May 25, 2007 at 3:33pm ET by Danny Sullivan
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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