Hoping to cash in on the increased awareness and interest in financial and economic news, a group of search and social media marketers have launched Tip’d, a social community for the financial industry.If you’re familiar with digg, mixx, or sphinn, you’ll understand how Tip’d works: Users submit and vote (”Tip It” or “Topple”) on stories, [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.From Search Engine Land:Google Translate Adds New Meta Tags, WidgetGoogle has announced several new ways to use and control its Google Translate service, including the support of new HTML tags and attributes that will prevent [...] [...]

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When Google announced its new, clustered results on the Google Blog Search home page, they promised support for more languages “in the coming months.” Well, less than two weeks later, the clustered home page has launched on Google China Blog Search.This is the first non-English launch of the new blogsearch interface. Google China Blog Search [...]

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What do the Google searches; Orlando Hotels, Miami Discount Car Rental & Dallas Discount Car Rental have in common?The obvious answer is that they are all local searches on popular phrases in major metro areas. A less obvious answer is that like the infamous Denver Florist search last December, they all return seemingly authoritative OneBox [...]

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Yahoo has announced another search index update this morning:“We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days and expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.”Yahoo seems to be [...]

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