SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 8, 2007

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Oct. 8, 2007 at 3:32pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 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:

Grayboxx Now National In The U.S.
Grayboxx announced today that it now has coverage in 175 cities (large and small) across the U.S. The site uses a proprietary method to collect "implicit" local recommendations rather than relying on users to write reviews (it calls them "neighbor recommendations"). In this way Grayboxx contends that it can provide...
SMX Social Media Preview: Keynote Q&A With StumbleUpon & Delicious Founders
At our SMX Social Media show next week -- Search Engine Land's first Search Marketing Expo show focused on social media marketing -- we have a special keynote Q&A session with the founders of delicious and StumbleUpon, Joshua Schachter and Garrett Camp respectively. I'm looking for your help with the...
When Link Building Is Pointless
As a link builder and content publicist, I rarely see a link building challenge that cannot be overcome. Today there are many unique and legitimate ways to attract and generate links that didn't exist ten years ago. There are different styles and approaches to link building, all of which...
Online Moms: Where Local, Social And Vertical Worlds Collide
Not long ago I had an appliance repairperson to my house in the San Francisco Bay Area to fix my clothes dryer and, while he was at it, my dishwasher, which what stopping in the middle of cycles. I had used the Internet to find his company, however he...
Google & IBM Team Up On Cloud Computing Research
Google announced they have teamed up with IBM to "provide hardware, software and services to augment university curricula and expand research horizons." Google and I.B.M. Join in ‘Cloud Computing’ Research from the New York Times explains the two companies are building out a 'cloud computing' environment to help students obtain...
Yahoo Search Feeds: Rediscovering RSS Autodiscovery
Ekstreme noticed that Yahoo Search is supporting autodiscovery for searches. Yahoo has been doing this since at least 2005, but it's still not known to many people. Here's how it works:...
Google Transit Now In Google Maps
Google Operating System reports Google Transit data can now be found in Google Maps for select cities. If you plot driving directions between Norwalk, California and Orange County, California, you should see an option on the left for "Directions: Drive There - Take Public Transit." Clicking on "Take Public Transit"...
Court Reinstates Google Age Discrimination Suit
Court reinstates age-discrimination lawsuit against Google from ComputerWorld reports that an age discrimination case against Google that was dismissed two years ago will now go back to court. Brian Reid, an ex-AltaVista employee who went over to work at Google, was fired at age 54 and filed suit over the...
GPhone Likely A Mobile OS To Compete With Windows Mobile
Earlier this year, Google's Marissa Mayer argued that Google wasn't coming out with a piece of mobile hardware, as she explained that the iPhone has dramatically boosted use of Google Maps and other mobile services. Yet there have also been articles quoting people who say they've seen a "GPhone." Miguel...
Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google
More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links. However, Google's generally never penalized sites for link selling. If spotted, in most cases all Google would do is prevent links from a site or pages in...
Google Book Search Improved(?)
According to the Google blog 'Inside Google Book Search' they have recently made some changes to Google Book Search, so I took this as my cue to go and visit to check these out. To say that I was disappointed is to put it mildly, and if you don't have...