SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 13, 2008

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Jun. 13, 2008 at 3:50pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 13, 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:

More Than 40 Speakers Will Present On Local Search And Mobile Marketing At SMX Local & Mobile
Speakers for this year’s Search Marketing Expo – SMX Local & Mobile are now posted. In all, more than 40 thought leaders and internet marketing pioneers will be presenting at the event, which will be held July 24-25 in San Francisco. Register by next Friday, June 20, and get an...
Search in Pictures: I Hate Kate at Yahoo, Google Taipei Office & Google Logo in Circles & Lines
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....
For Google, Add .0 To .EXE As File Extensions To Avoid
SEOMoz discovered that ending your URLs with a .0 will prevent your pages from being found in the Google index. That means, we need to add the .0 to the list of file extensions you should avoid using. Remember Stephen Spencer's News.com article, which said "according to Matt, the file...
Travel Search Engine Kayak Brings Search And Display Together With New Ad Units
Yesterday travel search engine Kayak announced that it had built a display ad platform to leverage search queries and serve more relevant graphical ads across its network. These display units will potentially replace the text ads currently shown on search results and other pages on Kayak.com and its affiliate sites....
Google Makes "Related Searches" Fresher
Google announced that the related search feature is now fresher then ever. What that means is when you search on certain queries, Google may show you a line just above the search results with related search queries. Those related search queries are fresher, in the sense that they now should...
Human Hardware: Risk vs Reward, Expressed through Search
We are emotional creatures. In fact, we are the most emotional creatures on the planet. Emotions are what cause us to act. The very word emotion means “to move” in Latin. Emotions move us to action. They cause us to avoid danger and pursue pleasure. They propel us to...
As Expected, Yahoo Announces "10 Year" Google Paid Search Deal
This afternoon Yahoo confirmed that it had entered into a paid search deal with Google. That deal is described by Yahoo in its press release and by Google in a related blog post. Google takes pains in the post to insulate the deal against anti-trust claims....