SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 20, 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: This July: Try Google-Free Fridays!Back in 2002, I called Google the "Marcia Brady" of search. Fans of the Brady Bunch know that Marcia was one of six children, and middle daughter […]

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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:


  • This July: Try Google-Free Fridays!

    Back in 2002, I called Google the "Marcia Brady" of search. Fans of the Brady Bunch know that Marcia was one of six children, and middle daughter Jan felt Marcia got all the attention. "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia," she’d often complain, just as today, it often seems to be "Google, Google,…

  • eBay Security Removes Google Checkout Reps From eBay Conference?

    Philipp Lenssen reports that two Google Checkout representatives were removed by eBay security from the eBay conference. Either Google or eBay have not confirmed these reports, but they come from a person who was said to be attending the conference. This comes after eBay Pulls Google AdWords Ads To Protest…

  • Dating Tips For B2B Marketers

    Just what do search marketing and dating have in common? According to Seth Godin, the keynote speaker at last week’s Search Engine Strategies Conference in Toronto… plenty! When it comes to finding an appropriate partner and building a long-term relationship, there are some interesting analogies….

  • Microsoft To Change Desktop Search In Vista Over Google Antitrust Claim

    Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint from Reuters reports that Microsoft has agreed to make changes to their Vista desktop search application to make it easier for people to change the default search provider. Microsoft preempted action by the Justice Department from a Google antitrust complaint. In short, Google…

  • Yahoo May Buy MySpace For 25% Stock Swap

    News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake from TimesOnline reports that News Corp is interested in handing over MySpace to Yahoo in exchange for 25% of Yahoo’s stock. Such a deal would value MySpace, the very popular social networking and video site, at about $12 billion. But…

  • Google Acquires Zenter, Online Presentation Software Company

    Google has announced that they have acquired Zenter, an online presentation software company. The acquisition will enable them to add presentation software to their Google Docs & Spreadsheets offering. In mid-April, Google purchased Marratech, a video conferencing company and purchased Tonic, a company that built software for presentation creation and…

  • How To Structure An In-House SEO Team

    Why are businesses so persistent about handling search in-house? There are many good reasons for centralizing both natural and paid search in a large organization. We’ll be talking about natural search in this article. Web site optimization for natural search visibility, commonly referred to as SEO, touches every aspect…

  • AOL’s Truveo Builds Video Search Network With 40 Million Users

    Video search engine Truveo, acquired by AOL in late 2005, announced that it now has a user base of almost 40 million monthly uniques (per comScore). This is not at Truveo.com but across a diverse network of partner sites, which it powers. The company also said that since late last…

  • Yahoo Go Comes Out Of Beta With Big Global Push

    Yahoo Go 2.0 and related mobile oneSearch offerings are coming out of beta this Friday and going into “general availability” in the U.S. While consumers pay no attention to these distinctions — alpha, beta, gamma and so on — it signals Yahoo’s confidence in the product. Simultaneously, nation-specific versions of…

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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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