Archive for June, 2011

Up Close With Google’s Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More

2011/06/17

Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By Image.

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Friday Fun: A Street View Car Made Of LEGOs … And It Works!

2011/06/17

From the you-knew-it-would-happen-at-some-point department: a “street view” photography car made out of LEGOs that actually works! The car/toy (frankly, I’m not sure what to call it) is the work of Mark Crosbie, a software architect based in Dublin, Ireland and self-described… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Malware On Your Subdomains? Google Can Label Whole Domain As Malware

2011/06/17

Miro from cu.cc asked why his whole domain was labeled as having malware when it did not have malware on it. Google’s JohnMu replied to him in the Google Webmaster Help forums saying that subdomains can impact the parent domain.

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Google Does Love Ranking Data – They Just Aren’t Ready To Admit It

2011/06/17

During the Matt Cutts You & A at SMX Advanced in Seattle last week, someone asked Matt if Google would ever “like” query systems that provided ranking reports to SEOs. Matt said, again, that the focus shouldn’t be on rankings, and that website should be focused on “what… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Understanding The Human Part Of The User Experience

2011/06/17

In 1997, a computer called Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Headlines triumphed about the victory of machine over man,  as we humans were “conquered”, “vanquished” and, as a result of our defeat, “stunned.” Checkmate…Finally! The real question isn’t why we finally were… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Search In Pics: PMail, Google Map Makers & Yahoo Store

2011/06/17

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 17, 2011

2011/06/17

Been a crazy week, was in Madrid chatting it up with SEOs, SEMs and Internet marketers there. During that time, there were rumors of a Panda 2.2 release that resulted in some recoveries. Also, Google UK is reportedly updating…

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Majority Of Smartphone Users Online “Multiple Times” Daily

2011/06/17

In New York, at the Mobile Marketing Association forum, Google presented sponsored research on global smartphone user and marketer behavior. The data come from two related studies. The first is an “an online survey of thousands of mobile consumers in 30 countries.” The second is based..

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Facebook Marketing Tactics: 3 Ways of Pinpointing Your Audience

2011/06/17

Facebook matches advertisers to users based on users’ interests, activities, favorites, their job titles, as well as the names of the groups they belong to and the pages they are fans of. That’s a lot of information, and Facebook is st..

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Integrate Your Blog, Facebook Page and Group with WPBook

2011/06/17

If you’re like me, you have a difficult time deciding which to focus your efforts on – a Facebook page or a Facebook group.

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