Google's Panda Update Hits the UK: Early Winners & Losers

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SearchDay April 13, 2011 Today's Top Stories Google's Panda Update Hits the UK: Early Winners & Losers Many websites in the UK today are feeling the impact of Google's Panda update, one day after it was officially rolled out to all English-language Google users. Much like the devastation unleashed on unsuspecting sites in the U.S. in February, today price comparison sites and many content sites (e.g., news, ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Apr 13, 2011 Why Facebook is Wiping Out Orkut in India & Brazil When Facebook's destruction of Orkut began and why Facebook is driving these massive populations to start using it at such an astonishing rate. Michael Bonfils  |  Full story  |  Print version RSS Advertisement #1 Google Rankings - New Smart Solution! How get quickly TOP search engine rankings? It's so easy! Google loves one-way, valuable & relevant article links. Get them on thousands of high ranking blogs instantly! FREE TRIAL and $1 USD welcome bonus for you. What you want more? 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Bing Business Portal is a new service from Bing to help business owners create and control their presence online. While it is still in beta, business owners can ... Thom Craver  |  Full story  |  Apr 13, 2011 Richard Trevithick Inventor Of Steam Locomotive Gets Google Doodle Richard Trevithick British inventor of the first functioning steam locomotive received a Google Doodle for his 240th birthday. Trevithick was born in 13 April 1771 and died 22 April 1833. Trevithick was the first to build a functioning steam locomotive engine using high ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Apr 13, 2011 Bing, Ask Buying Ads On Google Doodle News Search Results The popularity of Google Doodles has not been overlooked by Bing and Ask, both engines are buying low costing paid search traffic for Yuri Gagarin figuring the people who click thru may stay and use Bing News or Ask.com. The arbitrage brings back ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Apr 13, 2011 Search News & Headlines Around the Web - April 12, 2011 Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category. Search Industry News All eyes on new CEO as Google reports first-quarter results - Reuters Google, Facebook Group Asks Delay of Debit-Card Fee Rules - Bloomberg Pagination comes to ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Apr 13, 2011 Tablet Device Usage Overtaking Print, Radio & TV [Infographic] Admob (the mobile ad network owned by Google) recently surveyed 1431 tablet device owners to learn more about their usage habits. The survey found that gaming was the number 1 activity for tablet owners and searching is the 2nd most popular activity on tablet devices. This is noteworthy as this ... Jonathan Allen  |  Full story  |  Apr 13, 2011 Hitwise: Bing-Powered Search Rises to 30% Bing's search market share stood at 9.62 percent in March 2010, according to Experian Hitwise. Fast forward a year and Bing, which now powers Yahoo's organic search results, accounted for 30 percent of all U.S. searches. Backing up Hitwise's Bing data are comScore stats from February, which had Bing-powered search at ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Apr 13, 2011 Is Yuri Gagarin Google Doodle Nod To Space Race Or Possibly Cyberspace Race? The Google Doodle honoring the first manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin brings back memories of the Space Race between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of the last century, but also could be seen as a mirror to the new Search Race that national search ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Advertisement Cutting inbox clutter with personalized, targeted emails Ten tips to elevate your email marketing The report reviews: - How to create personalized, relevant emails - How to boost email ROI with automation - Why 78% of marketers use targeting to drive email success Download Now Recent Forum Posts Posting same Content in different Sites I wrote on my own and am quite original? I posted in another directory and I did after the publication ezine section where it is awaiting approval. Do you think the ezine will be treated as an object twice? After approval is given, what will happen if I copy it ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 12, 2011 Google is Retiring Position Preference on ADWORDS - Response to Google. Google has announced (http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/04/adwords-position-preference-feature-is.html) it will be retiring AdWords position preference, which automatically sets bids to achieve a certain position on the page, in early May. Original Response posted at. http://searchengineland.com/google-shuts-down-position-preference-for-adwords-bidding-71708/ Ok Mr Hal Varian & Google, If as you say position preference is a non-factor. Then offer us a ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 11, 2011 Some statistics on Google AdSense advertisers We collect statistics on Google AdSense advertisers, in support of our anti-web-spam efforts. The data comes from our AdRater plug-in. Unlike most metrics, ours are about advertisers, not users. Our plug-in is English-only, so there's a strong English-language bias to our data. We just ran our report for the last ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 10, 2011 F-Secure's "Cloud-Based Real-Time Protection Network " detects content farms F-Secure claims to have a web spam detection system. See this press release. (http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/F-Secure-Research-Finds-Growing-Number-of-Spam-Like-Websites-and-Content-Farms-1424473.htm) (" Finding high-quality information through Internet search engines is becoming increasingly difficult as sites featuring repetitive and inferior content multiply. Data from F-Secure's Browsing Protection reputation engine confirms speculation that millions of low-quality sites are ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 7, 2011 Webcasts Upcoming Events White Papers Are Your Ads Compliant? 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