Archive for March, 2011

Poll: Were You Impacted By The Google Farmer Update?

2011/03/01

Thursday afternoon, the Google Farmer Update touched down and impacted a nice number of sites out there. In fact…

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New on Bing: Flight Auto Suggest & Natural Language Shopping Search

2011/03/01

Bing unveiled a nice little feature for searchers looking to travel. Auto-suggest results, built off of their price prediction algorithm , shows instant price ranges for flight prices. Click to read the rest of this post…

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Google St. David’s Day Logo, Morocco’s Ibn Battuta Logo & Martisor In Romania

2011/03/01

There are a few logos on Google’s localized versions that have special logos for the day. Google UK has a special logo for St David’s Day in Wales, Google Morocco has a special logo for Ibn Battuta and Google Romania has a special logo for Martisor.

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StatCounter: Bing Bigger Than Yahoo Globally; Still a Blip vs. Google

2011/03/01

Bing overtook Yahoo globally for the first time in January, and further expanded its lead in February, StatCounter announced today. Click to read the rest of this post…

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Google Maps Bike Views & Some Neat Street Views

2011/03/01

Google announced they have added new Street View imagery to Google Maps via Trike view. Trike view is a modified bicycle outfitted with Street View equipment.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/01/2011

2011/03/01

Hello and welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘. Last week was a bit of an odd one as there were a few dramas that seemed to take up a LOT of attention (Overstock and algo update).

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Where To Look For Cultural Differences In Europe

2011/03/01

It has been said many times before: optimizing for search and / or Social Media in Europe is more than simply translating a few pages from your US website. Not just because translating will get you in trouble with language differences all across Europe, but also because culture plays a major role… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Google Restoring Gmail Accounts After Buggy Update

2011/03/01

Google apologized last night for a bug that deleted e-mails and contacts for about 40,000 Gmail users. All the data will be restored soon . The technical difficulties were caused by a storage software update bug, which affected 0.02 percent of Gmail’s 200 million users

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St. David’s Day Celebrated With Google UK Doodle

2011/03/01

Google UK users woke up to a new Google Doodle honoring Saint David’s Day. St. David is the patron saint of Wales.

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Startup Conference Madness for 2011

2011/03/01

Attending an information-rich convention is just as important, if not more-so, for new business owner and startupss than for established companies. This experience allows hopeful entrepreneurs to establish important contacts and to learn about the newest trends in their industry. There are also excellent panels, ridiculous after parties, and some of the biggest (or growing) names in the industry.

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