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Friday, 10 February 2012

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 9, 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:

  • The Paid Search Uncertainty Principle

    In 1927, Werner von Heisenberg documented what he referred to as an “Uncertainty Principle” governing quantum mechanics. The Uncertainty Principle holds that an observation cannot precisely reveal both the position of a particle at a point in time and its momentum. The more the observation reveals about one, the less the observer can know about [...]

  • Google’s First Hired Employee, Craig Silverstein, Quits

    Kara Swisher reports Google’s first employee, Craig Silverstein, has decided to leave Google after about 14 years at the company. He is leaving Google to join the Khan Academy. Craig helped Google’s co-founders, Larry and Sergey, build the original Google search engine. He did this while in the Stanford University dorm rooms. Now he has [...]

  • Foursquare Brings More Search Refinements To Mobile Apps

    Calling it “personalized search for the real world,” Foursquare brought its mobile Explore functionality into its recently redesigned PC website roughly three weeks ago, and added some new search capabilities in the process. Those capabilities included the ability to filter places results by four categories: 1) “I haven’t been to yet” 2) “I have been [...]

  • The Golden Age Of SEO

    I’m a fan of SEO. Search engine optimization. Ah, yes. Just writing it makes me happy. It’s what I do. It’s my calling. I can’t think of anything in the past decade that has kept me more enthralled and engaged… besides my wife of course. In the past few years, my interest in SEO has [...]

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

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

Business Issues

  • EPIC Sues Federal Trade Commission to Enforce Google Consent Order, epic.org
  • Alibaba Seeking $3 Billion Loan to Buy Back Yahoo Stake, Wall Street Journal
  • Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale, Fortune Tech
  • Congratulations to Amit Singhal on his election to NAE, Official Google Blog
  • Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward, paidContent.org
  • Google May Open Retail Store at European Headquarters in Dublin, Bloomberg
  • Google’s Motorola Mobility Bid Said Likely to Win U.S. Approval, Bloomberg
  • Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell, Wall Street Journal
  • Montblanc Takes Google To Court To Obtain Identity Of, And Sue, Counterfeit Advertisers, TechCrunch

Local, Maps & Mobile

Link Building

SEM Industry

SEO & SEM

  • Should I make up filename extensions to improve my rankings?, YouTube
  • Using blekko’s SEO Data to Evaluate Web Directories, SEOmoz
  • 4 In-house SEOs Share What they Wish Someone Told Them In the Beginning, SEO In-house Blog
  • Ecommerce SEO Strategy: A Must Read Expert Round Table, CPC Strategy
  • Get Free PPC Adwords Budget with Google Grants & GrantsPro, acquisio.com
  • Google Shuffle: Webmaster Noticing Significant Changes In Search Results, Search Engine Roundtable
  • How to Choose the Right URL Structure, Michael Gray
  • How to Find and Fix a Weird Bug with Google Previews, Rimm Kaufman
  • Introduction to & Strategies for Local Search Marketing, internetmarketingninjas.com
  • New Signals to Search Engines Revisited, Search Engine Watch
  • Preparing your site for a traffic spike, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
  • Three 70% Deltas Affecting 100% of Your AdWords Account (Part 1), PPC Associates
  • What Is The Importance Of Freshness And Recency To Google’s Latest Algorithm Tweaks?, Search Engine People

Social Media

Video, Music & Image Search

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