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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2012

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:20:30 -0400

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2012:

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 24, 2012

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:35:39 -0400

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 24, 2012: This week at the Search Engine Roundtable we talk a lot about Google, some about Bing and a little about Facebook. Google confirmed they pushed out a Panda update this past Monday.

Facebook Search Ads Without Keyword Targeting

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:20:38 -0400

Facebook Search Ads Without Keyword Targeting: Facebook launched their sponsored search ads this week, allowing advertisers to show ads based on user search queries on Facebook.com. We talked about the beta a few months ago and now it is visible to all.

Bing Webmaster Tools Now Shows Percentage Changes

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:05:49 -0400

Bing Webmaster Tools Now Shows Percentage Changes: Bing announced improvements to Bing Webmaster Tools where they have added percent changes for metrics on the dashboard. You can now see percent increases or decreases for Clicks from search, Appeared in search, Pages crawled…

Google Says You're Dead When You Are Alive

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:05:47 -0400

Google Says You're Dead When You Are Alive: Imagine you are searching your name and up comes the Google knowledge graph with your box at the top right. Then you read what Google has to say about you and it says you have died several years ago. How is that possible, you are not dead…

YouTube Doesn't Remove Lesbian Sex From L-Word

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:35:30 -0400

YouTube Doesn't Remove Lesbian Sex From L-Word: The other day, @Thos003 sent me an email showing how YouTube is allowing the ShowTime series, the L-Word…

Plane Caught Mid-Flight On Google Maps

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:20:43 -0400

Plane Caught Mid-Flight On Google Maps:

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2012

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:20:40 -0400

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2012:

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Confirmed: Google Panda 3.9…

Quora Added To Bing's Social Bar

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:50:41 -0400

Quora Added To Bing's Social Bar: Bing announced they have added Quora content to the Bing Social Bar. Quora is a question and answer web site organized by users across the web - it is a social answers site. Here is a picture of the implementation: Quora explained that privacy controls are controlled with this…

Google AdSense Updates Design

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:35:33 -0400

Google AdSense Updates Design: Google announced they have made some design changes as part of their “Google-wide initiative to deliver a simpler…

Google Aggressively Pushing AdWords Express

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:20:35 -0400

Google Aggressively Pushing AdWords Express: A year ago, Google rebranded Google Boost to AdWords Express. It now seems like Google is cold calling AdWords advertisers to try to encourage existing advertisers to try out AdWords Express…

Android Runner

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:05:21 -0400

Android Runner:

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2012

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:20:39 -0400

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2012:

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google Account Based Google Search Preferences

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:50:48 -0400

Google Account Based Google Search Preferences: Since Google released the ability to customize the search preferences a hundred years ago, the only option was to save those preferences to the specific computer/browser you set the preference on…

Microsoft adCenter Adds Ad Rotation Options

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:35:37 -0400

Microsoft adCenter Adds Ad Rotation Options: Microsoft adCenter has added a new feature for ad rotation. You can now control how your ads display with an ad rotation option under settings…

Paper Towels From Google

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:35:37 -0400

Paper Towels From Google:

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2012

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:20:34 -0400

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2012:

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google Webmaster Tools Adds Search Query Notifications

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:05:31 -0400

Google Webmaster Tools Adds Search Query Notifications: Google announced on the Webmaster Central blog that they added a new notification to Google Webmaster Tools message center. The new notification informs you of big changes in traffic from Google due to search query changes…

Google May Only Showing Seven Search Results

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:50:36 -0400

Google May Only Showing Seven Search Results: A thread noticed that when Google returns sitelinks for a search query, Google will then follow with six additional search listings - making for a total of seven search results. There have been times when Google would show less or more search results, but never this consist.

Video: Google's Knowledge Graph Breakfast

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:50:31 -0400

Video: Google's Knowledge Graph Breakfast: Yesterday…