SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 2008

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Mar. 21, 2008 at 2:01pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 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:

Search Biz: Probing Wikipedia's Finances, Facebook Toast? & Google Denies Evading Chinese Taxes
It's well known that Wikipedia is maintained by a legion of volunteers throughout the world. Structured as a non-profit, the site features no advertising, despite being the #7 most visited destination on the web, and a property that most advertisers would kill to get exposure on. Which begs the...
Search In Pictures: Snoop Dogg, St. Patrick's Day & Danny Exposed
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....
LinkedIn Adds New Company Directory
LinkedIn, with help from BusinessWeek's CapitalIQ, has added a company directory and related factual information to its business network. It's not easy to get to the company directory, which is only accessible to LinkedIn users at the moment. One can't simply go to the LinkedIn search box and type a...
Google Suggest Becoming A Default Feature?
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable spotting a WebmasterWorld thread that has three members noticing Google Suggest like features on Google.com. Basically, when these users go to Google.com and begin typing in a query, Google begins to offer search suggestions. Google has implemented this feature as a default on...
Google Analytics Benchmarking Data Now Live
The Google Analytics Benchmarking feature is now live for those users who have chosen to opt in to the program. You can access the data by visiting a site profile and clicking on "Visitors" and then on "Benchmarking (Beta)." Google said that the current list of "verticals and the quality...
Google Gets What It Wanted From 700MHz Auction
The US 700MHz auction is now over; the winners were announced yesterday. The spectrum is becoming available as television broadcasters make the mandated switch to digital signals in early 2009. The big winners (no surprises here) were US carriers Verizon and AT&T. Verizon bid more than $9 billion and won...
Human Hardware: Men and Women
In this week’s column on Human Hardware, we look at the differences between the two basic models of humans: men and women. As a species, the vast majority of our history has been spent not really thinking about the differences between men and women. The distinctions seemed obvious, and...