http://www.outrider.com.au/blog Search news and related stories from Outrider Australia Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:36:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google recently took their social offering one step further when they released Google Buzz, which integrates right into Gmail. It is similar to Twitter, but has more features and is more robust. Google have had limited success with social; Orkut, their own social networking site, only gained traction in Brazil ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/google-makes-a-buzz/ When Google announced its new “Real Time” Search results back in early December, there was a lot of talk around what this would mean to Google SERPs and how it will  impact organic search. In the usual Google fashion, the new enhancement created more speculation then answers. What most people knew ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/what%e2%80%99s-new-with-google-real-time-search-results/ While every year for the past five has been heralded ‘the year of mobile’, will 2010 take the crown?  I don’t think it’s quite time yet, but it is time we all sat up & took notice of how consumers are using search on mobile phones. There are two ways to ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/2010-the-year-of-mobile-search/ There is a lot of talk in the traps about website page speed. Google (via Matt Cutts and Webmaster Tools) has openly stated that page speed will be a factor into the ranking algorithm for 2010 and will likely roll out with Caffeine - faster the better and you'll be ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/faster-faster-page-speed-and-how-your-site-ranks-in-google/ Closing the door behind me, I enter, exhausted from the day’s work. I take a breath, blindly gazing into the luminescent space that was once my TV and start my search. With raised hands and a smile I finally understand why the new search interface has had so much hype. ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/the-future-of-search/ Many of you will have already noticed the latest enhancement to Google’s search engine results pages (SERPS) where a breadcrumb, or “clickable” hierarchy of the website, is displayed, replacing the traditional listing URL. Search listings will be replaced with the new Google breadcrumb trails when Google feels a website’s current ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/yummy-google-breadcrumb-trails-will-it-mean-more-clicks/ Over the past couple of weeks, while I’ve been researching Search related stats and Social Media information; I have come across some ultra-cool Infographics that explain the most complicated scenarios through the use of visual mediums – usually these are images and videos. Hence, the cliche of “a picture speaks a ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/mash-up-of-the-best-infographics-for-2009/ It was announced by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) this week that International Domain Names (IDNs) are to be made available by early to mid 2010. IDNs will allow for registration of domain names that do not use the latin alphabet, instead using local language characters, for ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/idns-and-the-potential-impact-on-search/ Last Thursday, the 22nd of October 2009, Outrider participated as one of the speakers at Search Engine Bootcamp in Sydney, which was held at Cliftons Sydney. For those who don’t know much about Search Engine Bootcamp; it’s a series of Search related conferences held across Australia and internationally to educate businesses, ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/sum-up-of-seo-101-bootcamp-sydney/ On the 6th of October, GroupM Search, comScore and M80 revealed their study on how Social Media plays an intertwined role with search marketing, predominately in the Paid Search arena. The purpose of this study was to explore the connection between social media and its influences on search behaviour. Evidently ... http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/groupm-search-comscore%e2%80%99s-study-on-interplay-of-social-media-and-search/