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A Salute to our Veterans through the Eyes of Search Engines




Happy Veterans Day and thank you to all our Veterans, past and present, who served our country for us and generations to come! God bless you and God bless America!
Google Announces Social Search
According to Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search, a new Google Labs app called Social Search will launch in the next few weeks. Social Search will add relevant updates and posts from your social network friends to the bottom of your search results page. How will Google know what networks you belong to and who your friends are? It’s in your Google Profile. More...
Holy Social SEO Batman!
Today, Microsoft announced it has signed an agreement with Facebook and Twitter to integrate status updates from these two social powerhouses’ users into its search results. Mashable has details and some screen shots in REVEALED: Details of Bing’s Twitter Search. More...
Never Alter Your Company Brand Unless…
Then along comes Google who proceeds to turn this Branding 101 rule on its head. More...
Just in time for Halloween, spiders are coming to Google Docs.

Search Results to Go Social with Bing

Bing and Ping: Share Search Results on Facebook and Twitter
Microsoft let everyone know about a forthcoming feature of their new search engine today. Bing and Ping, as they’ve lovingly dubbed it, will let you easily share search results with your friends on and Twitter as well as by email.
At least at first, the sharing tools will only be available for searches that invoke “Instant Answers.” The examples given were football scores and airline flights, with other time-sensitive data and scenarios like stock prices, movie times, weather results and more also invoking that type of search.
Free Resources to Increase Website Traffic
Recently I’ve been asked by several people for advice on driving more traffic to websites, without spending a lot of money. Given the current state of our economy, I thought this would be a good topic to cover here on Search Matters. Some recommendations focus on search marketing, others don’t, but all are online marketing resources that will get traffic moving in the right direction. Google Analytics
The first step in increasing the number of visitors to your website, is to know how much traffic you currently have…and how they got to your website…and the search terms they used to find you…and much more. More...
Bing is at the top.
And they have a photo to prove it!
Microsoft employee Kunal Das recently traveled to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro – the world’s largest free-standing mountain – and left a Bing sticker at the top (see it on the sign right after “Africa’s Highest Point”).
Unfortunately for Bing though, Google is still the king of the search engine mountain with 64.7% of core searches according to comScore’s July 2009 US. Search Engine rankings report. The good news for Bing is that the new and improved search engine did continue its upward trend with an increase of 5% for it’s number of searches. More...
