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St. Patrick’s Day 2013 celebrated with animated Google Doodle

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This Sunday St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in different countries including the UK and Canada, Australia, and the United States. Like in previous years Google will celebrate this day with a special doodle and this year for the first time Google will celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a simple animated doodle. In the logo you can see five kids, one boy and four girls who are dancing and jumping.

You cannot do anything with the doodle, it’s just the animation on the homepage of the search engine. Google is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day since 2000 which an exception in 2003 when no doodle was placed. In 2009 the winner of the Doodle 4 Google was used and in 2011 there were two doodles, the first logo celebrating the day was later replaced and reused in 2012. Also YouTube celebrated St. Patrick’s Day one time, this was in 2009 and Orkut celebrated the day in 2010. All the doodles used in the previous years by Google can be seen here.

A video of the doodle you can expect tomorrow below.

Google Launch Help for Hacked Sites

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Having your site hacked is one of the most difficult things for a website owner to face. If your site has been compromised you will know that it can take time and effort that you may not have to ‘clean up’.

Help is on it’s way however as Google yesterday launched their Help Center for Hacked Sites. The help centre is a dedicated informational resource and series of step by step instructional videos to help you deal with site insecurities, identify any vulnerability,  fix the problem and go through the review process. The help centre also offers advice on how not to get hacked in the first place. (more…)

State of Search News Update: What happened in week 10

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Last week our site was filled with all things around tools. And we have a few more surprises up our sleeves on that front. But in the meantime the world kept on spinning. And although State of Search is not a news-reporting site but a site that interprets the news and looks at why something is happening and what that means to you, we still like to give you an overview of the most important things that happened last week.

In this post we will bring the top stories of what happened last week with links to articles around the web. So you will know what you’ve missed.   (more…)

Douglas Adams Google Doodle, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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A new animated doodle globally on the homepage from Google to celebrate the birthday of Douglas Adams, a well-known British writer, humorist and dramatist. Douglas is best known the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which started on BBC radio in 1978. The first episode aired in 1978 on BBC Radio 4. The series originally consisted of six episodes and quickly managed to gather a huge fan base which lead that the series was repeated on the radio twice in 1978. In 1980, new episodes were made ​​and there was a Christmas special bringing the number of episodes at twelve.

Between 1979 and 1984, the story was released in a quite extended and edited version as a book series. In total there are five published books. The books are often described as a trilogy in five parts. This is because later, after the third book had been published, two additional books were published. Because of the popularity of the series on the radio a television series was created consisting of six episodes. The series was directed by Alan J. W. Bell and the first episode was aired in January 1981. There would come a second season but because of an argument  between Douglas Adams and the BBC this second season was never produced. (more…)

Germany & Search: February 2013 Edition

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Just back from a beautiful and sunny vacation in Thailand to the – still – damn cold German winter. Tried to dig through as much content as I could in just two days and therefore I’m happy to present “Germany & Search” edition 02-2013 here on StateOfSearch. This is what we got in February: (more…)

Tools News Update: Updates, changes and additions to different SEO Tools

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With the Tools Week now under way we thought it would be a nice idea to do a quick round up on some of the news around several tools in SEO in the last few months. Find below an overview of news from amongst others Majestic SEO, Linkdex, Linkresearchtools, Raventools, Searchmetrics, Ahrefs and Cognitive SEO.

Let’s get started! (more…)

State of Search News Update: What happened in week 9

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Although State of Search is not a news-reporting site but a site that interprets the news and looks at why something is happening and what that means to you, we still like to give you an overview of the most important things that happened last week.

In this post we will bring the top stories of what happened last week with links to articles around the web. So you will know what you’ve missed. �

Here’s what happened last week

Facebook to show off a �new look for News Feed� this week

Facebook sent out an invite to press asking them to �come see a new look for News Feed�. So this Thursday March 7th we can expect some new things!

Related stories online:� Marketing Land,�Wired,�AllThingsD,�Inside Facebook,�Reuters�

Facebook Acquires Atlas from Microsoft

Facebook announces to have agreed to acquire the Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft. �Atlas is a leader in campaign management and measurement for marketers and agencies.

Related stories online:�Facebook, AllThingsD,�Marketing Land,�Inside Facebook,�AllFacebook,�The Next Web,Business Insider,�Mashable!�

Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement

UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve has threatened legal action against anyone posting pictures of convicted killer Jon Venables online.

Related stories online: Techdirt,�Search Engine Land

Facebook asks users to help bolster Graph Search

Facebook published examples of how to use Graph Search. With that they try to get users to make use of the service, but more importantly, to add data to it.

Related stories online:�Facebook Newsroom,�AllFacebook,�Inside Facebook,�Search Engine Land,�The Next Web, �WebProNews.

Facebook testing new version of Offers to increase conversions

We wrote about it last week as well, Google added a new feature to the Google+ platform: application sign-in. Very similar to Facebook sign in and giving Google access to even more data.

Related stories online:�Marketing Land,�Google Plus Daily,�Business Insider,�AllThingsD,�The Verge,�Engadget

German Copyright Law Targets Google Links

German lawmakers approved legislation that grants publishers the right to charge search engines and other online aggregators for reproducing their stories.

Related stories online: New York Times,�TechCrunch,�Telegraph,�Reuters

Gmail Search Field Trial Adds Calendar Results To Google Search

Google keeps increasing the amount of information it will show from your Gmail account within your Google searches, if you’re part of the Gmail Search Field Trial. Now your calendar results will show up.

Related stories online: Searchengineland,�The Next Web,�CNET,�9to5Google

Google fights with Spain over data privacy

Google and Spanish officials can’t agree on when data should be deleted from Google’s pages.

Related stories online:�Google Europe Blog,�Reuters,�Softpedia News�

Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A �Technology Company�

Instead of being a �Digital Media� company, Yahoo! has now changed their ‘status’ to being a “Global Technology Company”, which might indicate the direction it is heading in.

Related stories online:�ZDNet,�Reuters

Bing ‘upgrades’ Bing Maps with High Resolution Satellite Imagery

Bing announced an upgrade to Bing Maps showing off some very nice high resolution imagery.

Related stories online:�Bing Blog, Register, Slashgear

Miriam Makeba Google logo, South African singer best known for Pata Pata

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Maybe you know the song Pata Pata and if not you probably will recognize the song when you hear it, it was a worldwide hit in 1967 after it was wrote ten years earlier. The singer of the song was the South African Miriam Makeba who Google honours globally on Monday with a static logo. Miriam Makeba, also called Mama Africa  and a civil rights activist was born on March 4, 1932 in Johannesburg and would have turned 81 years on Monday. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father was a Xhosa. The Xhosa are a people living in south-east South Africa, Nelson Mandela is the most famous Xhosa.

When Miriam Makeba was just eighteen days old her mother was arrested for selling Umqombothi, an African homemade beer. She received a sentence of six months and so Miriam  lived her first six months in jail. Her father died when she was only six years old. She started early with singing, Makeba joined the choir of the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria where she studied for eight years. At the age of seventeen she gave birth to her first child, Bongi Makeba, a baby girl. Unfortunately shortly afterwards she was diagnosed with breast cancer and the father of the child, James Kubay left her and their daughter soon after.
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Majestic SEO now Supports 9 Languages

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Majestic SEO is now available in 9 Languages:

  •  French, 
  • German, 
  •  Italian, 
  • Chinese, 
  • Russian, 
  • Polish, 
  • Brazilian Portuguese, 
  • Spanish…
  • and English

” Developing and maintaining a site if this scale in multiple languages has been an interesting challenge. The first challenge was to rebuild our site architecture to be able to handle language files. We develop too fast to be able to translate every upgrade into 9 languages, so you need to be able to launch nimbly but handle language files independently. Just getting that right was hard.

Next comes a process. Every time we add or change the site, translation files (we call the delta files) build up with anomalies of English fields/words that have changed since we last upgraded the language files. We can then put delta files into the translation process and make this independent if the function development cycle.

It’s quite a process.” – Dixon Jones – Majestic SEO

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Automica and Manual Link Building Merge, Cutts Sends Flowers

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Last week at SES London 2013 Paul Madden officially announced an interesting merger in the industry. His company, “data-based SEO service provider” Automica, has merged with link building and outsourcing provider Manual Link Building of Gareth Hoyle. Paul Madden explained that his company takes an investment in Manual Link Building.

There will not be a new company, the brand Manual Link Building will continue to be used. Both Madden and Hoyle are well known faces in the UK search industry and a merger makes sense. We talked to Madden and Hoyle to hear more about their future plans. (more…)

Google+ sign in: Google is Getting Even More Data

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It’s all about big data these days. And there are a few companies who understand the importance of that, one of them being Google. Ever since Larry Page took back his reign at Google and Google+ saw its life light Google has done whatever it takes to get big data.

In another attempt to boost Google+ and to get more big data Google yesterday launched “Google+ sign in”. A feature much like Facebook or Twitter sign in. According to Google for ‘an upgraded experience’ and prohibiting ‘social spam’ but without a doubt also to get an even bigger grip on user data. (more…)

State of Search News Update: What happened in week 8

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Last week off course was filled with SES London updates. But while that was going a lot was happening in the world of search and social elsewhere as well. As you know State of Search is not a news-reporting site but a site that interprets the news and looks at why something is happening and what that means to you.

That doesn’t mean however we are not interested in the news. In this post we will bring the top stories of what happened last week with links to articles around the web. So you will know what you’ve missed.   (more…)

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