A few weeks back I did a post on my blog about creating Firefox quick search bookmarks. I was surprised at how well received it was, though I think people were most pleased with the fact that I had created a download of a very small selection of the large list of SEO related Firefox […]

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

SMX Social: Mahalo To Do Microformats, Search Wikia Adds Alpha 0.2 Features & MoreNews from the first day of our SMX Social Media Marketing conference. Mahalo is now doing microformats as a way to enhance […]

One of the biggest challenges B2B clients grapple with is content creation. Developing material that is fresh, relevant, and keeps users coming back—while also being SEO-friendly—can be difficult. This is a problem. Fortunately though, there’s an easy and effective solution. And it’s closer than you might think.
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News from the first day of our
SMX Social Media Marketing
conference. Mahalo is now doing microformats as a way to enhance its search
results and allow local businesses to be added to your address book. Wikia
Search has gone to "Alpha 0.2" with new features. And other conference coverage,
below.
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When I did my Ratings
Service Faceoff: Search Share Compared, June 2007 To March 2008 post last
week, I noted that Microsoft had an odd increase according to Compete for March
2008. The company

now says this was due to
Live Search Club traffic
that it shouldn’t have counted. Microsoft’s US share for March 2008 drops from
10.2% to 8.5%, as a […]

Everyone has searched on his/her own name and some people even have real-time news alerts tied to their names. Now a new online documentary takes this vanity search phenomenon to a new level with Google Me the Movie. Part time actor Jim Killeen discovered there were six other Jim Killeens and so he went around […]

Yahoo announced a new reporting feature in the search marketing portal that enables advertisers to see which clicks Yahoo has deemed to be invalid. The report is named the “Click Filter Report” and is available by clicking the “Reports” tab, then selecting “Click Filter” under the “Traffic Quality Reports” section in the Reports Navigator […]

Yahoo’s generally solid quarter yesterday helps make the case that the company is worth more than the current value of Microsoft’s big. In advance of the earnings call yesterday, however, Steve Ballmer said that the company was not prepared to offer any more than what it already had bid. Now today, in the wake of […]

Yahoo’s generally solid quarter yesterday helps make the case that the company is worth more than the current value of Microsoft’s bid. In advance of the earnings call yesterday, however, Steve Ballmer said that the company was not prepared to offer any more than what it already had put on the table. Now today, in […]

Microsoft’s MSNBot is doing more crawling these days and is alerting webmasters accordingly to revisit robots.txt files. More detail can be found on the Live Search Webmaster blog. In other news, Live Search is starting to show its version of sitelinks, “deep links.”
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