SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 12, 2007

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

From Search Engine Land:

• Goodbye Teoma Algorithm, Hello Edison, Says Ask.com
  Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, has confirmed with me that Ask.com is working on Edison. Edison is the code name behind merging of Ask.com’s two different search technologies they own, Teoma and Direct Hit. Jim would not give me more information beyond that. I did speak with Apostolos Gerasoulis who…
• Hitwise: Search Popularity Static; Live.com Only Tiny Slice Of Microsoft’s Share
  The latest search popularity stats for March 2007 have come out from Hitwise. They show nothing different than last month. Google had a tiny 0.2 percent rise, while Yahoo dropped the same tiny amount. Live had a tiny 0.3 percent rise, though given Live’s already small amount of traffic, that’s…
• CBS To Distribute TV Shows Via MSN & AOL According To WSJ
  CBS’s Web Reach to Grow from the Wall Street Journal reports that CBS Corp. is “close” to announcing a deal with MSN and AOL over distributing some of their TV shows and “other video programming.” The Wall Street Journal believes we will hear announcements as early as today that CBS…
• Utah Law Limiting Use Of Keyword Advertising
  Google opposes Utah law limiting keyword advertising from the LA Times, that Danny covered earlier, picked up on Eric Goldman’s coverage of a new state law passed in Utah that limits the use of the types of keywords you can buy in your sponsored search campaigns. Reportedly, Google is “objecting”…
• Small Businesses Getting Social: Individual and Community Efforts
  In the online world, we’ve seen the emergence of social networking sites that allow for the discovery and sharing of websites, of bookmarks, of common interests, and the meeting of friends and friends of friends. In the business world offline, small businesses have the opportunity to be socially active…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

• Google as shopper’s helper, News.com
• Google Releases Detailed Content Network Reports, Marketing Pilgrim
• British Government Asks Google for Help Fighting Cyber Bullying, Marketing Pilgrim
• Temporary Downtime: Account Maintenance and Unavailability, Google Analytics Blog
• Google’s challenge: Prevent the exodus, Seattle Times Newspaper
• 302 Hijacking Returns to a Google SERP Near You, Threadwatch.org
• 5 Reasons Why Google Personalized Home is better than My Yahoo!, Web Analytics World
• Presidential candidates to appear on YouTube, News.com
• Google.com Search Results Shake Up on April 10, Search Engine Roundtable
• More than Four Million Permanently Archived Web Pages from U.S. Congress Now Available via 109th Congress Web Harvest, ResourceShelf
• Technorati makes first major acquisition, News.com
• 3D buildings on Google Maps, Googling Google
• Yahoo! Contextual Advertisements in Print Publications, SEO by the SEA
• New Google Maps Feature – 2.5D Buildings, Google Earth Blog
• Tele Atlas Plans to Map Out Asia, The Hartford Courant
• Yahoo! Eyes Voice Search Space, The Street
• Yahoo! Gift Supports Global Communications Research, Georgetown University
• Google’s acquisition strategy should think small (and mobile), ZDNet
• A note on traffic exchange programs, Google Adsense Blog
• Google Answers Down, Google Blogoscoped
• The Economics of Content – Yahoo Close To Acquiring Rivals.com; Price Could Reach Nine Figures, paidContent.org
• Google denies plans to overhaul YouTube, New Media Age
• Google Acquisition Strategy: Go Nuts, Use Code, John Battelle’s Searchblog
• Now you can blog in Hindi, Google Blog
• How to use Google Webmaster Tools, Joost devalk
• Where???s SEM These Days at SES NY 2007?, SEM Geek
• Why Search Sucks/ Why Search Rocks, Search Engine Journal
• Yahoo! Increases Quality Initiatives, Yahoo Publisher Network
• Where most Search Engine traffic Comes from, ViperChill
• Book Review: How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders, Marketing Pilgrim
• How To Export Your Google Adwords Account, PPC Lab
• I Tie Up Mike McDonald & Interview Vanessa Fox… Again, SEOmoz