Collected & Collated By Kevin Ting
Search Lately: Issue 1 Monthly Round Up June has been a quite a monumental month in the world of search with Google dominating the vast majority of headlines, launching no less than an astonishing 12 new products or feature updates. This month Google launched high profile products including „Me on The Web‟ (Social Reputation Management Tool), 'Google +1', 'Google Plus' (Social Networking Platform), Instant Pages and Search by Image. In other news Yahoo have made updates to their trends platform 'Yahoo Clues', Bing attempt to close the gap on Google, while Google also became the first site to reach 1 billion unique visitors a month. Yahoo Clues 30 JUNE 2011 - Big upgrades to the Yahoo Clues including an upgraded interface, regional search data, and trends for separate demographics... searchenginewatch.com/article/2082868/New-Yahoo-Clues-Offers-Regional-and-Demographic-Data
Google - Fresh New Look 29 JUNE 2011 – Google has had one of the biggest overhauls of its user interface that has been seen in years, with a smarter fresher look and feel... www.seroundtable.com/google-black-gray-interface-13630.html
Bing Closing Gap On Google? 29 JUNE 2011 – 5 ways Bing are closing the gap on industry search leaders Google... econsultancy.com/uk/blog/7715-five-ways-in-which-bing-is-closing-the-gap-on-google
Google + Project 28 JUNE 2011 – Brand new social networking platform announced by Google, set to challenge Facebook and shake up the social scene with sign up by invitation only. googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html
Google - What Do You Love 28 JUNE 2011 – Search for what you love and Google will show you in as many ways as it can think of… www.wdyl.com
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Search Lately: Issue 1 Google +1 - Goes Local 24 JUNE 2011 – In a further attempt to personalise our search, Google have started to play around with local versions of their +1 statistics in search results… www.stateofsearch.com/google-now-showing-1-counts-and-ads-the-local-aspect-ready-for-spam/
Google Adwords - Interests Targeting 24 JUNE 2011 – Added functionalities allowing advertisers to target users on Google Display Network based on established interests… searchenginewatch.com/article/2081638/Google-AdWords-Interests-Graduatesembedded
New Domain System 23 JUNE 2011 – ICANN introduce new Internet domain name system with generic top-level domains now available… www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/230988/five_reasons_not_to_go_crazy_with_domain_names.html
Google Hits 1 Billion Visitors 23 JUNE 2011 – Google has become the first site to reach 1 billion unique visitors and continues to grow by the day… searchenginewatch.com/article/2081332/Google-Hits-the-Billion-Monthly-Unique-Visitors-Mark
Google - Displays Advertiser Ad Counts 20 JUNE 2011 – Google has been experimenting with Adwords formats by including the addition of an extra line detailing the number of clicks for the specified advertiser of ad copy… searchenginewatch.com/article/2080049/Google-AdWords-Experiments-with-a-Click-Count-Feature
Google – Search with Images 15 JUNE 2011 - Start searching for what you want with an image instead of text and find what you want online… www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html
Google – Instant Pages 15 JUNE 2011 - Save valuable time with faster loading pages as Google guesses which search result you will click on… searchenginewatch.com/article/2078958/Google-Instant-Pages-Instant-Page-Loading-Unless-GoogleGuesses-Wrong
Google - Replaces URLs
13 JUNE 2011 – Google tests a new layout for search results by removing the urls and adding names of websites in their place…
searchenginewatch.com/article/2078612/Google-Test-Adds-Website-Names-Subtracts-URLs-in-SearchResults
Google Voice - Comes to Desktops 14 JUNE 2011 - After achieving phenomenal success on mobile, voice search has now arrived on your desktop… news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20071174-93/google-voice-search-offers-natural-user-input/
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Search Lately: Issue 1 Google Adwords - Embedded Sitelinks 9 JUNE 2011 – Extra links to your site with embedded sitelinks if deemed highly relevant to user query… searchenginewatch.com/article/2077956/Google-Ad-SiteLinks-Adds-Embedded-Format
Other Related News In other online related topics Google continue expand and develop. Google Music (BETA) - Google Correlate - Me on the Web
Rives Controls The Internet Ingenious 3 minute poem about how the Internet could have been formed… www.ted.com/talks/rives_controls_the_internet.html
When Social Becomes Real A Short video that poses the question of “What if Social Networking Came to Real Life?” www.technobuffalo.com/internet/social-networking/what-if-social-networking-came-to-real-life-video/
How Old Is The Internet? A brief if history of the internet in all its glory and years… mashable.com/2011/06/19/how-many-websites/#17191How-Old-Is-the-Web
It‟s a Sharing Social World Short video that illustrates the viral spread of social networking in our lives today… www.ted.com/talks/gel_gotta_share.html
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Sources http://googleblog.blogspot.com http://econsultancy.com http://www.wdyl.com http://www.seroundtable.com http://www.stateofsearch.com http://www.pcworld.com http://www.google.com http://news.cnet.com http://correlate.googlelabs.com http:// searchenginewatch.com http://www.technobuffalo.com http://mashable.com http://www.ted.com
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Collected & Collated By Kevin Ting