Archive for February, 2012

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 14, 2012

2012/02/14

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Scroogle Says Google Is Blocking Their Privacy Search Engine If you try to conduct a search at Scroogle, the portal that lets you search Google in private,…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2012

2012/02/14

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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Scroogle Says Google Is Blocking Their Privacy Search Engine

2012/02/14

If you try to conduct a search at Scroogle, the portal that lets you search Google in private, Scroogle will tell you that Google is blocking them. I just tested it and Scroogle returns an error message that reads, “so sorry… Google is temporarily blocking this Scroogle server.”… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Be Careful Using AdWords for Keyword Research

2012/02/14

Posted by randfish For the past decade, most of us in the field of search have relied on Google's AdWords data (either in the public tool, the API or the tools inside AdWords accounts). It's the best source we've got, but many marketers may not realize that sadly, the numbers and queries may not always match up to what's actually happening on Google's search engine.

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Google AdWords Sitelinks Now Uses Related Ads

2012/02/14

Google announced a new version of their AdWords Sitelinks. They call them “enhanced” sitelinks for AdWords

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Google Tries to Diagnose Health Conditions on Symptom Searches

2012/02/14

Google is adding a new health search results feature. Whenever you search for a symptom or multiple symptoms of an illness, Google will show you a list of possibly related health conditions related to your query to get you to answers more quickly

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Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed

2012/02/14

Many SEOs have been chatting this week about a recent study by Intelligent Positioning (first reported by Search Engine Watch) that showed Wikipedia ranks on Google UK for 99 percent of searches. Yikes, right?

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SEO Collaborating With Blogger- Three Ways To Build Mutually Beneficial Relationships

2012/02/14

No online marketing strategy could exist and survive without content marketing.

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Google Webmaster Outreach 2011

2012/02/14

Kaspar Szymanski, a Googler responsible for webmaster outreach and a downright awesome guy…

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Search Engines Crazy in Love on Valentine’s Day 2012

2012/02/14

All the major search engines are celebrating Valentine’s Day this year with special logos or pictures on their home pages. In addition to Google’s Valentine’s Day Doodle featuring Tony Bennett, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu and others are sharing the love.

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