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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FeedBurner Addresses Concerns Over Google Buyout
Scary Feedburner Message At Login from Jeremy Schoemaker reported that FeedBurner placed a new message on their login page that read, in part, that you have until June 15th to opt out of “allowing Google to service your account.” Jeremy, as did others, did not know exactly how to take… -
Legal Ratings And Search Site Avvo Launches
More than a year in development, legal search and ratings site Avvo officially launched yesterday. The site allows users to search by geography and practice area or by lawyer name. It combines data from public records and (eventually) clients, community members and legal peers to offer a composite score for… -
Yahoo Search June 2007 Update
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they are doing an index and ranking algorithm update. The update started last night and should be “complete very soon,” said Priyank Garg of Yahoo Search. Yahoo’s last update was just a few weeks ago on May 22nd. That update was a minor update…. -
BBC Features Microsoft’s Photosynth In New Show
The BBC’s “How We Built Britain” television series “explores Britain’s past through its buildings and the lives lived in and around them.” The program (or programme) features Microsoft’s experimental Photosyth technology to show photo collages and different images of the structures. Here’s an earlier post from around the time of… -
UK Local Search: Yell Ad Campaign, welovelocal
UK directory and local search provider Yell (publisher of the print yellow pages) has launched a new ad campaign across various media, touting Yell.com, the publisher’s online local search portal. The campaign also apparently involves GPS-enabled buses that adjust ad messaging according to bus location (in London). The bus stops… -
Ask.com Commercial Leaked Prior To Airing
Techcrunch posted the new Ask 3D commercial yesterday, several hours before it was suppose to be aired last night. The new commercial features a guy singing, “I got what I’m looking for,” with women dancing behind him. It then splashes the keyword phrase “chicks with swords” at the end. So… -
Google Acquires Multicore Programming Company, PeakStream
Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy from The Register reports Google has purchased PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for programming chips with multiple processing units. The financial terms of the buyout were not disclosed, but rumors are that Google bought them on the cheap. Reportedly, PeakStream was not… -
What’s Wrong With Social Media For B2B Marketing
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing is too often the ugly stepchild in the marketing family, especially when compared to the golden child that is business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing. B2C marketing gets all the glory, so much so that when people talk about marketing without a modifier, it’s usually assumed they mean consumer… -
Google Releases Audio Ads To Public While eBay Begins Radio Ad Auction Push
Google announced they have completed their audio ad test and is now in the process of rolling out audio ads to all US advertisers. In fact, I reported on May 15th, that many advertisers began seeing the audio ads option within their AdWords console. Today, EBay to Broker Radio Ad…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
- Yahoo IM hit with critical security flaws, News.com
- Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another, Carnage4Life
Business Issues
- GOOG Stock Reaches All-Time High of $519, Search Engine Roundtable
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Google Calls for Boost in Work Visas, washingtonpost.com
- MS, Yahoo! and Google snub debate on freedom, The Register
- Google VP Sells Shares: Financial News, Yahoo! Finance
Conferences
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SMX Conference: Day 2 Notes, Karl Ribas.com Blog
- Internet Retailer 2007 Thoughts From First Day, Marketing Pilgrim
- Duplicate Content Session at SMX Advanced, Search Engine Journal
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Google Earth users outnumber Brazil’s population, News.com
- Google Earth More Realistic with Better Terrain, Google Earth Blog
Paid Search & Contextual
- Concerns Over Yahoo!’s New Quality Based Pricing, Search Engine Roundtable
- Making the Case for Portfolio Based Bid Management Tools, Search Engine Watch
- Yahoo! Panama Reduces Search Costs; Advertiser Reinvestment Spurs Growth, Performics (PDF)
- AdCenter and the Travel Industry: TripRes.com Case Study, adCenter Blog
Searching
- Ask.com Wants to Search Sites for You, SEO By The Sea
SEM Industry
- Search Marketing Standard – Got Your Copy?, Web Analytics World
SEO & SEM
- Reciprocal Website Reviews, Ogletree
- A Clever JavaScript Redirect, DaveN
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Where Have All the UK Websites Gone?, Search Engine War
Social Media
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The Statistics Behind Digg Submissions, Naffziger’s Net
Video & Image Search
- AOL’s New Video Search Tools for Developers, Search Engine Watch Blog
Other Items
- Video: Terry McAuliffe At Google, InsideGoogle
- Google doubles universities in book scanning project, News.com
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