A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time
Goodbye AltaVista. You deserved better than this. Better than the one-sentence send-off Yahoo gave you today, when announcing your July 8 closure date. But then again, you always were the bright child neglected by your parents. The Amazing AltaVista You appeared on the search engine scene in…
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Yahoo To Shutter AltaVista, Axis & Several More Products
Out with the old. Out with the new. Yahoo’s latest round of spring cleaning includes the shut down of one of the web’s oldest search services (AltaVista) and one of the newest (Yahoo Axis), along with 10 other Yahoo products and services. Goodbye AltaVista AltaVista launched way back in…
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Google Warning External Keyword Tool Shut Down Is Near, AdWords Keyword Planner To Replace It
Google is working toward the complete phase out of the Adwords Keyword Tool and phasing in the new AdWords Keyword Planner. Users accessing the free external Adwords Keyword Tool to perform keyword research, will see the messaging below that it will no…
Google Logo Celebrates 100th Tour de France
Tomorrow, June 29th, 2013, will kick off the 100th Tour de France. To celebrate the special milestone, Google has a tasteful animated GIF Google Doodle for the Tour de France.
The 2013 Tour de France will start tomorrow, June 29th and run through J…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 28, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Rolls Out Search Alerts For Web Search, Images & Video According to the Yahoo Search Tumblr blog, Yahoo Search Alerts for Web Search, Images and Video…
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Yahoo Rolls Out Search Alerts For Web Search, Images & Video
According to the Yahoo Search Tumblr blog, Yahoo Search Alerts for Web Search, Images and Video launched today. In the same way users can receive alerts for News, Fantasy Sports, Horoscopes, Stocks, Travel Destinations and Weather, the new Yahoo Search…
New Review Extensions In Google AdWords: What You Need To Know
Just yesterday, Google announced the beta release of AdWords Review Extensions, which allow advertisers to include blurbs of third-party reviews in their search ads. The extension could prove especially useful to local businesses and to advertisers who don’t have access to seller rating…
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Search In Pics: Matt Cutts Doing The Google Dance, Woz With Glass & Google Blimps
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Matt Cutts Doing The Google Dance: Source: Google+ Steve Wozniak With…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 28, 2013
This week, Google’s Matt Cutts said thee is a multi-week update being pushed out through July 4th. MozCast is showing huge spikes in ranking changes over the past few days…
Google News Adds Sports Scores & Weather To Homepage, Gives Business & Tech Sections Editors Picks
Google News has rolled out three updates, giving users quick access to sports scores and weather forecast from the News homepage, while adding Editors’ Picks content to the Business and Technology sections. The newly added ‘Sports Scores’ content highlights recent sporting event…
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Global Site Infrastructure Plan Essential For Effective SEO & Usability
Targeting the world with a website is a huge opportunity for today’s marketers — but very few businesses start out with that goal. The vast majority target a particular nation first, prove the business model, grow their business’ success, and then consider rolling out globally….
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Friday Talk: Matt Cutts and Duane Forrester
Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester got together on stage at SMX West 2013.
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Friday Talk: Matt Cutts and Duane Forrester
Snowden Petition Blocked From Google? Like All Petitions, It Won’t Be When It Gets Enough Signatures
Search for [edward snowden petition] to find the petition filed through the White House’s Petition site, and you’ll see something odd. The petition has no description, because the White House won’t let Google crawl the page. But it’s not a move against Snowden, as some might…
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Well-Timed Link Building: How to Capitalize on Popular Topics
Timing is crucial for popular topics with a predictable life cycle, and will make your link building efforts much more effective. Here’s how to tune your content to attract links during all the separate phases of the life cycle of your products.
Bing Updates Deep Links Management While Google Displays Up To Ten Sitelinks
Microsoft Bing announced changes to the way they allow webmasters to manage their “deep links” in the search results, while Google has quietly added up to ten sitelinks for a navigational query. Bing Deep Links Update Vincent Wehren, Senior Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Tools,…
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Google’s Kaspar Szymanski Leaving Google
Kaspar Szymanski, a loved member of the Google Search Quality team, is leaving Google and Dublin to move to Berlin, Germany.
Kaspar is not like most Google search quality representatives…
Google AdWords With Third-Party Reviews In Ad Copy
Google announced a new AdWords extension that allows you to ad third-party reviews dynamically into your ad copy of your AdWords ads…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Wildcard Support Not Planned For Google Disavow Tool
The Google Disavow Tool is probably one of the more talked about webmaster functions in the past few months. New questions come up about it every day.
Martin Macdonald âasked Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter if Google had “any plans to allow wildcard disavows” like they do for the robots…
Ten Google Sitelinks For Domain Searches
Search Google for your domain name, and if that doesn’t work try [seroundtable.com] – you should see ten large sitelinks come up under the main site listing:
Searching for the brand name…
Google Publisher Coming To Search Results With Google+ Logo?
As you know, authorship in the search results is a big deal. In fact, I am missing my face big time in the search results. But now, it seems that Google was testing Google+ company logos in the search results.
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