Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching
You’ve probably read the news already that Scroogle is gone forever. It launched back in 2003 and was popular among searchers who wanted to get Google search results in a private setting. Now that it’s gone, where can searchers go for a more private search experience than Google and Bing offer by default? Here’s a [...]
- How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google
I’m obsessed with Google. (I mean, you kind of have to be if you’re in this industry.) But sometimes, you need a break from the hand that feeds. There’s no denying the power of advanced search queries, but you’d be surprised how many other and different prospects you can find without using the search engine [...]
- Search Engine Land’s SMX West Starts Next Week! Register Now!
Learn powerful profitable SEM tactics from over 130+ expert speakers. Join us in San Jose, February 28 to March 1 for Search Marketing Expo SMX West! Programmed by the Search Engine Land editorial team, the multi-track agenda covers leading-edge tactics for SEO, PPC, mobile search and more. Keynote by Google’s SVP of Advertising [...]
- “Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner
A week ago, we reported that Scroogle was being blocked by Google and searches on the privacy search engine were no longer working. Since then, the site continued not to work and now it is completely offline. The owner, Daniel Brandt, said he took it down “forever.” He blames both Google and DDOS attack by [...]
- The Top 10 Ways To Achieve Breakthrough In International Search In 2012
As the first of the International Search Summits of 2012 looms large (at SMX West next week) I felt it was time to review what seem to be the most significant 10 issues for search marketers at this time. What’s interesting to note is that just one year ago, this list was very different. 1. [...]
- Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”
Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter “firehose.” The Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin integrating the Twitter feed into its search results. Twitter reported the deal to us late last week but declined to disclose its terms. As part of their agreement Yandex will have access [...]
- AdCenter Revamps Location Targeting To Mimic AdWords
Microsoft adCenter is making changes to its location targeting functionality that will bring it into line with the industry standard Google AdWords. Now, the “market” (distribution channel) will no longer be available as a targeting option. It will be replaced by “language” and “target location” as individual targeting options. Advertisers will be able to target [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Pinwheel: Flickr Co-Founder’s New Startup Is Part Flickr, Foursquare Path
- Twitter’s Shark Leap: A Nauseating Display Of Self Importance.
- Making Millions From Losing Tests (Part 1)
- Google: “Impractical” To Comply With IE’s P3P Privacy Controls; Microsoft, Facebook Others Also Fail
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- New Yahoo CEO says company needs to do better, Reuters
- Alibaba Said to Sign $3 Billion Loan, May Take Unit Private, BusinessWeek
- London bourse and Google in real-time-data deal, MarketWatch
Local, Maps Mobile
- Google Maps Reviews Pagination Bug, Search Engine Roundtable
- QA: Somo’s Thomas Schulz on AdMob and iAd price wars, econsultancy.com
Link Building
- Bucketing Link Prospects for Link Outreach, John Doherty
- How to Link Build: 70 Creative Ways to Attract 5 Star Links, ShellShock UK
Paid Search Contextual
- Facebook Targeting Alert! Gaming the Grid with Power Editor? OMG, RLY?!, AIM Clear Blog
- Google AdSense Running Simulated Experiments Making Predictions, Search Engine Roundtable
- Specific recommendations for individual ad units, Inside AdSense
Searching
- Don’t Break Search: Interview with Google Lead Designer Jon Wiley, Read/Write Web
- Find flights while on the go, Inside Search
- FindTheBest Wants To Personalize Comparison Shopping With AssistMe, TechCrunch
SEM Industry
- Hey Google: You’re Really Starting To Piss Me Off!, biquitous.com
SEO SEM
- Google Crawling Behavior Revealed: 16 Different Spiders?, Coconut Headphones
- 13 Popular PPC Campaign Tactics That Will Ruin You, PPC Hero
- 7 Tips To Help Your SEM Campaigns Spend More, SmartlySEMimpact
- An Advanced Guide to an Effective SEO Commenting Strategy, quicksprout.com
- Microsoft adCenter Penalty For Disallowed Characters, Search Engine Roundtable
- Normalizing Bids For A New PPC Campaign Launch, PPC Associates
- Russian Internet Advertising Market up 56% to $1.4 Billion in 2011, Quintura blog
- So You Want to Rank In Google?, SEO.com
- Submit to index via Google Webmaster Tools, YouTube
- The New SEO Process (Quit Being Kanye), SEOmoz
- The Overworked Advertiser’s Guide to AdWords Bid Management, WordStream
- You Optimize Your PPC, But What About Your Landing Pages?, Search Engine People
Video, Music Image Search
- Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover, Betabeat
- Pornography Spammers Target Google Video Source Filter, Search Engine Roundtable
- Search iTunes radio stations using playlists, Macworld
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