Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Smartphone Bot Case Study: The Google Smartphone Bot On Holiday In Australia While Google’s new smartphone bot has been announced, it does not appear to be widely… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Yahoo’s share of the U.S.

Yahoo’s share of the U.S. search engine market continued to further dwindle in April, continuing a downward slide that began eight months ago in September, according to comScore – though Experian Hitwise paints a somewhat different picture.

Yahoo has been going through CEOs like toilet paper recently.

Chrome Google Chrome has only been around since 2008, but the company has pumped out 18 releases of the software in those five short years, with two more in working development. While users of older Chrome versions have a relatively robust CTR as seen in the graph below, users of the most recent versions are

Yet another Google Maps bug to report but to be fair, they might all be related – this one is of the videos not showing on Google Maps/Places landing pages for businesses. A Google Places Help thread has confirmed reports from Google on the bug…

While Google’s new smartphone bot has been announced, it does not appear to be widely deployed yet; at least that is what I said during a recent presentation in Sydney, where I had the pleasure of meeting Alistair Lattimore (Al).

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