SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 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: Live Search? Kumo? Bing? Put Your Questions To Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu At SMX Advanced Dr. Qi Lu, the leader of Microsoft’s search efforts, will be keynoting on day two 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:

  • Live Search? Kumo? Bing? Put Your Questions To Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu At SMX Advanced

    Dr. Qi Lu, the leader of Microsoft’s search efforts, will be keynoting on day two of our upcoming SMX Advanced conference in Seattle. And both he and we want to hear what questions you have about Microsoft and search.
    Dr. Lu’s keynote will include a presentation — possibly to announce Microsoft’s new search engine — as […]

  • An Insider’s Look At SMX Advanced: Chris Elwell

    Many people don’t realize that Search Marketing Expo is just one part of Third Door Media, the company that’s also parent of Search Engine Land, Search Marketing Now and Sphinn. Chris Elwell, today’s featured SMX insider, is president of Third Door Media, and provides the business expertise and acumen to keep our different businesses thriving.
    Who […]

  • Ask.com Gets Desperate, Full Home Page Skin Ads

    If you visit Ask.com today, you will see what looks like a huge ad, in form of what is called (I believe) a skin ad, engulfing the home page. The ad, at least to me, shows a sign of desperation for Ask.com to raise ad dollars. While Google would rarely ever show an […]

  • Google CEO: We Considered Buying A Newspaper

    This had been reported before, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged that Google had looked at investing in or buying a newspaper in an interview in London with the Financial Times:
    FT: Would you ever consider buying a newspaper; they’re cheap right now?
    ES: We’ve actually looked at this and we’re trying to avoid crossing the line […]

  • Yahoo Adds Voice Search To iPhone App

    MobileCrunch noticed Yahoo has added voice search capabilities to their Yahoo One Search iPhone App. I spent a few minutes testing it out and I have to say, that is does an okay job. I didn’t conduct enough tests to really compare it against Google’s iPhone voice search feature. They are both […]

  • Google Image Search Testing Result Based Search Refinements

    Google Operating System reports Google Images is testing a new type of image search refinement technique, on a result by result basis. The example and screen capture provided in the blog post shows how Google is showing results for flowers. Under some of the flower images, Google is showing refinements for other searches […]

  • Optimize Your Videos For Prime Time

    Many savvy advertisers are making strides in attracting their target audience with online videos. They are utilizing popular video sites such as YouTube and Hulu to engage and connect with consumers. This is an extremely smart strategy since 78 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience views online videos, according to March’s comScore Video Metrix.
    The […]

  • 85 Reasons Why Website Designers/Developers Keep SEOs in Business

    A few months ago, I was quoted by Google’s Matt Cutts as saying that “website developers keep SEOs in business.” I honestly do believe that and have for a long time. While I don’t mean to say that ALL website designers/developers believe or do all of these things, you’ll likely encounter many who have done […]

  • All Aboard The Twitter Train, SMB’s!

    Twitter has reached critical mass. Oprah’s recent announcement that she’d joined Twitter, and her near-instantaneous recruitment of over 1,000,000 followers, has signaled a tipping point—tweeting is no longer a pastime exclusively for the technorati and uber-geeks. In fact, it seems like elitist spinsters are the only demographic not to embrace it yet at some level […]

  • Ads & Links & More Coming To Google Suggest

    Google has announced several changes that are coming soon to Google Suggest, the feature that suggests search queries as you type.
    The two most interesting to me are the inclusion of ads and direct links in the search suggestions. Let’s take a look, starting with the suggested links.
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    If Google is confident about what you’re looking […]

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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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