SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 4, 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:

• Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
  

  Satya Nadella, SVP of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, gave the morning keynote at the Microsoft Search Summit. It was an introduction to and tour of Bing and adCenter upgrades and improvements. Nadella began with a review of the search market and its growth. He was initially apologetic to the audience about Microsoft’s market share. He [...]

• The Bing TV Commercials
  

  Joe Wilcox compiled many of the early Bing commercials. Microsoft has a Bing YouTube channel where many of the commercials and other bing-related videos are available as well.

• How To Handle Negative Reviews Of Your Business
  

  The rise of websites that empower consumers to write reviews of our businesses is causing many business owners anxiety, or even outright rage. Of course we love it when people say great things about our business, but what about when they say bad things? Do we really have a reason to fear? [...]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• API Report to Exec Summit: Paid Content Is the Future for News Web Sites, Poynter Online

Business Issues

• Are Google And The White House Getting Too Cozy?, paidContent.org
• Ex-Googler’s New White House Job Rankles Some, Wall Street Journal
• Yahoo sues NFL Players Association, The Associated Press
• First Bing Ad Bombs, Others Are The Bomb, Joe Wilcox
• Google Says Enterprise Business Is ‘Profitable And Growing’, paidContent.org
• Grady Burnett leaves Google to run global sales for Facebook, Crain’s Detroit Business
• The World According to Google, Reuters

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Your country on Google, Google LatLong
• AdMob To Launch new iPhone Ad Units, MediaPost
• Google Maps now offering a Whitelist Bulk Upload Beta for the LBC?, Mike Blumenthal
• Introducing smart navigation in Street View: double-click to go (anywhere!), Google LatLong
• Photosynth Gets A Whole New Look And A Few Improvements, LiveSide

Paid Search & Contextual

• Setting up Ad Groups in Yahoo is different than Google, Ogletree

Searching

• Microsoft’s Bing Falsifies Site Data to Increase Click Through Rates, Search Engine Journal
• Differences in Google Image Results for Tiananmen Square Protests, Google Blogoscoped
• Getting the Full 360 on Silobreaker, VIP LiveWire
• Google Squared Declares Current Russian President Medvedev Dead, Profy
• Milestones: The Wayback Machine Grows in Size, ResourceShelf
• smart motion preview and safesearch, Bing Community
• Wolfram|Alpha Will Understand Your Language, Wolfram|Alpha Blog

SEM Industry

• The Other Side of Search is Found, AIM Clear Blog

SEO & SEM

• Microsoft IIS SEO Toolkit Available for Download, Search Engine Journal
• 11 Sources of Duplicate Content You’re Probably Unaware of, Search Engine Journal
• Are Blogs Doomed With NoFollow PageRank Sculpting Issue?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google UK SERPs mixing in US based queries, SEOptimise
• Google Update in the UK, David Naylor
• Introducing Page Speed, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
• Is Everything You Know About SEO Wrong?, AIM Clear Blog
• Kenshoo Unleashes Next Generation Portfolio Bid Optimization for SEM, Kenshoo
• Mixing NoIndex & Rel=Canonical Tag In One Page, Search Engine Roundtable
• Will a "coming soon" page negatively impact my site?, YouTube

Social Media

• Ads You Can Digg or Bury, Digg the Blog
• Hey There! Tony La Russa Is Suing Twitter, TechCrunch
• How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live, TIME
• Making a Case for Social Media, Online Marketing Blog

Video, Music & Image Search

• Phishing Scam Targets YouTube Partners, TechCrunch
• Phishing Scam Update, YouTube Blog

Web Analytics

• Event Tracking Now Available in All Accounts, Google Analytics Blog

Other Items

• Top 10 Malware Sites, Google Online Security Blog

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