Archive for January, 2013

Google Wins: Google’s FTC Antitrust Case Closed

2013/01/04

Google underwent a long antitrust probe by the FTC where tons of testimony was heard over the course of many many months. Google has come out victorious but had to make three changes to appease the FTC.

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Inside Bing’s Spell Checker

2013/01/04

Search engines auto-correcting your spelling mistakes is almost expected nowadays. Recently Bing gave a sneak peak of what goes into making a great spell checking engine and how it makes search feel like magic to its users.

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Advanced Filters: Excel’s Amazing Alternative To Regex

2013/01/04

One thing I’ve never understood about Excel is why it doesn’t support regular expressions (which the cool kids call regex). Regex allows you to do advanced sorting and filtering.

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Google Title Tags Measured By Width Not Character?

2013/01/04

I missed this but it appears the title tag length in the Google search results is not necessarily measured by the number of characters but the width of all the characters together.

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5 Inbound Lead Generation Lessons in Building Trust with Your Website

2013/01/04

I recently started working with a client who has a consulting business and discovered something really intriguing about their SEO and inbound lead generation. To keep client confidentiality, let’s call the company, “Dave Smith Consulting.” We were looking at the company’s organic Google traffic, and we found that the #1 Google query leading visitors to The post 5 Inbound Lead Generation Lessons in Building Trust with Your Website appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Blekko Launches New Tablet Search Engine “Izik”

2013/01/04

Rich Skrenta and team at blekko are launching “izik,” a new tablet search engine (and browser) designed to deliver a “from the ground up,” tablet friendly search experience. You can also use it on the PC; however the experience is best on a tablet. It’s available as an…

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5 Ways Social Media is Changing the Way We Interact at Trade Shows

2013/01/04

The ease and availability of social media has changed the way people interact with each other. Businesses should realize that they can use social media to improve the impact that they have at trade shows

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Where Link Building is Heading in 2013

2013/01/04

Ten predictions on what 2013 holds for popular tactics: link building packages; analytics; infographics as link bait; directories; sponsorships; forum posting and blog commenting; social link building; guest posting; press releases; and mobile.

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