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SearchEngineWatch.com Jun 08 09
It wasn't hard to find the top stories from the first day of SES Toronto. All you had to do was conduct a search in YouTube, Google News, and Google Blog Search.
On YouTube, you could find a video interview by Byron Gordon of SEO-PR with the keynote speaker entitled, "Tara Hunt on 'green' shampoo and whuffie!" Hunt, the author of The Whuffie Factor, discusses the key principles of Whuffie, or how you go about generating brand for yourself by citing a fictional example of a "green" shampoo.
In Google News, I found "Signals: What Relevancy Indicators are Search Engineers Watching for Today? SES Toronto Day 1. Full story...
Yahoo Axis displays search results for the iPhone, iPad or desktop browsers, without users having to leave their current web page, and provides a preview of the pages that results link to in an effort to overhaul the modern method of search.
The ruling brings an end to second phase in the ongoing battle over Android's use of Java code. Oracle had previously won a partial victory on the matter of copyright infringement, though the jury remained split on other elements of the case.
Google has released a new version of its iPhone search app, boasting a revamped interface, full screen image searches and improved search speeds.
Content marketing and link building both have their merits in the realm of search marketing. However, the tale of the tape reveals that content marketing has a distinct advantage over link building for marketers.
How will mobile local monetization materialize? That’s the big question. This outline offers a few foundational elements for mobile monetization which many players ¬- including Yelp, Foursquare, and Facebook - could (as some already have) build on.
Google unveiled its Knowledge Graph recently, which it called the “first step in the next generation of search.
Google reports it receives over 250,000 requests to take down URLs accused of copyright infringement each week.
Google is embarking on an awareness-raising program that will see it notify, via its own search results pages, roughly half a million users that they may be on the brink of losing their internet connection as a result of a malware infection.
Have you seen Bing Visual Search lately? Probably not. The feature – introduced as the search equivalent of walking into a store and visually browsing products – has quietly vanished, along with the blog post announcing its arrival.
So you’ve heard about the SES new social platform – Vivastream. Now what? Some of you may already be familiar with Vivastream if you checked it out during SES New York, but there are one or two new features added for SES Toronto.