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These days anyone can become a social curator, sharing links, sites and information with the rest of the world. Pandia takes a look at the best curation tools. Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets ) according to Wikipedia (. Curation used to be the domain of archivists and librarians. But the brunt of curation has moved over from the shelves and archives onto the Web.

The latest headlines from the world of social media and social networking. Facebook Introduces Interest Lists, 'Your Own Personal Newspaper' SEW: Facebook has announced the launch of Interest Lists, a new feature designed to help users curate the content of Pages and public figures in which they're interested. The service promises to deliver the top posts from each interest group )list( in the user's newsfeed.

The latest search engine news from around the Web. Bing And Google Gain Market Share While Yahoo Drops Search Engine Watch/Comscore: Google: 66.4 percent )vs. 65.4 percent a year ago( Bing: 15.3 percent )vs. 13.6 percent a year ago( Yahoo: 13.8 percent )vs. 16.1 percent a year ago( With a New Design, Vevo Asks Music Video Fans to Stick Around All Things D: When you log in to the site using your Facebook credentials,

The latest search engine marketing and optimization news from around the Web. The four faces of link building State of Search: I always say linkbuilding is a profession of its own. It is hard work which not every SEO can do. And even with all the changes Google is making links will continue to play an important role in optimizing your website.

Sehrch is a new semantic search engine developed in the UK. You can search their index by entering a regular query, like on Bing or Google, or you can benefit from their structured data by formulating advanced searches and get precise results. What is Sehrch Traditional search engines index documents like pages, images or videos. But documents do not offer much information that is understandable by machines. Sehrch gathers semantic web objects instead of documents.

The latest news from the world of social media and online social networks. Facebook game maker Zynga launches Zynga.com, to expand beyond Facebook in a big way Gamesbeat: The move has big implications for the entire social-game industry, and it has been long-awaited by observers who felt Zynga was overly dependent on Facebook. Social Share Buttons: Just Pick Three Pushing Social: We have a social media equivalent of flair.

The latest news from the world of search engines. Google and Cuil Beyond Search: Founded in 2008 by two former Google employees and one from IBM, Cuil was forced to close its doors in 2010. Before the end, though, the company claimed to have indexed 120 billion pages; that's more than Google had managed at the time. Now Google has bought the patents.

The latest news from the world of search engine marketing and optimization. Learning SEO? Here are some tips State of Search: The SEO community's favorite online resources. Is SEO Really SEO Anymore? Index Search Down 50%, Apps and Social Search Exploding SE Journal: Search has moved to sites like Wikipedia and other popular content sites. Search in the app store is up. People have made a the statement that they prefer branded content form apps they trust,

That social media are essential in online media campaigns has become a truism. But how do you combine your Twitter strategy with your search engine marketing campaign, and how do you generate enough followers for Twitter to make a difference? Why should you use Twitter in your online marketing? There are at least three answers to this question: 1. Given that tweeps )those that use Twitter( often refer to sites, posts and articles in their tweets,

Essential search and search engine industry reading from the last week. DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day Search Engine Land: The growth chart continues to trend in the right direction for alternative search engine DuckDuckGo. WolframAlpha's Stephen Wolfram Talks About New Paid Knowledge Engine AllThingsD: A techie's techie, Wolfram introduced th e free site several years ago, in an effort to improve how we search and find critical information,

Interesting posts and articles from the world of search engine marketing and optimization. How Google Might Filter Blog Posts from Google Blog Search SEO by the SEA: Google has been granted a patent on Blog Search, and how the search engine might filter blog posts out of blog search based upon a number of factors. Writing Great Content Will NOT Get You Links SE People: Unless you have an existing, engaged community that will lap up your content,

Here is some essential social media and networking reading from the last week or so. 13 ways stories support social media and marketing Heidi Cohen: Stories are the heart and soul of social media because they connect us. Pinterest: The Numbers Game State of Search: Pinterest is probably the newest 'hot' item on the social web. Whether or not it will stick around time will tell,

Pandia Guest Writer Divya Rawat argues that print publicity campaigns and organic search engine optimization are complementary, and may reinforce each other. Though a cliché, any publicity is good publicity. History has been a witness to large and small, positive and negative publicity campaigns and stunts that affected fortunes and misfortunes of large and small corporations. The past century belonged to the stoic print publicity campaigns.

Social shopping is online shopping with networks of likeminded friends, commenting, sharing and recommendations. Here are Pandia's top 5 social shopping sites. The Web has changed shopping in a lot of ways. Easy access to an unprecedented amount of stores that will ship your purchase directly to me has made my Christmas shopping stress free. And it's so much easier now to find gifts for those friends with really special interests.

Here is this week's news from the world of search engines. Google Won't Pause New Privacy Policy - Should They Have To? SE Watch: In a lengthy response to EU regulators who had asked Google to hold off on implementing the new policy, Google makes clear the policy will take effect March 1, as planned. Ex-Googler Laments the New Google Beyond Search: Nelson of Nelson's Weblog is "No Longer Loving Google, Inc." Sour grapes? Perhaps not,

Here are some interesting articles from this week's search engine marketing coverage. Kill the SEO Bug! SEO Book: You can learn a lot more about what Google really thinks by reading what their new hires say. They are not yet skilled in the arts of public relations & make major gaffs like this one: "Instead of being able to SEO the entire Internet, businesses can now only affect the search results for a tiny percentage of users.

Here are some interesting post and articles from this week's social media buzz. Tumblr Now Lets You Highlight Your Favorite Posts For A Dollar techcrunch: With Highlights, you can choose a special icon that will appear next to the post along with an optional message that points out why the post is important. Google Blogger URL Redirects Censor International Users SE Journal: The change, which deploys a country-specific URL to the Blogger platform,

The integration of social search data is nothing new for Google, but with the release of Google's new Search Plus Your World )SPYW and also known as Search+( search engine experts and journalists have been raising alarms over privacy and search relevance. Are there new factors for businesses to take into account now that Search+ has become the default search setting for Google?

The Invasion of the Search Result Snatcher: Google+ When preparing this week's search and social news wrap-ups, we found an endless number of blog posts and articles about Google's social network Google+. Google Plus links appear in Google ads, as links on web sites, as invitation to coversations in Google search results, and " above all " as regular, "personalized" search results in Google search.