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Bing Adds More Sizes Option to Image Search

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If you’re fond of searching for great images and photos available on the web, most often you’d probably encounter search results which don’t give you the option for more sizes available for those images. The folks at Microsoft Bing knew this and so they are rolling out a new feature of  Bing image search which actually lets you find other available sizes of images. Bing’s “ Find more sizes ” option not only lets you find different sizes of a particular image yield by your search but other available formats of that image as well. So, the next time you use Bing’s image search, you can click on that “Find more sizes” option to get a page listing where all of the “same” images appear online in various format, resolution or minor editing. You will also see how these images have been used, that is whether the image was used for mockups, editing, cropping, framing and more. This way, you’d know exactly which image is appropriate for your needs and you don’t need to click on the image search results one by one. The new feature also list all the pages that reference that particular image online and you can simply click on any of the page that you think would help you with your research. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Bing Adds More Sizes Option to Image

Facebook Rolls Out Search Suggestion Feature

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Facebook has just rolled out a new feature for its site-wide search box – search suggestion. This is is similar to the search suggestion features offered by major search engines wherein various search terms are suggested via a drop-down menu, as you type the first few letters of your search query. According to the Facebook blog , this new feature is aimed at helping Facebook users to quickly find and connect with people, pages, groups, events at applications on Facebook based on user’s preferences. Facebook’s search suggestion features takes into account not only the people, events, groups and Pages that you are connected with but your friends connections as well. This opens up opportunities for discovering new connections while at the same helping you find the information you need on Facebook. In addition to specific search suggestion, the drop-down menu also shows a “see more results” which if you click will bring you to a full search results page where you can refine your search further or sort the results by categories. Unfortunately I don’t see this link yet on the search suggestion drop-down menu. It would be interesting to see how Facebook’s search results page looks like and how it compares with the SERPs of the major search engines.  According to Facebook this new  feature will be rolled out on the next few days . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Facebook Rolls Out Search Suggestion

Win a VIP Trip to Search & Social Spring Summit 2010!

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Have you ever wanted to attend a premier industry event as a VIP, get inside secrets from industry leaders, and get treated like a rockstar ? Well this week Search & Social are giving you several ways to make this a reality. For the launch of the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit (formerly known as IM Spring Break), the organizers are giving you all kinds of ways to attend the event on their dime. The biggest one is going to be VIP package to the event. One FREE pass to the Search & Social Spring Summit Complimentary airfare to and from Tampa, FL Paid hotel accommodations during Search & Social Spring Summit $500 in spending money All of these prizes, the entire VIP Trip, is valued at $2,000! To enter, you must visit our Search & Social VIP Contest . Once you sign up you will be sent a promotion code, and whoever gets the most people to sign up for the event using their code gets the VIP prize. That’s it! No fluff. Use your mad skills as an internet marketing guru to kill the competition, and earn your VIP pass to one of the best marketing events that took place last year. We will fly you into Tampa, FL, where the nearby beaches are always featured on the Travel Channel and are listed as the top beaches in the United States. You will check in to the Doubletree Guest Suites that is right on the water and five minutes from the airport. With $500 in spending money , you can save it and put it in the bank, spend it at Mons Venus or go to the two nearby malls 2.8 miles from the hotel. The most important part of the package is your pass to the summit. This includes getting access into the eight speaker sessions, networking with experts and businesses from across the country, an invitation to the VIP party, admission to casino night and calypso night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on both days of the conference. The VIP Trip will be sponsored by Second Step Search , an SEO workflow solution, and Search & Social . The contest starts today and will go on until April 15, 2010. Enter to win and see what it feels like to receive VIP treatment from Search & Social. You might even find yourself having your own SEOtini girl serving you lunch for the day. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Win a VIP Trip to Search & Social Spring Summit

Advanced SEO Reporting with SEJ Tools

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One of the most powerful features inside SEJ tools is its advanced reporting ability which makes it a lot easier to create pretty, fully-customized and data-rich reports for clients. With SEJ tools you can choose among multiple templates (or create your own), schedule reports, include any sets of data, etc. 1. Create a branded

Yahoo Adds TV Shortcut on Search Results Page

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Its TV Portal is one of Yahoo’s strongest verticals. I personally check it out to get my fix of entertainment news from time to time. So, it is but logical for Yahoo to try to maximize the potential of Yahoo TV to generate site traffic and engagement to its site. Enter the Yahoo TV Shortcuts right smack into your entertainment-related search results pages. So when you search for an entertainment-related topic on Yahoo Search, the search results page will now display latest video clips, bonus videos or entire episodes, episodes lists, sho ratings, show times, photos – all coming from Yahoo TV. On the left side of the search results page you’d also find suggested links to information about celebrities, movies or TV shows related to the search terms you just entered. In addition, if you’re searching for a celebrity and that celebrity happens to have a Twitter account, Yahoo search  will also display his or her tweets – call it a direct result of the Yahoo-Twitter content sharing deal . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Yahoo Adds TV Shortcut on Search Results