SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 4, 2008

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Jan. 4, 2008 at 1:34pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 4, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

PC World Picks Ask3D As One Of "The 25 Most Innovative Products Of The Year"
At number 23, Ask3D was named one of PC World's "25 Most Innovative Products of the Year." The site opined that Ask "melds comprehensive search results more coherently than competing universal searches do." Ask saw the largest gains in consumer satisfaction in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction...
Googlebot In Aisle Three: How Google Plans to Index the World?
Robots reading cereal boxes in the Supermarket? Googlebot at the Art Museum? Street signs and building addresses snatched from Street View images for local search, image search, and product search? Three new patent applications published at the Us Trademark and Patent Office this week explore the intricacies of reading text...
Truveo Index Hits 100 Million Videos
AOL-owned video search engine Truveo announced yesterday that its video index had reached 100 million videos and predicted that number would climb to a billion by 2009. The company also said that its search index grew in 2007 from a base of just five million videos at relaunch in August,...
What Time Is It? Don't Check Google (At Least In Argentina)
This Flickr screen capture alerted us to the fact that Google hasn't yet accounted for daylight savings time in Buenos Aires, which began at midnight on December 30. Denizens of the capital of Argentina set their clocks forward but Google neglected to. Apparently the time is still off by an...
Google's User Experience Expert, Kevin Fox, Joins New Start-up Company
Kevin Fox, Google's user experience designer, responsible for helping design Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader 2.0 has announced he is leaving Google to join a "very small start-up." Today is his last day at Google, after being with Google for over four years. Kevin did not say the name...
Google Takes NASA To Watch Meteor Shower
NASA to watch meteor shower via Google plane from the San Jose Business Journal reports NASA scientists used Google's plane to watch a meteor shower last night. The Google jet left Mineta San Jose International Airport at 4:30pm last night and flew over the Arctic and back to San Jose....
Nathan Stoll, Long Time Google News Product Manager Leaves Google
Nathan Stoll, a long time Googler and the Product Manager of the Google News service announced at his personal blog that he has left Google. His announcement came about three weeks ago, but he is now officially not a Google employee. Nathan said: I've decided that it is time for...
The Virtual World: Darwin says We can Handle It
One of the things that as always struck me when I look at online user behavior is the scattered and frenetic scanning of the page. This becomes particularly clear when you look at eye tracking results. We quickly shift our eyes to cue to cue, picture to picture, headline...