SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 25, 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: Everyone Fears Google (Again) & Will The Last Googler To Leave Turn The Lights Out? Back at the beginning of this year, my 14 "Is Google Evil?" Tipping Points Since 2001 […]

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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:

  • Everyone Fears
    Google (Again) & Will The Last Googler To Leave Turn The Lights Out?

    Back at the beginning of this year, my 14 "Is Google Evil?" Tipping Points
    Since 2001 covered the history of how Google has been deemed to be too Big
    Brotherish or too dominant over the years. Another wave of Google hatred and
    fear is washing across the great sea…
  • Search In
    Pictures: Google Recruiter, Google Babies, Grady Booch & New Search
    Construction

    In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the
    web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play,
    who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more….
  • Google
    Registers ClimateSaverPC.com: Signs Of New Google PC Coming?

    Gary Price notes, as does Garett Rogers at Googling Google, that Google now
    owns the domain climatesaverpc.com. Garett speculates that Google may be
    thinking about building and selling personal computers that are green
    friendly, i.e. are climate and earth savers. We know Google has been active in
    environmental issues, though…
  • MyBlogLog
    Brands All Social Media Optimizers As Schmoes

    So MyBlogLog has tagging. Yawn. Then I saw Andy Beal highlighted this part of
    MyBlogLog’s post about the new feature Spam – If you think someone is spamming
    you, tag it out loud! Internally, we like to call a user who games the system
    a SchMOe (Social Media Optimizer). Internally,…
  • Yahoo Creates
    Home Values Meta Search

    Zestimates from Zillow have proven to be a tremendous hit with the public,
    although they’ve been criticized for being too high or too low in some cases.
    Now Yahoo has taken Zillow’s home valuation data (they’ve had a partnership
    for several months) and combined it with similar data from other…
  • Google Calendar
    Goes Mobile

    Google has just launched a mobile version of Google Calendar, which is
    supposed to load for those visiting the Google Calendar site with a mobile
    phone. Google describes it more in a blog post today. It appears to work on a
    range of phones, including Windows Mobile….
  • European Union
    Questions Google’s Data Retention Policy

    Google may be violating EU privacy laws on user search data from Bloomberg
    reports that the European Union has finally sent Google an expected letter
    raising concerns over Google’s data retention policies….
  • Google AdSense
    Says Don’t Worry About Accidental Clicks, No One Will Notice

    Accidents happen from the Google Inside AdSense blog today caught my eye.
    Apparently, lots of publishers accidentally click on their ads and write in to
    Google to say sorry. Don’t worry, says Google, "chances are we’ve already
    detected your clicks on your ads and discounted them." Bull. Seriously, bull.
    Here’s…
  • Facebook Opens
    Up Its ‘Platform’ To Everyone

    "Facebook is the anti-MySpace" and "Facebook is a new type of "Web 2.0"
    portal" are some of the things that were and are being said yesterday and
    today about the social network’s new "Facebook Platform" initiative. Basically
    there’s no direct search angle here but it’s an interesting and potentially
    important…

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Danny Sullivan
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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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