SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 25, 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:

• Local.com Announces Patent For Location-Based Search
  I’ve got a patent, you’ve got a patent. It seems that nearly everyone running an Internet company has a patent nowadays. Local.com is the latest to announce a patent in the local space. The patent (no. 7,231,405), which I was unable to locate through a USPTO and Google Patents search,…
• Don’t Put All Your Links In One Basket
  We recently redesigned our kitchen and hired a contractor to oversee the project. My husband argued as the primary user of this space, I should be the one to coordinate its design and the people doing the work. I’m not sure if he had resigned himself to the inevitable…
• InfoSpace Introduces Video Search On Dogpile, Blinkx Offers Contextual Ad Targeting For Video
  InfoSpace has introduced video search on its Dogpile search engine through a partnership with Blinkx. Search results are identical to those found on Blinkx, which is also providing video search for other engines and portals, most notably Ask but also Lycos and ChaCha. It also provides some video search capabilities…
• Report: Google Acquires GrandCentral, Telephone Management Company
  Techcrunch reported that Google has acquired GrandCentral, a company that let’s you keep one telephone number as you move from home to home or job to job. Arrington said, “We have a high degree of confidence that the deal has actually been closed.”…
• Yahoo Merges Search & Display Ad Teams, Karnstedt Heads Up Team
  Yahoo announced that they are combining the search ad and display ad teams. Part of this move, David Karnstedt will be heading up the North American Sales. Karnstedt was Yahoo’s senior vice president of Yahoo’s Search sales business and is now Head of US Sales. Wenda Harris Millard, Yahoo’s Chief…
• Google’s Human Touch
  The Human Touch That May Loosen Google’s Grip from the New York Times discusses how Google’s use of algorithms and computers may, in the long run, may lead to the demise of Google’s popularity or may not. The article is written more in a question format than a prophetic format….
• Germany Rules Against Google On Gmail Trademark, Gmail In Germany To Shut Down?
  Google loses Gmail trademark case in Germany from News.com reports that Google has lost the Gmail trademark case in a German appellate court. Google will not be allowed to use Gmail in Germany, like they can’t in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Google Threatens to Close German Gmail Due to…
• eBay Restarts AdWords Campaigns With New Outlook
  EBay to resume ads on Google, but rely on rivals from Reuters reports that eBay has resumed their AdWords advertising campaigns but on a more limited basis. eBay’s Hani Durzy said, “I will tell you it will be in a much more limited way than it was before.” “What we…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

Applications & Portal Features

• Sync Your Mobile Phone with Google Calendar, Google Operating System
• Search for Google Custom Search Engines, Google Operating System
• The Google Phone: Here at Last, Wired News
• Yahoo Moves Quickly To Plug Phishing Hole, Internet News
• Google Reader Suffers Down Time, Techcrunch

Business Issues

• Censorship as trade barrier, Google Public Policy Blog
• Yahoo & Bebo Partner for Search & Sponsored Listings, Search Engine Journal

• Google Israel sees jump in revenue, Globes [online]

• Murdoch Said to Be Close to Terms on Journal, New York Times
• Scrius and FAST Search Announce Partner to Build “Topic Pages”, ResourceShelf
  

Conferences

• Search Engine Bootcamp hits NZ, Marketing Pilgrim
• The SMX Advanced Recap is Chock Full of Nostalgia, SEOmoz

Link Building

• How To Find Wikipedia Links, Search Engine Journal
• In search for the Perfect Organic Link, SEO News Blog

• How To Get Those Nifty .EDU Links, Fantomaster

• Utility Linking, The Link Spiel

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Put your business on Google Maps, Google LatLong Blog
• Updating Your Google Maps Business Listing, Search Engine Guide

• Are You Using Google Coupons?, Search Engine Guide

• Google Maps mixed with YouTube, Los Angeles Times
• Better Business Location Search using OCR with Street Views, SEO By The Sea

• 4INFO Funding Announcement!, 4INFO Mobile Search Blog
  

Paid Search & Contextual

• adCenter upgrade postponed, adCenter Blog
• Which Adsense Format & Color Scheme Will Convert Best for You ?, Digital Inspiration

• Google’s Sheryl Sandberg on Next-Generation Advertising, Read/Write Web

• Security issue now fixed on google optimisation proposal reports!, Seo Home blog
• 75% of AdSense Publishers at DigitalPoint Earn $25 or Less Per Day, Search Engine Roundtable

Searching

• Do Alternative Search Engines Measure Up?, PC World

• Last week in China – Chinese Eye Tracking Research and more, Search Engine Journal

• Search startup confident of success, Seattle Times Newspaper
• Xerox Enters Search Market, Techcrunch

SEM Industry

• Talking Search Marketing Standard with Boris Mordkovich, Mimasm

• I have PageRank!, Brian White

• www.mahalo.com and it’s Spam, DaveN
• SEO Pricing & Costs – What Should You Charge / How Much Should You Pay?, SEOmoz
• Insider Thinks Google Won’t Serve DoubleClick’s ASP Customers, ClickZ

SEO & SEM

• Undeveloped .com Domain Name Prices vs SEO Service Prices, SEO Book
• Nasty duplicate content trouble created by annoying “SEO”, Joost de Valk
• Bringing SEO In House – Insight from the Experts Part 2, Web Analytics World
• Do Search Engines Read Individual Forum Posts or Threads?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Predictive Queries versus Unique Searches, SEO By The Sea
• Buying Sites for Search Engine Ranking Domination, SEO Book
• Winner Best Keyword Research Tool, Online Marketing Blog
• The “Minus 30″ Penalty Revisited, Search Engine Roundtable

Social Media

• Yahoo’s search for a social graph, Between the Lines
• TwitterGrams - The Next Step for Twitter?, Pronet Advertising

• LinkedIn to open up to developers, Between The Lines

• Plaxo reboots, gets in sync, GigaOM
• The Rules of Social Media Optimization – Have You Got Something to Add?, Reviewlicious

Video & Image Search

• Incoming Links on YouTube Expose Hundreds of FTP Passwords, Digital Inspiration
• Categories – We’re working on a solution!, YouTube Blog
• YouTube To Share Revenue With 20-year-old Filmmaker, Slashdot
• Blinkx Launching Speech Recognition Video Search, MediaPost Publications

Other Items

• Wikia: Lightning Could Strike Twice For Wikipedia Founders, Read/Write Web
• The power of a doodle, Google Librarian Central Blog
• Google Fiction, Wired News
• The Search Engine Election: 2008 Presidential Campaign Scorecard, Jonathan Mendez Blog
• Can Google Analytics Be Evil?, Search Engine Watch
• Google Fights Global Internet Censorship, Houston Chronicle
• Google’s strategy for hiring young talent, News.com
• New Domains Registered by Microsoft: DesktopOptimization.com and Others, ResourceShelf
  
• Google: ‘We all have to invent the wheel’, News.com
• Wayport and Yahoo! Join Forces to Launch a Localized Wi-Fi Portal for the Hospitality Industry, Business Wire