s a screenshot of Google’s “Jobs” page, which can be found at http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/index.html. But it can also be reached by going to hiybbprqag.com, which does a 302 redirect to the Google.com URL. Say what? And who? And why? Let’s sort this out: “Hiybbprqag” is one of the nonsense words that Google used in its sting […] Yahoo Completes Outsourcing Its Real Estate Search To Zillow Yahoo and Zillow have finalized the details of their agreement last year that effectively sees Yahoo outsourcing its popular Real Estate search vertical to Zillow. The two companies say this deal “creates the largest real estate network on the web,” and involves several elements: Yahoo Real Estate search will gets its for-sale listings … [Read more...] about The Day In Search, February 3, 2011