Google Searchology 2009: The Big Recap

May 13, 2009 at 3:09am ET by Matt McGee

Google’s latest Searchology event happened on Tuesday, and the blog posts and tweets were flying fast and furious. If you found it all to be a little too much to keep track of, have no fear. It’s our pleasure to share this Big Recap of the most important posts and news.

Search Engine Land Coverage

Live Blogging Google Searchology 2009 – Danny Sullivan was in attendance and filed his thoughts on-the-fly
Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds “Rich Snippets” to Search Results – Vanessa Fox was also there and wrote about Google’s “Rich Snippets” and how they compare to what Yahoo SearchMonkey offers

Official Google Blog Posts

Enabling Rich Snippets in Custom Search, Google Custom Search
Introducing Rich Snippets, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Leveraging rich snippets with Google Site Search, Official Google Enterprise Blog
More Search Options and other updates from our Searchology event, Official Google Blog
Sky Map for Android – A Mobile Planetarium, Google Mobile Blog
A planetarium in your pocket, Official Google Blog

Unofficial Google Blog Posts

Google Searchology 2009: Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets – Matt Cutts is on vacation, yet still tuned in to the Searchology webcast and shared this recap
What was new at Searchology? – As if one post wasn’t enough, Matt followed up with this really good overview of several bits of information that may have escaped notice in the flurry of Searchology reporting

Other Noteworthy Coverage

Searchology 2009 presentation screenshots by Yvo Schaap
What Is Google Squared? It Is How Google Will Crush Wolfram Alpha (Exclusive Video) – TechCrunch has video of Google Squared
Screenshots of Google Squared from Google Blogoscoped

Oh, there was certainly more Searchology coverage on dozens of other blogs and web sites, but this should cover all the primary bases pretty well. At least until next year….

Matt McGee is the Search Engine Land Assignment Editor, and offers search marketing consulting and training to businesses of all sizes. He blogs at Small Business Search Marketing and HyperlocalBlogger.com.

See more articles by Matt McGee >

Share, Bookmark & Discuss This Article
More:

See more stories like this in the Members Library! Check out the Features: General, Google: Marketing, Google: SEO, Google: Web Search, Top News sections of the Members Library where this story is filed. Members also get access to exclusive video content, a members-only weekly & monthly newsletter, plus more. Check out all the benefits!

FREE DAILY SEARCH NEWS RECAP!