SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 17, 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 Q1 Revs $5.5 billion, Down 3 Percent Vs. Q4
  

  Although revenues grew 6 percent compared with Q1 2008, Google suffered its first quarter-over-quarter decline (3 percent), as it announced Q1 revenues this afternoon. From the press release: Revenues – Google reported revenues of $5.51 billion in the first quarter of 2009, representing a 6% increase over first quarter 2008 revenues of $5.19 billion and a [...]

• Paid Search: Moving Beyond The Keyword
  

  With more products, features and prices available in comparison to physical stores, the sheer time and transportation savings are making the Web an increasingly preferred shopping venue. In fact, according to the latest Forrester research, online shopping is growing five times faster than brick and mortar stores, with a projected growth of 14 percent by [...]

• Google Maps Adds Webcam Layer
  

  Google Operating System noticed that Google Maps has added a new layer named Webcams. Clicking on that layer, will show you some of the available webcams available on the roads you are looking at. For example, I zoomed into the George Washington Bridge, which connects New Jersey to New York City and it showed me [...]

• YouTube Moves: Google TV Ads And More Premium Content
  

  YouTube is clearly evolving before our eyes — from a site that was largely about viral, user-generated content (UGC) to a premium content destination that may one day be a viable replacement for cable TV. First the news. Google/YouTube has signed deals with more studios to expand the range of full-length TV and movies content on [...]

• Don’t Forget SEO For Navigational Searches
  

  During search engine optimization (SEO) consultations, we search professionals often see and hear things that make our jaws drop. Even after years and years of knowledge distribution through email newsletters, blogs, forums, and other forms of social media, we still witness companies making really stupid optimization mistakes. Since I am a strong believer in learning [...]

• Golden Nuggets From SMX Search Analytics
  

  Generally, I’m not much of a note taker at conferences. I will jot down the occasional URL to check out later, but I’d much rather pay full attention to the speakers and their presentations than miss things as I’m trying to write down what they just said. However, at last month’s SMX Search [...]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Chrome update offers tab micromanagement options, News
• Google pushing chrome on UK IE users!!, SEO Home
• New in Labs: Suggest more recipients, Official Gmail Blog

Business Issues

• Can Carol Bartz help Yahoo compete with Google?, CNN Money
• Graeme Dinwoodie on Rescuecom v. Google, Eric Goldman
• Schmidt: Google Would Be ‘Happy’ To Work With Twitter, paidContent.org
• Baidu CEO says ad sales picked up since late Jan, Reuters
• Google Still Hiring Lots of Engineers (And Some Daycare Workers Too), paidContent.org
• Yahoo names Monster’s Tadanki as India head, Times of India
• Yahoo Seen Posting Drops In 1Q Net, Sales Amid Job-Cut Chatter, Wall Street Journal

Local, Maps & Mobile

• AT&T Launches Child Locator Service with Virtual Earth, Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
• Google News Mobile Edition Days Behind?, Search Engine Roundtable

Link Building

• Links That Might Not Appear As Links, Search Engine Roundtable

Paid Search & Contextual

• New AdWords Interface In Beta: See What’s New, Different and Better – Part 2, PPC Hero
• API Sandbox maintenance tonight, adCenter API Blog for Developers
• Cool New Google Analytics Add-ons, Ophir Cohen
• Uploading Campaigns from other PPC Providers into adCenter in 3 Easy Steps, adCenter Blog for Advertisers
• Your introduction to Google Ad Manager (Part 2 of 2), Inside AdSense

Searching

• Google’s Cache Highlighting Colors May Be Wrong, Search Engine Roundtable

SEM Industry

• SEO Clients: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and Umm… 2 More, All Things SEM
• SEO, Popularity And The Way Forward, SEO Book
• My Dial Goes To 11, daggle.com

SEO & SEM

• Can I tell Google not to use the posting date in my snippet?, YouTube
• How can I optimize for "deep web" crawling?, YouTube
• Improve Public Relations with SEO & Social Media, Online Marketing Blog
• Small Business SEO: How To Launch That Web site, outspokenmedia.com
• Beginners Guide To Local SEO, Site Visibility
• How Google Might Top Search Results with Additional Information, SEO By The Sea
• Keyword search data, DaveyP.com
• Over-Used Marketing Tactics May Still Work Like a Charm, Search Engine Journal
• SEO Psychology: Taming the Wild Webmaster, SEO.com
• What’s a preferred site structure?, YouTube
• Whiteboard Friday – On-Site Over Optimization, SEOmoz

Social Media

• Should Twitter Remove Its Follower Count?, TechCrunch
• Voting Begins on Governing the Facebook Site, Facebook

Video, Music & Image Search

• Tweaking the image algorithm, Cuil Blog
• Watch Shows and Movies on YouTube, YouTube Blog

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