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

Twitter & Summize Tie The KnotThe rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform has acquired Summize, a search […]

The rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform has acquired Summize, a search engine that searches Twitter.
You can read all the news at Techmeme and also make sure to check out Danny’s write up on Summize named Summize Gains “Local” Twitter Search Option.

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Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy
concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court
order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the
"anonymizing" of these records will actually work. Until those are answered,
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by Mack Collier
Perhaps the most important area of a business blog, is its content. 
How you position your blog’s content can greatly determine how
successful it will be, and this is a lesson that hasn’t been lost on
Newcastle Square Realty.
Newcastle Square Realty is a realtor located in Maine.  You might assume that their blog would focus on […]

Google is introducing an Elections Search Gadget that allows users to search transcripts of political speeches and videos that appear on YouTube candidate channels.
The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of the videos, which can then searched by users of the Gadget to find precise phrases or keywords in speeches […]

Beet.TV interviewed R.J. Pittman, Google’s Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, about image search. The video is below, but here is my short summary of the interview.
Pittman said Image Search has huge growth opportunity for Google. Google explained that text doesn’t always describe the image, so they use other techniques. […]

The Google Like/Don’t Like feature, where you can move up results, hide search results or remove search results, seems to have been expanded to a group of test searchers.
We have reports from TechCrunch, Google Operating System and Justin Hileman, with reports of users seeing this feature in the main search results. Justin does an excellent […]

by Stoney deGeyter

Yesterday I introduced the concept of Destination Search Engine Marketing (Destination SEM) which emphasized that SEO isn’t about “getting” top rankings. Getting rankings leaves open the implication that you’re achieving a result that you don’t necessarily deserve. Destination SEM focuses on building a website that is truly exceptional in meeting your audience’s needs […]

Metadata in its simplest form is information about data. In this tutorial we are going to look at the HTML and XHMTL elements known as Meta Elements and learn to use them. Not all are still used by search engines to determine rank but they still have their purpose and […]

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because content isn’t HTML-based doesn’t mean it can’t be optimized. An Adobe Acrobat reader (aka PDF) document gives SEOs one more chance at ranking for targeted keywords.
This week’s infographic illustrates some simple tips for optimizing PDFs:
Click to continue reading…

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