of Search is a new blog covering the search engine scene, focusing on articles relevant to the industry, search engine marketing and social media. It is a well designed site with interesting news articles and comments. The man behind State of Search is Bas van den Beld, who used to write for the European search blog Searchcowboys. van den Beld has been running the ...

has added a local search toll to its Search Option panel. The Nearby option only works for google.com searches in English. Here's what you do: Do a search in Google for let's say "Chinese restaurant". Normally you would have added your geographical location to the query: "Chinese restaurant Oslo". Instead click on the link to the Search Option panel. Then click on ...

(see SMX West Search Marketing Boot Camp anyone? Keyword Research Tools and Techniques ). That said, if you are a copywriter, like copywriting or just want to know how to tailor your writing for search success, this session provided tons of tips and tricks to improve your site through copywriting. I've tried to pare it all down to one page of highlights. Why should you care ...

for success with search marketing. In this last session, we will review some basic information around paid search and important tips shared at SMX West. There are a few things to keep in mind with regard to Paid Search: 1. While Pay-Per-Click (PPC) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are complementary, with PPC you can: Get going quickly (you don't have to wait for the search ...

What's new in mobile ads? How can advertisers exclude ads from displaying in legacy browsers? What improvements are planned to make international advertising easier? When will Microsoft allow more negative keywords? When will adCenter provide a longer...( read more

Oscars on Yahoo! Search . On Yahoo! Image Search, just search for " Oscars 2010 " and you'll see our Oscars image carousel, with the latest image search results of the nominees and photos of the event. While counting down to the big night, you can easily search for snapshots from the film Inglourious Basterds or photos of nominees like Meryl Streep . You'll see ...

expert on European search and a regular contributor to search marketing publications and conferences all over the world. He also runs State of Search - a new website providing insight and analysis on the latest issues and developments in global search marketing. At the International Search Summit on 13th May, Bas will be speaking on mobile in Europe - a topic which is becoming much ...

- gesture search .  Basically, what this does is to free you of  the task of typing your search terms.  With gesture search, all you have to do is to draw alphabet gestures on your Android phones homescreen. Gesture search will then suggest search terms based on what you've drawn. Gesture Search is a Google Labs application supporting all Android phones with version 2.0 ...

I own a successful search engine marketing company. Like most businesses, we are constantly trying to expand our client base - primarily through using the same search engine and internet marketing methods that we deliver to our clients. A quick search on terms such as "search engine optimization company" or "internet marketing company" on Google will demonstrate that we practice ...

on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature - marking search results with cutesy, yellow star icons. Actually, Stars are replacing  the SearchWiki, which according to the Official Google blog didn't get to be appreciated by users especially since it changes the order of Google's organic search results. So, as an ...