Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:

Danny, I and the rest of the Search Engine Land crew would like to wish you all a Happy Holidays!

From Search Engine Land:

• Some Of Digg’s Ban Domain List
  The 10e20 blog complies a list of the sites they know are banned from Digg.com. There has been a recent wave of Digg bans, and reportedly, once your banned, you cannot get back in. Here is a current list of banned sites as per 10e20′s post.
• A Google Holiday Update Or Data Refresh
  Google Data Refresh – Rankings Fluctuations Before Christmas by Ben Pfeiffer at the Search Engine Roundtable notes a very possible Google update is taking place. He references a WebmasterWorld thread that is currently three pages deep. Most in the thread believe
• Google Says They Won’t Ask For Help In China To Compete
  In Google sticks to solo plans from the Shanghai Daily, Google said it won’t work with a local partner in China to gain marketshare. Google’s vice president of China operations, Lee Kai-fu said that they “have confidence in our current approach” in China

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere:

• 2006 Holiday Season Search Logos, Search Engine Roundtable
• Shammi Kapoor: The original Yahoo man, BBC NEWS
• SideStep Inc. Partners With Orange in the UK, Yahoo! Finance
  
• NYTimes.com Taps Yahoo’s Gaylord as Marketing VP, MarketingVOX
  

• Podcast: Respect For SEO; Germany & France Split On Quaero; Wishing For Multimedia Matt Cutts & More, Daily SearchCast
• Microsoft adCenter Showing 40% Higher Conversion Data, Search Engine Roundtable
• Microsoft fights Gmail in the workplace, APC Magazine
• Ask has the mojo to double its search market share, Between the Lines
• Google considering expansion near S.C.’s coast, Mercury News
• The Ins and Outs of Google Webmaster Central, SEO News Blog
• Gains and gripes with Google, News.com
• Better understanding of your site, Google Webmaster Central
• Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers, News.com
• Stepping into the Did It/Web Guerrilla/Searchengineland Fray, Out Of My Gord
• Can’t we all get along?, Frog Blog
• Happy Holidays from the Inside AdWords crew, AdWords Blog
• Google exec heaps praise on local office, The Seattle Times
• Publishers Noticing Yahoo!’s New Compliance Manager At Work, Search Engine Roundtable
• Twenty Days on Yahoo’s Panama, ClickZ
• Google May Add Referrer Data To Web Crawl Error Reports, Search Engine Roundtable

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