Search Month: June 2009 Search News, In Review
Jul 1, 2009 at 5:31pm 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.
- Microsoft’s New Bing Search Engine Now Live In “Preview”
- Google Local Business Center Adds Detailed Analytics
- Study: Google Tracking 88% Of Domains In Study
- Website Guilty Over Google’s Automated Snippet
- Google Positions As Amazon Competitor For EBook Market
- SMX Advanced Day 1: Live Blogging & Coverage
- Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting
- Live Blogging SMX Keynote With Microsoft’s Qi Lu
- Google Squared Is Now Live
- The Bing TV Commercials
- Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
- Bid Simulator Comes To Google AdWords
- Google Gets “Pole Position” On The Pre
- Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
- Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem
- Remember That AdSense Publisher That Sued Google & Won? Well, He Lost
- Keyen Farrell Countersues Jeremy Schoemaker, Claiming Defamation
- Bartz Continues Torpedoing Yahoo Search
- Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- Google Adds Reconsideration Request Status Updates
- What AdWords Customers Need To Know About $20 Million Settlement
- Google Adds Change of Address To Notify Google Of Domain Change
- Google SearchWiki: You Can ‘Check Out,’ But Your Results Don’t Leave
- Hunch: A Real Decision Engine
- Hunch: Your “Personal Decision Maker”
- Yahoo! Announces Common Tag: Like The Meta Keywords Tag, But Even Better
- PageRank Sculpting Is Dead! Long Live PageRank Sculpting!
- Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
- Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
- Microsoft’s Search Engine Optimization Advice for Bing
- Collecta And CrowdEye Join The “Real Time” Search Club
- Google Flipper: A Visual Version Of News?
- Google Street View Bike Does Santa Monica, Universities & More
- Why You Can’t See The Great Pacific Garbage Patch On Google Earth
- iPhone’s Spotlight Search
- Google’s Matt Cutts On “Over Optimization”
- Google AdSense for Mobile Applications Goes Into Public Beta
- How Twitter Might Send Far More Traffic Than You Think
- Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment
- Kayak Says Bing Isn’t Playing Air Fair, Hakia Sees Near Mirror Image
- 26 People Who Mislead You On Twitter
- Jeff Goldblum Is NOT Dead (Despite What Google Says)
- Focus Group Study Offers Good & Bad News For Bing
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- Google Tests Dropping Off Country Specific Search?
- OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search
- Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
- Ask.com Expands AnswerFarm Q&A Database
- PPC Recession Strategy: 7 Reasons To Keep Bidding On Your Brand Terms
- Display URL: Traffic Tricks Used By Brand Hijackers
- Microsoft’s New Bing Search Engine Now Live In “Preview”
- An Insider’s Look At SMX Advanced: Greg Sterling
- Google Positions As Amazon Competitor For EBook Market
- Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting
- Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
- Borrell Shines Light On “Local SEM” Churn
- Bartz Continues Torpedoing Yahoo Search
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- Yahoo Improves EU Mapping, Does It Still See Maps As Strategic?
- Hunch: Your “Personal Decision Maker”
- Yahoo! Announces Common Tag: Like The Meta Keywords Tag, But Even Better
- PageRank Sculpting Is Dead! Long Live PageRank Sculpting!
- Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
- Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
- Microsoft’s Search Engine Optimization Advice for Bing
- Wired: Facebook Trying To Dominate Web, Marginalize Google (Run For Your Lives!)
- How Twitter Might Send Far More Traffic Than You Think
- 26 People Who Mislead You On Twitter
- Focus Group Study Offers Good & Bad News For Bing
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- Google: We’re Not Really That Big But If We Are, We Aren’t Bad
- OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search
- Google Local Business Center Adds Detailed Analytics
- Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
- Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem
- Google “Freshness” Factor May Mean Big Implications For Retailers
- Why You Can’t See The Great Pacific Garbage Patch On Google Earth
- Former Live Search Director Launches Oyster.com, Hotel Review Site
- Remember That AdSense Publisher That Sued Google & Won? Well, He Lost
- Google AdSense for Mobile Applications Goes Into Public Beta
- Google Updates AdWords Editor (Version 7.5.1)
- Google’s New AdWords Interface Coming To Many Advertisers
- Bid Simulator Comes To Google AdWords
- Borrell Shines Light On “Local SEM” Churn
- Keyen Farrell Countersues Jeremy Schoemaker, Claiming Defamation
- What AdWords Customers Need To Know About $20 Million Settlement
- Google AdWords Testing “Opportunities” Tab?
- Google Enables Importing “Goals” Into AdWords For Easier Conversion Tracking
- Google To Test New Product Ads
- Google Export Adviser Beta
- AdWords Conversion Tracking: How To Optimize Your Account 10x Quicker
- YouTube To Launch “Call-To-Action Overlay” Ads
- Google Releases AdWords API v2009 (Beta)
- Study: Google Tracking 88% Of Domains In Study
- Google Analytics To Speak Bing Soon
- Google Analytics Now Considers Bing A Search Engine
- Google Enables Importing “Goals” Into AdWords For Easier Conversion Tracking
- Google Positions As Amazon Competitor For EBook Market
- DOJ Increases Scrutiny Of Google Book Settlement
- Google Book Search Adds Seven New Features
- Study: Google Tracking 88% Of Domains In Study
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- Google Positions As Amazon Competitor For EBook Market
- Google’s Anti-Trust Argument: We’re Part Of The Advertising Galaxy, Not The Search Solar System
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- DOJ Increases Scrutiny Of Google Book Settlement
- NY Post: “Fear Grips Google” — Really?
- China, Censorship & Google Redux
- Wired: Facebook Trying To Dominate Web, Marginalize Google (Run For Your Lives!)
- Google Wants The Web To Go Faster
- Google: We’re Not Really That Big But If We Are, We Aren’t Bad
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- China, Censorship & Google Redux
- Google Wants The Web To Go Faster
- Focus Group Study Offers Good & Bad News For Bing
- Google Images Quietly Adds Creative Commons Filter
- Google Researchers Create Landmark Image Search Engine
- Website Guilty Over Google’s Automated Snippet
- Google Positions As Amazon Competitor For EBook Market
- Remember That AdSense Publisher That Sued Google & Won? Well, He Lost
- What AdWords Customers Need To Know About $20 Million Settlement
- DOJ Increases Scrutiny Of Google Book Settlement
- Google: We’re Not Really That Big But If We Are, We Aren’t Bad
- Google Celebrates 25 Years Of Tetris With Doodle
- Google Goes Rainbow For Gay-Related Searches
- Happy Father’s Day From Google & Others
- Has Google Maps Switched From PageRank to “BizRank”?
- Google Local Business Center Adds Detailed Analytics
- Google Gets “Pole Position” On The Pre
- Borrell Shines Light On “Local SEM” Churn
- Keyen Farrell Countersues Jeremy Schoemaker, Claiming Defamation
- Clean Up Your Local Data!
- Voice Search Now On Google Maps For Android
- Why You Can’t See The Great Pacific Garbage Patch On Google Earth
- Google Maps Let’s You Discover “What’s Here”
- Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment
- Google’s Android Coming To Netbooks Via Acer
- Google Gets “Pole Position” On The Pre
- Yet Another Mobile iGoogle For iPhones & Android
- Google AdSense for Mobile Applications Goes Into Public Beta
- Wikipedia As News Source? In Latest Google Testing, Yes
- Google Flipper: A Visual Version Of News?
- It’s Official: Wikipedia Is A Google News Source
- Google News Hyperlinks Author Names
- Jeff Goldblum Is NOT Dead (Despite What Google Says)
- Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News
- China, Censorship & Google Redux
- Google Wants The Web To Go Faster
- Google Tests Dropping Off Country Specific Search?
- Borrell Shines Light On “Local SEM” Churn
- Google Adds Reconsideration Request Status Updates
- PageRank Sculpting Is Dead! Long Live PageRank Sculpting!
- Google “Freshness” Factor May Mean Big Implications For Retailers
- Google Now Indexing Flash From External Files
- Google Truncating Display URLs In Search Results
- Google’s Matt Cutts On “Over Optimization”
- Google Gives Presentation On Search Engine Optimization
- Jeff Goldblum Is NOT Dead (Despite What Google Says)
- Google Slides On Ranking Issues
- Google SearchWiki: You Can ‘Check Out,’ But Your Results Don’t Leave
- Google Truncating Display URLs In Search Results
- Google Showing Facebook Friends On Profile URLs
- Google Tests Dropping Off Country Specific Search?
- Website Guilty Over Google’s Automated Snippet
- Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
- How Google Suggestions Should Handle Adult Related Sites?
- Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
- Google “Freshness” Factor May Mean Big Implications For Retailers
- Google Truncating Display URLs In Search Results
- Google Showing Facebook Friends On Profile URLs
- Google Wants The Web To Go Faster
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- Google Tests Dropping Off Country Specific Search?
- Google Adds Reconsideration Request Status Updates
- Google Adds Change of Address To Notify Google Of Domain Change
- New Google Webmaster Tools Now Live For All Users
- Google Wants Your Feedback On Webmaster Central
- YouTube Leads Surge Of Online Video Watching In April
- Useful Search Options Comes To Google Video
- YouTube To Launch “Call-To-Action Overlay” Ads
- How To Use Long-Tailed Keyphrases in Your Linking Campaign
- The Link Builder’s Guide To Analyzing SERP Dominators For Link Opportunities
- How To: Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part 2
- Using Predictive Modeling In Seasonal Search Campaigns
- Beginners Guide To Creating Mobile AdWords Campaigns
- AdWords Conversion Tracking: How To Optimize Your Account 10x Quicker
- Fine Tuning Your Search Campaign To Today’s Economic Environment
- Affiliates: Trusted Allies Or Conniving Cannibals?
- A Case Study In Changing URL Structure
- Google Adds Change of Address To Notify Google Of Domain Change
- PageRank Sculpting Is Dead! Long Live PageRank Sculpting!
- Five Steps To Leveraging Great Content For Better Rankings
- Microsoft’s Search Engine Optimization Advice for Bing
- SEO Tips For Building Your Personal Brand
- How To: Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part 2
- How To: Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part 3
- Plan For The Long Run With Data-Driven SEO
- Attribution & The Customer Lifecycle: What Search Marketers Need To Know
- Clean Up Your Local Data!
- Riding The Rail: Plenty Of Time To Ponder Search
- Keyen Farrell Countersues Jeremy Schoemaker, Claiming Defamation
- Affiliates: Trusted Allies Or Conniving Cannibals?
- Will Digg’s New Share Feature Pollute Twitter?
- The 6 Types Of Annoying Social Media Promoters
- The Toolbar Factor: Engagement’s Role in Social Voting
- Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting
- Five Steps To Leveraging Great Content For Better Rankings
- Using Competitors To Build Links
- How To Use Long-Tailed Keyphrases in Your Linking Campaign
- Understanding Federated Link Building: A Primer With Examples
- The Link Builder’s Guide To Analyzing SERP Dominators For Link Opportunities
- Are You Link Building Or Just Keeping Up With The Joneses?
- Has Google Maps Switched From PageRank to “BizRank”?
- The Best Call Is A Local One
- Idearc’s Bankruptcy: Why? A Former Employee’s View
- Next Great Thing: Bing Draws On IYP Connection
- Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
- Google’s Anti-Trust Argument: We’re Part Of The Advertising Galaxy, Not The Search Solar System
- NBC Debuts “Addressable Advertising” With Microsoft Ads Platform
- Microsoft’s New Bing Search Engine Now Live In “Preview”
- The Big Bing Reaction
- Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider
- Live Blogging SMX Keynote With Microsoft’s Qi Lu
- The Bing TV Commercials
- Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
- Bing A Google-Killer? Get Real
- Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
- Google Analytics To Speak Bing Soon
- Hitwise UK: “People Actually Using Bing”
- Hulu Hosting ‘Bing-A-Thon’ Tonight
- Google’s Anti-Trust Argument: We’re Part Of The Advertising Galaxy, Not The Search Solar System
- comScore: Bing May Have Had Promising First Week
- Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- Translation: A New Instant Answer From Bing
- Bing Zaps Commercials On The Daily Show (& More Shows Coming Soon)
- NY Post: “Fear Grips Google” — Really?
- Microsoft Makes It Easier To Filter Out Unsafe Images In Bing
- Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
- Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
- Microsoft’s Search Engine Optimization Advice for Bing
- Happy Father’s Day From Google & Others
- Wired: Facebook Trying To Dominate Web, Marginalize Google (Run For Your Lives!)
- Focus Group Study Offers Good & Bad News For Bing
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- Microsoft Taking Click Fraud Battle To Court
- The Bing TV Commercials
- Hulu Hosting ‘Bing-A-Thon’ Tonight
- Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
- Bing Zaps Commercials On The Daily Show (& More Shows Coming Soon)
- Funny: “Googling With Bing”
- NBC Debuts “Addressable Advertising” With Microsoft Ads Platform
- Wired: Facebook Trying To Dominate Web, Marginalize Google (Run For Your Lives!)
- Paid Search Ad Testing: Manage To ROI Or CTR?
- Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
- Beginners Guide To Creating Mobile AdWords Campaigns
- The Long Tail of Paid Search Account Effort
- Fine Tuning Your Search Campaign To Today’s Economic Environment
- OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search
Search Engines: Answer Search Engines
Search Engines: Audio Search Engines
- Wired: Facebook Trying To Dominate Web, Marginalize Google (Run For Your Lives!)
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines
Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines
- Taptu Offers Search Engine For iPhone; 40 Percent Of iPhone Users Online More With Mobile
- iPhone’s Spotlight Search
Search Engines: News Search Engines
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News
Search Engines: Open Directory Project
Search Engines: Other Search Engines
Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines
Search Engines: Travel Search Engines
- Former Live Search Director Launches Oyster.com, Hotel Review Site
- Kayak Says Bing Isn’t Playing Air Fair, Hakia Sees Near Mirror Image
- Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem
- Twitter To Offer “Verified Accounts”
- Clean Tweets: New Add-On Zaps Twitter Spam
- Collecta And CrowdEye Join The “Real Time” Search Club
- How Twitter Might Send Far More Traffic Than You Think
- Shopping Search 2.0: Finding Deals & Coupons On Twitter
- 26 People Who Mislead You On Twitter
- Jeff Goldblum Is NOT Dead (Despite What Google Says)
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- Stephen Colbert Does Send-Up Of Twitter & Jeff Goldblum Death Rumor
Search Engines: Video Search Engines
- Translation: A New Instant Answer From Bing
- Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
- Search In Pictures: Bing Trucks, Cerf At Governo de Minas & Yahoo Sweets
- Search In Pictures: Sum of Google, Bing Fortune Cookie & Search Schwag
- Search In Pictures: Yahoo Cast, Bing Messiah Girls, & XL Google Rubic Cube
- Search In Pictures: King Albert II, Yahoo Girls & Pamela’s Pegman Piñata
Search Marketing: Search Term Research
- Fine Tuning Your Search Campaign To Today’s Economic Environment
- Five Steps To Leveraging Great Content For Better Rankings
- Using Predictive Modeling In Seasonal Search Campaigns
- Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
- Google Analytics Now Considers Bing A Search Engine
- How Twitter Might Send Far More Traffic Than You Think
- Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting
- Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem
- Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
- Clean Tweets: New Add-On Zaps Twitter Spam
- How To Handle Negative Reviews Of Your Business
- Do SMBs Still Need The Middleman To Advertise?
- Do-It-Yourself SEO Advice For SMBs
- SMX East Returns to NYC Oct. 5-7 – Registration Open
- Two Special Training Workshops Added To SMX East
- YouTube Leads Surge Of Online Video Watching In April
- Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
- Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
- Study: Google Tracking 88% Of Domains In Study
- Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
- Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
- OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search
- Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
- Hitwise UK: “People Actually Using Bing”
- Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
- Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News
- Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
- comScore: Bing May Have Had Promising First Week
- Google Analytics Now Considers Bing A Search Engine
- Taptu Offers Search Engine For iPhone; 40 Percent Of iPhone Users Online More With Mobile
- Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
- Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
- Taptu Offers Search Engine For iPhone; 40 Percent Of iPhone Users Online More With Mobile
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search
- Capturing the Value of Content Marketing
- Benefits Of Geo-Targeting A National PPC Campaign
- PPC Segmentation: 4 Tips To Better Target Customers
- Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider
- The Toolbar Factor: Engagement’s Role in Social Voting
Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser
- Yahoo Hires Software Exec For Top Communications Job
- Bartz Continues Torpedoing Yahoo Search
- Yahoo Improves EU Mapping, Does It Still See Maps As Strategic?
- Yahoo Hires Software Exec For Top Communications Job
- Bartz Continues Torpedoing Yahoo Search
- Yahoo Hires Morse As CFO
- Yahoo Improves EU Mapping, Does It Still See Maps As Strategic?
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
- Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News
- Yahoo Search June 2009 Update
- Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
- Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
- Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
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