SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 13, 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:

• Google Loses In Belgium Newspaper Case A Belgium court has found that Google did violate copyright when including material from several Belgian newspapers in its search index. Google may have to pay a fine, but the ruling is far more positive for the company. Google can continue to index content without explicit permission. NOTE: The story…
• Social Media Marketing Is Ethical! There seems to be a lot of misconception that social media marketing isn’t ethical. Almost daily, I come across bloggers who denounce SMM as spam or suggest that social media marketers are poisoning the community well. In reality, they either aren’t properly educated or perhaps only see the "bad…
• SingingFish.com Now Redirects To AOL Video Search Gary Price reports that SingingFish.com now redirects to AOL Video. AOL purchased SingingFish.com from Thomson Multimedia in November 2003. In June 2005, AOL revamped their AOL Video Search, which included having results from SingingFish. Now, SingingFish is set up as a 301 redirect (permanent redirect) to video.aol.com….
• InfoSpace Joins Forces With FAST For Mobile Search InfoSpace and FAST announced a partnership at 3GSM conference that seeks to marry InfoSpace’s carrier relationships and content expertise with FAST’s search technology and PPC platform on mobile devices. The companies will be offering their new "white label" services and platform to wireless carriers in the U.S. and Europe. That…
• Wordtracker Adds UK Keywords Option To Keyword Tools Wordtracker, a very popular keyword tool used by search marketers, has added UK keywords to their existing tools. This means, those wanting to target the UK region, will have an option to specify UK keywords only and will be shown related keywords based on that data….
• Google Search Results Now May Display Malware Warnings Google Operating Systems reports that Google has changed the way they handle warning searchers of sites that may contain malware on them. It notes that a search on beautiful free screensaver currently brings up a result from elitesavers.com that has a message from Google reading: "This site may harm your…
• Google Maps Adds "Report Incorrect Data" Link Mike Blumenthal reports that Google has added an easier way to report inaccurate data found within Google Maps. For any unverified business listing, Google will show a link that reads "report incorrect data" that takes you to a page to easily notify Google of the problem. For example, currently this…
• Sproose – A Social Search Engine Sproose is another social search engine where you get to vote for your favourite websites/pages, and to that extent it’s very similar to previous social search engines that I’ve looked at recently. It’s got the double ‘o’ in the name which always helps, and uses terminology that sounds familiar, such…
• You Hum It, These Search Engines Claim They’ll Find It Recently a couple of search engines have come to my attention that are designed to allow you to hum a few bars of a tune into them, and then they’ll tell you what the song is. These are Midomi and Humming Search from Nayio. That’s the promise; the reality was…
• Special Valentine’s Day Cards For SEOs Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and it is the time of the year to show your love. Why not show your love to your favorite SEO via an e-card tailored towards SEOs? Internet Traffic Solutions has SEO e-cards that you can send to your favorite SEO or SEM. Messages include, "I…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

Business Issues

• Google’s Second Largest Shareholder Lowers Stake, SeekingAlpha
• Google: Not Quite A Must Buy Yet, SeekingAlpha
• More AOL Layoffs In Pipeline; Not Large Number, PaidContent.org
• iCrossing Buys U.K. Search Firm, ClickZ
• Dutch Super Server Farm and Google, GigaOM
• Google to Present at the Bank of America Technology Conference, Google Press Release
• Dave Goldberg, Bob Roback out at Yahop Music, Valleywag
• Two Yahoo Music execs resign, News.com
• Retrevo Closes on Series B Financing, Search Engine Watch Blog
• Yahoo Music: Santa Claus will have DRM-free music in his sleigh, Ars Technica
• Briefs: Fox TV Sites Choose Collarity, ResourceShelf

Local & Mobile Search

• Google’s forced choice for the Authoritative Website, Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local
• Live Search for Mobile 1.0 released at 3GSM, Live Search Blog
• Links: Using Google Earth in Iraq, Saturn ads, Ogle Earth
• Dave Zuls - Local Search Interview, Graywold

Paid Search

• AdWords Optimization Tips: Part 1 – Assessing Your Industry and Audience, Inside Google AdWords
• Improving Ad Quality, Part II, Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
• Microsoft adCenter Live.com Reports Delay Confirmed, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Sends Out Duplicate 1099 Forms But Publishers Earnings Won’t Be Reported Twice, Search Engine Roundtable
• 17 Most Common PPC Mistakes Web Marketers Make, SEOmoz

Search Behavior

• Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, January 2007, ClickZ
• Anna Nicole, The Super Bowl, And Nasa Star In The Google Weekly Zeitgeist, Google Zeitgeist
• Top Candidates, the Science of Search and Time.com

Search Conferences

• Come see us at SES London and hear tips on successful site architecture, Google Webmaster Central Blog
• European Case Studies at Search Engine Strategies London, Search Engine Roundtable

Search Startups

• Roundup: Cuill, the new search engine, Fabrik, dMark, Pipes, Xoma and more, VentureBeat
• The questionable personhood of Powerset, Valleywag
• Powerset raising more money, VentureBeat
• PowerHype At Powerset, TechCrunch
• SearchMash Gets Smarter, Google Operating System
• Molu the Search Spider, ResearchBuzz
• BrowseGoods Launches, ComparisonEngines.com
• Megite Updates with Launch of Megite 2.1, Search Engine Journal

SEO/SEM

• Web Analytics, SEO, and Site Usability, ClickZ
• Guide to Link Buying : Directories, Ads and Reviews, Search Engine Journal
• Who Needs Search Engine Traffic?, Link Building Blog
• SEO Flipfloper, ShoeMoney Origin, What If I Was Broke Tomorrow & More, Shoemoney
• The Search Engines Are Killing SEO, MediaPost
• The state of Web Design in the UK, XSEO
• Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?, Search Engine Journal
• Google Appending URLS With GWT & PG?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Yahoo Searchlight Awards Show Next Week, Search Engine Watch Blog

Social Media

• Adding a Photography Section on Digg, Pronet Advertising
• Solving the Content Uniqueness and Integrity Problem in Social Media, Pronet Advertising
• Space.com Banned from Digg?, 10e20
• Will Widgets Kill the Webpage?  (Exclusive Netvibes video), The Next Net
• JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful, Jeremy Zawodny
• New URLs, Look, and Design for Many Yahoo Mobile Home Pages, ResourceShelf
• Science.gov 4.0 Goes Live, ResourceShelf
• PayPerPost Even More Transparent (& Obnoxious), Marketing Pilgrim
• Social Media Linking & Email Spam Requests, Search Engine Journal
• Neil Patel, The Wizard of Buzz, Pronet Advertising

Valentine’s Day

• Love at First Site: Valentine’s Day Smart Answers, Ask.com Blog
• Google vs Valentine’s Day, Google Operating System

Video Search

• YouTube Moves to Dismiss UTube Suit, Google Watch
• YouTube shuts down Gawker account, News.com
• Viacom Circumvents YouTube, Making MTV Networks’ Video Available To All Others, PaidContent.org
• Google takes hits from YouTube’s use of video clips, USA Today
• YouTube Mobile site coming soon? Some evidence, Download Squad
• Pixsy Launches Ad-Supported Oscar Search Site, ClickZ
• StumbleUpon Video Coming to the Wii, TechCrunch
• The Video Editorial Awards: Now With Prizes!, Yahoo! Video Team Blog
• YouTube Hands Over User’s Info to Fox, TechCrunch
• Google hands over personal user info, Threadwatch

Other Stuff

• 5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes, franticindustries
• Messenger and Mail…together at last!, Official Yahoo Mail Blog
• Vivisimo Launches Vivisimo Velocity 5.5, EContent
• A Collection of Gmail Homepages, Google Operating System
• Michael Crook backs down on DMCA harassment, Boing Boing
• More on Belgium, John Battelle
• 9 Steps To Moving Your Blog and Selecting Plugins, The Lonely Marketer
• Podcast: Google Loses In Belgium Newspaper Case; Search Startups; Ask.com’s Love Triangle & More!, Daily SearchCast

Have A Chuckle

• Belgian newspapers score victory in bold traffic-reduction initiative, Good Morning Silicon Valley
• We’re sorry, Google is unable to sell you ads related to the keywords "arrr" and "me hearties", Good Morning Silicon Valley (as above, just because we love the headlines)
• Vermont College : Students may not cite Wikipedia as a source, Threadwatch
• You Might Be an SEO If…, SEOrefugee Blog
• Google’s "I’m Feeling Lucky" Button To Be Renamed "Wikipeda Result" Button - Joke, Search Engine Roundtable