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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 22, 2010

On January 22, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

itunes-subscribe-video.png In this weeks recap, we go a bit all over the place to get through the most important topics we covered in the past 7 days. We talked about a study that showed the minor impact Google personalized search has on SEO. There may have been a Yahoo Search update this week. Microsoft says they will purge their search data within 6 months. Bing’s auto-search suggestions get more current. Bing also shows search results for related queries. Google increased the Sitemaps limit. Google AdWords now has four professional exams. Yahoo released the network distribution feature, finally. SEOmoz built Open Site Explorer, a neat new useful tool. Google Maps lets you add real time content to your business listing. Don’t use the same phone number as your competitor, if you don’t want issues on your Google local listing. Search for Jesus on Google Images and you’ll catch him smoking and drinking. Google continues to cash in, they announced awesome 4th quarter earnings. SEO is being trademarked again, but the story is different. Martin Luther King day was this week, we have the logos for you. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Make sure to subscribe to our video feed or subscribe directly on iTunes to be notified of these updates and download the video in the background. Here is the YouTube version of the feed:

For the original iTunes version, click here or to see the YouTube version in higher quality, click play & hit “HD.”

Search Topics of Discussion:

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!


itunes-subscribe-video.png In this weeks recap, we go a bit all over the place to get through the most important topics we covered in the past 7 days. We talked about a study that showed the minor impact Google personalized search has on SEO. There may have been a Yahoo Search update this week. Microsoft says they will purge their search data within 6 months. Bing’s auto-search suggestions get more current. Bing also shows search results for related queries. Google increased the Sitemaps limit. Google AdWords now has four professional exams. Yahoo released the network distribution feature, finally. SEOmoz built Open Site Explorer, a neat new useful tool. Google Maps lets you add real time content to your business listing. Don’t use the same phone number as your competitor, if you don’t want issues on your Google local listing. Search for Jesus on Google Images and you’ll catch him smoking and drinking. Google continues to cash in, they announced awesome 4th quarter earnings. SEO is being trademarked again, but the story is different. Martin Luther King day was this week, we have the logos for you. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Make sure to subscribe to our video feed or subscribe directly on iTunes to be notified of these updates and download the video in the background. Here is the YouTube version of the feed:


For the original iTunes version, click here or to see the YouTube version in higher quality, click play & hit “HD.”

Search Topics of Discussion:

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!



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Add Real Time Content to Your Google Maps Listing

On January 18, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

The Google Lat Long Blog announced businesses can now add real time information to their business listings. How does it work? It is honestly a bit tricky.

You would think you would “Edit” your business listing in Google Local Business Center. But no, instead you click on the “View report” link under the statistics section of that page. Then you are presented with a box to add a quick real-time message to your business listing (Places Page) on Google Maps.

On the top right of the statistics page is this box where owners can add information:

Google Local Business Real Time Info

Here is me adding some info that may expire soon:

Google Local Business Real Time Info

And here is that information showing up on my business listing in minutes:

Google Local Business Real Time Info

Clearly, if you have a very active Google Maps listing, this can come in handy.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.


The Google Lat Long Blog announced businesses can now add real time information to their business listings. How does it work? It is honestly a bit tricky.

You would think you would “Edit” your business listing in Google Local Business Center. But no, instead you click on the “View report” link under the statistics section of that page. Then you are presented with a box to add a quick real-time message to your business listing (Places Page) on Google Maps.

On the top right of the statistics page is this box where owners can add information:

Google Local Business Real Time Info

Here is me adding some info that may expire soon:

Google Local Business Real Time Info

And here is that information showing up on my business listing in minutes:

Google Local Business Real Time Info

Clearly, if you have a very active Google Maps listing, this can come in handy.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.



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MySpace Socializes Real-Time Content with New Suite of APIs

On December 11, 2009, In SEO, Social Media Marketing, by Social Guy

MySpace launches a suite of new API that allow developers to leverage public MySpace data and create innovative applications to socialize content on and off MySpace. Opening up access to publicly available real-time data (such as status updates, music, photos, videos) MySpace reinforces its commitment to powering the real-time social Web and the development of [...]

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MySpace launches a suite of new API that allow developers to leverage public MySpace data and create innovative applications to socialize content on and off MySpace. Opening up access to publicly available real-time data (such as status updates, music, photos, videos) MySpace reinforces its commitment to powering the real-time social Web and the development of open standards.

Mike Jones, Chief Operating Officer at MySpace, is speaking at LeWeb today to share MySpace’s real-time Web strategy and efforts to empower developers with the new APIs. Based on open standards, the new free-to-use APIs include:

Real-Time Stream API: Allows the full MySpace activity stream to be pushed to third party sites in real-time. The API includes granular filters to control the amount of data seen. Google, GroovyCorp, and OneRiot are among the first to implement this new API.

Status and Mood Commenting API: Enables third party sites to ingest MySpace status and mood updates and allows people to comment from those sites. Comments appear back in the user’s MySpace activity stream, and users can interact with that stream without leaving the third party site.

Open Search API: Allows third party sites to include public MySpace profile information in search results. Users can search for people by name, profile type (e.g., musician, celebrity, comedian) or email address and filter search results by gender, age and location.

Photo Upload API: Makes it easy for users to upload photos to MySpace from third party sites or MySpace Apps. The API enables creation of public or private photo albums.

Updated Version of Post To/Share on MySpace: Facilitates the sharing of content from third party sites with a MySpace user’s friends. When a user posts content from another site, it goes directly to his/her MySpace activity stream, creating a link back to the third party site.

To encourage innovation from developers, MySpace also announced the “MySpace Developer Challenge.” The competition, which kicks off January 4, will award developers who create the most interesting use of the new APIs with cash prizes and promotion on MySpace. Our judging panel will include Mike Jones – MySpace Chief Operating Officer, Ron Conway – Founder and Managing Partner of Angel Investors LP, David Glazer – Engineering Director at Google and Robert Scoble – Renowned blogger and tech evangelist. Winners will be announced at the Game Developers Conference on March 10, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Get the Freshest Information on Developing News

On November 19, 2009, In SEO, by Administrator

Starting today, you can see relevant photos, videos, and tweets about a breaking news story on the Yahoo! News Shortcut. Many of you are already familiar with the existing Yahoo! News Shortcut, which displays headlines on our Web search results page when you look for news stories. The enhanced shortcut with these new tabs will [...]

Starting today, you can see relevant photos, videos, and tweets about a breaking news story on the Yahoo! News Shortcut. Many of you are already familiar with the existing Yahoo! News Shortcut, which displays headlines on our Web search results page when you look for news stories. The enhanced shortcut with these new tabs will now display for many breaking or major news searches.

For example, if you searched Space Shuttle Atlantis just after it was launched this week, you would have seen news, photo, video, and Twitter tabs in the news shortcut:

Yahoo! Search News Shortcut - news tab

If you are interested in visual information about your query, check out the photos and videos tabs, which pull information from Yahoo! News. You can scroll to see more photos and videos from within the new shortcut.

Here is an example of the photos tab:

Yahoo! Search News Shortcut - photo tab

And the videos tab:

Yahoo! Search News Shortcut - videos tab

If you want more immediate, user-generated content, check out the Twitter tab. There, you will find recent tweets and related videos that have been shared on Twitter.

Yahoo! Search News Shortcut - Twitter tab

This is our first integration of fresh, social content like Twitter into Web search, and we are planning to continue along these lines. In the future, we will enhance your search experience with more real-time content so you can find all the information you need about an unfolding news event in one place.
Try it out and let us know what you think in the comments section.

Ivan Davtchev and Nitzan Achsaf

Yahoo! Search

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