SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 16, 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:

• Searcharazzi: Esther Dyson to Keynote Search Insider Summit
  Road warriors know that tradeshow season is on. With SXSW just wrapped up, the herd continues west coast for the OMMA Hollywood next week followed by iMedia Breakthrough in Nevada. It will be back east for SES New York, the ACCM in Boston and the Search Insider Summit in…
• Microsoft’s Tellme Acquisition ‘Accelerates’ Mobile Search Competition
  Notwithstanding Microsoft’s own existing speech assets, the Tellme acquisition appears to be complementary and strategic for Microsoft across the board. There were the four principal areas, identified in the release, that would be pursued or enhanced by the acquisition: unified communications, speech platform, software plus services and mobile services and…
• Gary Price of Ask.com & ResourceShelf Interviewed
  Q&A With Ask.com’s Gary Price from Search Engine Watch has an interview with one of the people I look up to most in this industry. As you may remember I came in to help fill a void at Search Engine Watch after Gary left to join Ask.com. Gary is now…
• Microsoft’s Ballmer Calls Google One Hit Wonder, Mocks Management Skills & Criticizes At Future Growth
  Steve Baller, Microsoft’s CEO, spoke at Stanford University the other day, calling Google a one-hit wonder, mocking Google’s personal time concept and calling their growth expectations “insane.” Ballmer questions business strategy of Google from Tech World reports Ballmer saying Google is “really just one business, a search and advertising business”…
• Google Phone Has Been Confirmed By Google Exec
  Engadget reports on a Spanish blog post that Isabel Aguilera, Google’s chief executive in Spain and Portugal, has confirmed that there is a Google phone in the works. We have been reporting on these rumors for a while, so it is nice to see some possible confirmation. News.com reports Isabel…
• Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases
  Hurray! Finally, you can get a report from Google of the top anchor text phrases used when people link to your site. Google Webmaster Central has just announced the new feature. But didn’t Google already report anchor text data? Yes, but only keywords, not phrases. Keywords are mostly useless junk…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

Applications & Portal Features

• Will Somebody Please Fix the Broken Redundant Feeds, Graywolf
• Google’s Presentation Tool Does Exist, Google Operating System
• How about a 3.5GB quota in your Gmail?, Googling Google
• Google Rebang now live, Googling Google

Business Issues

• ARMCHAIR GENERAL: The wrong hire for Yahoo, Valleywag

• Lycos Europe To Launch in U.S. Under Jubii Name, PaidContent.org

• Google Entering Wireless Biz? Will They Or Won’t They?, CNBC.com
• Google vs. Apple: Google, Fool.com

• CBS Reaches YouTube Deal For Highlights, WSJ.com

• Google Gooses Big Media, TIME
• Yahoo manager to head Rambler, CNews

Local, Mobile & Maps

• How Do You Submit to AskCity? The Old-Fashioned Way…, Small Business SEM

Paid Search & Contextual

• Panama’s Relevance Score Causes Pain and Gain, ClickZ

• Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, February 2006, ClickZ

• Have We Another Pasternack?, PPC Blog
• Microsoft Follows the Money to Find Spammers, SEO By The Sea
• One account, one PIN, Google AdSense Blog
• API Version 9 Now Available, Google AdWords API Blog
• Yahoo! Publisher Network Partnerships, Search Engine Roundtable

Privacy & Legal

• Google grapples with increasingly political Web, News.com

• Google Responds To GMail Trademark Dispute, WebProNews

SEM Industry

• The New & Improved SEOmoz Recommended List, SEOmoz

SEO & SEM

• How to Reduce the Pain of Switching Domains, StepForth

• 301 Redirects | Why to Use Them and How Do They Work, Search Marketing Standard
  

Social Media

• Optimizing Firefox for Digg.com, Pronet Advertising

• Newbie’s guide to Twitter, WebWare
• Yahoo, MTV Announce UGM Site, Best Movie Spoof for MTV Movie Awards, MarketingVOX

• Yahoo Japan Launches Digg Clone : Minna No Topics, Search Engine Journal

Video & Image Search

• Yahoo to launch Chinese version of photo site, Reuters

Other Vertical Search

• Google News in Hindi, Google Blog

Other Stuff

• Now Accepting Student Applications for Google Summer of Code 2007, Google
• Wow! Google Audio Ads Are $20k Per Month, Marketing Pilgrim
• March Madness Shortcuts on Yahoo Search, Search Engine Journal
• Add a Blog Bar to your site, Google
• 5 Ways To Make Passive Income On Your Website, ShoeMoney