SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 25, 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 “Knows” About 1 Trillion Web Items How big is Google’s web index? Google hasn’t said for years and still isn’t saying — but it is blogging today about how it […]

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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 “Knows” About 1 Trillion Web Items

    How big is Google’s web index? Google hasn’t said for years and still isn’t saying — but it is blogging today about how it "knows" of 1 trillion web-based items. Joy, we haven’t had a search engine talk about pages it knows about to confuse things since the Lycos…

  • Italian Prosecutors To Sue Google Execs Over YouTube Video

    Italy Is to File Charges Against Google Executives from the Wall Street Journal reports that Italian prosecutors have completed their two-year investigation and are ready to file charges against four Google executives. The suit is over YouTube hosting a video of a disabled teen being taunted by others. The prosecutors…

  • You Think You Know Enough To Do ALL Of Your SEO In-House?

    While SEO can be done completely in-house, not every company truly has the expertise to fly totally solo and make it to the destination without a bit of turbulence and unnecessary crashes along the way. The problem I’ve been seeing lately lies with companies who genuinely believe they know…

  • SEM News, The Ultimate Guide To Search Marketing Optimization Part 2 & SpyFu Competitive SEM Karate

    In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today’s in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization Part 2 – Reference…

  • Search In Pictures: Matt Harding @ Yahoo, Google Chicken Soup & Yahoo Olympics

  • Microsoft Goes After Google’s PageRank With BrowseRank

    Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank from News.com reports on a research paper from Microsoft named “BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance (PDF). The paper describes the downside of Google’s PageRank algorithm and describes how Microsoft’s “BrowseRank” algorithm fills in the holes. BrowseRank uses browsing behavior, such as…

  • Mobile Mapping Usage Growing, Outrider Debuts Mobile Search Practice

    Maps and directions are (so far) the “killer app” for mobile and yesterday comScore reported that mobile mapping usage is on the increase: “8 percent of American mobile subscribers and 3 percent of European subscribers accessing maps from the mobile phone in the three-month period ending May 2008. This represents…

  • Google Updates Toolbar PageRank; Drops Some Penalties

    Google is currently update the PageRank values found in the Google toolbar. A post from Google’s Matt Cutts announced and confirmed the update is taking place. In addition, Matt said they will be “expiring” some of the penalties with this update. I assume the penalties refer to the toolbar PageRank…

  • Human Hardware: Navigation can be Habit Forming

    I’m currently in Europe on a family vacation. We’ve been here 3 days now and in that time I’ve driven almost 1000 kilometers (about 600 miles) on the highways and byways of France. We’re in the Rhone Alpes section of France, living in a 200 year old converted barn…

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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