SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 29, 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:

• 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

• Watch the final Gmail collaborative video, Official Gmail Blog
• How Docs & Spreadsheets grew at Google, Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog
• GWT 1.4 release and out of beta, Google Web Toolkit Blog

Business Issues

• Google to get big bang from Postini, National Post

Local, Maps & Mobile

• In-car Google Local Search with BMW ConnectedDrive, Google LatLong
• NASA Images to Be Archived Online, Wired News

Link Building

• Big List Of Link Building Blogs, LinkJuicy
• What’s Better? Image Based Links or Text Links? What About in H1 Tags?, Search Engine Roundtable

Paid Search & Contextual

• Breakdown of Top Ad Placement: Before and After, PPC Hero
• The Worlds Oldest Affiliate Program, www.shoemoney.com
• Google Releases Adsense Feature and Then Pulls It, The SEO Scoop
• Should You Mention Product Cost in Your PPC Ads?, Search Engine Roundtable

Searching

• Enth Adds NFL Search Engine to Lineup, Bill Hartzer
• Search Radar Adds Suggestions to Search Results, Read/Write Web

SEM Industry

• Google AdWords Is The Gateway Drug To Online Advertising, Twist Image
• SEO Services – What to Expect ?, Dave Naylor
• Dave to ad agencies: Do your homework or get out of my office, DM News
• Google Dance 2007 Pictures, Google
• The Power Lunch, Cafeteria-Style, Wall Street Journal

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

• Facebook Doesn’t Digg Posted Source, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
• Some Social Networks May Never Support Brand Advertising;, ResourceShelf
• Analysis: StumbleUpon’s Top 50 Stumblers, ViperChill
• Second Life to Integrate Google Search, Metaversed

Video, Music & Image Search

• Image Search in the SEO Picture, Search Engine Watch
• Important Info for YouTube Developers, YouTube Blog
• News Corp and NBC Universal name video site Hulu, Reuters
• The Negative YouTube Effect, PC World

Web Analytics

• Bruceclay.com – Standardizing Web Analytics, BruceClay.com
• Weird Google Analytics Bug, Google Blogoscoped
• Segmenting Site Visitors to Enhance Conversions, Search Engine Watch

Other Items

• Romney For President Launches Unprecedented "Create Your Own Ad" Contest, Mitt Romney

Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:

• Danny and Michelle to release new Sphinn Buttons!
• What if SEO’s mated? We needed to find out!
• SEO & Physical Fitness Metaphors
• 8 Tutorials to Improve your Website conversion Rates
• Analysis: StumbleUpon’s Top 50 Stumblers
• A spammer with a conscience
• More Yahoo Rankings for Sale… How?
• WSJ.com Interviews SEO Manager of BankRate.com
• Viral Social Marketing Ideas for Boring Industries
• A First Glance at the New Digg
• The Domaining Revolution: Lessons From The Domain Roundtable
• Search Engine Strategies Schwag Bag Video: Two Thumbs Up
• Google Duplicate Proxy Exploit – Automated
• Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristrocrathy I
• Mahalo is BAD for the People
• How to Play Dirty With Black Hat PPC
• Social Search Guide: 40+ Social Search Engines
• Google CFO George Reyes To Resign
• “The DMOZ mob strikes again”
• SEO May Not Be Your Top Priority. And You May Be Absolutely Right.
• SES 2007 Shwag Bags – A Highly Scientific Examination of Plastic Crap