SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 19, 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: Google Offers "Queryless Search" & Personalized Recommendations Google is rolling out two features today that subtly but meaningfully enhance the level of personalization offered to anyone with a Google account. And […]

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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 Offers "Queryless
    Search" & Personalized Recommendations

    Google is rolling out two features today that subtly but meaningfully enhance
    the level of personalization offered to anyone with a Google account. And
    while they’re tied to your search behavior, they don’t directly alter the
    standard search results you see, even if you’ve enabled personalization by
    searching while signed…
  • StumbleUpon
    Acquired By eBay: "Just Rumors," Says Founder

    The blogosphere is abuzz with rumors that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon, but
    they’re "just rumors," Garrett Camp, one of StumbleUpon’s founders just told
    me on the phone. "There have been rumors before and that’s what they are now,"
    Camp said. Of course, if the company is in play, Camp would…
  • EU Group May
    Serve Google With Letter Over Data Retention Policies

    Google might be receiving a letter from the European Union’s Article 29 Data
    Protection Working Party relating to the company’s data retention policies.
    What’s in the letter — if there are concerns, requests, demands — is unknown
    at this point. No one yet seems to have a copy of the…
  • Yahoo Sued For
    Allegedly Helping Jail Wang Xiaoning

    Chinese couple sues Yahoo for man’s imprisonment from Reuters reports that
    Wang Xiaoning and his wife Yu Ling have sued Yahoo in the U.S. District Court
    for Northern California for allegedly helping the Chinese government prosecute
    Wang Xiaoning. The filing said that Xiaoning was in custody, he was "subjected
    to…
  • Experian
    Acquires Hitwise For $240 Million

    Experian has acquired Hitwise for about $240 million. Experian posted and
    Hitwise posted their respective press releases on the announcement….
  • Click Fraud On
    The Rise, Says Click Forensics

    Click Forensics, the company that maintains the Click Fraud Index, a network
    that monitors and reports on data gathered from more than 3,500 online
    advertisers and their agencies, has released its most recent quarterly report
    on click fraud. The company found that the overall industry average click
    fraud rate was…
  • American Blinds
    Suit Against Google Over Trademarks To Go To Trial

    Judge won’t dismiss Google trademark suit from Reuters reports that the
    long-standing lawsuit over keywords linked to trademarked terms filed by
    American Blinds against Google will continue to trial. Google’s request for
    summary judgment has been denied. Google’s won in two similar suits within the
    US. Courtesy of Gary…
  • QueryCAT –
    Search FAQs

    QueryCat is a search engine that is designed to search frequently asked
    questions, and they claim to have the largest database of these, by using the
    Alexa web crawler. They have apparently indexed over 2 million questions and
    answers (though this information isn’t on the website) which is a fair…
  • Google
    Webmaster Central Provides More Detailed Anchor Text Reporting

    Vanessa Fox of Google Webmaster Central announced an upgrade to their anchor
    text reports. Anchor text reporting was added last month, as Danny’s Google
    Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases article covers. In that, he had some wish
    list items. The new features include some of those and other changes:…
  • Fifty Questions
    You Need Answered Before Starting Your SEO Campaign

    An online business owner basically has two choices when it comes to their
    website marketing efforts. They can outsource it or they can do it in-house.
    Both of these options bring a number of secondary options to choose from and
    its up to the business owner to do what…
  • Judy’s Book
    Launches ‘CouponLooker’ Search Engine

    Judy’s Book, which has gone through a very interesting and very public change
    in its business model – from local directory with reviews to shopping site –
    has now launched a search engine for deals and coupons: CouponLooker.com. It
    seeks to be an aggregator of deals online to enable people…
  • Goodbye Froogle,
    Hello Google Product Search!

    Back in December 2002, Google launched its long expected product and shopping
    search engine. It was called Froogle, a combination of "frugal" and "Google."
    Just over four years later, Froogle is finally losing its cutesy name for
    something more descriptive — to become Google Product Search. It will also…

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Danny Sullivan
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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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