SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2008

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Apr. 1, 2008 at 5:32pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 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:

How to Make Your Content ‘Submit Worthy’
"Why won't anyone submit my content to Digg? My competitor is always on Reddit but my stuff gets ignored!" Sound familiar? Well here's how to put an end to your woes and ensure your content is submit worthy. In order to be successful on social media news and bookmarking...
Google Maps Now With "Send To Garmin"
There's "send to car" and "send to TomTom;" now there's "send to Garmin" (GPS devices). As with TomTom devices Google Maps and routing can now be sent directly to Garmin personal navigation devices....
Defining Link Building Best Practices
There are plenty of business processes where the development of a set or list of "Best Practices" makes really good sense. But what about link building? Is/are there a core set of link building best practices that really work? Fourteen years of link building for 1,000+ clients indicate to...
Search Engine ChaCha Expands Mobile Service To Include Voice Input
Human-powered search engine ChaCha launched in late 2006 to somewhat mixed reviews. It sought to entice users to search with expert guides in real time via IM chat windows. It also offered algorithmic search but the human-guided search was the hook. The concept was great but the practical experience was...
SMX West Interviews: Now In Video
Mike McDonald and the team from WebProNews did an awesome job covering our SMX West show in Feburary with video interviews. They've been posting these slowly over the past weeks, and they're all up now here. Below, I've also assembled them into our own all-in-one page. Check them out!...
April Fools 2008 : The Search Industry's Recap
Happy April Fools Day! April Fools can be a fun but scary day for news reporters like myself. On one hand, we get to make up stories and fool people into thinking they are real. On the other hand, we have to determine which news stories are real and which...
Microsoft's $1 Million Guarantee Program To Win Searchers
Microsoft executives, worried that the plan to acquire Yahoo for an estimated $40 billion might not happen, have hatched an alternative plan that might bring about success over Google at a much cheaper cost. To win in search, Microsoft may pay people not to use Google. And pay a premium,...