SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 10, 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:

  • Compete: Microsoft Gaining Searches; Live Search Club Giveaway Working?
    Compete is out with its latest search marketshare report for June 2007, showing that MSN/Windows Live Search has posted a dramatic rise since last month. This appears to be do to the Live Search Club promotion that’s going on. Below, a look at the trend, a history of how giveaways…
  • Flickr Now Second Most Popular Photo Site
    LeeAnn Prescott of Hitwise posted data showing that Flickr has surged to the number two spot, controlling over 6% of the market share in the US. Photobucket still leads the pack with a comfortable 43.5% share. But in the past four weeks, Flickr’s traffic grew 38%….
  • Twitter Useless For Driving Traffic? Think Again
    In the past few weeks I have been hearing more and more people saying that Twitter is useless. For those of you who are not too familiar with Twitter I recommend reading my write-up on the service or better yet creating an account on twitter.com and start diving in….
  • How To Optimize A Contextual Search Advertising Campaign
    The major pay per click engines, such as Google and Yahoo, include two different types of distribution: On their own search engine result pages, and on content pages elsewhere on the web. These two types of advertising, while often lumped together under the pay-per-click (PPC) label, are very different….
  • What Triggers Google CAPTCHA Requests When Searching
    Ever done a search at Google and get a message saying you need to type some characters to keep searching? Those characters are called a CAPTCHA, a method designed to help someone prove they aren’t an automated program hitting Google. Sometimes Google can mistake a human for programs like these,…
  • Scholarly Science Search Tools Explored
    Gary Price has complied a comprehensive list of science search tools that are available via the internet. He explored several science search tools including Scirus, Live Search Academic, Google Scholar, Scitopia, Global Science Gateway and others….
  • Stumped By Safe, Burglars Google For Help, Steal $12,000
    Via John Battelle, Bumbling Bigg City burglars got $12K from the Colorado Springs Gazette covers how two burglars turned to Google to crack a safe….
  • Where Should New Search Marketers Start?
    Ask SEMpdx: What is the best way for a Newbie to learn Search Engine Marketing? from Search Engine Guide covers a variety of ways on how new search marketers can go about learning the the trade. There are plenty of good resources and tips worth checking out….
  • Is Google Gearing Up To Drop The Supplemental Result Label?
    Matt McGee reported last week that he noticed that a method where webmasters can see pages that Google places in its supplemental index appears to be disappearing from some of Google’s data centers. Now he’s spotted a comment at SEOmoz from Google’s Matt Cutts which suggests that Google might do…
  • Search Illustrated: The Power Of 301 Redirects
    One of the most common questions we get is "how can I safely move a web page?" When moving a page or even doing something as simple as changing its filename (and thus its URL), it’s important to do it the right way. Done properly, you’ll let search engines…

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Danny Sullivan is editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land. He’s a widely cited authority on search engines and search marketing issues who has covered the space since 1996. Danny also oversees Search Engine Land’s SMX: Search Marketing Expo conference series, maintains a personal blog called Daggle and microblogs on Twitter as @dannysullivan.

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