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Google adds movie trailers to search results. The Death Of SEO: The Rise of Social, PR, And Real Content. Bing partners with Encyclopaedia Britannica for expanded search results. Teenage Prodigy Wins Intel Award for 'Micro Searches' Seventeen-year-old prodigy Nicholas Schiefer won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award in the category of computer science for his idea of a search engine algorithm that does "micro searches.

" Basically this type of search grabs data from obscure social media sources like Facebook posts, tweets and other small bits of data to provide more robust searches. It's no secret that there many young entrepreneurs in the tech and social media space. Mark Zuckerberg created the first version of Facebook in his Harvard dorm room at age 19. The blog Dvice posted another video interview with Schiefer.

Inside Knowledge Graph: Google's deep-diving semantic search. For Bing and Google, the future of search is social. Why You Should Build Brand Loyalty Before Worrying About SEO, Especially In The Age Of Social Media. What You Need to Know about SEO. Google starts to integrate Google+ with search results. Google is taking another step in integrated personalized content into its market leading Web search offering, announcing three new features—Personal Results, Profiles in Search, and People and Pages—as part of a new search configuration called Search plus Your World.

Expanding on search personalization features the company originally introduced back in 2009, the idea behind Search plus Your World is to pull information from users Google+ profiles, circles, posts, photos, and more and present them alongside general Web search results when appropriate, as deemed by Google’s sophisticated matching algorithms. Search, plus Your World. A Guide to SEO Salaries By Market [INFOGRAPHIC] Sometimes finding your dream job is like an Easter egg hunt: It's not only how you look for jobs, but also where you look for them.

It seems like common sense, but in order to hedge your bets and ultimately nab a high-profile gig, it's all about location, location, location. This handy map, researched and developed by Onward Search ranks the cities where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) positions are most clustered and breaks down average salary ranges by rank, from entry-level to the big boss. It's unsurprising that the mantle for most available SEO gigs is New York City (with L.A. and San Francisco hot on its heels), but smaller markets like Atlanta are also willing to pay comparable salaries for top-notch talent. Are you hungry for a position in the SEO world? Check out the infographic below to find the prime locales for getting your feet wet (or a leg up) in the job of your dreams.

5 Google Paid Search Products You Need to Know. Tessa Wegert | November 10, 2011 | 1 Comment inShare33 Google is nothing if not progressive, and for this reason many of the innovations made to AdWords warrant a closer look.

For many digital marketers, the fall of 2011 might be remembered for bringing dynamic advertising to paid search. Google's newest offering, said to flip "the search engine on its head," does away with the traditional keyword advertising approach in lieu of matching landing pages with the right user search. Siri,Quora, And The Future Of Search. Editor’s note: Contributor Dan Kaplan leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future.

With the rise of Google+, the decrease in controversial posting activity by famous tech people and the allure of other shiny new things, the majority of tech press has turned the focus of their gazes away from Quora, my favorite startup of 2010. Well now that Apple has gone and integrated the most sophisticated piece of AI to ever to see the light of the consumer market into its iPhone 4S, I thought it was time to brush some dirt off of Quora’s shoulder and shine a light on what the future of the company could hold. 6 Best Practices for Modern SEO. Erin Everhart is the director of web and social media marketing at the digital marketing and web design company, 352 Media Group.

Connect with her on Twitter @erinever. Armed With Social Signals, Google Moves Back Towards Real-Time Search. Google announced a big change to its search ranking algorithm today that affected around 35% of searches.

It now makes an effort to determine when a query should return more up-to-date, "fresher" search results, before more established but older links. For example, if you search for "olympics," you're likely to be looking for information about the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics, rather than older or more general information. Siri is not search technology, but it can still hurt Google. Steve Jobs was clear last year that he didn’t consider Siri a search company, but instead, an artificial intelligence company.

But that doesn’t mean that Siri can’t serve as a threat to Google on iOS devices. With the rollout of Siri on iPhone 4S, the voice-recognition and virtual assistant service is even more robust than when it first appeared last year before Apple bought the company. And it’s showing that while Siri isn’t search technology, when paired with other services including Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia and Yelp, it has the potential to divert significant traffic away from Google and other search engines. Apple showed off how users can easily ask questions of Siri: anything from inquiring about the weather to getting definitions of words. Can watching Twitter trends help predict the future? There’s been a lot of talk recently about Twitter trending topics, and how they fail to reflect evolving events such as the Occupy Wall Street movement (although some argue that this is the fault mainly of our inflated expectations, rather than Twitter’s algorithms).

But despite those kinds of setbacks, there is an emerging industry aimed at using the tweetstreams of millions of people to help predict the future in some way: disease outbreaks, financial markets, elections and even revolutions. According to new research released today by Topsy Labs — which runs one of the only real-time search engines that has access to Twitter historical data — watching those streams can provide a window into breaking news events. But can it predict what will happen? Predicting markets and the spread of disease Could Twitter have predicted revolution in Egypt> Search Wars? Just Wait For The Social Wars. Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Seth Sternberg, the CEO and co-founder of Meebo.

Rewind to the year 2000. There was an explosion in internet innovation. The stock market was starting to get shaky. Why Browsing Is So Important to Content Discovery. Laura Larsell is the information ontologist at Trapit, a content discovery, personalization and curation platform currently in beta. Laura holds an M.A. in library sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. I love libraries and bookstores. I love the tactile, olfactory and social experiences these physical spaces allow. Clearly the Internet has given us ample and exciting new opportunities to engage with information resources, but the digital realm is still a ways off from satisfying many of our real-world needs.