Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
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Yahoo-Google Deal: Shrewd Move Or Screw Up?
When the highly anticipated Yahoo-Google paid search deal was announced on Thursday the fallout and speculation began immediately: would it help Yahoo or was it an act of capitulation to Google? Coming as it did with the formal end of talks with Microsoft, was it a betrayal of Yahoo shareholders?… -
Google Local Business Center Undergoes Redesign
The Google Local Business Center is undergoing a redesign from within, as Mike Blumenthal reports. The main differences that I see are on the add and edit listing screens. The add listing screen seems to have consolidated much of the information retrieval process onto less screens. You can see a… -
Yahoo’s Google & Microsoft Deals, Side-By-Side
I was off most of Friday when the Google-Yahoo deal was announced — and then details of Microsoft’s last proposal to Yahoo also came out. Today was catch-up, and I wanted to put the deals next to each other in chart form. Google-Yahoo doesn’t seem as bad as some…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Firefox 3: Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support, lifehacker.com
- Google preps net neut dowser, The Register
- Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector, HotHardware
Business Issues
- Analysts don’t rule out a Microsoft-Yahoo deal just yet, news.cnet.com
- Icahn says Yahoo-Google ad deal has merit, biz.yahoo.com
- Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?, TechCrunch
- Yahoo: ‘Everything But The Kitchen Sink’ Approach Not Paying Dividends, Read/Write Web
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Double Chicago Building Error in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
- Better Terrain Representation in Google Maps, Google Operating System
- Google Maps Local Business Center Upgrade: Bulk Upload MIA, Mike Blumenthal
- Unused "white space" spectrum and wireless microphones, Google Public Policy Blog
Link Building
- The Importance of Internal Linking, and How to Do it Right, Search Engine Guide
- 5 FireFox Extentions To Explore Backlinks, Search Engine Journal
- Matt Cutts and Eric Enge Discuss Link Building, Stone Temple
- The Quizzical Duality of Paid Links, SEOmoz
Paid Search & Contextual
- Getting started with adCenter: creating campaigns – adCenter Advertiser, adcentercommunity.com
- Bounce Rate: Your Single, Most Important Metric Re: PPC , adcentercommunity.com
- By 2009 Will PPC = AdWords? As Keywords , SEO Book
- Is Google Hiding Cost Data From Placement Performance Reports?, SEM Geek
- Plotting the Effects of your PPC Changes, Site Visibility
- Speaking the language of small businesses, Inside AdSense
Searching
- Technorati Confirms New Financing; New Business Focus Coming, TechCrunch
- Kigose – the Citation Search Engine, altsearchengines.com
- Google Toolbar Available for Firefox 3, Google Blogoscoped
- Indeed Job Search Launching Job Analytics for Employers, Search Engine Journal
- Shopping.com adds related products, ComparisonEngines.com
SEM Industry
- Apologies For Having Been An Asshole, Danny Sullivan
- SEO, ASA and the spectre of legislation, SEOptimise
- Why Google’s Matt Cutts Reminds Me of My Older Brother, Adam, Barry Schwartz
SEO & SEM
- The 3 Trust Factors of Web Sites and Their Design, seoaware.com
- Don’t Know What You’ve Got Til Its Gone: SEOs and Rank Checking Software, Search Marketing Sage
- Google Sitemap Meta Data, beu blog
- Google Sitemaps: Are They Really Important for SEO?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Webmaster Tools To Fix Verification "Bug" with Google Sites, Search Engine Roundtable
- How a Search Engine Might Use a Searcher’s Knowledge, Interests, and Education to Rerank and Validate Search Results, SEO By The Sea
- Keyword Best Practices: Part II of the Seven Habits of Highly Successful Search Engine Marketing, Search Marketing Standard
- MVC Site Architecture: Handle With Care (Thoughts From SMX Advanced), SEMpdx Blog
- Paid Content – A Dying Business Model?, Andy Beard
- SEO is Less About One/Two Word Keywords & More About Longer Tail Keywords, Search Engine Roundtable
Social Media
- Congratulations, Twitterrific, Twitter Blog
- Twellow People Search for Twitter by iEntry, Reality SEO
- Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic, ViperChill
Video, Music & Image Search
- If it can’t find a solution, Google should kill YouTube, News.com
- Microsoft to Use YuMe to Place Ads in Videos, Wall Street Journal
Other Items
- Jeff Dean on Google infrastructure, Geeking with Greg
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 15, 2008 :: Father’s Day, Search Engine Roundtable
- Father’s Day ’08 Logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile , Search Engine Roundtable
- Charlie Rose Interviews Vint Cerf at Opening Session, Infotoday Blog
- Making Room for our New Addition, Yahoo Search Blog
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- Nice little chicklet – TwitterCounter!
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