SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 2, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider
  

  It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained that since Bing launched, the search provided went from Google (which they set manually) to Bing. To makes things even worse, when the user tries to set the search provider back [...]

• Yahoo Search June 2009 Update
  

  The Yahoo Search Blog has announced an index and algorithm update, aka a “weather report.” Yahoo said, “we’re rolling out some updates to our crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms over the next few days. During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.” I spotted this update a [...]

• SMX Advanced Day 1: Live Blogging & Coverage
  

  Today is the first day of SMX Advanced 2009 and here is what is turning up in the form of live blogging and coverage from the show. I will continue to update this post with more coverage throughout the day. If you want to notify me of any additional coverage either comment below, [...]

• Can Microsoft Retain The Bing-Curious?
  

  According to Net Applications Bing saw lots of testing and trial usage in its first full day:

  According to the company, the usage is coming from Live Search users as well as Google, Yahoo and others. Early buzz for Bing has been mixed but positive. The question now is whether Microsoft and Bing can retain a [...]

• Google Positions As Amazon Competitor For EBook Market
  

  Google has over the past few years promised the market new revenue streams beyond search. While there are a couple of areas with significant potential (e.g., display), not much revenue has been generated comparatively to date. Now Google is saying that it will be a real competitor to Amazon in the ebook market. According to [...]

• Website Guilty Over Google’s Automated Snippet
  

  The Register reports a Dutch court has ruled against a Dutch web site, where the web site was sued over the automated snippet used in Google for a keyword phrase. When someone searched for [Zwartepoorte] and [bankrupt], Google showed Miljoenhuizen.nl and the snippet in the Google search results for Miljoenhuizen.nl was: Complete name: Zwartepoorte Specialiteit: BMW…This [...]

• Google’s Android Coming To Netbooks Via Acer
  

  Acer to Produce Netbook Using Google Operating System from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google’s Android operating system, used on Google Phones, will be shipped on Acer’s Netbooks. The new low-cost computers will ship in the third quarter of this year. This does not mean Acer will stop shipping computers with Windows, it just [...]

• Google’s New AdWords Interface Coming To Many Advertisers
  

  I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that many AdWords advertisers are being forced into the new AdWords interface within the next 30 days. Google sent emails to many advertisers telling them that within 30 days, they will be automatically moved to the new interface. The email explained that the new “web interface designed to [...]

• Study: Google Tracking 88% Of Domains In Study
  

  A new study published by graduate students at University of California, Berkeley showed that Google is the leading footprint on the top 100 sites in their study. As you can see from the chart below, Google Analytics was found on 81% of the top 100 sites, while DoubleClick (owned by Google) was in second place, by [...]

• Using Competitors To Build Links
  

  Doing business on the Web isn’t easy, and you need every advantage to grab attention from the masses clicking by. In order to succeed, companies need to understand how to manage the marketing information they find. This information can be used to help strategic planning, monitor competitors and provide early warning signs for new opportunities [...]

• Will Digg’s New Share Feature Pollute Twitter?
  

  Recently, Greg Finn at 10e20.com covered Will Digg Be a Better Place Without Shouts? In the post, Greg announces the news of Digg dropping their shout system, which allowed Digg users to share content with each other, in lieu of a feature that allows users to share content via email, Facebook, and Twitter. So, the [...]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• An open letter to Jason Calacanis, The Fluther Blog
• Google Notebook’s Extension URL, Google Operating System

Business Issues

• Alibaba Unveils Investment Plan, Wall Street Journal
• Can Bing Build a Brand?, BruceClay.com

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Requests for New & Improved Google Maps Features, Mihmorandum
• Bringing the power of Google’s data to local businesses, Google LatLong
• Free Services: Live411 Becomes Bing411 (Now with More than Just Business Directory Listings), ResourceShelf
• Places Directory app for Android, Official Google Mobile Blog

Link Building

• Building Directory Links: The 90’s SEO Technique That Still Works, distilled
• Green Peace PageRank lottery; Innocent mistake or blatant link manipulation?, Huomah.com
• JavaScript Links Now Passing PageRank & Anchor Text, BlogStorm

Paid Search & Contextual

• Why Aviation Art Is "Missing The Target" in All Aspects of PPC Marketing, SEM Geek

Searching

• CiteSeerX, A Free Scientific Info Database Passes One Million Article Mark, ResourceShelf
• Google Dupes Search Parameters For Time Based Results, Search Engine Roundtable
• How Well Does Bing Handle New Stuff?, Google Blogoscoped
• Search billions of documents with the Google Search Appliance 6.0, Official Google Blog
• Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live & Hotmail blocked in China, Multilingual-Search.com

SEO & SEM

• Data-Driven SEO, Industrial Strength SEM
• Condition Attribute Becoming Required for Google Product Search, Google Base Blog
• Go Blog Yourself: Writing Your Blog Posts with Pen in Hand and SEO In Mind, Search Engine Guide
• Is Bing Not Honoring NOODP Tag?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Is Your Brand Too Big For SEO?, Search Engine Journal
• One keyword per page: once more with feeling, Search Engine Guide
• Ranking Well In the Baidu Search Engine, SEO.com
• Social Media Friendly SEO, Online Marketing Blog
• The “S” Trilogy in Search Industry, Search Engine Journal
• Usability and SEO are Worth Paying Well For, Cre8PC

Social Media

• New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets, HarvardBusiness.org
• What is the Future of Twitter? Only You Know, Micro Persuasion

Video, Music & Image Search

• Experience YouTube XL on the Big Screen, YouTube Blog

Web Analytics

• Back to Basics: Setting up Google Analytics on your Blog, Google Analytics Blog
• Common myths about Google Analytics, Conversion Room
• Google Analytics To Add Bing to Search Engines Report, Search Engine Roundtable

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