SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 18, 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:

  • Search in Pictures: Sheryl Crow At Yahoo, Google Cupcakes, Goooooooooooogle Amsterdam
    In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more….
  • Center For The Digital Future: Perceptions Of Search Reliability And Accuracy Declining
    The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for the Digital Future is engaged in an ambitious longitudinal study on consumer behavior and media usage. Each year the The Center surveys the same 2,000 US adults to track attitudes toward media as well as any changes in actual…
  • Jupiter: Local Online Advertising Will Be Worth $8.9 Billion In 2012
    There are now a range of local forecasts in the market, some more bullish and some more conservative. But all generally agree that locally targeted ads in search, display (including video) and classifieds are growing at rates faster than overall online ad growth….
  • Singapore Offers Cash Incentives To Build New Search Engine
    Singapore launches contest for next-generation search engine from PhysOrg.com reports Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research is managing a contest to build out “a next-generation multi-media online search engine.” What I find humorous about the contest is that they expect a $100,000 and eight-months to be enough time and…
  • 3rd Annual Yahoo Searchlight Awards
    The Yahoo Search Marketing Blog announced the 3rd Annual Yahoo Searchlight Awards. The awards will be taking place on February 12th in New York City. At the awards, Rob Norman, CEO of Group M Interaction, will be giving a keynote address. One of the four panelists is our very own…
  • Google No Longer Displays Stop Words Warning
    In the past, a search on google stop words in search would return a warning that read, “”in” is a very common word and was not included in your search.” But if you do that search today, no such message is displayed. Here is a before an after picture, the…
  • FeedBurner Numbers Spike — Blame FeedBlitz!
    Nice — I picked up 5,000 new feed subscribers today, while Barry Schwartz saw Search Engine Roundtable grow 35,000. Overnight! Obviously, the FeedBurner numbers we and others get have gone wonky. To blame? FeedBlitz seems to be putting out bad stats. Consider the comparison above. The left side shows…
  • Scanning Barriers on the Search Results Page
    A few columns ago I talked about user behavior on the results page and compared to a shopping mall. In recent eye tracking studies, we’ve seen that several factors can create barriers, or “walls” in this mall that can keep traffic from ever finding your listing….

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Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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