SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: From Search Engine Land: Search in Pictures: SMX, Ice Sculptures, Race Cars & More In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the […]
Barry Schwartz on June 8, 2007 at 3:02 pm | Reading time: 6 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:
From Search Engine Land:
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Search in Pictures: SMX, Ice Sculptures, Race Cars & More
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more…. -
Search Engine Marketing (& Search Engine Land) Not Notable For Wikipedia?
Earlier this year, Wikipedia pondered whether Matt Cutts was notable enough to continue having a Wikipedia entry. Good sense prevailed, and his entry remained. Now debate has shifted to whether the entry about search engine marketing should go. Oh, and apparently Search Engine Land has an entry that might also… -
Google Maps & YouTube Are Big Traffic Winners in Google Universal Update
Bill Tancer of Hitwise released new data comparing Google’s web properties before and after the release of Google Universal Search. As we know, Google Universal Search changed how Google’s vertical search results appeared in the main Google web search results. Overall, Google Maps and YouTube saw the biggest increase, while… -
Searcharazzi: Feisty, Feisty
My, we were a feisty bunch last week. Now that it is all out of our system, let’s look to a bit more benign gossip from the rumor mill For the football fans out there, here’s some water cooler conversation for the off season: last week’s New York Times… -
iProspect Releases Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study
Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study from iProspect and JupiterResearch was released, providing an update to the search marketing landscape. Here are some key points learned from the study. 43% of SEMs cannot measure the ROI from SEO campaigns SEO nets a higher ROI than paid search Traffic is the… -
Google’s Wireless Proposal Takes Heat From Verizon & AT&T
AT&T, Verizon oppose Google airwave proposal from the Seattle Times reports that the two U.S. telecom giants, AT&T and Verizon, are opposing Google’s wireless airwave proposal. AT&T and Verizon told the Federal Communications Commission that Google has “no legitimate basis” in their proposal to have the government auction off the… -
Baidu Calls European Expansion Rumors “Groundless”
Baidu denies plans for European expansion from InfoWorld reports that rumors of Baidu expanding to Europe are false. Baidu, the Chinese search engine, released a statement saying, “Recent rumors alleging that Baidu.com is expanding into Europe are groundless.” A UK Telegraph article recently sparked such rumors…. -
Minor AdWords Quality Score Update Last Night
Google has informed me they have made a change to how they measure landing page quality, which will impact the overall quality score of your ads. I was told that this was a minor update and should not impact the “vast majority of advertisers.” However, some advertisers will see an…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
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What Now,
Google?, Googlified -
Picasa
Web Albums meets Google data APIs, Google Mac Blog -
Mike
Tsao on Google Gears, Google Developer Podcast -
Red yahoo
today!, SEO Home UK -
Yahoo tests
new services in Vietnamese, VietNamNet -
Can You Link
Two Google Analytics Accounts to One Google AdWords Account?, Search
Engine Roundtable -
Google Maps:
Invading Your Privacy? (Not Anymore!), Search Engine Roundtable -
Hindu
group making software to partly block Orkut, Reuters
Business Issues
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Feuds:
Which rivalries are real?, Valleywag -
LookSmart’s
CFO Resigns, But Revenue Increasing, Search Engine Journal -
Google
Can’t Grow New Products, Hence the Acquisitions, Marketing Pilgrim -
YouTube
sued by country music publisher, eWeek
Conferences
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Search
Engine Strategies or Search Marketing Expo?, Search Engine Journal -
SMX Seattle 2007,
SEO Wife’s Blog -
The
SMX Diaries IV: The Matt Cutts Interview, SEOmoz -
Summarized
SEO Tips from SMX Advanced – Part 1, Stepforth -
SMX
Conference Wrap Up, Wolf Howl
Local, Maps & Mobile
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Got
a Maps Mashup? Make it a Mapplet!, Google Maps API Blog -
Mobile
Advertising Guidelines Updated, ClickZ Blog -
Google
and Wild Sanctuary Team Up to Bring Sound to ‘Earth’, AppScout
Paid Search & Contextual
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Your
account at-a-glance using the Account Snapshot page, Inside AdWords -
Should You Rent
Out Google AdSense Units?, Search Engine Roundtable -
Microsoft
adCenter U.K. road show reaches Edinburgh, adCenter Blog -
Google
Quality Score: What’s the True Measure of “Quality” Anyway?, Google
Blogoscoped -
Google Radio and TV
Personalization, Ratings, and Advertising Patent Applications, SEO By
The Sea -
Google Says
They Treat Small Publishers As They Treat Large Publishers, Search
Engine Roundtable -
Google,
Yahoo ‘Panama’, and Microsoft: Paid Search Market Share May 2007,
Rimm Kaufman
Searching
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When
In Buy Mode I Click On Nothing But Google Sponsored Links, ShandyKing -
Sputtr:
Many Search Options, One Place, Search Engine Watch Blog
SEM Industry
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Pepperjam
Signs Exclusive Deal With DoubleClick, Search Engine Watch Blog -
SiteLogic
Welcomes Kim Krause-Berg, SiteLogic -
SEO
Scoop Birthday where you can win the present!, SEO Scoop -
Reader
Poll: What’s Bugging You About Search Marketing?, Online Marketing
Blog
SEO & SEM
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In-house
Spotlight: Duane Forrester, SEO with Sports Direct Inc., Search Engine
Journal -
Effective Keyword Research
& List Preparation (for PPC), Reviewlicious -
Using Caps in
Google.com Site Command Returns Different Results, Search Engine
Roundtable -
Predicting
the ROI for Future SEO Efforts, Search Engine Watch
Social Media
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Let’s Go
Viral, Search Engine Watch -
In a Virtual
Universe, the Politics Turn Real, NY Times -
Wikipedia’s
Nerd Bias, Techcrunch -
5
Signs Digg Has Peaked (and Is Now Declining), Tropical SEO
Video & Image Search
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Flickaday:
Take a Picture Every Day, Rev 2 Org -
YouTube
Partially Takes Back Interface Changes, Google Blogoscoped -
Get
Back the Old YouTube Player!, Googified -
Balancing
Video Quality and Search Optimization, Search Engine Watch -
Flickr
Censored in China?, Google Blogoscoped -
Flickr
Can Automatically Add Title, Description, Tags & More to Your
Photos, Cartoon Barry
Other Items
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New/Transferred
Domain Names from the GooglePlex, ResourceShelf -
Chris
Sacca: Google’s superhero, Valleywag -
Alpha
Features are now available to all Askvillers!, Askville Blog -
Blogstorm
Shows Blogs’ Most Popular Posts, Techcrunch -
Congratulations
Amit, the Mac team is proud of you!, Google Mac Blog -
Webby
Awards 2007: Big Winners Include Flickr, LinkedIn, last.fm,
Read/Write Web -
Google
Checkout Radio Commercial, Google Blogoscoped -
‘Publishing
exec ‘steals’ Google laptops in silly demonstration’ of just how little
publishing executives understand, Lawrence Lessig
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