Strike Point

Google Hummingbird is getting people worried, plus Mikkel and Andy discuss the Jason Calacanis and Matt Cutts feedback coming out from Pubcon 2013. Also, Andy shares info on his PubCon presentation on the value of social shares in ranking where he moderated an interesting panel with Duane Forrester of Bing.

Search Not Provided, Keyword Data Options, Google Launches Project Shield to Access Web From Repressive Countries; Facebook status updates, wall postings and payments temporarily go down.

Discssusion on Google Penguin 2.1 Update, the latest video from Matt Cutts where he explains how User Redirection Based On Location Is Not Spam, plus we talk about Google Hummingbird and how it may affect search.

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Google has cut off keyword data altogether as they Move Entirely to Secure Search. We learn about the transition of State of Search the website to now State of Digital with Bas Van Den Beld, the founder of State of Digital.

Mikkel and Kristjian discuss how someone posted on Google + how a client received an unnatural link warning via Google Webmaster Tools and one of the two examples given was a link he has from DMOZ, the Open Directory Project. Also, Google is planning to give webmasters a year worth of top search query data within webmaster tools.

Returning from the International Conference on Internet Marketing and Branding in Tehran, Iran. Mikkel and Kristjian talk to us in flight as they are on their way back to Europe. They welcome the conference organizer, Hamid Sepidnam from Kaspid Web Marketing, to give us his thoughts on how the show went.

Where Are We with Google Panda, Has Amazon got it wrong? Also, Andy discusses his Search Engine Land Article he wrote In Memoriam for Search Engine Pioneer, Leader and Visionary Ilya Segalovich, the co-founder of Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine who recently succumbed to cancer this weekend. Mikkel and Andy also follow up on the story where the UK Prime Minister Attacked Google, Bing and Yahoo On Child Porn.

UK prime minister David Cameron unveiled a wide-range of efforts today to protect children against pornography on the Internet. A significant part of his speech attacked the search engines of Google, Bing and Yahoo for not doing enough and demanding changes. Andy and Krisjtian look at the latest Google Transparency report, as well as comment on the latest Matt Cutts video where he says Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt You, Unless It Is Spammy .

The Death of AltaVista: Why Did It Happen? Why did the popular search engine decline and lose ground with the rise of Google and how it further would not recover once it was purchased by Yahoo! Mikkel welcomes new co-hosts Andy Atkins-Krueger and Kristjian Mar Hauksson to discuss.