Google’s official list of the most popular search activity for 2008, aka Zeitgeist, has yet to make its debut, but the search giant has been leaking out tasty tidbits of data to get us salivating for even more search data.
The fastest-rising search terms of 2008...
Wednesday 03 December 2008 |
AOL 2008 Year in Review: The Hottest Search Trends
The presidential election reigned supreme in the land of America (Online), as politically charged queries ranged across more than 40 categories in AOL's annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches. Celebrity news, captivating headlines and pop culture continued to captivate the online...
Wednesday 03 December 2008 |
Mobile Search Ranking Factors (Clue - One Normal SEO Factor is Missing)
Posted by willcritchlow
We have been doing some research into how to rank in Google mobile web search. Google is the dominant player in mobile search in the US (source: Nielsen Mobile) - our test site hasn't yet been indexed in the other search engines so I'll have to report back later on...
Wednesday 03 December 2008 |
Live Search Adds Malware Warnings To Search Results
MSN’s Live Search has announced the addition of malware warnings to their search results pages. In doing so, Live Search joins Google and Yahoo in taking a proactive stance against potentially dangerous sites; Google began adding malware warnings in early 2007. Yahoo added SearchScan alerts...
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Wednesday 03 December 2008 |
Search Month: November 2008 Search News, In Review
Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It’s also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from November 2008, then a major story for various search topics...
Wednesday 03 December 2008 |
November 2008: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from November 2008:
1) Maps Of Fires In Southern California: November 2008 Edition - Fires are burning in Southern California once again. Here’s an update on how to find maps of where the blazes are.
2) Are Our Brains Becoming...
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Wednesday 03 December 2008 |
Proximic (”Don’t Call It A Newsreader”) Moves Into Mobile Search
Contextual content and advertising provider Proximic released an iPhone app, as the first step into a much broader foray into consumer-facing mobile search. The company’s underlying technology is called “pattern proximity matching,” which seeks to better understand pages and...
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Tuesday 02 December 2008 |
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 2, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Private: AOL 2008 Year in Review: The Hottest Search TrendsThe presidential election reigned supreme in the land of America (Online), as politically charged.....
Tuesday 02 December 2008 |
Search Biz: Yahoo Soap Opera Update; Google’s Mobile Plans; Ask.com’s Creepy Commercials & More
The Yahoo-Microsoft-AOL soap opera continues. (You expected otherwise?) At AllThingsD, Kara Swisher was pretty adamant Monday that Yahoo and Microsoft are not in secret talks right now about a new search partnership, and she called the weekend report from The Times (UK) “inaccurate.”...
Tuesday 02 December 2008 |
Link Building In A Global Economy
Global link building sounds very glamourous, like something you’d do wearing Chanel and drinking seriously good wine that I wouldn’t know anything about, not being the glamourous sort. However, it’s something that makes you roll up your French-cuffed sleeves and do some major...
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Tuesday 02 December 2008 |
New Ads Quality videos
Ads Quality is important for you, our advertisers, as it directly affects your ads' position on the page and how much you pay for your ads.
Over the past few months we've made some big changes to improve how we calculate Quality Score and how your Quality Scores are displayed in...