SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 23, 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:

  • Google & Dell’s Revenue-Generating URL Error Pages Drawing Fire
    Last year, Google signed a landmark deal to become the default search engine on new Dell computers, plus to bundle Google software. Now, people are noting anew that a consequence of the deal seems to be pushing Dell users to search results dominated by Google ads, rather than editorial…
  • Direct Navigation And Domain Empires
    Business 2.0 has a fairly comprehensive (cover) story about domain portfolios and "direct navigation." It starts off with a profile of Vancouver entrepreneur Kevin Ham ("The Man Who Owns the Internet"), who operates a $300 million domain "empire" but goes on to discuss others who have become wealthy from domain…
  • Google’s Biotech Investment In Brin’s Wife’s Company, 23andMe
    Raising some eyebrows this morning is Google’s investment in a biotech firm called 23andMe, which states as its mission to: "help you make sense of your own genetic information . . . [and] put your genome into the larger context of human commonality and diversity." Anne Wojcicki, Google cofounder Sergey…
  • TechCrunch: Google Is Buying FeedBurner
    $100 Million Payday For Feedburner – This Deal Is Confirmed from TechCrunch has Michael Arrington saying last week’s rumors of a Google purchase of FeedBurner are true: Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly…
  • Yahoo Closing Webjay
    Odd. Just a year and a half after buying music playlist sharing site Webjay, John Udell notes that Yahoo is closing the service. From the closure notice: We are sorry to announce that Webjay will be closing its doors at the end of June, 2007. Please take this time to…
  • Google’s New AdSense For Video Pilot
    Today Google introduced a "closed beta" that allows for the in-stream insertion of ads in video content on its AdSense network. Here’s the Inside AdSense explanation: "[W]e’re extending AdSense to online video content. Publishers in this test will be able to define at what point in their videos that streaming…
  • Technorati Blog Search Relaunches
    Technorati has relaunched today, and I’m on a short day, so I can’t dive in to play with it in depth. Below, I’ll recap what some others are saying. add a few off-the-cuff remarks on blog search in general, plus comment on how Technorati continues to be masterful in working…
  • Q&A With Seth Godin, Founder & CEO Of Social Search Service Squidoo
    Seth Godin is widely known as one of the foremost advocates of "permission marketing," promotional campaigns that don’t rely on interrupting the attention of your customers, but rather engage them and even turn them into enthusiastic advocates that volunteer time and effort to help you promote your products or…
  • Driving Online Registrations: Think Beyond the White Paper
    Successful B2B marketing efforts—particularly search advertising campaigns—often utilize landing pages designed to collect registrations. Website visitors must complete a (hopefully short and simple) registration form to receive something of value. Typically this registration data is then cultivated and, if warranted, entered in the company’s lead management and sales system….
  • Search Illustrated: Blocking Search Engines With Robots.txt
    While most of the time we want search engine crawlers to grab and index as much content from our web sites as possible, there are situations where we want to prevent crawlers from accessing certain pages or parts of a web site. For example, you don’t want crawlers poking…

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About The Author: is editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land. He’s a widely cited authority on search engines and search marketing issues who has covered the space since 1996. Danny also oversees Search Engine Land’s SMX: Search Marketing Expo conference series. He maintains a personal blog called Daggle (and maintains his disclosures page there). He can be found on Facebook, Google + and microblogs on Twitter as @dannysullivan.


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