by Jennifer Laycock
I scan a few hundred feeds and read dozens of articles a day so you don’t have to. From made up social media profiles to online reputation management to shifting paid search campaigns from Google to Yahoo, check out a roundup of seven posts I classify as “must-read” for the day.
When it comes […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
SearchBiz: Google And The “M-Word,” Mozilla Engineering VP To Facebook, Flickr Founder Criticizes Yahoo & Digg Confirms Google Rumors (Sort Of)The “M-word” has popped up recently several […]
Remember Google losing its head of PR, Elliott Schrage, to Facebook back in May? Google has quietly found a replacement, that of Rachel Whetstone. She formerly headed corporate communications for Google in Europe. Google confirmed to us she was named to the post several weeks ago, though no announcement was made. But her replacement got […]
Google Maps (Earth) is far and away the company’s most successful product after search. It is now the second most popular mapping service online (Mapquest still leads) and the most popular mobile mapping tool (Mapquest Mobile is second), according to comScore.
Every few months, it seems, Google “tweaks” the service, adding new features here and […]
Today, the Search Engine Roundtable has a post explaining that Google News only shows results for news articles up to thirty-days old. To access any older news content, you must use Google News Archive Search.
The thing is, not all Google News sources are included in Google News Archive Search. In fact, you must […]
It appears that Google’s Gmail SMTP (send mail) server might have let their secure certificate expire. I personally just got notified that the smtp.gmail.com server was not secure, due to the certificate expiring. Here is a screen capture:
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Today, Google has a special logo up for NASA’s birthday. Yesterday, Google had a logo up for the late Beatrix Potter’s birthday. NASA was established on July 29, 1958. Potter was born on July 28, 1866 and died on December 22, 1943.
Here are the logos:
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It’s hard to believe but Digg’s latest feature, the recommendation engine is one that has been in the works for over two years. Before they developed images functionality, launched visualization tools, released Google, Netvibes, and Myspace widgets, developed Facebook functionality, rolled out dataportability enhancements, released updates to the comment system, updates to digg the candidates, […]
by Stoney deGeyter
If there is one thing that most online businesses need to understand, it’s this: you can’t become an authority overnight. This is especially crucial to come to terms with when you realize that it takes a certain element of “authority” to compete against other websites in the search results.
The whole point of Destination […]
by Mike Moran
Several people wrote to me asking me to review Cuil, the hot new search engine that everyone is talking about. Except me. I’ve explained in the past that I am not expecting any new search engine to come along to dethrone Google. But people persisted, “This one is really different!” So I looked […]