SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 5, 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: Google Search’s “Vince” Change: Google Says, Not Brand Push About a week ago, SEOs and Webmasters began noticing a significant change in how Google returned results for a certain set of […]

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

From Search Engine Land:

  • Google Search’s “Vince” Change: Google Says, Not Brand Push

    About a week ago, SEOs and Webmasters began noticing a significant change in how Google returned results for a certain set of keywords. Many webmasters felt Google was giving “big brands” a push in the search results. However, Matt Cutts of Google created a video that answered many questions about this “brand push.” […]

  • Google Health Makes It Easier To Share Medical Records

    Google Health has taken a step forward in utility with the launch today of two new tools to help users share their medical information with trusted friends, family members, or medical providers.
    First, “Share This Profile” is an email-based tool that lets you give someone else online access to a Google Health profile. Privacy and security […]

  • Google Testing (Annoying) Expandable Ads

    In a dual-barrel announcement, Google is introducing “expandable ads” to its AdSense and AdWords programs. Expandable ads are those annoying banners/graphics that expand and cover up the actual page content, as shown in this Google example:

    To Google’s credit, these ads will score somewhat lower on the annoyance meter than similar ads from other systems because […]

  • Why Do Lawyers From Utah Hate Search Ads?

    Eric Goldman reports that Utah, for the third time, is trying to regulate keyword advertising by proposing new law. The first two times they failed, but they are hoping the third time will be a charm.
    This revised law proposal, HB 450, is trying to prevent registered marks as triggers for keyword advertising but specifically […]

  • Inquisitor Debuts On iPhone

    The Yahoo Search Blog announced that my favorite search browser plugin, Inquisitor has made its way to the iPhone. You can get it right now on your iPhone in the iTunes Store for free by clicking here.
    The features include:

    Yahoo Search Assist search suggestions
    View search results in one click, within the application
    Site summaries load before […]

  • Search As Television’s Savior?

    Nielsen Research came out with interesting statistics on overall video consumption last week indicating that total TV consumption reached record levels when considering traditional broadcast video, time shifted video, web video and mobile video. This seems to fly in the face of the predictions that online video is cannibalizing the traditional business model. […]

  • Having A Crawlable Site Architecture Still Matters

    Over the past few years, all of the search engines have made tremendous strides in trying to discover different parts of the web, find deep content and understand complex URL structures better. The first big stride came when each of the search engines adopted the XML Sitemap protocol. Website owners now had the ability to […]

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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