Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing: The Earliest & Latests Searchers By City Microsoft Bing posted data on the earliest risers by city based on Bing usage data.

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

How does Google determine what they will use for the title of your page in search results?

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Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why and when Google may use something other than your title tag for the search results title snippet. Matt Cutts suggested that it is best for your to try to anticipate what the user will search for when crafting your title tags…

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If you run a smaller website, it can be frustrating to know your site has better content, but you aren’t getting as much traffic as a well-known brand. So what can you do to improve your rankings and beat large sites in the search results?

Microsoft Bing posted data on the earliest risers by city based on Bing usage data. Bing said they “thought it would be interesting to look at Bing usage as a proxy for when people get online, start work or otherwise wake up.” The earliest city to rise is San Francisco, reaching 50% of…

Digital marketing agency 360i announced a new technology platform for pay-per-click advertisers that aims to reverse engineer the Google AdWords quality score and make recommendations on how to improve performance.