Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- From Praise To Outrage: Reactions To Google’s Antitrust Settlement
The post-mortem analysis of Google’s antitrust settlement happened very quickly yesterday and this morning with some journalists and analysts concluding that factors other than the law were responsible behind the scenes. For example, Politico asserts it was largely “a calculated and expensive charm offensive” (lobbying) that drove the outcome yesterday. An even more absurd analysis argues that [...]
- Deep Dive Into Bing Webmaster Tools With Sr. Program Manager Vincent Wehren, Part 2
In the first post of this series, we briefly explored Bing Webmaster Tools (BWT) with Sr. Program Manager Vincent Wehren. In that article, we discovered that BWT is a well-rounded suite of SEO tools that have the added benefit of the massive amount of search engine data provided by Bing. We also learned from Vincent [...]
- Advanced Filters: Excel’s Amazing Alternative To Regex
One thing I’ve never understood about Excel is why it doesn’t support regular expressions (which the cool kids call regex). Regex allows you to do advanced sorting and filtering. The SeoTools plugin for Excel supports regex, but it — like most cool resources for Excel — is PC-swim only. For those of us red-headed stepchildren Mac [...]
- Blekko Launches New Tablet Search Engine “Izik”
Rich Skrenta and team at blekko are launching “izik,” a new tablet search engine (and browser) designed to deliver a “from the ground up,” tablet friendly search experience. You can also use it on the PC; however the experience is best on a tablet. It’s available as an app for the iPad or Android tablets. [...]
- Search Week: December 31, 2012
Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past week. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where you can click through and [...]
- Search Week: December 24, 2012
Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past week. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where you can click through and [...]
- A Test, Not A Bug: Bing Deep Links To Facebook, eBay, Craigslist Under Google’s Search Result
It looked like a screwup. If you searched for [google] on Bing, you saw Deep Links to Facebook, eBay and Craigslist underneath the main search result for Google. So, in my article earlier today, I called it a “strange bug” in Bing’s search results. I was wrong. It wasn’t a bug; it was a test [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Google Wins With FTC Antitrust Settlement, Industry Reacts Pro & Con
- Don’t Miss Important Google+ Posts Again With New “Get Notifications” For Google+
- Marketing Biz: Metered Media, Multi-Screens & $19.3M Of LOL
- Affiliate Management: 5 Ways To Improve Your Affiliate Relationships In 2013
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Google concedes defeat in China censorship battle, The Guardian
- In search of Google’s dark side, Reuters
Link Building
- Link Building 2013 and Beyond, blog.intrapromote.com
- Top Link Building Strategies for New Sites, dailyseotip.com
- Where Link Building is Heading in 2013, Search Engine Watch
Other Items
- Dinosaur alert: Irish newspapers desperately trying to charge for links, paidContent.org
- Library of Congress has archive of tweets, but no plan for its public display, Washington Post
Paid Search
- Give Your Search Ads More Links and More Specificity with Sitelink Extensions, Yahoo Advertising Blog
SEO & SEM
- Excel Statistics for SEO and Data Analysis, SEOmoz
- How do you standardize SEO in an enterprise-level organization?, SEO In-house Blog
- SEO New Year’s Resolutions for 2013, www.practicalecommerce.com
- SEO Strategies In Real Life and In Practice, www.catalystsearchmarketing.com
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