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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: DoubleClick Search Tools To Migrate To Enhanced Campaigns Now Out Of Beta The custom toolset Google designed to help DoubleClick search users migrate to enhanced campaigns has come out of beta. The tools are designed to guide users in identifying similar campaigns that target different devices and merge them into one enhanced campaign in five steps: Identify campaigns for merging: Analyze your current AdWords campaigns and automatically generate a list [...] Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug Over the past day or so, we’ve been seeing reports that some of us can replicate ourselves, where the site command (i.e., site:www.domain.com) in Google was limited to only showing 30 results. The rumors were that with the recent domain clustering change Google pushed out this week has severely impacted the site command. Those rumors [...] 2013 Doodle 4 Google Winner Showcases Heartfelt Reunion Between A Soldier & His Daughter The 2013 Doodle 4 Google National winner was announced today on Google’s Official Blog. Selected out of 130,000 submissions based on the theme, “My Best Day Ever…”, the winning drawing by Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisconsin tells the story of being reunited with her father after his 18-month deployment as a soldier in Iraq. As [...] Is Google Poaching Clicks From Travel Advertisers? Spend Trends Down Even As Advertisers Increase (Study) On the cusp of the summer travel season, AdGooroo has taken a look at the state of paid search in the travel sector in the U.S. The company has found that, on the whole, paid search expenditures have been trending down since 2011. Spend fell 19% from January through April of this year compared to last [...] Google Trends Gets New Monthly Top Charts & Trending Topics Displayed In Bold Color Visualizations Google Trends has started a new monthly “spirit of the times” Top Charts feature with more than 40 categories of Top 10 lists that include people, places and things ranked by search interest. According to today’s post from Google’s Official Blog, the Top Charts go back to 2004 and will continue to be updated monthly. [...] Non-Descriptive Labeling Can Hurt Your SEO & Site Usability Those who work in the B2B sector have probably seen non-descriptive labeling used on just about every site they’ve worked on. Such labels may include title tags, URLs, H1 tags or navigation labels. Aside from irritating users, poor labeling practices will also hurt your site’s SEO. The concept of “context auditing” should be part of every search [...] Interflora Wins Five-Year Battle Over Google AdWords Trademark Infringement The High Court of England and Wales ended a five year legal battle between Marks & Spencer and Interflora yesterday. The court ruled in favor of flower delivery network Interflora, concluding that retailer Marks & Spencer breached trademark infringement laws by bidding on the keyword ”Interflora” in its Google AdWords campaigns. In the European Union, Google allows [...] Study: TV Networks Not Ranking In Key SERP Positions, Losing Valuable Search & Traffic Opportunities After evaluating the organic search performance of America’s most popular television networks, SEO research firm RankAbove discovered a majority of the networks are missing out on significant search and traffic opportunities. The study examined four key areas of search including keywords, rankings, traffic potential and Universal SERPs. According to the findings, not only are a [...] Programmatic Attribution Modeling – Don’t Just Measure, Execute The goal behind an attribution model is to understand how all of your marketing touch-points fit together, showing you which dollars are working the hardest, and subsequently all

Two of the public policy things I care about are patent reform and immigration reform. I believe our patent system – especially with regard to software and business method patents – is completely and totally broken. And our immigration system – especially concerning immigrant entrepreneurs – is an embarrassment. There is suddenly a lot of focus and attention on both of these issues. That’s good, and I’m hopeful that it will result in some meaningful positive changes. It pains me to see other countries – such as Canada, the UK, and New Zealand – be more progressive, open, and forward thinking around entrepreneurship and innovation than the US. There are days when I’m discouraged by our political system, but as I’ve gotten older and spent more time with it the past few years, I’m getting to a zen state of not being discouraged, but rather accepting the reality of the process and just being consistent and clear about what I think is important and how to fix it. On the patent front, Twitter recently finalized a powerful approach – the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (the IPA). With this, they’ve agreed – as a company – to only use their patents defensively. I think this is extraordinary leadership on Twitter’s part. Our government and the USPTO is not moving aggressively to fix a problem that is now stifling innovation in the software industry, so leaders in the software industry can, and should, take matters into the own hands. As Fred Wilson describes in his post today, the IPA is an incredibly clever and forward looking approach. I’m proud of my friends at Twitter for providing this leadership and I encourage entrepreneurs and investors to understand the IPA and consider applying it to their patent approached. On the immigration reform front, today is the second to last day of the March for Innovation. Go to the March for Innovation page to tell your Senators how important this issue is and read what a bunch of tech leaders are saying on the Mashable March for Innovation page. If you want just my thoughts, you can go read them at Broken Innovation Shutters Innovation. The post Patent and Immigration Reform Activities appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

Rdio on Wednesday announced it has updated its native Android and iOS apps with user interface changes and new features. You can download the latest versions now directly from Apple’s App Store and Google Play. First and foremost, the new “Find People” feature (available on the side navigation) gives you a curated list of recommended friends and their music taste, based on your connected Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as hand-picked artists and influencers. If you use Rdio for music discovery – this is definitely for you. Next up are the new label Pages. Just like on Rdio’s Web and desktop apps, you can now search for a record label and find its top albums and artists. Last but not least, Rdio has updated the side navigation panel in its app. It now shows blurred background and a cleaner interface, which Rdio says makes it easier “to access your profile, sort through playlists, and more.” Rdio says these new apps unify the service’s experience regardless of platform, thanks to various user interface improvements and new features. In fact, the Rdio for Android and Rdio for iOS changelogs are identical: Find People. The new feature makes following friends and artists easier than ever. Labels. Search for a record label to find its top albums and artists. Various minor bug fixes and UI improvements, including a new, cleaner look for sliding side navigation. Rdio is facing increased competition from the likes of Spotify and most recently Google. The company’s latest attempt to differentiate itself has been a video service by the clever name of Vdio. See also – Rdio launches Vdio social movie and TV service with an iPad app coming later today and $25 credit for Rdio subscribers More to follow. Disclosure: This article contains an affiliate link. While we only ever write about products we think deserve to be on the pages of our site, The Next Web may earn a small commission if you click through and buy the product in question. For more information, please see our Terms of Service.

ZZ Ward, who Fuse TV recently proclaimed as one of 30 must-see artists at South by Southwest, just launched a web app that plots when fans first discovered her. How? The "365 Days of ZZ Ward" app uses Facebook's Open Graph to browse users' Facebook activity and plot their ZZ Ward-tagged status updates, photos and videos. The moments will be displayed on an interactive timeline, and fans' social participation with the experience will unlock exclusive music content. At launch, people will be able to earn access to four videos and a free MP3 download of an unreleased song "The app will actually get better over time as more fans connect to it and new ZZ content is added," Brian Ressler, director of digital marketing at Disney Music Group, told Mashable. The app will add new unlockable content every three weeks or so Read more...More about Facebook, Music, Entertainment, Web Apps, and Open Graph

It was only a matter of time. Jif, the popular peanut butter company, has finally weighed in on the debate about how to pronounce GIF: It's pronounced Jif® #Jif #GIF bit.ly/10QjQim— Jif® Peanut Butter (@Jif) May 22, 2013 The tweet links to, what else, a GIF: Jif's tweet came less than a day after the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format (ie GIF) revealed that GIF is actually pronounced "Jif." This simple declaration set off countless tweets and much self-doubt among the GIF-faithful. Whose side are you on? Share in the comments below. Image courtesy of Flickr, brianc Read more...More about Twitter, Business, and Gifs

If you were Netflix, with the massive success of House of Cards, the love-it-or-hate-it buzz generated by Hemlock Grove, and the pure madness surrounding the launch of season 4 of Arrested Development – why wouldn’t you want to expand your content offerings? In a lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix’s Content Chief Ted Sarandos hints at just that – possibly doubling Netflix’s content output next year (by the end of 2013, they will have put out 8 new shows). “It’s feasible that we would double the load that we did this year. People’s tastes are wildly diverse, and I want to be able to appeal to all of those tastes and across demos. Hemlock Grove is totally different from House of Cards. Orange Is the New Black is a very different show. I think we can support a lot of specific tastes,” said Sarandos. As far as what kind of specific tastes, Sarandos says that sci-fi is a good direction, as is “tween” content. Also, sitcoms and comedy: “And then we’re doing quite a bit in the original standup comedy space, too. Bill Burr, for example, is somebody who has had a great cult following, and now his audience is getting so large from him being on Netflix. He is touring in all of the parts of the world where Netflix is, like Norway and Finland, because he has an audience there now. So, we’ll definitely be competitive [with HBO and Showtime] in that space. it’s also a great way to cultivate talent for future scripted projects,” he said. But as far as original movies go – Sarandos isn’t quite sold on the idea…yet: “The reason why I’ve shied away from original movies has been that there are so many more great movies that get made than ever get distributed, and I think we function better as a distributor for movies than we do as a creator or marketer of movies for now. But I probably would have said the same thing about TV shows three years ago.”

Jose Canseco has a wonderfully demented Twitter account, which boasts over half a million followers. But things got more scary/sad-demented than funny-demented this week when he tweeted out that he’s being accused of rape and is the subject of an investigation. The ex-baseball great, who made news just yesterday when it was announced he’ll be moving to Texas to play/coach for the Fort Worth Cats, has deleted the tweets above from his account but did post this one today: Lets play truth or dare. I dare susie bell to tell the truth. — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) May 22, 2013 Las Vegas police say they won’t reveal any details since it is an open investigation, but they have confirmed that Canseco is indeed a suspect in the case. Now, he’s drawing the ire of many who can’t believe he would post the name of the woman on a social network. Jose Canseco tweeted the name, number and picture of a woman who accused him of rape. All of a sudden the Kardashians’ don’t seem that bad. — Jenny Johnson (@JennyJohnsonHi5) May 22, 2013 @janemecom @ericmichaelnyc @wantedwebsite @josecanseco I don’t disagree truth is important but so is protecting real victims. #SpeakingAsOne — Allison (@Auntie_Allison) May 22, 2013 Jose Canseco Grows His Steroid-Shrunken Testes Enough To Tweet Rape Accuser’s Phone Number, Like A Man zite.to/185d7pl via @zite — Jessica Clanton (@sciencearkansas) May 22, 2013

Here's a video of Tina, 14, covering Eddie Van Halen‘s “Eruption” guitar solo and absolutely shredding it If the words “Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ guitar solo” have no meaning to you, we'll get to the meat of the story: This girl is some sort of guitar wizard. Image courtesy of YouTube, Tina S Read more...More about Music, Guitar, Rock, Watercooler, and Videos

Today Hewlett-Packard reported its second quarter financial performance for the 2013 fiscal year, including revenue of $27.58 billion and earnings per share of  $0.87. Analysts had predicted that HP would earn $0.81 per share on revenue of $28 billion. Given the massive decline in PC sales across the board, you’d be forgiven to think that HP has been on a downward spiral lately. On the contrary, the company has risen quite a bit since its November 2012 lows (as shown in the graph below). The reasoning behind this growth appears to rest on the shoulders of CEO Meg Whitman, who joined the firm in late 2011. Optimism aside, the PC market reportedly accounts for approximately 30 percent of HP’s total revenue. In other words, unless Whitman’s investments in R&D pan out soon, HP is in for yet another painful decline. Other important factors include the success of HP’s recent re-entry into the tablet market (the ElitePad and H-P Slate 7) and the company’s plan to cut thousands of jobs to lower costs. In regular trading, HP was up by just half a percent. In after-hours trading, the company is up. More to follow

Being a designer you probably has developed a sense of organization that might annoy people around. You probably come up with patterns of organization based in the color and size of your things, and other categories you might come up with. Well, this is a post for you, weirdo