“Data voids” enable offensive content to rise to the top of the search results. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Learn how combining brand building with sales activation in your media strategy can help your B2B brand get through these trying times. The post How to Plan a Sustainable B2B Media Strategy in a Recession via @iambenwood appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

What can B2B marketers learn from family history research? Family history research offers a surprising number of valuable lessons for marketers looking to hone existing skills and build new ones. For starters, genealogy research can teach us about: Knowing Your Marketing Roots Sharpening Your Research Skills Building Enduring Passion Citing, Celebrating & Honoring Your Marketing Sources Learning & Networking With Fellow Professionals at Industry Events Adhering To Guidelines & Goalposts Publishing & Preserving For Posterity Sparking Interest For Future Marketers Breaking Through With Hyper-Personal Relevance Peering Inside Your B2B Marketing DNA Aside from childhood school family history projects, I first stared researching my roots in earnest in 1994, and a decade later for several years I worked as a professional genealogist.

Initially launched in the U.S. in April, now available worldwide in mid-October

Over the weekend Google and Bing (and DuckDuckGo) were all called out for displaying horrid and disgusting images that convey babies burning in ovens for searches like [jewish baby stroller] and [jewish bunk beds]. Google and Bing responded immediately to me when I forwarded it to them about their disgust but the issue is, these images still come up.

Searches for local services grew more than 25% YoY across European countries. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Just amazing, again, Google had an issue indexing news content last night. Ewdison Then, a publisher at SlashGear, Android Community and other places notified me on Twitter of this showing screen shots of CNN, Fox News, WSJ, and Engadget all showing zero new content in Google Search at around 6:50pm.

On Sunday I reported about a canonical URL issue with Google that may have caused major turbulence with the Google search results last week.

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