Yahoo Wins Mobile Carrier Relationship From Google In Germany

Nov 2, 2009 at 8:00pm ET by Greg Sterling   

Yahoo reported today that the company had “entered into an exclusive, multi-year, partnership with O2 Germany to become the preferred partner for mobile search and services, displacing Google.” Paid search results are reportedly part of the deal (and likely a revenue share as well). According to press materials: O2 users now have direct access to Yahoo!’s [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 2009

Nov 2, 2009 at 4:59pm 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, Yahoo, Bing Bury GeoCities.com, But Some Zombie Sites Are Still Alive Although some GeoCities web sites are still online, all three major search engines have removed the domain from their search indices. [...]

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Google Releases Voice Search In China For Nokia S60s

Nov 2, 2009 at 1:10pm ET by Greg Sterling   

Google announced that it had released voice search for Mandarin Chinese for Nokia S60 phones. This is potentially huge — if Google gets it right — because of the massive population in China. It could also drive more search usage and frequency. Google trails Baidu on the PC but mobile represents an opportunity for Google [...]

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Got a PPC Question? Bring it to tomorrow’s SMN Webcast -Nov. 3, 1 PM EST

Nov 2, 2009 at 9:31am ET by Search Engine Land   

Search Marketing Now will host an interactive webcast tomorrow that’s all Q+A: “Ask iProspect – PPC Strategy & Tactics from the Experts.” Senior management from iProspect will take questions from the audience — both live and those submitted in advance. Based on questions already submitted by registrants, we’ll be talking about everything from how many keywords [...]

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I Vant To Suck Your Bing

Oct 30, 2009 at 5:21pm ET by Greg Sterling   

Here’s a post for a relatively slow Friday afternoon: two ads for Bing that vaguely tie in with Halloween. Halloween is generally speaking a children’s holiday. So first comes a “Bing Goes the Internet” video featuring elementary school children. Years from now this may qualify as a pop-culture nostalgia moment: And then a more sophisticated and [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 30, 2009

Oct 30, 2009 at 3:57pm 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:

Bing Adds NFL, Flight Information To Mobile Browser Bing has announced a couple additions to its mobile browser today: expanded NFL information and airline flight status reports. The NFL feature works by typing in [...]

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Bing Adds NFL, Flight Information To Mobile Browser

Oct 30, 2009 at 3:03pm ET by Matt McGee   

Bing has announced a couple additions to its mobile browser today: expanded NFL information and airline flight status reports.

The NFL feature works by typing in a team or player’s name, and provides stats, scores, and schedule details. Bing also says you’ll get “eal-time updates on the plays” while a game is being played. The flight status [...]

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Despite PageRank Dropping In Webmaster Tools, Google Pushes Toolbar PageRank Update

Oct 30, 2009 at 3:00pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Fifteen-days ago, Google dropped PageRank values from Webmaster Tools and the search community took that as a bold statement. The statement was clear, webmasters “shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much,” said Google. Last night, Google pushed out a Google Toolbar PageRank update, despite making that bold statement just a couple weeks ago. As Danny [...]

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Facebook Wins Big Anti-Spam Judgment

Oct 30, 2009 at 11:16am ET by Greg Sterling   

Facebook has been in an ongoing fight against spam and yesterday announced a significant victory in court. The company said it had obtained an eye-popping $711 million judgment against Spam King Sanford Wallace who had had posted unwanted messages on Facebook users’ Walls. Wallace, who is reportedly bankrupt may also face time in the big [...]

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Twitter Lists Goes Live

Oct 30, 2009 at 10:01am ET by Barry Schwartz   

A month ago, Twitter said they would be rolling out Twitter lists. That day has finally come and almost all users can create their own lists. Lists are basically a way for Twitter users to create groups of Twitter users into categories. For example, you can find the Search Engine Land [...]

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Google Maps Makes Real Estate Search More Visible

Oct 29, 2009 at 7:03pm ET by Matt McGee   

Google continues to make real estate listings more prominent inside Google Maps, and in doing so, it continues to inch closer to being a full-fledged real estate search engine. The company announced today that a new “real estate” option has been added across Google Maps. It appears under the “More” tab, along with Photos, Videos, [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 29, 2009

Oct 29, 2009 at 5:11pm 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:

So What Are We To Make Of The “Ying” Search Delay? I got two calls yesterday from people asking what I made of the Yahoo-Microsoft failure to meet their self-imposed search-deal deadline (October [...]

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So What Are We To Make Of The “Ying” Search Delay?

Oct 29, 2009 at 1:35pm ET by Greg Sterling   

I got two calls yesterday from people asking what I made of the Yahoo-Microsoft failure to meet their self-imposed search-deal deadline (October 27). I said it was probably just a case of needing more time to work through some of the details rather than a warning sign that the entire deal was in jeopardy. There’s much [...]

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Study: Google, The “Most Attractive Employer”

Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Universum released a report that shows Google is the “most attractive employer” globally. Google was ranked number one in both the top 50 global businesses and engineering companies. Microsoft was also up there on that list, ranked as number three for business and 2 for engineering. The study asked about 120,000 students [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 28, 2009

Oct 28, 2009 at 5:04pm 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:

Fall In Line: Understanding SEO’s Place In Company Ecosystem We’ve all been there. Heck, many of us are still there right now. We come to work every day, game to do whatever it [...]

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Yahoo Search Adds Google Profiles & Content To Search Filters

Oct 28, 2009 at 11:36am ET by Barry Schwartz   

If you search on my name and location, [barry schwartz, ny], in Yahoo Search, you will see a Google Profile matches and other related content from Google within Yahoo’s new search format. Notice the Google filter on the left hand side:

When you click on the Google button, you are taken to results only found on Google.com:

Clearly, [...]

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Find Similar Images Now In Google Image Search

Oct 28, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Six months ago, Google released an image search labs project that allowed you to search by similarity within image search. Google announced that they have promoted that labs project as a default feature in Google Image Search. Now when you search on Google Images, you may often find a link under the image that says, [...]

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Diller Says He’s Willing To Sell Ask.com

Oct 27, 2009 at 7:43pm ET by Matt McGee   

Barry Diller, CEO of IAC — the parent company of Ask.com — said today that he’s willing to sell the struggling, fourth-place search engine. His comments came during a conference call with investors after IAC reported its 3rd quarter earnings. “We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area of [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 27, 2009

Oct 27, 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:

Chinese Newspaper Says Google Censored Its Web Site Oh, the irony: The People’s Daily, the main newspaper of China’s Communist Party, says Google censored its web site by adding a malware warning to [...]

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Chinese Newspaper Says Google Censored Its Web Site

Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04pm ET by Matt McGee   

Oh, the irony: The People’s Daily, the main newspaper of China’s Communist Party, says Google censored its web site by adding a malware warning to search result listings for the newspaper’s book section. The paper says the malware warning appeared after it ran an article about a Chinese group that has suggested Google’s book search [...]

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