Here’s a roundup of today’s other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category.
Search Industry News
- Google Music Label Talks “Going Backwards” – All Things Digital
- Google’s Next Mission: Fighting Violent Extremism – Fast Company
- This week in search 4/15/11 – Official Google Blog
- Weekly Yahoo Search Trends – April 15, 2011 – Yodel Anecdotal
Search Advertising
- SEMPO Shows Facebook and Mobile as Key Growth Areas for PPC – ClickZ
- Ramping Up (or Ramping Down) Your PPC Spend – Searching Beyond the Paid
- More clarity in AdWords for advertisers affected by landing page policy – Inside AdWords
- Budget Option Improvements Coming Soon to Microsoft Advertising adCenter – adCenter Blog
- Account Bingification for Dummies Part 3 How to prepare your Adwords Account for the Bingification Process – adCenter Blog
- Coming Soon: Microsoft Advertising for Small Businesses and SMB Content on the adCenter Blog – adCenter Blog
Social Media Marketing
- Why (Some) Digital Marketers Don’t Get Social Media – ClickZ
- Conflict or Crisis? The Community Manager’s Dilemma Decoder Ring – aimClear Blog
- The Trouble Bubble – Biz Stone
- MySpace Sued Over Privacy Loophole – The Wall Street Journal
Link Building
- Link building techniques you may not have got round to yet – Search Engine People
- Finding Link Opportunities With Advanced Search Queries – Distilled
Local Search
- It’s Tax Time but Don’t Search for the IRS in Sturgis MI – Understanding Google Maps & Local Search
Mobile Search
- Is Android Darth Vader’s father? – Smart Gorillas
- Apple and Google Capture U.S. Video Game Market Share in 2010 – Flurry
- Android Tablets Undercutting IPad Prices – PCWorld
- TV Guide Digital uses Google’s AdMob to complement direct sales on mobile – Google Mobile Ads Blog
- Listen to more languages in Google Translate for Android – Google Mobile Blog
International Search
- Yandex Valued as High as $9 Billion – The Wall Street Journal