SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 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:

• News Search + Personalization + Social Media = Wikio
  Wikio is a relatively new startup that blends articles from major news web sites and blogs with commentary and tags from Wikio users. It also offers powerful search and customization options that go beyond what you find at most other “media harvesting” sites on the web. Google News offers personalization,…
• Are You Linkbaiting The Right Audience
  Last summer, I was asked for my personal definition of the term "linkbait." In a column titled Link Bait Kool-Aid, I wrote that linkbait was "more or less anything you create anywhere on the web that inspires other people to link to it." The link to your bait can come…
• Google TV Rumors Not Legit
  Over the weekend two YouTube videos were released, the first named How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta and then a follow up named UPDATE: GoogleTV Beta. Both are attempts by the video author to prove that Google TV is a real thing. But so far, everyone reporting this, knocks…
• Google’s Brin Calls China Censorship A “Net Negative”
  China censorship damaged us, Google founders admit at The Guardian has a quote from one of Google’s founders, Sergey Brin, when asked about Google censoring content in China, “On a business level, that decision to censor… was a net negative.”…
• Trust In How To Get Good SEO Clients
  How to Get Good SEO Clients by Aaron Wall clearly explains that earnings respect and trust in the SEO community is a vital ingredient in getting good SEO clients. Ranking well for “SEO” or “SEM,” Aaron says, is not enough, in “fields which have a bad reputation.” So how do…
• Google To Build Second Life Metaverse On Google Earth In China?
  Over the past week, there were many rumors that Google is pondering building out a Second Life like application. Michael Eisenberg’s Google Earth as a Virtual World kicked it off, stating, that heard a rumor “through the PhD grapevine” that Google is working on such an application. Techcrunch quickly picked…
• Topix.net And Tribune In Mutual Classifieds Syndication Deal
  Back in March, 2006 newspaper publishers The Tribune Co., Gannett and KnightRidder (now McClatchy) acquired 75% of news aggregation and community site Topix.net. But with the exception of a minor placement of a “contextually relevant news” box on content pages of some of those sites, the newspaper owners haven’t done…
• YouTube to Begin Revenue Sharing for Video Providers
  The BBC is reporting that they are in talks with Google to begin revenue sharing advertising revenue when their videos are shown on YouTube. Few details are known yet, but rollout of the new revenue providing model could begin as quickly as within the next couple of months. And this…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere:

• Yahoo’s Mobile Bookmark Service For Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, ResourceShelf
  
• Google poised to launch alternative to Microsoft Office, BigMouthMedia
  

• Short- vs. Long-Term SEO, ClickZ
  
• The Next Generation of Click Bots, ArticleOnRamp.com Blog
  
• New sunrise layer on Google Earth, Official Google Blog
  
• YouTube and Google: Quantifying the Synergy, Bill Tancer – Hitwise US
  

• No-fly zone spoils Google’s big day out, smh.com.au
  

• The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, Read/WriteWeb
  
• Google Goes After Stoller, Erick Goldman
  

• Controlling how search engines access and index your website, Google Blog
  
• Going mobile with Google, GottaBeMobile.com
  
• Yahoo Video ads Sundance, Expo TV to Stable, ClickZ
  
• Google AdWords Goes Live on Myspace, Threadwatch.org
  

• Google Adwords Qualified Professional logo’s stop verifying, SEOptimise
  

• Amazon’s New Wikipedia Copy: Amapedia, SEO News Blog
  
• MyBlogLog Integrates Flickr, Mashable!
  

• Ask Q & A: Michael Ferguson, Senior User Experience Analyst (Part One), Ask.com Blog
  
• Explore the world through books, Google Librarian Central Blog
  

• My Dinner With Google, InformationWeek
  
• Branded Content and Targeting Your Social Media Marketing Initiatives, Search Engine Journal
  
• ShoeMoney Subpoenaed Over Slanderous Blog Comments, Search Engine Journal
  
• Happy Birthday. Google Video Is One Year Old!, The Huffington Post
  

• Email Still a Key to Link Building, SEO Book.com
  

• Gmail lets you open Word attachments in Google Docs, Googling Google
  
• Safari needs Google Docs support, The Apple Core
  

• Google Video #1 Rank – What Kind Of Traffic Does It Bring?, ShoeMoney
  
• Tax Season Is Here: Google AdSense Ads H&R Block Ads, Search Engine Roundtable
  

• Google Buying Its Way Into Korea, NAM
  
• Scandinavian youth find MSN more trendy than Google, Pandia
  
• Google founders upbeat about newspapers’ future, Greenslade
  
• Announcing the Marketing Pilgrim Job Board for Internet Marketing Jobs, Marketing Pilgrim
  

• AdWords Keyword Tool Broken, Irish Wonder
  

• Google Video selling Page Rank, Web Professor
  
• Panama Migration: Industry Feedback, Traffick.com
  

• Interview - Bill Slawski, President SEO by the Sea, Web Analytics World
  
• Google MFA Pages and Ads in Disguise, Caydel’s SEO Blog
  
• Continued Reports of Live.com Page Submission Tool Problems, Search Engine Roundtable
  
• Getting Google’s attention is tricky, Courier Journal
  
• Playing Yahoo’s Next Big Move, Barron’s Online