SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 17, 2008

« Google's Video Sites Gain Market Share | Main | Scanning Barriers On The Search Results Page »

Jan. 17, 2008 at 3:40pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 17, 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:

Google's Video Sites Gain Market Share
Americans are increasingly turning to the web for video, averaging 3.25 hours of video per person during the month of November, according to new data released by comScore today. Americans viewed nearly 9.5 billion online videos during the month and Google was the leading destination, with 3 billion videos viewed...
Twitter: What Are You Thinking?
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” Polonius from William Shakespeare´s Hamlet Twitter is a simple web application that asks the following question: What are you doing? You get 140 characters to answer. In Twitter: More Than Messaging, It Can Generate Traffic and Twitter Useless For Driving Traffic? Think Again, Neil...
Truveo Creates New Election Videos Site
AOL's video search engine Truveo has created a new election videos site/area that collects candidate videos as well as commentary and news footage. Truveo claims the site is more comprehensive in terms of its sources and range of content than others. YouTube offers YouChoose, featuring candidate and user-generated videos, and...
Google.org To Announce Five Strategic Initiatives Today
Today, Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 9:00am PST (12:00pm EST), Google.org will be holding a conference call to discuss the launch of five strategic initiatives for the organization. The conference call participants include Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations, Google Inc. and Board Member, Google.org and Larry...
The Library of Congress Teams Up With Flickr
The Library of Congress has teamed up with Flickr to create The Commons. The Library of Congress has added a sample of their over one million photos to Flickr, so that the Flickr community can help describe the photos through tagging. My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven...
Four Reasons To Avoid Using Dates In URLs
Everything you do has a chance to provide a clean or dirty signal of relevancy to search engines and searchers. While a date in the URL may provide a signal of relevancy to some searchers looking for archived information, many people who are explicitly looking for old information will...
OpenID Gaining Critical Mass, Yahoo Announces Support
OpenID is a single sign-in infrastructure that potentially alleviates the need to create new passwords and user names for every new site one joins or visits. There's been lots of discussion about OpenID and who's in, who's almost in and so on. Today, Yahoo formally joined (and fully legitimized) the...
Why The SEO Industry Needs Small Business
Here's the primary thing on my mind as we begin 2008: If we, the search/online marketing industry, don't do a better job of helping the small business owner understand and adopt the best practices of search marketing, we are doomed to irrelevance. "Oh, but there's no money in small...