SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 31, 2012
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Jul 31, 2012 at 4:59pm ET by Matt McGee
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Helping Or Hurting: The Debate Over Google+ Local
It’s been two months now since Google replaced Google Places with Google+ Local. The reactions thus far have been mixed: SEOs hailed it as a revelation for small businesses, while consumers were left scratching their heads over the new Zagat system. Google+ Local has the potential to be everything this column is about: the intersection [...]
- Intent, Content & Spamming – Is There A Difference?
The difference between intent and content is what Google is missing. Keywords at their most basic level are what we use to communicate, and if you think back to those COM 101 days, you’ll remember that the way it works is our thoughts are encoded in our brains into words, those words are spoken or [...]
- NBC Olympics Executive’s Email Wasn’t “Widely Available” In Google
The interwebs are all a flutter over how a critic of NBC’s Olympic coverage had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting the email address of the executive in charge of that coverage. It was private, said Twitter. Public to anyone with Google, said journalist Guy Adams, whose account was suspended. Actually, from what I can [...]
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