Feb 12
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It’s the first Friday of the month, and that seems to be when Google has decided to push out its monthly update of search tweaks from the prior month. The January update is out and it contains a few interesting nuggets
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Google’s January Search Update: Panda In The Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them I spend a lot of time trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with some clients’ analytics… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 3, 2012
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with some clients’ analytics installs. Unlike types or broken code, or misspelled words – issues with tracking scripts don’t always raise their hands and scream, “Hey dummy, you deleted the </script> tag!â€� I thought it would… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
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5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them
After 17 straight months of gains in market share, Google’s Chrome web browser dropped 0.17 percent in January, and the company that tracks browser market share suggests that it’s because Google penalized Chrome after a botched sponsored blog post campaign. The figures come from Net…
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Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty?
After more than two years, and a few important concessions from Google, the Czech Republic is letting the company resume its Street View service.
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Czech Republic Gives Google Green Light To Resume Street View
On Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012, we published an article discussing some changes StumbleUpon made during their recent redesign which removed source links from their content pages and forced all users to view content from the site through an iframed toolbar, which they could not close if they were logged… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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StumbleUpon Responds To Concerns About Links & Iframing
The opinions on what makes a form or Web application user friendly may vary but most everyone dislikes Captcha fields. Some Captcha’s are so difficult to decipher they actually increase form and page abandonment. Along with the freedom the Internet provides humans, it is unfortunately humans who..
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Recent Findings On Captcha & The User Experience
Optimizing Keywords and Negatives is a task I recommend to my clients that they do regularly. In this How To, I will include some real-world experience along with the basics of how to use the AdWords Search Term View to optimize keywords and negatives.
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How To Use The AdWords Search Term View To Optimize Keywords & Negatives
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. Bing Drink In A Glass: Image via Flickr. Behind The Scenes On President…
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Search In Pics: Obama’s Google Hangout, SEO Cake & Zuckerberg’s Desk
Several members of Congress continued to express reservations about Google’s new privacy policy after a closed-door meeting on Thursday, with one House member saying that Google’s handling of sensitive medical searches may violate HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
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Google’s New Privacy Policy May Violate HIPAA, Congresswoman Says