Weekly Search & Social News: 03/09/2010

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – so, how are we now? Last week was a pretty busy one out in the trenches, especially considering that SMX was on (generally slows the blogging world).

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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/09/2010

AlertRank: Google Alerts on Steroids

It is not really often that I am actually impressed by the tool (this is because I come across 2-3 new ones weekly so it is not really easy to surprise me already). But today’s one is truly awesome. AlertRank is a free web-based tool that helps to make sense of your Google alerts.

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AlertRank: Google Alerts on Steroids

Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK

The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google’s dominance in the UK search market. According to the report, the series of  Bing promotional TV ads is set to begin airing this week and will be promoting Bing as a “decision engine.” Microsoft has contracted the services of ad agency JWT. It aims to show how Bing simplifies the “information overload” that accompanies the results of  other search engines – obviously hitting on Google

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Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK

Science Discovers Online Video and Social Media

Everyone is finding some benefit to using online video, even the scientific community. They’re not really using it as advertising and marketing but more as a way to connect with the public in general and help them understand where all that research money goes.

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YouTube Enables Auto-Captioning For All Videos – As Expected

YouTube, the leading destination for video sharing online, has announced today that they are rolling out their Auto-Captioning service on all videos.  In a press conference at their San Bruno campus, their Director of Product Management, Hunter Walk, gave a walkthrough of the technology for members of the media. You may remember that YouTube began rolling

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SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro

Effective search engine optimization is equal parts art, science, and EXPERIENCE, so I sat down with industry veteran Joe Laratro to get the dish on what matters most in SEO.

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SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro

Google Chrome Rolls Out Translate Feature

Google has just released a new beta feature for Chrome browser – a translation prompt that automatically appears whenever you are visiting a site which is in a language different from your preferred  language setting. This is an instant feature that don’t require you to download any plug-ins or extensions. Previously,  you need to go to translate.google.com and then paste the url of the site that you want to translate into your own language

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Bing Adds Search History to Search Autosuggest

The Bing Search Blog has just announced that starting today, your query history will now be part of its search autosuggest feature. Meaning, Bing does not only analyze your usual search behavior based on previous searches but now will use your actual previous searches to suggest search terms for your current search

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Bing Adds Search History to Search Autosuggest

Track Tsunami Warnings Online with NOAA, Twitter & Search

Earlier in the morning a major 8.8 earthquake hit Concepcion, Chile (a major university city) which has set off a Tsunami warning in the Pacific which reaches from California to Hawaii. According to MSNBC news, at 11 am EST, Hawaiians will wake up to an early morning Tsunami warning and evacuations of seaside areas. The major news networks are all covering the disaster in Chile, and Pacific reaction to the tsunami warnings, via social media feeds from residents in the Chilean area, and tweets from Hawaiians and locals from other Pacific islands.

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Track Tsunami Warnings Online with NOAA, Twitter & Search

Google Starts Indexing Facebook Pages Updates

Although both Facebook and Google has not yet announced this officially, some folks are reporting that   status updates from Facebook pages will start showing up on Google search results today.

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Google Starts Indexing Facebook Pages Updates

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