SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 18, 2008

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Jul. 18, 2008 at 4:00pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 18, 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:

Very Recent & Addictomatic: Finding What People Are Buzzing About Right Now!
Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he's crafted, Very Recent, designed to pull back top results from "recency search engines," for lack of a better word. Blog search, news search, social news plus Twittering, all in one. It needs a lot of work, but I found...
News Video Research Offers SEO Opportunities
In a previous article titled New Online Video News Search Study - Is the Business Case Made?, I discussed a DoubleClick Performics study that looked at how consumers interact with online video news, how they use search in the process, and their desire to see more video search results on...
Google's Matt Cutts On Video About Spam & More
The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a video interview created by Juliane Stiller of Search Quality Team. Juliane interviewed Matt Cutts about search spam for the German Google Blog. My favorite question and answer set was when was the first time Matt found his first web spam. The video is...
Search In Pictures: Google's G-Fleet, Dave Barnes at Yahoo, Google Sidewalk Graffiti
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....
SEM News, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization & Broad Match Or Not?
In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines and today's in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization Part 1 and...
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ad Service For $140 Million
Google announced that it had acquired "Begun," a Russian contextual ad service, for $140 million. The service had been a unit of Russia's Rambler Media. Rambler also owns the Russian portal Rambler.ru. As part of the deal, Google-enhanced search results and ads will appear on the Rambler portal site. According...
Microsoft adCenter Content Ads Self-Service Pilot
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft is testing their self-service AdSense/YPN product named Content Ads. The truth is, as TechCrunch said in an update to his post, they have started this pilot earlier this year. I have a post at the Search Engine Roundtable linking to the pilot enrollment form. Content Ads...
Google's Webinar For Webmaster Tools, Analytics & Website Optimizer Now Live
The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a recording of the webinar they hosted, along with the Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer team. The webinar is available in a 60 minute YouTube video. In short, the webinar reviews the features of all three tools, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and...
Google Reports $5.37 billion In Q2 Revenues, Microsoft Reports Full Year Revenues of $60 Billion
Google had a strong quarter, given the challenging US and global economic climate. Revenues were basically flat vs. Q1 (+3 percent) but grew 39 percent as compared with the same quarter a year ago. AdSense and paid clicks were down slightly. Google may not be "recession proof," but it's more...