SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 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: Yahoo Supports New Robots-Nocontent Tag To Block Indexing Within A Page For over a decade, search engines have supported standards allowing you to prevent pages from being spidered or included within […]
Danny Sullivan on May 2, 2007 at 2:53 pm | Reading time: 5 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:
From Search Engine Land:
- Yahoo Supports
New Robots-Nocontent Tag To Block Indexing Within A Page
For over a decade, search engines have supported standards allowing you to
prevent pages from being spidered or included within a search index. Today,
Yahoo now supports a new twist — a way to flag that part of your page
shouldn’t be included in an index. It’s called the robots-nocontent… - Digg Gives In
To User Revolt; Are Those DMCA Takedown Notices Even Valid?
After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring
posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced
Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs. The AACS claims that anyone
publishing the number may be violating US laws against circumvention of copy
protection. How the… - Citysearch Gets
New Look And Video
Citysearch, one of the more venerable names in local search, has relaunched
its site with an updated look and other "new and improved" features, including
video. Video is currently available for New York, San Francisco and Los
Angeles and has prominent placement at the top of the home page. It’s… - Globe Glider
Enables "Next Generation" Maps Mashups
Super Mapping Mashup -> Globe Glider Next Generation from the Google Earth
Blog reports that Globe Glider has enabled more features to wow those who want
to do map mashups. Now you can integrate Virtual Earth to Google Maps and
Virtual Earth to Google Earth, when before you were only… - Google Goes To
School
As earlier reported this year, Google launched a premier edition of Google
Apps which included email service, calendars, SSO services, instant messaging,
spreadsheets, and more. One interesting detail of their recent promotions of
Apps is how they’re pushing this out to schools, in both free and paid
"premier" service options…. - Navigating
Keyword Strategy In B2B SEO
Perhaps nowhere is keyword strategy more complex than in B2B SEO. The lack of
shared lexicons, the obscurity of most B2B brand names, the multiple parties
involved in the purchase decision, and the extended nature of the buying cycle
present unique challenges for B2B marketers. Here are some tips… - Yang & Filo
Sumo Each Other To Save The World
Will wrestle for climate change from Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal blog covers that
the co-founders of Yahoo put on sumo suits to wrestle each other. Jerry Yang
and David Filo agreed to this match after Yahoos did their part to their
impact on the environment. Why sumo wrestle? Reportedly, Yang… - Google Might
Buy NBC, Dow Jones (Walmart, Amazon, Pepsi….)
How about this? Any time some major media company may be on the block, let’s
make it a requirement that all media stories automatically insert a comment
from some made up financial analyst suggesting that Google is thinking of
buying the company too. Maybe I’ve just had it. I mean,…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
-
Export All Your Documents from Google Docs, Google Operating System -
Google Desktop beats Mac’s search tool, Herald Tribune -
Could An Enhanced Google Talk Spell The End For Skype?, InformationWeek
Blog
Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you,
All About Microsoft
Business Issues
- Google,
Yahoo urged to boost rights policies in restrictive nations, San Jose
Mercury News -
Ex-Yahoo exec joins Benchmark, Los Angeles Times - GoogleClick: Do
We Have More To Fear Than Fear Itself?, MediaPost -
AOL Ad Revenue Up 40 Percent in Q1, ClickZ
Gung ho for Google, Pryor Daily Times
Link Building
-
The Return of the Grey PageRank Score in the Google Toolbar?, Search
Engine Roundtable -
5 Reasons why Google PageRank is overrated and 5 more about why it can still
be useful, SEOptimise - Google: Nofollow Makes The
Web’s Link Structure Natural, Threadwatch -
How Do You Obtain Links from .edu Sites?, Search Engine Roundtable -
10 Simple Tips For Intelligent Link Buying in 2007, 10e20
Local, Maps & Mobile
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Whither Mobile Search?, Small Business SEM -
Virus spreads across Google Earth, virtually, News.com -
Barry Diller Goes Local, Forbes.com
Paid Search & Contextual
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Google Accounts landing soon, Inside AdSense
Podcasts
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PubCon vs. SES, Links, PageRank, Virus AdWords, News Search, iGoogle & More,
SearchPulse -
Eric Ward Podcast with Eric Enge, StoneTemple -
The Diggnation Holds A Diggolution; Google
Toolbar Gray’s Anatomy & More!, Daily SearchCast -
iGoogle – So Much Shorter Than My Google;
Google Tells Viacom Bring On The Fight & More!, Daily SearchCast
Searching
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Finding what you need with the best search engines, Phil Bradley -
aftervote – The social search engine, Phil Bradley -
New Sphere
Focuses On Connections Between News Stories, TechCrunch
SEM Industry
-
Reader’s Choice Search Marketing Resources, Online Marketing Blog -
Search Engine Watch Forums Adds "Intrusive" Ads, Search Engine Roundtable - Yahoo! Removes
UK Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool, Search Engine Roundtable -
Neo@Ogilvy Partners with SEMDirector, Search Engine Watch
SEO & SEM
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Search Engine Reputation Monitoring, ClickZ -
Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style, Search Engine Journal -
How Well Can You Guess the Right Keywords?, Search Engine Watch
Social Media
- Google
Love Affair with Wikipedia, Graywolf -
The Search Engine That’s Already Better Than Google, SEOmoz -
Which Blog Platform is the Best for SEO?, Naffziger - Top 25
Most Popular Blogs May 2007, eBizMBA
Video, Audio & Image Search
- Joost
Signs Deal With CNN, Sony, NHL; Prepares To Launch, TechCrunch -
YouTube Founders Wins Special Webby Award, InsideGoogle -
The Chart: Reality check on online video, Valleywag -
PodZinger Video & Audio Search Names New CEO, Search Engine Journal
Other Stuff
G’day, California, Google Blog- Google on
Oprah, SEO BlackHat
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