SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 26, 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: What Is PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters Several times in the past few months, I’ve written about new Google features where PageRank was involved. Unfortunately, Google itself has very […]

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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:

  • What Is
    PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters

    Several times in the past few months, I’ve written about new Google features
    where PageRank was involved. Unfortunately, Google itself has very poor
    information about PageRank that I could use for those wanting to learn more
    about it. To solve that, here’s a guide to PageRank, designed for searchers
    and…
  • Google Revisits
    Historical Data Ranking Factors

    One of the biggest stirs of 2005 in the search marketing field was caused by
    the release of a patent application from Google titled Information retrieval
    based on historical data. It introduced time as a dimension of ranking pages,
    with changes in content and linking and advertising and topics as…
  • Portfolio.com
    Releases Executive Profiles Of Search Execs

    Gary Price reports that Portfolio.com released a database of top executives
    profiles, and part of that list includes many of the top executives from our
    beloved search engines. Here are quick links to some of those profiles of
    interest:…
  • Yahoo News
    Moves Images & Video News Results To Top

    Greg Jarboe reports Yahoo has added images and videos to the top of some of
    the Yahoo News search results. For example a search on apple options returns
    both image news results and video news results at the top of the news search
    page….
  • Settings For
    Google Personalized Homepage Disappear For Many

    Philipp Lenssen reports that dozens if not hundreds of Google Personalized
    Home Page users have lost their personalized settings. As of now, I currently
    see my customized and tailored Google home page but literally hundreds of
    people are commenting at Google Blogoscoped, Digg.com and Google Groups about
    this exact issue….
  • Oklahoma, Where
    The Google Comes Sweepin’ Down The Plain

    From California, Google has spread out across the great land of the United
    States. New York! Washington! Arizona! And now which of the fifty nifty United
    States is Google heading to next? Oklahoma! Below, some news of Google’s plans
    for the Sooner State and well as a recap of what…
  • Meet Your New
    Employee: Writer, Marketer, Evangelist

    We’re getting to the time of year when many small businesses are thinking
    about hiring summer help. Kids and young adults will be finishing school and
    looking for work, and there’ll be plenty of openings behind cash registers and
    at empty desks with a telephone. Most of these are…
  • SuperPages
    Changes Algorithm To Factor Clicks Into Ad Rankings

    SuperPages, like Yahoo! before it, has decided to factor in click-through
    rates in determining the order of sponsored ads. Bid price now becomes one of
    several considerations in arraying search results (geography and category
    obviously remain critical). VP Robyn Rose told me that the majority of the
    consumer traffic coming…
  • iCrossing Finds
    High Demand For Search And Local Content Among Mobile Users

    Search marketing firm iCrossing just released the results of a mobile Web
    usage survey with 1,001 US residents over the age of 16. The study found that
    about 30 percent of mobile users access the Internet, but among that
    population 75 percent used search. Assuming the survey methodology is sound…
  • Industry Group
    Proposes Eight Principles To Ensure Click Quality

    The Click Quality Council, a group of online advertisers, advertising agencies
    and click quality monitoring firms formed to propose and help establish
    standards for search advertising quality, has proposed eight principles for
    ensuring industry-wide click quality. The principles are the result of a six
    month effort by independent members of…
  • Stop Presses!
    Google Bested In Search Shoot-Out!

    PC World has released the results of its most recent search engine shoot-out,
    and surprise, surprise, found that "Google is indeed the best search engine."
    However… This wasn’t just a casual test, and Google wasn’t the best across
    the board with all types of queries and content. The author tested…

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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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