Aug 29, 2007 at 3:58pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
-
Yahoo Launches Search Suggestions In The UK
Yahoo UK has launched Search Suggest at Yahoo Search for UK users. If you do not see it now, you will probably see it in the “coming days,” a Yahoo representative told me. When you begin to type a keyword, Yahoo will now offer their UK users suggestions. I covered…
-
Sproose Adds Voting To Help Rank Video Search Results
Sproose announced the launch of a Digg-like element to their video search engine. Users can now vote on video results at Sproose, which will have a direct impact on the rank of those video search results. The look is very similar to Digg, allowing users to click an “I like…
-
Flash Earth Puts Google Earth, Virtual Earth & Others On Web
FlashEarth Mashup with Google Earth 4.2 from the Google Earth Blog reports on a site named Flash Earth that provides mapping services from several provides in a desktop like experience, using Flash technologies. Flash Earth gives you mapping data from Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps, OpenLayers and NASA…
-
CCIA, Google & Microsoft Launch “Defend Fair Use” Web Site
Google, Microsoft-backed group ready to Defend Fair Use from Ars Technica reports Google and Microsoft are backing a new web site, organized by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), named Defend Fair Use. The web site is accepting signed petitions to support their push to make copyrights clearer to…
-
B2B Engagement Matters: Seven Ways to Keep ‘Em Coming Back for More
Ah, summertime, and the living is easy. Time to crack open a cold one and watch the qualified visitors roll in. After all, if you read my last two articles, you’ve probably identified your audience, and have a plan for measuring the business impact of your traffic. Naturally, kicking…
-
Updated Gphone Timeline & Let A Hundred Google Phones Bloom
The Google Phone rumors continue, whipping up a frenzy that some type of announcement about the Gphone is coming within days. It’ll be a phone! It’ll be an operating system! It’ll be bundled software! And everyone is showing various photos that no one has ever confirmed are pictures of an…
-
Google CFO George Reyes To Resign
Google Finance Chief to Resign from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google CFO George Reyes has announced he is resigning from Google. A press release is also now up. Reyes, who joined Google in 2002 and before its IPO, is only the second major Google executive to leave…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
- Pages Dropping Out of the Google.com Search Index, Search Engine Roundtable
- Raising Your Profile: Beyond the Basics, Wall Street Journal
- Yahoo on Using Exceptional Changes in Snapshots of the Web to Ban, Penalize, or Flag Websites, SEO By The Sea
- Google Drops Current Time Search Operator?, Search Engine Roundtable
- The Competition that Just Won’t Budge, SEOmoz
- Waiting for Google to Exhale, Search Engine Watch
- Google, Yahoo! and Server Status Codes 404 and 410, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Online? Offline? Integrate!, Search Engine Guide
- Protect Yourself From Duplicate Content Issues, Search Engine Journal
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Web Analytics
Other Items
Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
Share, Bookmark & Discuss This Article
More:
Keep Updated: News Via Email | News Via RSS Feed | News Via Twitter
See more stories like this in the Members Library! Check out the SearchCap sections of the Members Library where this story is filed. Members also get access to exclusive video content, a members-only weekly & monthly newsletter, plus more. Check out all the benefits!