Search Month: January 2009 Search News, In Review
Feb 10, 2009 at 11:27pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Search Month is an exclusive monthly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land from the previous month. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past month. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where you can click through and drill into the Search Engine Land members library to find other stories in that area. Because some stories are listed in more than one category, you may see them repeated.
- Report: Microsoft To Lay Off 15,000 Workers
- 2009 New Years Day Logos from Google & Others
- Activate The “Bells and Whistles” On Google’s iPhone Mobile App
- Google Timeline Experiment Seen In Main Search Results
- SMX West: Exceptional Value & Price – Register Before Jan. 10…Save $400
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- The Big List of 2009 Marketing Predictions
- Google Claims That Google Checkout Increases Conversion By 40% & Clicks By 10%
- Yahoo To Advertisers: We Can Create Ads & Edit Keywords Without Asking First
- Google Trends Features ASCII Art Of 9/11
- Bush: Fix Your “Miserable Failure” Googlebomb Legacy Before Obama Takes Office
- Deal Puts Microsoft Live Search On Dell Computers, Verizon Phones — Will It Help?
- SMX West Rates Increase Friday @ Midnight – Register Now!
- Google Testing New AdWords Budgeting Option: Timeframe
- Google Has Well Over A Million Advertisers
- Want To Rank Tops In Google? Do YouTube Videos, Stupid!
- Ballmer: Do Yahoo Deal Sooner, Not Later
- Google Changes, Colorizes Favicon
- Google Goes To The Inauguration
- Calculating The Carbon Footprint Of A Google Search
- Think Like A Blackhat By Matt Cutts
- Autodesk’s Carol Bartz Named New Yahoo CEO; Sue Decker To Leave As President
- Ask.com Partners With NASCAR, Says “Super Verticals” Will Put It Back In Search Race
- Google Creates Smart Sitemap Generator Tool
- Google Cuts 100 Recruiters; May Replace Up To 70 Engineers Due To Office Closures
- Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
- Yahoo Shows Wikipedia Some SearchMonkey Love
- TweetNews: Yahoo Programmer Melds News Search & Twitter
- SMX West Keynotes: Battelle, Cerf & Sullivan
- Why Don’t Google & Yahoo Offer Twitter Search?
- Yahoo & Microsoft Execs Meet Again
- Google Testing “Preferred Sites” Option In Search Preferences
- Should Google Let Advertisers Opt-Out Of Google’s Own Properties?
- Now Accepting Speaking Pitches For SMX Search Analytics
- Despite Inauguration, Google & Others Still Think It’s President Bush, Not President Obama
- The Obama Effect: Google Says President Changed Search Activity
- Microsoft Announces Q2 Results, 5,000 Layoffs
- Google Revenues Beat Street, Economic Uncertainty Lingers
- Obama Is “Failure” At Google & “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo
- Heads-Up, Google: Broad Match Controls We Need
- Search Market Share 2008: Google Grew, Yahoo & Microsoft Dropped & Stabilized
- How Search-Like Are Social Media Sites?
- Yahoo Q4 Shows Operating Loss; CEO Bartz: ‘This Is Not A Company That Needs To Be Pulled Apart And Left For The Chickens’
- Yahoo Tries To Justify Automatic Account Optimization
- Pew: Young Or Old, Search Cuts Across Age Categories
- Google Street View Car Kills Bambi, Removes Pictures Afterward
- Google Toolbar For Firefox Adds Chrome-Like “Most Visited Sites” Tab
- Martin Schaedel (Lazerzubb) Killed In Plane Crash
- Losing Hope With Yahoo, After Watching The Paid Search Division Stumble
- Google Gets Fearful, Flags Entire Internet As Malware Briefly
- Just 1 Week Until SMX West, Register Today!
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 Ideas
- Bush: Fix Your “Miserable Failure” Googlebomb Legacy Before Obama Takes Office
- Deal Puts Microsoft Live Search On Dell Computers, Verizon Phones — Will It Help?
- Ballmer: Do Yahoo Deal Sooner, Not Later
- An Update On Javascript Menus And SEO
- Wacky Idea: A Yahoo-Nokia Combination
- Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
- Wired: Monopoly, Microsoft And The Anti-Google ‘Conspiracy’
- Despite Inauguration, Google & Others Still Think It’s President Bush, Not President Obama
- The Rise (And Fall?) Of Real-Time Search
- Obama Is “Failure” At Google & “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo
- Heads-Up, Google: Broad Match Controls We Need
- Search Market Share 2008: Google Grew, Yahoo & Microsoft Dropped & Stabilized
- How Search-Like Are Social Media Sites?
- Losing Hope With Yahoo, After Watching The Paid Search Division Stumble
- Think Like A Blackhat By Matt Cutts
- Some Parallels Between Obama And Yahoo’s Carol Bartz
- Integration With Search Still Lacking In Ad Campaigns
- Packaging Yourself For Success: A Search Marketer’s Resume Guide
- SEO Trends From 2008 & A Look Into 2009
- 5 Ways To Rise Above The Noise
- Optimizing A Large-Scale Web Site? Do The Two-Step
- A Look At Article Directories and Their Influence in Organic Rankings
- 2009 New Years Day Logos from Google & Others
- Ask.com Partners With NASCAR, Says “Super Verticals” Will Put It Back In Search Race
- Google & Others Martin Luther King Jr.’s Logos
Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments
- Google Testing New AdWords Budgeting Option: Timeframe
- Google Has Well Over A Million Advertisers
- Spice Up Your ASCII AdWords Campaign With Animated ASCII URLs
- Google Local Business Ads Score New Features
- Google Names Marchex First ‘Google AdWords Authorized Reseller Technology Platform’
- No Surprise: IAA Survey Shows Concern Over Google Market Dominance
- Should Google Let Advertisers Opt-Out Of Google’s Own Properties?
- Google Wants To Help Marketers Do More With Less
- Heads-Up, Google: Broad Match Controls We Need
- Google TV Ads Tells How DVRs Affect Your Ads
- Google AdWords Testing New Interface
- Will Google Book Search Help Or Hurt Libraries And Book Sales?
- Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
- Google Wins “Gu Ge” Lawsuit In China
- Google Confirms Layoffs Of Contract Employees
- Google Has Well Over A Million Advertisers
- Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
- Google Cuts 100 Recruiters; May Replace Up To 70 Engineers Due To Office Closures
- Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
- No Surprise: IAA Survey Shows Concern Over Google Market Dominance
- Google Revenues Beat Street, Economic Uncertainty Lingers
- Calculating The Carbon Footprint Of A Google Search
- No Surprise: IAA Survey Shows Concern Over Google Market Dominance
- Wired: Monopoly, Microsoft And The Anti-Google ‘Conspiracy’
- Top Googlers Donate $150,000 To Obama’s Inauguration
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- Google Confirms Layoffs Of Contract Employees
- Joshua Schachter Lands At Google
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- GDrive: It’s Alive! — Or So It Appears
- Wired: Monopoly, Microsoft And The Anti-Google ‘Conspiracy’
- No Surprise: Google Is No. 1 Internet Property Worldwide
- Google & Baidu Fail China’s Pornography Test, May Lead To Penalties
- Google Logs Help Convict Husband Accused of Murdering Wife
- 2009 New Years Day Logos from Google & Others
- Google Changes, Colorizes Favicon
- Google & Others Martin Luther King Jr.’s Logos
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- Google Maps For Mobile Simplifies Directions
- Google StreetView, GPS Save Kidnapped Girl
- Yelp Case Settled, But Bigger Issues Remain For Search & Reviews
- Google Maps Adds Public Transit Data In 50 Cities
- Google Local Business Ads Score New Features
- Google: All Your NYC Tourists Are Belong To Us
- Google Street View Car Kills Bambi, Removes Pictures Afterward
- Activate The “Bells and Whistles” On Google’s iPhone Mobile App
- Report: Android OS Coming To Netbooks
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- Google Testing ‘Blended’ Mobile Ads
- Google Maps For Mobile Simplifies Directions
- Google SMS Search Is Down … For The Count?
- Kogan ‘Indefinitely’ Delays Android Phone Launch
- Google Quietly Drops iPhone Optimized iGoogle Page
- Google & Baidu Fail China’s Pornography Test, May Lead To Penalties
- Google Wins “Gu Ge” Lawsuit In China
- Google Names Marchex First ‘Google AdWords Authorized Reseller Technology Platform’
- Wired: Monopoly, Microsoft And The Anti-Google ‘Conspiracy’
- Google: All Your NYC Tourists Are Belong To Us
Google: Print Ads & AdSense For Newspapers
- Report: Sitemaps Decrease Crawler Response Time
- Submit Your Google Spam Suggestions For 2009
- Want To Rank Tops In Google? Do YouTube Videos, Stupid!
- An Update On Javascript Menus And SEO
- Think Like A Blackhat By Matt Cutts
- Help Google Find ‘Empty Review Sites’
- Google Creates Smart Sitemap Generator Tool
- Google PageRank: A Strange Case Of Hyves
- A Quick January 2009 SEO Update
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- Want To Rank Tops In Google? Do YouTube Videos, Stupid!
- Google Timeline Experiment Seen In Main Search Results
- Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”
- Google Confirms Testing Favicons In Search Results
- Google AdWords Testing New Interface
Google: Web History & Search History
- Google Timeline Experiment Seen In Main Search Results
- Submit Your Google Spam Suggestions For 2009
- Want To Rank Tops In Google? Do YouTube Videos, Stupid!
- Help Google Find ‘Empty Review Sites’
- Google Testing “Preferred Sites” Option In Search Preferences
- The Obama Effect: Google Says President Changed Search Activity
- Google To Push Semantic Search In 2009?
- Google Confirms Testing Favicons In Search Results
- Google Gets Fearful, Flags Entire Internet As Malware Briefly
- Report: Sitemaps Decrease Crawler Response Time
- Submit Your Google Spam Suggestions For 2009
- Help Google Find ‘Empty Review Sites’
- Google Creates Smart Sitemap Generator Tool
- Google Gets Fearful, Flags Entire Internet As Malware Briefly
- Want To Rank Tops In Google? Do YouTube Videos, Stupid!
- Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
- YouTube Searchers: It’s All About The Music
- Beat the Competition by Anticipating Traffic Changes
- Your 2009 Marketing Budget: Why It’s Worth Revisiting
- Q& A With Andrew Silverman, Product Manager For AdWords Conversion Optimizer
- How Search Marketing Made Me a Fantasy Football Champion
- Choose Your CMS With Care
- My New Year’s Search Marketing Resolutions
- Content: The Once, Current & Future King Of Big Site SEO
- Internet Shopping Usability: No Guidance, No Interaction, No Sale
- More Ads = Better Ads = Better User Experience: Microsoft’s Success Formula?
- Social Media Gold: Ratings & Reviews
- The Extended Brain, Search Marketing & User Experience Design
- Are You An SEO Hybrid?
- Yelp Case Settled, But Bigger Issues Remain For Search & Reviews
- Consumer Groups Trying To Preempt Behavioral Targeting For Mobile Ads
- Harvard Prof: Deceptive Ads ‘Widespread’ On Yahoo’s Right Media
- Bush: Fix Your “Miserable Failure” Googlebomb Legacy Before Obama Takes Office
- Obama Is “Failure” At Google & “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo
- You’re Up A Link Creek Without An Anchor
- When Link Rehabilitation Is A Viable Option
- How To Maximize Your Link Traction
- What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 Ideas
- How To Appear In Multiple City Searches With One Website
- 2009: Is The Glass Half Full Or Half Empty For the Yellow Pages Industry?
- The Local Mobile Opportunity … “Yes We Should.”
- Ballmer: Do Yahoo Deal Sooner, Not Later
- Wacky Idea: A Yahoo-Nokia Combination
- Carol Bartz’s ‘Gut’ May Stop Yahoo Search Sale To Microsoft
- Yahoo & Microsoft Execs Meet Again
- Wired: Monopoly, Microsoft And The Anti-Google ‘Conspiracy’
- Layoffs At Microsoft Widely Expected To Be Announced This Week
- Report: Microsoft To Lay Off 15,000 Workers
- Microsoft Job Cuts May Come Next Week
- Microsoft’s Early Mistakes & Missed Opportunities With Paid Search
- Yahoo & Microsoft Execs Meet Again
- Layoffs At Microsoft Widely Expected To Be Announced This Week
- Microsoft Announces Q2 Results, 5,000 Layoffs
- Report: Microsoft To Lay Off 15,000 Workers
- Microsoft Job Cuts May Come Next Week
- Layoffs At Microsoft Widely Expected To Be Announced This Week
- Microsoft Announces Q2 Results, 5,000 Layoffs
- 2009 New Years Day Logos from Google & Others
- Google & Others Martin Luther King Jr.’s Logos
- Layoffs At Microsoft Widely Expected To Be Announced This Week
- Microsoft Announces Q2 Results, 5,000 Layoffs
- No Surprise: Google Is No. 1 Internet Property Worldwide
- Deal Puts Microsoft Live Search On Dell Computers, Verizon Phones — Will It Help?
- Live Search “Auto Suggest” Add-On For Firefox Released
- Microsoft Wins Verizon Mobile Search Derby
- Deal Puts Microsoft Live Search On Dell Computers, Verizon Phones — Will It Help?
- Microsoft Wins Verizon Mobile Search Derby
- Deal Puts Microsoft Live Search On Dell Computers, Verizon Phones — Will It Help?
- Beat the Competition by Anticipating Traffic Changes
- Bid Management Automation: Fraught with Questionable Assumptions
- The SEM RFP: Questions You Must Ask
- Google Trends Features ASCII Art Of 9/11
- Bush: Fix Your “Miserable Failure” Googlebomb Legacy Before Obama Takes Office
- Calculating The Carbon Footprint Of A Google Search
- Obama Stimulus, Predictions And Search
- Despite Inauguration, Google & Others Still Think It’s President Bush, Not President Obama
- Obama Is “Failure” At Google & “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo
- Pew: Young Or Old, Search Cuts Across Age Categories
- Google Street View Car Kills Bambi, Removes Pictures Afterward
- Search Biz: Yahoo-MSFT Update; Google’s 20% Time Changing & Google Router Coming Soon?
- Search Biz: Yahoo CEO Duel, MSFT Reconsiders Search Brand, MSN ‘Lewd’ In China & Google Won’t Buy Newspapers
- Search Biz: Yahoo Earnings, Google Lobbying, Tech Stimulus, Best Places To Work & Making PCs ‘History’
Search Engines: Blog Search Engines
Search Engines: Job Search Engines
Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines
- The Search Gap Between Consumers And Small Business Advertisers
- Yelp Case Settled, But Bigger Issues Remain For Search & Reviews
Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines
Search Engines: News Search Engines
Search Engines: Other Search Engines
Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines
Search Features: Enhanced Listings
- Search In Pictures: Snow Reaches Yahoo, YouTube’s Phone Booth & The Google Bear
- Search In Pictures: Googlers Dancing, Yahoo’s New CEO & Dinner Impossible At Yahoo
Search Marketing: Local Search Marketing
- The Big List of 2009 Marketing Predictions
- Google Local Business Ads Score New Features
- GetListed.org Aims To Simplify Local Search Marketing
- Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Top Search Marketer?
- Martin Schaedel (Lazerzubb) Killed In Plane Crash
- SMX West: Exceptional Value & Price – Register Before Jan. 10…Save $400
- SMX West Rates Increase Friday @ Midnight – Register Now!
- SMX West Keynotes: Battelle, Cerf & Sullivan
- Now Accepting Speaking Pitches For SMX Search Analytics
- Don’t Miss The Networking At SMX West – Online & In Person
- 2 Weeks Until SMX West, 3 Ways To Attend
- Just 1 Week Until SMX West, Register Today!
- 2009 New Years Day Logos from Google & Others
- The Big List of 2009 Marketing Predictions
- Are PPC Budgets Increasing Or Decreasing In These Recessionary Times?
- Google & Others Martin Luther King Jr.’s Logos
- Packaging Yourself For Success: A Search Marketer’s Resume Guide
- Are PPC Budgets Increasing Or Decreasing In These Recessionary Times?
- SEMPO’s Second Annual In-House Salary Survey Opens
- Report: Search Spending Off 8 Percent In Q4
- Integration With Search Still Lacking In Ad Campaigns
- Report: Google Leads U.S. Search Advertising Market With 76% Market Share
- Bruce Clay Releases Two New Tools
- GetListed.org Aims To Simplify Local Search Marketing
- Marin Software’s Multi-Conversion Tracking Helps Fine Tune Keyword Bidding
- Want To Rank Tops In Google? Do YouTube Videos, Stupid!
- SEO & Page Segmentation Analysis
- Think Like A Blackhat By Matt Cutts
- A Quick January 2009 SEO Update
- Submit Your Google Spam Suggestions For 2009
- Think Like A Blackhat By Matt Cutts
- Help Google Find ‘Empty Review Sites’
Social Media Marketing: Twitter
- Job Search Engines: The Hottest Thing Going
- No Surprise: Google Is No. 1 Internet Property Worldwide
- Search Market Share 2008: Google Grew, Yahoo & Microsoft Dropped & Stabilized
- The Search Gap Between Consumers And Small Business Advertisers
- Search Market Share 2008: Google Grew, Yahoo & Microsoft Dropped & Stabilized
- More Ads = Better Ads = Better User Experience: Microsoft’s Success Formula?
- The Search Gap Between Consumers And Small Business Advertisers
- The Obama Effect: Google Says President Changed Search Activity
- Pew: Young Or Old, Search Cuts Across Age Categories
- Are PPC Budgets Increasing Or Decreasing In These Recessionary Times?
- Report: Google Leads U.S. Search Advertising Market With 76% Market Share
Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser
- Is Your SEM Strategy Ready For Web 3.0?
- Tube Mogul Buys Video Analytics Firm
- Obama Inauguration Sets Standard For Live Video Streaming
- Report: Yahoo’s Search Ad Share Drops 36%
- Autodesk’s Carol Bartz Named New Yahoo CEO; Sue Decker To Leave As President
- Carol Bartz’s ‘Gut’ May Stop Yahoo Search Sale To Microsoft
- Yahoo & Microsoft Execs Meet Again
- Some Parallels Between Obama And Yahoo’s Carol Bartz
- Yahoo Q4 Shows Operating Loss; CEO Bartz: ‘This Is Not A Company That Needs To Be Pulled Apart And Left For The Chickens’
- Losing Hope With Yahoo, After Watching The Paid Search Division Stumble
- Joshua Schachter Lands At Google
- Autodesk’s Carol Bartz Named New Yahoo CEO; Sue Decker To Leave As President
- Carol Bartz’s ‘Gut’ May Stop Yahoo Search Sale To Microsoft
- Some Parallels Between Obama And Yahoo’s Carol Bartz
- 2009 New Years Day Logos from Google & Others
- Autodesk’s Carol Bartz Named New Yahoo CEO; Sue Decker To Leave As President
- Carol Bartz’s ‘Gut’ May Stop Yahoo Search Sale To Microsoft
- Google & Others Martin Luther King Jr.’s Logos
- Some Parallels Between Obama And Yahoo’s Carol Bartz
- No Surprise: Google Is No. 1 Internet Property Worldwide
- Obama Stimulus, Predictions And Search
- Yahoo Shows Wikipedia Some SearchMonkey Love
- Carol Bartz’s ‘Gut’ May Stop Yahoo Search Sale To Microsoft
- Yahoo To Advertisers: We Can Create Ads & Edit Keywords Without Asking First
- Report: Yahoo’s Search Ad Share Drops 36%
- Yahoo Shuts Down Content Match In UK
- Carol Bartz’s ‘Gut’ May Stop Yahoo Search Sale To Microsoft
- Yahoo Tries To Justify Automatic Account Optimization
- Losing Hope With Yahoo, After Watching The Paid Search Division Stumble
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