SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 6, 2008

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

From Search Engine Land:

• Search in Pictures: Yahoo Flower Art, Jewel Performs at Yahoo, Yahoo Happy Hour Box
  In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more….
• Hey Firefox – Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine!
  So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine? And that…
• Hulu Embeds Search In The Video Player
  Hulu, trying to drive more video streams and ad views, has embedded a search box in the upper right of its syndicated video player, according to the Hulu blog. Search results appear on screen and when clicked initiate a new video stream in the player. Ads generally appear before the…
• Social Networks In The UK: Security Isn’t A Problem & The Future’s Mobile
  Anyone reading newspapers, or watching the TV news in the UK over the last couple of months could be forgiven for thinking that, along with computer games, social networks posed a bigger threat to personal security than anything this side of a full on recession. Headlines have concentrated on the…
• Google Maps For Mobile Adds Transit Directions
  Google Maps launched transit directions within Maps back in October of 2007. Now, Google Maps is bringing you that data directly in Google Maps for Mobile. Google Maps for Mobile version 2.2 brings bus and train schedules, prices, routes and directions directly on your mobile device. Here is a short…
• Google Releases New AdWords Editor 6.0
  Google has announced the release of a new AdWords Editor, version 6.0, for both Mac and Windows. Here is a full list of changes, enhancements and bug fixes from version 5.0.1, as listed in the release notes:…
• SEM News, “Google Tools, Part 4″ & Quintura’s Search Cloud
  In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today’s in-depth look, “Google Tools, Part 4″ and this week’s free tips and tools….
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey Enhanced Listings Available To Searchers
  As I reported last week, Yahoo SearchMonkey applications are now available to searchers. The Yahoo Search blog posted details last night, saying that searchers can now add SearchMonkey applications via either the gallery (which is in beta) or through promoted links from application developers or web sites. The gallery contains…

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Live Coverage Of Google Gmail Event, TechCrunch
• Introducing Gmail Labs, Official Gmail Blog

Business Issues

• Keyword Metatags and Keyword-Triggered Ads Don’t Create Initial Interest Confusion–Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins, Eric Goldman

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Richer Local Search Results in Google Maps, Google Operating System
• Follow your team around the European Championship, Google LatLong
• Multiplied Building Out Local Search Partners, Screenwerk
• Winning the Local Search Battle – Part 2, Search Engine Watch

Link Building

• What is Valid Link Bait?, Search Engine Watch

Paid Search & Contextual

• May 08 Paid Search Share Steady, Google At 81%, Rimm Kaufman
• Refining Your Audience, adCenter Advertiser
• Tools for Spying on Competitors Search Marketing Tactics, Search Engine Journal
• How To Compare Your Website Metrics With adCenter Analytics – adCenter Analytics, adcentercommunity.com

Searching

• Google Trends Goes Daily; Drops Hourly Update, Search Engine Watch Blog
• Reflections on the Sichuan earthquake, Google News Blog
• Quintura Beats Yandex (in the U.S.), Quintura blog

SEM Industry

• Interview with Kevin Ryan of SES , Joost de Valk’s SEO Blog
• Scientists, Poets, Colleagues , AIM Clear Blog
• SMX Advanced Goes To The Dark Side, BruceClay.com

SEO & SEM

• How to Build a Foreign Language Keyword List, Shimon Sandler
• Why Sculpting PageRank Is Not For Everyone, Marketing Pilgrim
• SEO Link Analysis 1.0.3!, Joost de Valk’s SEO Blog
• Bad SEO Techniques That Will Hurt Your Google Rankings, Search Engine Journal
• Google Recommends You Split Sitemap Files By File Type, Search Engine Roundtable
• Keywords Without Ego, Search Engine Watch
• Webmasters Report June 2008 Google SERP Updates, Search Engine Roundtable

Social Media

• FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations, FriendFeed Blog

Video, Music & Image Search

• Closed Captioning Search Options, Official Google Video Blog
• Search videos from all over the web with Yidio, altsearchengines.com
• The Video URL Is Not Always Optional in Google Video Sitemaps, Search Engine Roundtable

Other Items

• Google’s Diego Velazquez Birthday Logo, Search Engine Roundtable
• Where In The World Are Larry, Sergey, And The Google Party Jet? We Can Tell You, Silicon Alley Insider

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• Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Clarify robots.txt Support
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