SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 31, 2014

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Marin Launches Context Connect, Says Retailer Impressions Surged During Polar Vortex As the brutal Polar Vortex weather system bore down on much of the U.S. this…

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US Court Says Baidu Has Free Speech Right To Censor Search

Late last week Chinese search engine Baidu succeeded in gaining dismissal of a lawsuit by pro-democracy activists based in New York (Zhang et al. v. Baidu.com, Inc). Plaintiffs had sued in the US and argued that Baidu improperly blocked them from seeing content on the search engine. Specifically,…

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Survey: Search Engines Dominate Mobile Product Research

Last week, Local Corporation released survey results from its latest round of consumer mobile shopping research. The company is promoting a new version of its local-mobile shopping app Havvit. The survey was conducted in March and carried out by the Chicago-based e-tailing group and consisted of…

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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Webcast-Effective Social Marketing Methods

Join us Tuesday, April 8th at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) to hear aimClear Founder & Evangelist Marty Weintraub and aimClear Account Manager Merry Morud discuss: How to easily dominate social distribution against serious marketing KPIs; How to use ingenious internet-wide targeting methods; How to field…

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Search In Pics: Google Spam Fighting, Venom At The GooglePlex & Sergey Brin Sky Diving Again

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. Google’s Brian White Fighting Spam: Source: Twitter Google’s…

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Webmasters Getting Creative With Their Link Removal Requests & It Works

The new link building is link removal as some would say. Especially with all the craze around links and how they can get you penalized, link removal requests have become a thing all too familiar to anyone who runs a web site. The challenge, like with link building requests, is to get the webmaster…

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The Benefits Of Participating In Our Professional Search Community

As a search and internet marketer, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day work with our employers and clients, as well as the task of keeping up with the latest developments from search engines, social media platforms and industry tools. Today, I’d like to step back from this and…

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Still Newsjacking For Links? Forget That, Make The News Instead!

We all know that Google frowns upon trying — in any way, shape or form — to get links (they’re serious, guys). Yet, links still play a very large role in determining SERP rankings. If you can’t ask for or chase down high-quality, authoritative links, what’s a marketer…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2014

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: IE8 Users Don’t Get Forwarded To Google Secure Search At the moment, users of IE8, still the most popular version of the Internet Explorer browser…

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IE8 Users Don’t Get Forwarded To Google Secure Search

Users of IE8, still the most popular version of the Internet Explorer browser worldwide, are being sent to unsecure search on Google. This also means that IE8 is now passing referrer data from Google searches. The move to drop SSL is recent, and is unique to IE8. Users of other IE versions are…

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