Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Preps “Hotel View” Interior 360 Imagery Call it Google “Hotel View.” According to the Associated Press (via Fox), Google is..

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Duplicate content is a fun topic in the SEO space because Google says don’t worry about it because 30% of the web is duplicative. Google deals with it. But all good SEOs know…

As part of our SEJ interview series, Randall Turner of Advice Interactive joins us to discuss how to win big business for your agency. A lot of people struggle when it comes to closing deals with clients, but Randall is pretty much the man at it

If your website sometimes has minor duplicate content issues, how can you avoid being caught in Google’s duplicate content filter? Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts explains when you should use rel=canonical in such instances.

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Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about duplicate content in his latest webmaster help video where a user writes in to ask: If you had to deal with short-term duplicated content on a news site (perhaps publishing a story on two different URLs over one day), what would you do in […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional. He provides strategic digital marketing services at an agency called Bureau in Ontario, Canada. He has a bachelors degree in communication and an unparalleled passion for helping businesses get their message out

Advertising network Chitika delves into Mac, Windows, Linux, and Google search usage by state with a new interactive map. The map allows users to view usage across the United States, and hover over each state to discover the percentage of use.

Pinterest acquired two-man startup VisualGraph, an image recognition and visual search platform. Many say this move primes Pinterest to be a leading image search engine and ideal place to advertise products.

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