Archive for October, 2010

Google’s Blurry Street Views & Embed Option Bug

2010/10/07

A Google Maps Help thread reports there is a bug with a certain type of street views output. The output=svembed option, which can be used to show Panoramio images and works well in Flash, seems to be blurring the images…

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Twitter Revamps Search Engine Backend

2010/10/07

Twitter announced they have “launched a new backend for search on twitter.com.” In short, they moved from the original Summarize technology they bought years ago to a infrastructure and system that is completely new, home grown. Tedster at WebmasterWorld pulls..

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SEOmoz Meetups Coming to New York, Sofia, Las Vegas, Dublin, San Diego and More

2010/10/07

Posted by randfish You’ve probably already noticed that here at SEOmoz, we tend to travel quite a bit.

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More Google Properties Get Instant

2010/10/07

Searchers in Australia, New Zealand, Korea and other locations are now reporting getting Google Instant as the default on their Google home page. Yesterday, Google Korea had flying balls which was a sign that Google Instant was coming to that..

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An Introduction To Content Targeting

2010/10/07

We’ve spent virtually this entire year on buying paid search through the engines and now it’s time to dive into some of the other products that they offer for marketers. As a search marketer, you’ll be able to tap into some very powerful tools and ad inventory sources that can help supplement and compliment *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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Yahoo Rolling Out New “Accordion” Search & Other Features

2010/10/07

Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovation that the company has been promising since the Microsoft search deal was announced. It’s part of Yahoo’s bid to remain relevant in search by spicing up the user experience and trying to bring more utility to page *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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Twitter Hits 1 Billion Queries Per Day, Announces New Search Tech

2010/10/07

If Twitter were like an old-style McDonald’s, the sign outside would have changed to “1 Billion Queries Served” today. And to keep serving up those queries to humans and machines alike, Twitter is now using a new underlying search technology. The news was announced in a post on Twitter’s Engineering blog today

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Ontolo Demos Link Building Tool with 12 New Videos

2010/10/06

Link building just got easier. That’s what the crew at Ontolo is promising, as it gets closer to another round of signups for the Ontolo v2 Link Building Toolset on Oct. 12

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Retargeting Is The New Black

2010/10/06

If you’re an in-house online marketer like me, no doubt your inbox also seems to be coming increasingly inundated with solicitations to try the exciting world of retargeting or remarketing or remessaging solutions. In the seemingly endless sea of provider choices, are any of these types of retargeting worth the technical effort involved and how *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2010

2010/10/06

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….

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