SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 22, 2008

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-Funded Lunar X Prize Aims To Put Private Rover On MoonThe latest X Prize is the Google-funded Lunar X Prize, which was announced in September, 2007. It seeks to award $20 […]

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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:


  • Google-Funded Lunar X Prize Aims To Put Private Rover On Moon
    The latest X Prize is the Google-funded Lunar X Prize, which was announced in September, 2007. It seeks to award $20 million to the first scientific team that can land a privately funded robot on the moon and meet a number of other criteria (explore terrain and relay results back…

  • Search In Pictures: Tennis at Google, The Mars Volta at Yahoo & Schwag

  • Brin “Unnerved,” Yang “Girds,” And Microsoft Shops For A New Yahoo Board
    Previewing the teams involved in the Google-sponsored Lunar X prize, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the Associated Press following the event that he found the prospect of Microsoft owning Yahoo “unnerving.” Meanwhile, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, according to Charles Cooper at CNET, is “girding for the certainty of a coming…

  • Six Minutes With Former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone
    AllThingD’s Kara Swisher does a wide ranging video interview with former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone. Among other things Swisher and Lanzone discuss “the future of search” at only the very highest level however….

  • Microsoft Launches Search Prizes With Virgin In UK: Big Snap Search
    Microsoft runs prize campaign for Live Search users from NewMediaAge reports that Microsoft is yet running another search and win promotion. This time the contest is based in the UK, in partnership with Virgin. It is named the Big Snap Search. Users can go to bigsnapsearch.com and search, at the…

  • Google, Yahoo, Microsoft & Other Search Engines Must Comply With EU Privacy Rules
    EU: Search Engines Under EU Rules from the Associated Press reports that the European data privacy regulators said search engines outside the EU also have to comply with EU’s privacy regulations. The regulations require the search engines to require their users to consent to their data being collected plus give…

  • Google Maps Categories: Will The Pain End Soon?
    Over the past several week I have explored some of the issues involved with categorization of businesses in Google Maps on my blog Understanding Google Maps. In Part 1, I detailed the more than year long history of small business frustration. In Part 2, I provided some background on the…

  • Two Approaches To Determining Intent: The Wisdom Of Crowds And Personal Values – VortexDNA
    As I said in my last column, disambiguating intent is the holy grail of search. John Batelle called search the “database of intentions”. While technically correct, right now those intentions are only vaguely understood. The breadth and complexity of a concept is squeezed into the restrictive container of a…

  • Upcoming Search Marketing Conferences: March-June 2008
    Doing your forward planning for the year? Google’s Matt Cutts is, and this week, he posted where he’s speaking over the next few weeks. In a similar vein, I thought it would be nice to list some of the upcoming search marketing events happening in the coming months:…

  • Bush – Tops For “Who Is A Failure” On Google
    For years, US President George W. Bush was tops on Google for searches on miserable failure until last year’s Googlebomb "fix" solved his problem on Google. But Bush is back, sort of. People are spotting that Bush’s official White House page is ranking tops for who is a failure on…

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