Archive for January, 2012

Google Doodle Honors Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2012/01/16

Google today, on the 26th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, is honoring the holiday and legacy of the preacher of nonviolent activism with a special Google Doodle. King is most known for the “I Have a Dream..

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A Linkbuilder’s Gmail Productivity Setup (with Outreach Emails from 4 Industry Linkbuilders)

2012/01/15

Posted by dohertyjf Because linkbuilding is hard, we all look for ways to make the process less painful and our outreach more effective. I constantly struggled with how to make my job more effective when working in-house, and since coming to Distilled I have had to become even more of a productivity ninja in order to keep up with the fast pace of an agency.

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The End of Link Building as We’ve Known and Loved it

2012/01/15

The process has already started, and as a publisher you need to make sure you are adapting your marketing strategy to line up, or get left behind. Google made the link building algorithm popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s

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Google Earth Funds Sea Turtle Tracking Project and Game

2012/01/14

Through the use of the Google Earth API technology and a grant given to the sea turtle conservation network WIDECAST, Google is funding the tracking of a sea turtle named Jklynn as she follows an ancestral path to create nests across the Carribean…

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comScore: Bing Takes No. 2 Spot From Yahoo in December 2011

2012/01/14

Bing is finally the No. 2 search engine in the U.S., according to the latest figures from comScore. Bing which launched in June 2009 with an 8.4 percent search engine market share, now accounts for 15.1 percent of searches.

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Google Makes Android Search Faster & Easier

2012/01/14

Google announced that they have made several improvements to the search app for Android. The changes include: Faster, smoother performance, with an updated and simplified user interface. Suggestions for your search grouped by type..

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2012

2012/01/13

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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The Google/Microsoft Comparison: Industry Reaction to Antitrust Debate

2012/01/13

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is considering filing an FTC complaint, even after two of the senators involved in the first subcommittee investigation suggested an FTC investigation last month.

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Search Quality & Twitter’s Outrage: Industry Reaction to Google Changes

2012/01/13

Google’s new personalized search has segments of the tech world in an uproar.

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