SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 14, 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:

  • eBay Pulls Google AdWords Ads To Protest Google Checkout Moves
    This week, eBay Live is happening in Boston, but the event is likely to be overshadowed by a fascinating and fast-developing controversy between the auction giant and Google. Rumors from ComparisonEngines.com and other sources last night and earlier today reported that eBay had pulled its ads off Google to protest…
  • Google Video Morphs Further Into New Video Meta Search Role
    Last month in Video Hits Google Universal Search & Google Video Now Live With Meta Search?, we covered how Google Video was morphing into its new role as a meta search engine. Now reports of new video sources have emerged….
  • The Big SMX Advanced 2007 Wrap-Up
    I had a great time doing our first conference, SMX Advanced, last week in Seattle. Tons of coverage came out of the show, while the attendees learned a lot, had fun networking and enjoyed some good food. Need to remember what happened? Want to hear about what you missed?…
  • In House: New Column From Search Engine Land
    Our newest Search Engine Land column, In House, launches today. In House takes an insider’s look at the life of search marketers who work for large or multi-national organizations. Columnists write about technical challenges as well as the cultural, organizational, budgeting and other issues that arise while working within…
  • When To Bring Search Marketing In-House
    As with many other areas of the business, the decision to ‘make or buy’ applies to the search engine marketing function. Whether you decide to go with an outside agency, or develop and train a dedicated in-house team depends on whether search is considered a core component of your…
  • Stepping Stones Of User Conversions: A Step-By-Step Guide
    Let’s face it, in a world where almost every conceivable metric of analyzing your website traffic is available to you, the only metric that really truly matters is conversions. Click through rates, page views, time spent on site, number of pages read, entrance and exit points, abandonment; all of…
  • Google’s T-Mobile Ad On Why To Do SEO
    My mobile phone company in the UK is T-Mobile, and I had to laugh when I was flipping through the latest in-house magazine I got from them. Apparently, as the headline of an advertorial tells me, "Search Engine Optimisation vital to enable business to compete online." And to learn…
  • Google: Off-The-Record, Unless Eric Schmidt Is Saying It
    I had to love the contrast in two items that hit my feed reader today: one where a talk by Google’s chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf was declared off-the-record by Google, upsetting some people, then another where Google CEO Eric Schmidt was at an off-the-record event but said he wanted…
  • Vanessa Fox Leaves Google, Heads To Zillow
    Google Webmaster Central product manager Vanessa Fox is heading for pastures new — jumping over to become product team lead at real estate start-up Zillow. She’ll be overseeing the development of new ad, feed and email products there. Vanessa talks about the move more on her blog, saying:…

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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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