Taking part in search engine marketing conferences is the best way of getting access to all that tacit knowledge the books and blog posts do not tell you about. Upcoming SMX conferences You have still the chance to take part in the SMX New York conference )sponsor link( on October 4 to 6. The conference is chaired by Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman of Search Engine Land, probably some of the most knowledgeable experts in the field of search engines, SEO and SEM.

If you want to have your videos ranking at the top of YouTube and other video sharing sites, there are certain rules to follow and tricks to keep in mind. These simple guidelines tells you what to do.

This last week the search engine buzz has been dominated by Google launching Google Instant. Google Instant Essentially when you start to type in your search terms Google instantly displays results based on what you've typed into the search box, it produces suggestions and tries to finish off your search for you with greyed out text. )P Bradley( More thoughts on Google Instant The more that I play around with Google Instant, the worse it looks.

Big companies may get as much as 90 percent of the links on the first page of Google search results. Planet Ocean's Search Engine News has an interesting article in its latest issue )aff link, subscription required(. It points out that Google has made a significant change to the way they present their searches that will impact your business: "Instead of allowing each company to have only two possible listings they can now have up to ten!

If you want to grow your business, do freelancing work or build contacts, then social media is among the most important things to get involved with. Social marketing is getting more and more important as social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn continue to grow in size and importance. By Guest Writer Brandon Leibowitz Today, most active internet users have profiles on Facebook, Twitter and many other social sites and networks.

The Google Beat presents this week's most popular search queries. Search has become the most important way of finding news and information. All that search data gives you a wealth of information of what is on people's mind right now. Needless to say both marketers, policy makers and intelligence analysts have understood that this wealth of search information can be used to understand social, cultural and economic trends.

We are still experimenting with the new design of our search engine news wrap-up column, trying to turn it into an even more informative microblog. Here are this week's headlines. 3 Free Online Alternatives to Google Calendar If you start looking for good web based Google calendar alternatives that are free, you won't find a lot of them.

By knowing more about SEO parameters, websites can effectively be designed to be found by the three major search engines. Website performance is directly affected by how easy it is for users to find the site, so here's some information on the most common SEO parameters used by search engines today. By Guest Writer James Mowery Domain Search engines take into consideration the domain type and the age of the domain name when ranking websites. Also,

Google has not let its recent setbacks )the closing of Google Wave comes to mind( stop it from launching new services. Google wants to be more than your search central. It wants to be your communication hub, becoming your one-stop place for interaction with friends and colleagues. This is why it launched Google Buzz, a kind of Facebook/Twitter social web tool based on your Google email account,

And then they were two' This week the world lost another search engine giant. Yahoo! in the US and Canada has switched over to using the Bing database, and the rest of the world will soon follow. This means that the North American market is now totally dominated by Google and Bing. This does not mean that Google and Microsoft have achieved global domination, though. Yandex is, for instance, the big player in Russia and Baidu is dominating the Chinese market. Still,

Google has relaunched Google Replay as part of an improved real-time search feature. Google Replay was Google's attempt at presenting Twitter search results in a new fashion, giving you a time-line graph. By clicking on the time-line you could select the year, month or day, or click any point to view the tweets from one specific time period. The service soon disappeared, but has now reappeared at a new Google Realtime Search page .

Here at Pandia, we have gathered tools and tips for all kinds of searching. We even have a page dedicated to shopping search which was recently updated, which will help you find quality shopping sites online. Pandia Shopping Search has three parts. The first part is a list of shopping search engines and online malls. There are separate sections for comparison shopping, customer information, shopping trends and more.

Social media of all kinds are a source of huge amounts of fresh information about news and events, likes and dislikes. But the signal-to-noice ratio is not good: Much, maybe most, of the material posted is personal and it can be hard to find the pertinent information. You need help to sift and sort the items, so why not try one of these five great real time search engines. There are all kinds of search engines out there, searching the real time web.

If you are an avid user of social networks or if you want to monitor the hive mind for news about, say, a brand, a sports team or a celebrity, you know it can be hard to keep up across the different networks. Here's a solution. 48ers is a new search engine in public beta. It lets you search Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg, and Delicious all at once. All you do is enter the search term and hit Search. By default, results from all five networks are displayed.

Twitter is a storehouse of information, but how to sort out the gems from among all of the nonsense? Here are some little known tools that will help you find what you need. Twitter's own tools Searching Twitter became easier once the search box was added to the menu on the right of your tweets. Here you can perform searches and save them for later. But what if you search results are still not great?

Ask is relaunched with a question and answer database. We have always had a soft spot for the Ask search engine. Throughout the years they have managed to make some serious innovations as regards search technology and the presentation of search results. For instance: When Google and Bing presents search results in three column table, with results in the center, that is an idea they stole from Ask. But for some peculiar reason Ask seems to lose its direction.

Google has redesigned its image search engine. Covering the search engine scene from outside the US sometimes leads to surprises. Features that are introduced in the US are not found elsewhere. When researching the new Google Image search engine for this post, I suddenly realized that I was not looking at the new one, but the old version. This is how Google Image search results look in my Firefox browser on our PC: On the Mac I got the new version,