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Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
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Search Engine Optimization 2008: Silence of the Lambs?Mike Grehan says that SEO is stuck in a time warp and not keeping up [...]

During last night’s 60 Minutes segment on Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg set up Lesley Stahl’s profile — and an old colleague reached out quickly to her delight. Thus one of the major benefits cited was finding all your lost buddies or colleagues.
Yet I don’t believe that people-search is the key strength of Facebook, until [...]

One of the interesting frontiers in the market today is the role that widgets and/or Facebook Applications (and soon OpenSocial applications) can play in your overall marketing strategy, and, of course, how this will impact your search marketing strategy.
To dive into this a bit deeper, I spoke recently with the Greg Spector, co-founder of Rebtel. [...]

In today’s au Natural column, “Optimizing Pages for New and Improved Search Engine Users,” Mark Jackson takes a look at changes in the way people search, discussing updated methods for reaching today’s search-engine-savvy users.

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Analyst blogger Robert Scoble predicts the demise of Google within four years. He boldly outlines a Future Search engine combination of Facebook-Techmeme-Mahalo technology that will spell doom for Google. The Naked Conversationalist has become the Naked Shorter.
In a video worthy of the best linkbait, Scoble predicts SEOs — those reviled search [...]

All the fears being sparked over Google’s dominance in search, along with its land-grab of DoubleClick’s data mined consumer information, are really just an illusion.Personalized search is the key to freedom when it comes to using Google. The company’s Peter Fleischer, global policy counsel, said the search giant’s policy’s put the user in charge of [...]

On Google’s weekly Zeitgeist list, at least five of the top ten gaining queries are usually people’s names.  The concept of an “ego search” has pretty much spread throughout our society.  And companies like Pipl and Spock have based their entire reputation and business on “people search.”  Yes, people search is a big deal.
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Online shopping is in a booming spree as more retailers take their business to online stores what they call as e-tailors (electronic retailers) instead of traditional brick and mortar stores. As per a study conducted by the National Retail Federation there are approximately 52 million people search…
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The way people behave when looking for information doesn’t differ much from the time when going out for dinner meant toting a big club and hoping you could get the drop on something with sharp teeth.
That forager comparison comes from someone who knows search pretty well. Mike Moran co-authored the book Search Engine Marketing, Inc. [...]