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

From Search Engine Land:

• Analyzing The Major Shopping Search Services
  This week I’ll look at shopping search from the user’s perspective. We’ll be starting with the big three offerings from the major engines, Google’s Froogle, Yahoo Shopping and MSN Shopping. In the next Just Behave column I’ll be taking a test drive of some of the dedicated shopping search…
• Google Likes To Invest In “Crazy Ideas”
  Google’s Acquisitions Chief Looking for ‘Crazy’ Ideas from Bloomberg.com reports Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development as saying he conveying investing in crazy ideas. In short, the crazy ideas are the ideas that can be big successes. Ullah said, “the really crazy ones do really well,” explaining that “when…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

• Ask.com Announces New Search Algorithm “Edison”, SEO by the SEA
• Twitter trouble, Loud Thinking
• Don’t Just Focus on Google, Pronet Advertising
• Google opens Latin American headquarters in Argentina, MarketWatch
• Trying to break the Google habit, BBC NEWS
• The Log File Feedback SEO Method, V7N
• Google Checkout arrives in the UK!, Google Blog
• victory! I think!, Vanessa Fox
• Contacting Google, Google Blogoscoped
• Thomson provides PPC buying to listings customers, E-Consultancy
• Google AdSense Login Redesign, Google Blogoscoped
• Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2007 Pictures, ShoeMoney
• Use Google AdWords & AdSense Distribution Data to Broker Direct Ad Deals, SEOBook
• What Does Google Think You Look Like?, Read/Write Web
• Yahoo expanding ties to newspapers, San Jose Mercury News
• Google Website Optimizer Interview Transcript with Tom Leung, Grokdotcom
• Google Earth zooms in on New Zealand, Just the Flight
• An Interview with a Google Custom Search Engineer, Search Engine Watch Blog
• Google Reader Patent Applications, SEO By The Sea
• Domain Parking or Building SEO Assets?, Stefan Juhl
• A tale of two search engines, CNN Money
• Wall Street gears up for Yahoo and Google earnings, CNN Money
• Checking (Gary) Price, The Ask.com Blog
• Google teams with PennySaver in ad, content sharing deal, News.com
• Improve your account performance with expert help, Google AdWords Blog
• Yahoo! Search Aims for AIIM, Yahoo Search Blog
• Two-point-oh, Yahoo Publisher Network
• Link Building: Hyperlink Cliques and Clusters, Search Engine Journal
• Wrong Text Links for Google Apps Referral Program, Search Engine Journal
• How to generate search engine traffic through link building, Pandia
• Google: No Sponsored Links for Don Imus?, ClickZ
• Search Market Share Matters, or Why Yahoo! Needs Acquisitions Pronto, Traffick

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