SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2007

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Aug. 17, 2007 at 2:04pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 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:

Searcharazzi: Where to get the best scoop at SES San Jose
Face it, sessions are great for learning, but no place to get good scoop. For those heading to San Jose, mother of all Search Engine Strategies shows, here is a cheat sheet on where to get the best scoop. I leave it to the spies to leave good stuff...
Search in Pictures: Wyclef Jean, Cricket & Hamster Lounge
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....
CalTech Student Releases Tool For Hunting Wikipedia Spin Jobs
In Vote On the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs, the Wired Blog Network reports that Virgil Griffin, a Caltech graduate student, has released a Wikipedia Scanner search tool that identifies edits by corporate IP block. Just type in the name of a corporation to see what sort of anonymous Wikipedia...
Search & Serendipity: Finding More When You Know Less
Today, Just Behave welcomes the second of our guest columnists, Larry Cornett, Vice President of Search Experience at Yahoo.—Gord Hotchkiss Where do you go to get your daily fix of fresh information? If you are like millions of other users out there, you hit sites like Digg, Delicious, Techmeme,...
Google Explains The 'White Space Coalition' And Its Push For Unused TV Spectrum Internet Access
It sounds a little like the name of a band: The White Space Coalition. We previously wrote about the joint effort (by Google, Microsoft, Intel and others) to provide Internet access to consumers through unused parts of the television spectrum, so-called "white space." See our previous coverage in "Microsoft, Google...
Google Sued For Trademark Infringement By American Airlines Over Sponsored Ads
Eric Goldman reports that American Airlines is suing Google over trademark infringement in AdWords. As Eric points out, this type of lawsuit is nothing new to Google. Many companies have taken Google to court for allowing advertisers to bid on their trademarked names. However, in this case, American Airlines, the...
Family Guy & Google Form Video Ad Distribution Deal
Google's AdSense to distribute videos from BusinessWeek reports that Google and the creators of "Family Guy" and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show "That's So Raven," have formed a deal to distribute their videos with ads from AdSense. The TV programs will be distributed throughout the AdSense network and...
Fast Search To Fire 148 Employees
Fast Search & Transfer lets go of 148 employees from Pandia reports that Fast Search and Transfer will be letting 148 employees go this year. The employees who are being fired are reportedly being compensated for the downsizing. Fast Search & Transfer have reportedly hired 400 employees in 2006 and...
Google Launches Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center
Google announced the launch of the Google Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center. This center will educate both novices and experts on click fraud, Google's prevention methods, what Google considers click fraud, as well as links to other resources to learn more about recent updates on click fraud and traffic quality....