SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 21, 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: Will The TVAnywhere Initiative Miss The Point? The cable industry’s “TV Anywhere” strategy is much in the news this month, as a response to the rapid adoption by consumers of sites […]

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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:

  • Will The TVAnywhere Initiative Miss The Point?

    The cable industry’s “TV Anywhere” strategy is much in the news this month, as a response to the rapid adoption by consumers of sites and applications such as Hulu and Boxee. The cable industry is loath to make the mistake the record companies did, which was to misinterpret consumer downloading of music as a desire […]

  • Antonio Gulli Leaves Ask.com After 4 Years

    The next Ask.com personality to leave Ask.com is Antonio Gulli who was hired about four years ago to lead up the technology team in the European R&D center. Antonio announced he is leaving and explained what he worked while at Ask.com.
    He worked on: Image Search News and Blog search Video News Search DailyBeast Core Web Search Infrastructure RealTime Fresh […]

  • Search In Pictures: Bing Pong, Ask 3D Signatures & Yahoo Brands

    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.
    Bing Pong: Lost Ask 3D Team Signatures: Yahoo SUV: Yahoo Cap: Yahoo Gummy Bears:

  • Microsoft Releases New MSN Toolbar, Now Powered By Bing

    The Bing team tweeted last night that a new MSN Toolbar is now available at toolbar.msn.com. The new toolbar is supposedly now powered by Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine.
    I am not exactly sure what all the new features are but as you can see, the MSN butterfly is now being placed inline […]

  • The Dark Side Of Usability: When Business Goals & User Goals Collide

    We’ve all experienced it at some point; the sneaking suspicion that those we’ve chosen to trust may not be entirely worthy.
    Take web sites, for example.
    We visit a web site, look around and like what it has to offer. We want to believe that the site—and the company behind it—has our best interests at heart. […]

  • Microsoft, Yahoo, & Amazon Will Fight Google Book Settlement

    There are several reports (see New York Times and Wall Street Journal) that Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon will join a coalition aimed at challenging the Google book settlement.
    Peter Brantley, director of the Internet Archive, which is putting the coalition together, tells the Wall Street Journal that coalition members want the agreement revised, but aren’t necessarily […]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

Business Issues

Local, Maps & Mobile

Paid Search & Contextual

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SEM Industry

SEO & SEM

Social Media

Video, Music & Image Search


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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