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 […]
Danny Sullivan on May 25, 2007 at 3:33 pm | Reading time: 6 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:
- 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…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
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Calendar for mobile devices, Google Blog -
Bigger attachments in Gmail, Google Blog -
Something to :) about, Google Talk Blog
Conferences
- Take Your
Traffic-Driving Strategy to the Next Level, Yahoo Publisher Network Blog
Business Issues
-
Diller: Microsoft/Yahoo Would Be Good for Ask.com, MediaPost Publications -
Cringley: What Googlers make, Google owns, Google Watch -
Five takeaways from the E.U. -vs.-Google privacy tussle, MarketWatch
Link Building
- Get Paid in .edu
Links to Post Help Wanted Ads, SEO Book -
Will .edu Links Ever Lose Their Luster?, SEOmoz
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Can Yahoo
Mobilize Mobile?, ClickZ -
Reply enters deal with Yahoo, San Jose Business Journal -
More home value estimates on Yahoo Real Estate, Square Feet -
Kelsey Research Confirms User Interest in Video,
Screenwerk - Getting
Hyper-Active in Local Search, Search Engine Watch -
Mini-Cities: Is It Already in Trouble?, Screenwerk -
Refining Queries Using Category
Synonyms for Local and Other Searches, SEO By The Sea
Paid Search & Contextual
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What’s all the noise about….Google Audio Ads?, Google Consumer Packaged
Goods Blog -
Accidents
happen, Inside AdSense -
adCenter Feature Review: Importing a campaign, adCenter Blog -
The End of “No-Man’s” Land
in Online Advertising, MediaPost -
Advertising’s Brave New World, Wall Street Journal
Searching
- You might be
digitzing books on the Web without knowing it thanks to this stealthy
anti-spam technology, NetworkWorld -
From Microsoft Research: Putting Search into Context -
300
Search Engines Reviewed, Search Engine Journal -
Find Cheap Gas Prices via Search Engines, Search Engine Journal - Why Aren’t
Credit Card Companies Using A Google Defense Mechanism?, Techdirt -
What Google News and Techmeme Could Learn from Each Other, Read/Write Web -
Yahoo releases their 20 most misspelled search words, SEO Scoop
SEM Industry
-
Search Marketing Blogs Update 052507, Online Marketing Blog -
My Public Relations Secrets Revealed, 10e20 -
Measuring
ROI Can Be Difficult for SEO, Search Engine Watch -
Enquiro Finds Search Plays an Integral Role in B2B Purchases, Search
Engine Watch -
Favorite 5 Search Marketing News Sites, MIMA Blog -
Real Estate: SEO Disaster / SEO Opportunity, Small Business SEM
SEO & SEM
Advanced Search Engine Optimization for College & University Websites,
Natural Search Blog-
Google’s Reinclusion Requests – Getting Back Into the Index, Not Rankings,
Search Marketing Gurus -
Search Engine Optimisation : A Team game, Dave Naylor -
Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts share budget website marketing tips, SEOish - 17 Poor Quality Signals
Your Site May Be Sending, Eric Enge -
Meta Tags in Search Engine Optimization: Who Needs ‘Em?, Bruce Clay Blog -
Google-Proof PR?, Forbes
Social Media
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There’s a hole in your Twitter, meish dot org -
The Twitter API Respects Your Privacy, Twitter Blog -
MyBlogLog Gets Into Tagging, Techcrunch -
All About Tags, MyBlogLog Blog -
Whiteboard Friday: "Digg-Dugg", SEOmoz -
Google News to Add Videos and Social News Features?, Google Operating
System -
Google stands firm behind News search site, ComputerWorld -
CoRank Relaunches: Create Your Own Digg, Read/Write Web
Other Items
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Google vs eBay Netball Championship, Google Australia Blog
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