SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 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 Brings ‘My Location’ To The Desktop
  

  Knowing where a searcher is when s/he conducts a search is one of the big promises and opportunities in mobile search. Advertisers want the precise targeting, and it’s also a convenience for the user who doesn’t need to indicate a location when looking for products and services. There are already several tools and services that [...]

• Search In Pictures: Danielle Bux @ Ask, Yahoo Urinals & Internet Gurus
  

  In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. The Yahoo Mobile Car:

  Danielle Bux Working with Ask.com’s Butler:

  José Luis Fuertes, Vinton Cerf y William Loughboroug at [...]

• Microsoft Earnings: The Morning After
  

  Yesterday Microsoft announced earnings. Though the company had $13.65 billion in revenue, it saw its first YoY revenue decline since becoming a public company. The bruising headline is: Microsoft Profit Falls for First Time in 23 Years. Below are two charts of interest, the first showing division revenues and the second focused on online business services [...]

• Yelp Allows Business Owners To Talk Back On Site
  

  Yelp has partly been successful because it was so focused on the consumer. Other competing local sites, such as Cox’s Kudzu or most of the internet yellow pages sites, among others, have for a long time tried to strike more balance between businesses and consumers. For example, they have allowed business owners to respond or [...]

• How Does Your Web Site Make Visitors Feel?
  

  I’ve been exploring and researching the relationship between computers and people. More specifically, I’m fascinated by web sites and how, or if, they affect us emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually. As a web site designer, what special power do you hold in your artistic hands? As a blogger, what kind of reaction [...]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• PowerPoint and TIFF file viewing, Official Gmail Blog

Business Issues

• Framestore crafts a CG butler for the return of Ask Jeeves, Network World
• Lawmakers Examine Privacy Practices at Cable, Web Firms, Wall Street Journal
• YouTube’s Bold Move Toward Profitability, BusinessWeek

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Utterly Frustrating Experience With Google’s LBC, SEO Igloo Blog
• Yelp Review Commenting Now Live, Screenwerk
• Global Live Search Local Listings Coming Soon, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Maps Counts CityVoter Reviews Backwards, Mike Blumenthal
• Rendering Static Virtual Earth Bird’s Eye Images, Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog

Link Building

• Baiting for Links with Fake Websites, SEO Smarty
• 8 Step Guide to Using Facebook to Generate Links & Business, SEO.com
• Digg Selling Links Off Digg.com?, Brent Csutoras
• The 3-Step, 2-For-1 Link Building Technique, seoroi.com
• The links you don’t want indexed by the engines, Econsultancy

Paid Search & Contextual

• New Interface Thursdays: All about filters, Inside AdWords
• Search Query Reporting in the New AdWords Interface, Search Marketing Sage

Searching

• Take me out to the ballgame, Live Search
• What are People Search for on MedlinePlus? Visit Their New Search Cloud!, ResourceShelf

SEM Industry

• Google Maps now on Twitter!, Google LatLong

SEO & SEM

• Buying Links vs Buying Rankings vs Stealing Content, SEO Book
• MSNbot Complaint Escalation Path, Live Search Webmaster Center Blog
• The Importance Of Graphics In SEO, SEO Book
• Tips on requesting reconsideration, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
• What’s Your SEO Code? – Musings on Outing other Websites for Fun and Profit, www.stuntdubl.com
• Which SEO agency do you recommend?, YouTube
• Whiteboard Friday – Off-site "Over-Optimization", SEOmoz

Social Media

• Latest Twitter Bug: “Misdelivery of Direct Messages”, TechCrunch
• Preliminary Results From Survey of Wikipedia Readers and Contributors Available, ResourceShelf
• Twitter Marketing: Why You Don’t Need to Mass Follow Twitter Users, Dosh Dosh
• Why Bloggers Love Twitter, Barry Schwartz

Video, Music & Image Search

• More Bad News: The Curtains Close On Lycos Cinema, TechCrunch

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