• SEOmoz, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:08 PM

Phil Nottingham runs through what he considers some of the most surprising things that happened in the world of search in 2011. Starting with Google's launch of the social network Google+, which Paul Allen, the founder of Ancestry.com, estimates at about 62 million users. It may have worked after failed attempts in the U.S. through Orkut, Friend Connect, Wave and Buzz. What else surprised search marketers in 2011? Well, Google added flight and hotel information to searches, MC Hammer announced the launch of a search engine, Adobe dumped Flash, and more.

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