SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 19, 2009

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 Mistrial’ – Is Search Getting In The Way Of Justice? Ask around and you probably won’t find many people who think the idea of “Internet everywhere” is a bad thing. […]

on March 19, 2009 at 5:34 pm | Reading time: 6 minutes
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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 Mistrial’ – Is Search Getting In The Way Of Justice?

    Ask around and you probably won’t find many people who think the idea of “Internet everywhere” is a bad thing. Thanks to laptops and smart phones, wi-fi and 3G, we can work (or play) at airports, check email during cab rides, and compare prices online from any department store. We can Google anyone or anything […]

  • Microsoft Demo Fest Shows Off New Ideas, Reporter Not Impressed

    Last month, Microsoft researchers from around the world showed off some of their most unique creations at the company’s TechFest 2009 event in Redmond. This month, a smaller group of Microsoft researchers took part in the 5th “Demo Fest” event — a smaller event that’s designed for researchers from adCenter Labs to show off their […]

  • Yahoo Search Adds Additional Image Filter Options

    The Yahoo Search Blog announced they have added additional filter options to Yahoo Image Search. You can now filter Yahoo Images by size, color, specific dimensions and even if it is from Flickr or not. For example, a search on grass allows you to click on “More filters.” When you click on it, these […]

  • Sony & Google Team Up In Digital Book Space

    Sony, Google Challenge Amazo from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is providing more than half-a-million public domain books to Sony, to offer on Sony’s digital book reader.
    Google Book Search has digitized millions of books and the partnership gives Sony users free access to these 500,000 public domain books in the Sony eBook store. […]

  • Google Adds More Street Views In UK & Netherlands, Canadian Directory Offers A Different ‘Street View’

    Google has released a bunch of new Street View images for cities in the UK and The Netherlands. Google Blogoscoped has a list of the UK cities. But you can just as easily drag “peg man” onto a UK or European map on Google and see the coverage. Recently Google added user photos to Street View. […]

  • How To Make Your Web Site Really Pay Off

    Most books on search marketing focus on either the technical aspects of SEO or paid search, or on how to adapt traditional marketing strategies to the web. Web Design For ROI, by Lance Loveday and Sandra Niehaus, is unique in its sharp focus on making your web site accomplish what should be its primary goal: […]

  • The Importance Of Measuring SMBs’ Online Visibility

    The term “online visibility” usually refers to the visibility of sites on the web. This column will discuss the online visibility of small and medium businesses (SMBs) and why it is harder to define, identify and measure SMB presence than web site visibility.Web site visibility consists of several relatively easy to measure features such as […]

  • Yahoo! Changes Its Video Strategy (Again)

    Back when Terry Semel ran Yahoo, the web portal embarked on a grand Hollywood-style video strategy that was abandoned after Semel stepped down. Now, with another change in CEOs, Yahoo is again reversing course and rolling out a new approach to web video. Carol Bartz is taking over from co-founder Jerry Yang, and among her first initiatives […]

  • Financial Times Launches Newssift, A Business News Search Engine

    Newssift, a semantic business news search engine created by The Financial Times, has launched in beta tonight. Currently indexing thousands of news sources worldwide, and with millions of articles in its database, Newssift aims to bring context and meaning that its creators say is missing from traditional keyword-based business news search engines.
    “We want to […]

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