Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Hottest Reads In Search & Social In 2012 We already shared the news that Jordan Kasteler took home the top prize and had a second entry in our overall...
We already shared the news that Jordan Kasteler took home the top prize and had a second entry in our overall list of most read columns for the year, both of which appeared here in the Search & Social column, alongside several other worthy reads. In 2012, “social signals” became one...
As we jump headfirst into 2013, we’re still spending some time looking back at what Search Engine Land readers enjoyed the most so that we can set the bar even higher in the coming year. In the Search & Conversion column, landing pages, persuasive content and searcher behavior take top...
There’s no question, the Search Engine Land Twitterverse likes to talk about the Panda updates. We took a look at the top tweeted stories of 2012 using Social Crawlytics, and without a doubt, Google and Panda-related stories trumped much of the Twitter activity in the past year. Mark...
Shared knowledge, experiences, vocabulary… they’re all part of building an effective internet marketing team. And Search Marketing Expo – SMX West is an exceptional opportunity for teams to learn and network. Choose from more than 50 sessions on the SMX West agenda covering topics including search...
Infographics have quickly become an ideal way for marketers to engage audiences on the internet with rich content. In fact, infographic marketing increased 1.5 times from 2011 to 2012. In this white paper, Brafton explains how to add targeted infographics into existing content marketing strategies...
As an industry news publication, the majority of our visitor traffic comes to our site to read daily news updates, in-depth coverage of search engine technologies and ever-evolving search engine algorithms. On top of the hardest working full- and part-time editorial staff in search, we have over...
Link building certainly was a hot topic in 2012 – maybe it’s because Penguins are so gosh darn cute that we just can’t help ourselves, right? Outside of the penalties dished out by cute black and white animals and search engine algorithms alike, our team of veteran link builders...
Today on Google’s home page, you will find a special logo for New Year’s Day. The logo represents what most people and venues are doing during the day after New Year’s Eve – cleaning up. Here is today’s logo showing how the Google logo is cleaning itself up for...
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A bug in iOS 6's "Do Not Disturb" feature that had some iGadget users sleeping in on New Year's Day won't be fixed until next week, Apple says. "Do Not Disturb" is designed to let you schedule when you want calls, messages and alerts silenced, with the option of allowing specific people or repeat calls ...
While Zipcar investors count their cash from today's half-billion-dollar acquisition by Avis, the rest of us can start counting the days until we can say good riddance to one of the suckiest aspects of city life: car ownership.
California and Illinois on Tuesday joined four others in becoming the union's only states barring employers from demanding that employees fork over their social-media passwords.
Just when many of us are getting cozy with our shiny new iPhone 5's, evidence that iOS 7 and the next-generation iPhone are in the testing phase have begun cropping up.
Ubuntu Linux is coming to smartphones. Canonical -- the British outfit that oversees Ubuntu -- has built a new version of the open source operating system for touch screens, and unlike other smartphone operating systems, it will work as a full desktop OS when connected to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
A Beijing building project by London-based architect Zaha Hadid is proving so popular that the structure is being pirated elsewhere in the country.
The Syrian civil war is even bloodier than you thought, according to a grim data-mining effort sponsored by the United Nations.
The emerging field of smart textiles, known as "Wearables" or e-textiles, has gained considerable momentum in the past few years as enthusiasts continue to build more and more complex projects with microcontrollers that keep growing in power while shrinking in size.
The past year was supposed to be a period of recovery, but for a lot of people it didn?t feel that way. Bookended by a deepening European debt crisis, and the United States' own fiscal cliff, global markets and economies shuddered and jerked through 2012 trying to find an equilibrium.
Special forces divers and underwater mine-disposal experts have to contend with all sorts of nasty effects the depths have on their bodies. Now the Pentagon's scientists want to build gear that can stop it.
Wired takes a look at all the exciting events and missions in space coming up this year. We can expect some spectacular results from NASA and its probes, but should be on the lookout for China, India, and the private spaceflight industry.
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Acer has released a Windows 8 laptop that doesn't slide, spin, swivel, or otherwise transform into a slate. It's a straight-up laptop -- albeit one with a touchscreen.
The Top 10 things that didn't end up mattering at all in 2012, from the Playstation Vita to
Every so often in human history, something new comes along that warrants a celebration, and that deserves its own holiday. That?s why I propose we celebrate ?Internet Freedom Day? later this month. It?s shocking that we don?t already have an unofficial Internet Freedom Day, or even an official holiday like we do for the Fourth of July, given that the internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known.
Finally, skiing minus all that cold wet snow.
It's one thing to take a Canon EOS-1D X or a Nikon D4 out on a snowboarinding shoot and pop off 10 frames a second. It's a completely different thing to take a film Hasselblad with you and wait for that one frame that sings. That's been Daniel Blom's approach, and over the long run it's paid off.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Ten years ago, we boldly declared that we'd be living with phones on our wrists, data-driven goggles on our eyes and gadgets that would safety-test our food for us. Turns out, we were remarkably prescient. We even got the iPhone right. A look at life in 2013, circa 2003.
A new breed of tech startup wants to bring the "underbanked" into the financial mainstream. But are they just peddling the same old payday loans with a Silicon Valley sheen?
The Extremo Files completes its round up of the year?s most impressive exploratory feats today with a look at the best mountaineering expeditions of 2012. Kraig Becker, the climber and outdoor enthusiast behind The Adventure Blog gives his picks.
Our recap of the year?s best exploratory exploits continues today with a look at the biggest developments in space exploration. 2012 saw the stunning debut of new spacecraft (Curiosity), the continued contributions of geriatric ones (Voyager), and the first full year since the end of the Space Shuttle program. Casey Dreier of The Planetary Society nominated 8 particularly meaningful developments from the last twelve months.
When I first started writing about poisons, I had a certain image of poisoners in mind -- creepy, yes, but cool, collected. After all, a poison murder is always premeditated. It's a colder kind of killing, one that I used to imagine was somehow infused with extra intelligence. But over the last year, I've come to realize that I might be overrating the poison killer. The poisoners of 2012 didn't seem to be carefully planning as much as they seemed to be grabbing up the first bottle lurking in the medicine chest or under the kitchen sink.
The votes for the Eruptions blog's Pliny Award for volcanic event of 2012 are in, and the winner is...
In 2012, we said good bye to a long list of tech titans who pushed our world in new directions -- though you may not have known their names. Here, we remember nine of those names. And if you have others we should add to the list, do let us know.
Drones may be at the center of the U.S. campaign to take out extremists around the globe. But the Pentagon says there's a "pervasive vulnerability" in the robotic aircraft -- and in just about every car, medical device and power plant on the planet.
The existence of oceans or lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan was predicted more than 20 years ago. But with a dense haze preventing a closer look it has not been possible to confirm their presence. Until the Cassini flyby of July 22, 2006, that is.
Gadget Lab picks out the most memorable apps of the year, may they be for success, failure or hype.
The Aero wheelset doesn't sit atop Reynolds' product line, but in our opinion, it may as well.