Archive for August, 2014

Are Hashtags Dead? Do Tweets with Images Get More Followers? Twitter Growth Factors (and Some Excel Tips)

2014/08/27

Posted by petebray What factors go into determining how many Twitter followers you gain (and lose) each day? I was driven in part by Rand Fishkin’s recent “mad scientist” experimentation that he touched on at MozCon. There, he noted that his tweets with images resulted in significant follower losses

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2014

2014/08/26

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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SearchCap: Google Image Bug, Bing Search Tests & App Linking

2014/08/26

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 Tests New Search Results Design & Top Navigation Bing is testing several new interfaces for their search results. The tests interface includes moving..

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Bing Tests New Search Results Design & Top Navigation

2014/08/26

Bing is testing several new interfaces for their search results. The tests interface includes moving the top navigation below the search box, using yellow lines above or on the left side of the navigation menus and/or gray arrows integrated with the top box above. The current design has a solid..

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Google Images Bug Shows Russian Car Crash For All Queries?

2014/08/26

It seems there is a wide spread bug or hack with Google Image search impacting a lot of users across the world. When they search for anything within Google Image Search…

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Google Image Search Bug Leads To Duplicate Russian Auto Accident Images In Search Results

2014/08/26

This morning, for a few hours, searchers looking for images using Google Image search were presented with an image of a Russian automobile accident in the search results.

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2014/08/26

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Bing, Following Google, Will Test Close Variants in Exact Match

2014/08/26

Bing says it will test the inclusion of close variants in exact match for a portion of queries, which some say helps pave the way for a future with keywordless search.

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The NSA Has a Hush-Hush Google-Like Search Engine

2014/08/26

The search tool, ICREACH, is reportedly capable of handling 2 to 5 billion new records every day, including email, phone call, fax, Internet, and text message metadata.

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Bing Releases Image Search Widget

2014/08/26

Bing has provided access to the code necessary to display its search result images on websites.

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