Pandia Search Engine News Wrap Up May 9
The biggest news this week was Google’s new search engine result pages. But there is more to the world of search and search engines. Here’s what we found.
- Facebook’s “Posts By Everyone” Feature: Do People Realize They’re Sharing To The World?
Why doesn’t Facebook allow for mobile updates to be private? (SE Land May 7 2010)
- OneRiot Out of Beta, Launches Trending Topic Engine
Insights into real-time search and how OneRiot’s Trending Topics Engine works. (SE Watch May 7 2010)
- Does Google Latitude Have the Fortitude to Beat Foursquare?
Location based status updates are the hottest thing in social networking (Marketing Pilgrim May 7 2010)
- Bing Shopping goes social
Ever felt the need to ask your friend online for their opinion on something you intend to buy? (Liveside May 7 2010)
- Google Goggles v1.1 Translates Menus, Books & More
A new version of Google Goggles now supports translating what it sees. (SE Land May 6 2010)
- Google Navigator … Another Reason to Submit Your Location(s) to Google Maps
Google Navigator has most of the routine functionality of in-car GPS systems (SE People May 6 2010)
- Look Who’s Ranking Now: How Google Can’t Seem to Stop the Spammers
Lately I’ve seen a disturbing trend where blatantly black hat sites are finding their way into the Google Top 10 (SE Journal May 4 2010)
- Google Buys Bump Top and Bumps Up Holdings
Bump Top helps to organize a computer desktop more like a real desktop by allowing piles (Marketing Pilgrim May 3 2010)
- Teoma Returns As Ask.com’s “Simple Interface”
Teoma was acquired by Ask Jeeves back in 2001 and ultimately became the search technology behind Ask’s search results. (SE Land May 7 2010)
- Google Pushes Living Stories To Publishers Via WordPress Plugin
Instead of writing an article for each new event that happens, you update an existing story with the latest (SE Roundtable May 3 2010)
- The Twitter Search Revolution: Popular & Promoted Tweets Mature The Service
Twitter Search has radically matured. It has gained “relevant” tweets in addition to search ads. (SE Land May 3 2010)
- New SEO Practices for a Google Caffeine World
Google’s new algorithm: Unnatural links just no longer carry the weight they used to. (SE Guide May 3 2010)
- Yahoo Answers Hits One Billion Answers
Yahoo! Answers currently receives 823,966 questions and answers per day (SE Land May 3 2010)
- Top 7 Semantic Search Engines As An Alternative To Google
Using a semantic search engine will ensure more relevant results based on the ability to understand the definition of the word or term that is being searched for (makeuseof.com May 1 2010)
- Google now tracking your typing behavior. Why?
Google introducing a keyboard function within the Google interface (State of Search May 4 2010)
- Google Rolls Out Analytics App Gallery
The gallery contains 32 interesting Google Analytics apps by some of Google developers and partners (SE Journal may 4 2010)
- A spring metamorphosis — Google’s new look
We’ve added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. (Google Blog may 5 2010)
- Google Disables Some Nationality-Based Search Suggestions
Google has crippled its search suggestions tool for some search terms that refer to particular races and/or nationalities of people. (SE Land may 5 2010)
- Google to Sell eBooks As Soon As Next Month
Google plans to offer a bookstore that’s platform-independent (Marketing Pilgrim May 5 2010)
- 10 Random Search Tools To Keep In Your Back Pocket
Feed Compare is a handy tool that will allow you to check the number of RSS subscribers for any given website/blog. (SE Journal May 6 2010)
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