Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

SES NY Day Three Live Coverage RecapThe third day of SES NY is now complete. Here is the live blogging coverage I found throughout the day for the event. I’ll add any new coverage to […]

The third day of SES NY is now complete. Here is the live blogging coverage I found throughout the day for the event. I’ll add any new coverage to tomorrow’s recap.
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by Mack Collier
If you aren’t, you should be!  With close to one million Twitter users (according to TwitDir),
businesses are beginning to realize that it’s just as important to
monitor what members on Twitter are saying about them, as it is to monitor
the blogosphere.
Thankfully, there’s a painfully easy way to keep tabs on what others are saying […]

Markets are riding rollercoasters, central banks are bailing out major financial institutions, inflation is rearing its ugly head, and consumers are apparently pulling back into their shells, but none of this gloom-and-doom is even remotely threatening the growth in online marketing and advertising spend, according to eMarketer.
The market research firm is predicting that, despite […]

This morning I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that users have been spotting explicit pornographic images on Google web search for a search on hot celebrities (warning: before clicking, take caution). The query triggers Google to show an image search result at the top of the web search results, also known as Google […]

Google Blogoscoped reports Google Japan has a new design being pushed out to their users. The new design can be seen at this IP location and contains tab links to other Google properties.
Here is a screen capture of the new design:
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Google is now reporting that it is seeing a rapid up tick in mobile Internet search and usage on several platforms. According to an interview with Reuters, Google mobile product manager Matt Waddell said, “We have very much hit a watershed moment in terms of mobile Internet usage. We are seeing that mobile Internet use […]

With pay-per-click (PPC) search advertising, the billable event is… the click. Yet for most B2B advertisers success depends not on clicks, but rather on conversions: the percentage of visitors who take the desired online action, such as downloading a white paper or registering for a webinar. B2B marketers must weigh the pros […]

As an in-house search marketer, you hold a unique position. You help manage all your company’s content with the goal to maximize the return on that content’s creation. You are the pointy end of the spear in the quest for low-cost traffic and conversions. Setting aside the growing salaries that in-house […]

Quintura recently launched a new widget, a site search cloud for your blog or web site. We are testing the widget on Pandia and had a talk with Yakov Sadchikov, Quintura President and CEO, about the idea behind the widget and what he hopes it will do for his product.
Quintura is an alternative search engine […]