SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 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:

• Days-Old Error In Google Search Causes Gmail User To Get Thousands Of Emails
  Earlier this week, we reported a glitch in Google Search, where clicking on a link after a search for Gmail listed the email address of a Gmail user, complete in a window ready to send them email. With today’s Gmail outage, that error — never fixed — has resulted in at least one person […]
• Search In Pics: Google+ Keychains, Instagram Printer & Google Wear Retail Store
  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. Print Your Instagram Selfies: Source: Google+ Google Developer Group Chefs: Source: Google+ Google+ Keychains: Source: Google+ […]
• A Former Googler’s Routine For AdWords Management
  It’s been seven months since we launched Optmyzr’s first tool at SMX Advanced in Seattle – the Quality Score Tracker – and we’ve been busy adding tools, reports and optimizations since then. Now, one of the most common questions we get is when to use various optimizations — and, of course, these apply no matter what tools […]
• Study: 34% Of Google Search Results Have Rich Media, 9 Organic Links & 9 Search Ads
  Conductor released a study that analyzed the ten blue links at Google showing 34% show rich media, nine organic listings and nine search ads. 34% Of Search Snippets Have Rich Media The Conductor study showed that there was rich media on the search results page 34% of the time. The breakdown of rich media showed […]
• Google Loses Again In AdWords Patent Infringement Case
  A judge has determined patent-holding company Vringo is entitled to additional royalties from Google in a patent infringement case involving Google AdWords. The order stems from a case brought by Vringo subsidiary I/P Engine in 2011 that claimed filtering technology used in Google AdWords violated two of its patents. A jury found in favor of […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• 5 Ways Super Bowl Advertisers Are Still Losing The Digital Game
• When Gmail Went Down, Yahoo Poked Fun On Twitter
• Yes, Gmail Has Gone Down & Google+, Too
• Coming To Google: Click On Ad, Get Free Ride To Merchant Or Restaurant?
• 6 Analytics Tips To Predict Your Online Marketing Revenue In 2014
• Pinterest Tests A Personalized Interests Category
• Sloppy Study Likens Facebook To Disease, Facebook Offers Sarcastic Retort
• Microsoft Says Product Demand Remains High, Reports Record $24.52 Billion Revenue For FY14 Q2

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• Founders Of World’s Largest Offline Search Engine Raise $500K To Build A Jelly Rival, TechCrunch

Link Building

• How to Solve the Problem of Acquiring Natural Links, www.martinibuster.com
• Should You Disavow Links From Your Old Guest Blog Posts?, Search Engine Roundtable

Search Marketing

• Duplicate Keywords: Some Search-and Destroy Techniques, 3Q Digital
• Video: Google On Guest Blogging, Expedia Penalized & Yahoo Secure Search, Search Engine Roundtable

SEM / Paid Search

• Bing Ads Sitelink Extensions Now Available in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, advertise.bingads.microsoft.com
• Quick Guide: Create Ad Copy That Gets More Clicks than Your Competition, Search Engine Journal
• Better Ads via Better Sitelinks, Inside AdWords

SEO

• SEO: Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results, Bing Webmaster Blog
• Google’s In-Depth Article Mark-Up – What You Need To Know, koozai.com
• Irwin Mitchell Suffer Google Whiplash As Google Penalty Knocks Them Out of Index, David Naylor
• Toward a Linkless SEO: The SEO Link Is Dying. Here’s What Might Replace It, www.wordstream.com
• Your Field Guide to “Barnacle” Local SEO, www.localvisibilitysystem.com

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