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  1. A recent riot in San Francisco sparked what, in China, would be known as a 'human flesh search' for one of the rioters. However, the collaborative detective work led to the wrong guy due to the fact he made a poorly calculated joke on Facebook. Source: Search Engine Watch

  2. Google's advanced voice search capability is now available on iOS in an update to its Google Search app. Already available on smartphones running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google's updated voice search application looks set to take on Apple's Siri. Source: Search Engine Watch

  3. Google has made it clear that rel=author tag will be an important tag now and in the future for valuation of content and to understand real people and followers. SEO practitioners should make all efforts to add this tag to relevant content pages. Source: Search Engine Watch

  4. Google has announced another upgrade to its Google Drive storage and sharing tool that will allow users to post information directly into their Google+ accounts to share information such as presentations, PDFs, videos and other data with colleagues. Source: Search Engine Watch

  5. Google's Android platform has reached record worldwide sales numbers, according to analysts. Research firm IDC said that the Google mobile operating system is the first to surpass 100 million quarterly shipments in a single quarter. Source: Search Engine Watch

  6. The holiday season is nearing and retailers are gearing up to attract an influx of shoppers. Here are four ways e-commerce companies can reach a wide scope of holiday consumers in different cultures and increase revenues and build brand loyalty. Source: Search Engine Watch

  7. President Obama is trouncing Romney with 53 percent of total shares � 69 percent of the ads shared on blogs, 86 percent of the ads shared on Twitter, and 51 percent of the ads shared on Facebook, according to Unruly's 2012 Election Tracker. Source: Search Engine Watch

  8. Twitter has posted a set of guidelines designed to help users understand how it handles copyright takedown requests. The company said that the page will provide clear insight into the company's handling of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Source: Search Engine Watch

  9. Voters can check out election results, polling station locations, and even social sentiment analysis offered by the major U.S. search engines today. Plus, YouTube has urged voters to document their vote and submit to the video-sharing site. Source: Search Engine Watch

  10. SEO News · Started by Newsie,

    As the knowledge-representation graph continues to grow, linking more entities and establishing their relationships to each other, more connections will be available. And since the algorithms can learn, those connections will be more easily mapped. Source: Search Engine Watch

  11. What happened on SEW weekly last week? Special guests from AOL and Covario shared tips and tricks for more effective in-house SEO; show hosts discussed the leak of 1.1 million Facebook user IDs and Google�s updated AdWords policies. Source: Search Engine Watch

  12. To boost promotions with a paid search campaigns, it�s important to have ad copy that supports the promotion and PR; purchase promotion and PR keywords; increase your branded paid search budget; and perform an ROI analysis on your strategy. Source: Search Engine Watch

  13. If a post is well written and makes a good point, but falls short somehow � if the idea isn�t closed up tightly and all objections addressed � it can leave readers dissatisfied. Here�s why you need to create content that will delight your readers. Source: Search Engine Watch

  14. Seeking more dollars this holiday season? Meet the Digital Endcap � a display ad for a manufacturer that appears on a retailer�s website, allowing the retailer to further monetize the traffic it�s already generating, at virtually zero marginal cost. Source: Search Engine Watch

  15. Google has been successfully sued for defamation in Australia by a man who found his image associated with gangsters in search results. The man won the defamation lawsuit after showing Google's search results linked him to an underworld figure. Source: Search Engine Watch

  16. Merry Morud from aimClear and TPG�s Justin Freid share a sneak peek into their upcoming SES Chicago session, Leveraging Twitter & Facebook Ads. Listen in as they debunk social advertising myths and talk search vs social ads. Source: Search Engine Watch

  17. SEO News · Started by Newsie,

    Researching a new market, customer or channel can be wildly inefficient. The web has abundant information, but finding just the right information you need is time consuming if you don�t know some of the tricks. Read on to discover 10 of the best! Source: Search Engine Watch

  18. Converged media represents the overlap of any combination of paid, owned, and earned media types. Savvy businesses recognize the opportunity in this overlap. Before a business or brand can capitalize, they must conquer some management challenges. Source: Search Engine Watch

  19. In August, Google promised to begin lowering the search rankings of "piracy" websites, but now there are complaints that Google is being too slow about it. As a result, Google now faces the prospect of a government review in the UK. Source: Search Engine Watch

  20. Other than cleaning up the quality of the Google index what else could the objective of the Penguin updates be? Much like the icebergs that so often surround penguins, Google's Penguin updates have much, much more going on below the surface. Source: Search Engine Watch