SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 15, 2012

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 15, 2012
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • Google Says It Has A Million Public Transit Schedules, Adds Transit Features In Android Maps

    Google Maps (and related data) continues to be strategic for the company. On Android Google Maps & Navigation are one of the big differentiators (at least until Q4) between the Google OS and iOS. Today Google announced several updates and upgrades for the public transit features on Maps (version 6.10). In addition, Google now reports [...]

  • Microsoft Revamps AdCenter For Agency Relationships

    Microsoft has updated adCenter to enable advertisers to change or add agencies without losing their entire account history. With what they’re calling “Agency Enablement” features, adCenter now makes it possible for agencies to link or unlink to client accounts, onboard new clients via email requests to access accounts, control billing preferences and manage client accounts [...]

  • Search Convergence In SF: Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan, Mike Grehan & Brett Tabke

    It might be more than foggy in San Fransciso this morning, as Brett Tabke of webmasterworld.com said after I took this picture, “that was a twilight zone moment for me”. It must have been interesting feeling for him then about 10 minutes later when Mike Grehan invited him and Danny Sullivan on stage to have [...]

  • Say A Prayer; Google Kills Prayer Times

    About a year ago, Google introduced a new rich snippets for prayer times. That rich snippet has now been decommissioned due to lack of webmaster implementation. The purpose was to show useful prayer times for those who are searching Google for Islamic, Jewish or other prayer times in the Google search results. Here is a [...]

  • Yes, Bing Has Human Search Quality Raters & Here’s How They Judge Web Pages

    A web page that definitively satisfies a searcher’s intent is “Perfect,” and should appear at the top of Bing’s search results. On the other end of the scale, spammy web pages and pages that almost no searcher would find useful are deemed “Bad.” That’s a bit of how Bing instructs the people in its Human [...]

  • Google Logo For Legendary Chef Julia Child 100th Birthday

    The late Julia Child, an American icon, has her 100th birthday today after passing at the age of 91 on August 13, 2004 in Santa Barbara. She is most well known for her television cooking shows and instructions, but also for her many cook books and popularizing French cuisine in America. There is a worldwide [...]

  • July Search Share: Google At All-Time High, Bing Continues Slow Gains

    We’re starting to see financial analysts expose July search market share figures from comScore, ahead of their formal release tomorrow. Bing grew slightly and Google remained where it was last month but ahead of its position last year. While Yahoo was also flat, the good news is that the company didn’t lose additional share, as [...]

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Google Set For Public Shaming By British MPs Upset Over Company’s UK “Tax Evasion”

Google Set For Public Shaming By British MPs Upset Over Company’s UK “Tax Evasion”
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Google has done nothing illegal. Just the same some British Members of Parliament (MPs) are angry and will likely call company executives (probably Eric Schmidt) to testify about why Google doesn’t pay its “fair share” of taxes in the UK.

According to published reports and company filings Google made £395 million ($ 620 million) in revenues in the UK in 2011 but paid £6 million ($ 9.5 million) in taxes. That works out to be about 1.5 percent of revenue.

According to a story in the UK Independent, some MPs and members of the public are upset by what they see as unfair tax avoidance. This frustration comes in part as a result of a difficult economic climate in Britain. This sort of “investigation” would be unlikely during a boom period.

The Independent explained that Google manages to avoid paying more taxes by having its headquarters in Ireland, which it collects its UK revenue, and then funneling money through Bermuda:

The company operates a scheme under which its Irish subsidiary employs Google UK as an agent, meaning the proceeds of sales made in the UK end up in Ireland. A commission of around 10 per cent is then paid back to Google UK. That fee is taxable once costs have been deducted.

Google Ireland then pays much of the money it makes to the internet giant’s Bermudan firm as a licensing fee, ensuring that a large portion of its turnover ends up in the tax haven. The process is entirely legal.

Google is certainly not alone in taking advantage of this kind of convoluted financial arrangement. Apple does similar things to minimize taxation and so does Amazon.

The Google-UK story is a microcosm of the larger challenge of national and local governments trying to regulate global corporations that can move money around the world to their advantage and avoid local tax rules. Google counters that it contributes significantly to the UK economy through job creation.

MPs said that Google would be asked to appear before Parliament at some point “before Easter.” It’s unlikely that there will be any penalties or legal consequences as a result. Rather it will likely be a venting and Google shaming session for the MPs.

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I’m Feeling Doodly, Playful, Artistic: Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Gains New Choices

I’m Feeling Doodly, Playful, Artistic: Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Gains New Choices
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Google’s famous “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on its home page has been changed to add new options such as “I’m Feeling Playful” or “I’m Feeling Trendy.”

The long-standing ”I’m Feeling Lucky” button, when selected (if Google Instant is off), will automatically take someone to the first page that appears in Google’s results for a particular search, hence the “feeling lucky” aspect.

Now the button, for some users, is sporting these new options:

The Google Operating System blog spotted the new feature after seeing a post by Jérôme Flipo on Google+. Here is a video of how it works:

This is not the first time Google has played with the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. It also used the button to show a New Year’s countdown in 2009, changed it to say “I’m Steering Lucky” as part of an April Fool’s joke in 2012, and made it “Insert Coin” as part of its 2010 Google logo tribute to Pac-Man.

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400% Higher Throughput Mozscape API Now in Beta, And Seeking Testers

400% Higher Throughput Mozscape API Now in Beta, And Seeking Testers
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If you've used or considered using the Mozscape API to retrieve link metrics data, we've got something unique to share - a brand new beta of a much faster, more robust API. This beta version currently has just a few testers (and we're seeking more), but thus far, we're seeing remarkable results.

Carin, who manages the big data team here at Moz, helped share the story with me last week:

  • The current API is not able to support everyone's use case! Some people need to make a lot of calls in a really short period of time - our API currently can't support more than 10 requests/second (even for paid users). Others have a large list of URLs they want to update metrics on every new index release - our current API doesn't support batching very well and will timeout with batch sizes larger than 50 URLs.
  • The beta version has made some serious performance improvements with single URL throughput and can handle 200 requests / second - the beta API is seeing a 400% throughput improvement, although response times will still be the same
  • To address batching users we've developed a new batching model - online batching (available in the beta API) and offline batching (coming soon to the beta API)
    • Online batching: the maximum amount of results we can process in a POST without a timeout from S3. This has been improved from 50 URLs to 500 URLs in one batch request
    • Offline batching (still in development): for batch sizes larger than 500 URLs, offline batching will process through the entire list (probably up to a certain limit not yet decided) and return a downloadable CSV link to S3 where all the data will be available. Since this is still in development, it is not clear the SLA on offline batching, but this feature will be also be available for beta testing as soon as it is feature complete!

Mozscape's API is pretty big today - we served 154,352,249 (154 million) requests in the first 10 days of August and returned 1,186,736,774 (1.2 billion) rows of link metrics data.

You can still sign up free or try our paid API, but if you have serious demand for high-volume or large batches of link data, we'd love to have you in the beta for the new API. Just contact Andrew Dumont - andrew@seomoz.org - and he'll get you set up!


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Los Angeles, CA (I-Newswire) August 8, 2012 - It is estimated that one out of five people in the United States suffers from arthritis. It condition occurs when bare bone is exposed due to the thinning of cartilage which helps in protecting the joint. As a result, a person suffering from arthritis will experience pain, discomfort, and movement difficulty.

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Study Suggests Search Engines Not As Popular On Mobile Devices

Study Suggests Search Engines Not As Popular On Mobile Devices
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Google is seeing huge mobile search growth and search engines are widely used by mobile device owners. However a new study confirms that search is not the center of the mobile universe, as it is online. I discuss many of the top-line findings of the study, conducted by Nielsen and commissioned by Telmetrics and xAd, in my post at Marketing Land: Study: 50 Percent Of Mobile Queries In Travel, Restaurants, Autos Result In A Purchase.

In a finding I didn’t talk about in that post, the data reflect that tablet and smartphone users (in Travel, Autos and Restaurants) tend to go directly to websites and apps more than they use search engines to find information.

While the data vary by vertical and device category search engine usage was secondary to direct navigation across the board. For example, in the Travel category, tablet users went directly to familiar sites/apps (46 percent) or apps/sites they had previously used (49 percent) more often than they used search engines (15 percent) to find information.

Smartphone users also went directly to websites/apps in all three verticals more often than they used search engines for information:

Travel:

  • Direct navigation — 43 percent
  • Search engine –24 percent

Autos:

  • Direct navigation — 46 percent
  • Search engine –37 percent

Restaurants:

  • Direct navigation — 44 percent
  • Search engine — 33 percent

In an unrelated study Nielsen found that US mobile device owners were spending 81 percent of their time in apps vs. on the mobile web.

Source: Nielsen July 2012

On the PC search is the near-universal starting point for people even when they have a site or brand in mind. However, the data above show that 1) mobile users spend more time with apps than the mobile web and 2) they often go directly to particular apps (or sites) without using a search engine.

This is in no way to suggest that mobile search or Google in particular is “in danger.” But it does argue persuasively that mobile user behavior is different than on the PC and that the search experience must continue to evolve and adapt in mobile. Google is trying to do that in Jelly Bean with its voice-based “assistant” and Google Now.

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 7, 2012

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 7, 2012
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • Google Gets Interactive With Olympics Logos

    Google’s London Olympics Logos so far have all been static images symbolizing different events and sports at the Olympics. But today that trend has changed and Google is showing animated and interactive logos that Google users can play with and win medals. Today, we have a logo that let’s you compete in hurdles. You can [...]

  • Global CMOs: Here Are 6 Reasons Why You Cannot Manage Search Through Translation

    Sometimes it feels like a one-man crusade. Now in my 15th year of search marketing (yes, I started young) I have been trying to explain to Global SEOs for much of that time that translation is not a perfect process. But it appears I have been talking to the wrong people. I should have been [...]

  • Why SMX East Is A Can’t-Miss Event

    Search Engine Land’s SMX East search engine marketing conference is returning to New York City on October 2-4. We’ve got a revamped, updated agenda, and have already confirmed a number of world-class speakers. If you’re involved in marketing, PR, social media or any other customer-facing activity, you owe it to yourself (and the ultimate benefit [...]

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Business Issues

Local, Maps & Mobile

Link Building

Searching

SEM Industry

SEO & SEM

  • 10 Old SEO Methods You Need to Stop, Search Engine Watch
  • Google Display Network Exclusion Tactics: Don’t Drink from the Fire Hose, Search Engine Watch
  • Maximize Efficiency with Dayparting in Small Accounts, PPC Hero
  • Optimization tip series: Test ad sizes and placements on your site, Inside AdSense
  • Paid search should be driven by goals not keywords, econsultancy.com
  • SEO Client Management— Handling Different Levels of SEO Management, Search Engine Journal
  • The 5 Deliverables For Local SEO For Small Businesses, Search Engine People
  • Top Google Ranking Factors When it Comes to ‘Local’, Search Engine People
  • When a Search Click Isn’t a Search Click, Certified Knowledge
  • Winning the Video Thumbnail in Google Universal Search, SEOmoz

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Leading supplier of office furniture offers impressive range

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Their website, located at www.btoffice.co.uk offers the opportunity to access a comprehensive range of office furniture, but has a unique feature in that it provides a simple means of creating a shortlist of potential office furniture products and create a PDF file with all relevant specifications including dimensions and finishes to peruse at leisure. The resource provides the means to access all manner of office furniture including office chairs, boardroom furniture through to a variety of office desks, all of which are displayed with extensive informative content outlining all the relevant facets and elements of each of the products.

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