FriendFeed Joins The Real-Time Search Race

Jul 2, 2009 at 7:28pm ET by Matt McGee   

Add FriendFeed to the long and growing list of players who are trying to win the race for comprehensive and quick real-time search. FriendFeed has always had a real-time element — the ability to track social activities almost as they happen. But the company has announced the addition of real-time search today.

If you’ve used search.twitter.com, [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2009

Jul 2, 2009 at 5:07pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:

Google Blog Search Sees Twitter Trends & Raises With Blog Search ‘Hot Queries’ A lot of the innovation in search these days is all about What’s happening right now? Twitter is the poster [...]

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Google Blog Search Sees Twitter Trends & Raises With Blog Search ‘Hot Queries’

Jul 2, 2009 at 3:52pm ET by Matt McGee   

A lot of the innovation in search these days is all about What’s happening right now? Twitter is the poster child where real-time search is concerned, and despite its ongoing spam problem, Twitter Trends has become one of the primary places to get a snapshot of what’s happening now. Google Blog Search is getting in the [...]

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Google News No Longer Wants Newsmaker’s Comments

Jul 2, 2009 at 9:54am ET by Barry Schwartz   

In August 2007, Google News released a feature to allow newsmakers to add comments to stories found in Google News. That feature has gone away very quietly. When Google News launched the feature, not only did we find it “weird,” but we felt that Google didn’t “know what they’re getting into.” Google told the [...]

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Google Book Search Lawsuit Gets Conference Treatment

Jul 2, 2009 at 5:04am ET by Matt McGee   

New York Law School will host a three-day conference about the Google Book Search lawsuit starting on October 8 — one day after the rescheduled fairness hearing that may decide the case’s future. You may recall that the judge in the case has already given tentative approval to the $125 million settlement, but about six weeks [...]

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Hunch Doing ‘Pretty Well,’ Co-Founder Says

Jul 2, 2009 at 3:11am ET by Matt McGee   

Barely two weeks after its launch, Hunch is already taking stock of its progress. “How well do we think Hunch is working?,” asks co-founder Chris Dixon. “Pretty well, although we still have a ways to go.” Writing on the Hunch blog, Dixon explains that the decision engine is using what it calls “success rate” as its [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 1, 2009

Jul 1, 2009 at 5:00pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:

Google Book Search Now With Cloud Tag The Google Book Search Blog announced a neat new feature that allows you to peek into the book via what is known as a cloud tag. [...]

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Google Book Search Now With Cloud Tag

Jul 1, 2009 at 2:16pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

The Google Book Search Blog announced a neat new feature that allows you to peek into the book via what is known as a cloud tag. The cloud tag shows you the most common terms and phrases used in the book, with the bigger the terms, the more that term is used in the [...]

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Google Toolbar For IE Adds “Advanced” Translation

Jul 1, 2009 at 8:52am ET by Barry Schwartz   

The Google Blog announced the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE (Internet Explorer) has new “advanced translation” capabilities. The translation features include:

Automatic detection of languages other than your default language One click translation Client side (does not communicate with Google) language detection Automatic language translation on page clicks Real-time translation for dynamic content Auto translation feature (bypass [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 30, 2009

Jun 30, 2009 at 5:00pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:

OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search Search and display. One often hears how they work together, but there’s still plenty of skepticism out there, especially in the SEM community, about the value [...]

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Stephen Colbert Does Send-Up Of Twitter & Jeff Goldblum Death Rumor

Jun 30, 2009 at 1:11pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

Last week, we covered how a rumor that Jeff Goldblum was dead spread on Twitter and even Google . This week, Stephen Colbert did a great send-up of the rumor, including a visit by Goldblum himself. The clip starts out with Colbert saying: “I was on the Twitter this weekend, and I saw a tweetening of the [...]

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Google Releases AdWords API v2009 (Beta)

Jun 30, 2009 at 9:55am ET by Barry Schwartz   

The Google AdWords API Blog announced the new AdWords API v2009. The new API promises “more speed, scale, and flexibility to developers, at a lower cost.” The AdWords API v2009 will ultimately replace version 13, and there are “significant” differences between the two. The biggest additions include:

Partial failure acceptance - We plan [...]

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YouTube To Launch “Call-To-Action Overlay” Ads

Jun 30, 2009 at 9:08am ET by Barry Schwartz   

TechCrunch reports that YouTube is adding a new ad type to its ad mix named “Call-To-Action Overlay” ads. These ads are very simple, they basically allow you to add a link to a third-party site, off of YouTube. The ad is a transparent background with an ad description and link to any site [...]

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Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News

Jun 30, 2009 at 3:55am ET by Matt McGee   

Yahoo News was the web’s number one choice last week for information about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson. In a post on the Hitwise blog, Heather Dougherty shows a chart detailing how the major online News & Media sites fared:

Late last week I wrote about how each of the major search engines handled the [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 29, 2009

Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:

The Long Tail of Paid Search Account Effort If you spend enough time sitting at your desk in summer, you can go slightly insane. That aside, daydreaming sometimes leads to back-door observations, studies [...]

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Two Special Training Workshops Added To SMX East

Jun 29, 2009 at 3:04pm ET by Search Engine Land   

Join us for workshops that take a deep dive on search engine optimization (SEO) or issues confronting in-house SEM professionals at Search Marketing Expo - SMX East. The seminars will be held October 8, immediately following SMX East on October 5-7. Keep reading for descriptions of In-house SEM Exchange and Bruce Clay SEO training [...]

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Google: We’re Not Really That Big But If We Are, We Aren’t Bad

Jun 29, 2009 at 11:53am ET by Greg Sterling   

The NY Times offers a broad article about Google’s efforts to define, explain and clarify its place in the market in the face of increasing anti-trust scrutiny (Google Makes a Case That It Isn’t So Big). There are currently three Justice Department investigations pending that involve Google, concerning its Book Search settlement, overlapping directors with [...]

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Google Slides On Ranking Issues

Jun 29, 2009 at 9:31am ET by Barry Schwartz   

The Google Webmaster Central blog posted slides on traffic drops and site architecture issues. The slides are from an SMX London 2009 presentation.

For more information, see the Google blog post.

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Funny: “Googling With Bing”

Jun 29, 2009 at 9:22am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Monday’s can be rough for many people, so I thought I share with you a funny video named “Googling with Bing.” It basically is a Bing commercial, but they replace the word “search” with “Google.”

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Hat tip to TechCrunch for spotting this.

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Google Thinks Michael Jackson Died At Age 65 In 2007

Jun 27, 2009 at 2:39pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

Oops. Bad, Google. Occasionally the service inserts direct answers to searches at the top of its results. It makes guesses at this, and in the case of michael jackson died, it’s making the wrong guess. Henry Elliss tipped us that Google’s showing that Michael Jackson died in 2007, at age 65. The problem? Google’s drawing on [...]

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