Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
From Search Engine Land:
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More Maps Announcements Coming This Week
The conference Where 2.0 begins tomorrow in San Jose, California. It’s about mapping, mashups and location-based services and there should be a range of interesting announcements from companies large and small. To that end, Garrett Rogers speculates, based on domain name registrations, that Google will be announcing a “street view”… -
YouTube Tests New Video Player
Screenshots of YouTube’s New Player from Google Operating System shows a new YouTube player being tested to “improve the way you interact with videos and will create a cinematic experience” says Ionut Alex. Chitu…. -
Google & Korea Daum In Content & Ad Partnership Talks
Google, Korea Daum in talks on YouTube, ad deals from MarketWatch reports that Google is in partnership discussions with Daum. Eric Schmidt of Google and Seok Jong-Hun of Daum are planning on meeting tomorrow to discuss Google providing Daum will access to all of YouTube’s content on their portal. And… -
Yahoo Testing Linking To Non-Yahoo Properties On Home Page
Yahoo Experiments With Non-Yahoo Links On Home Page from Techcrunch reports that Yahoo is testing linking to non-Yahoo properties directly from their home page. Typically, the only non-Yahoo links from their home page are the advertisements. On May 24th, Yahoo linked to this Crunchgear article directly in the “Featured” news…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
- Can You Use Google Analytics on an Adult Site?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google on Your Cell Phone, PC World
- Three Minutes With Google’s Apps Manager, PC World
Conferences
- Presentations from SES Xiamen, SEOmoz
- Special Events at ACM SIGIR Conference Offer Numerous Interesting Presentations From Top Researchers, ResourceShelf
- SES Xiamen Impressions, Search Engine Journal
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SES
Xiamen – Chinese SEO Lessons, Search Engine Journal
Business Issues
- Google bosses to visit, Monitor Online
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Google sets its sights on Seattle, Computerworld
- Google Making $1 Per Internet User, Read/Write Web
- Putting users in charge, Google Blog
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Google search juggernaut pushes forward, News.com
- Microsoft Ad Chief Quashes Rumors of Yahoo Acquisition, WSJ.com
- In Fierce Competition, Google Finds Novel Ways to Feed Hiring Machine, New York Times
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Amish Horse and Carriages in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
- Google Maps “Street View” to be launched at Where 2.0?, Googling Google
- Transit Directions in San Diego and Reno, Google Latlong Blog
Paid Search & Contextual
- Second Tier Search Engines & Clean Traffic Sources, SEO Book.com
- Microsoft adCenter Representatives Calling Inactive Advertisers, Search Engine Roundtable
- Yahoo! Search Marketing Testing Panama Engine in the UK, Search Engine Roundtable
- Mindmapping Audiences and Tasks for Category and Keyword Development, SEO By The Sea
- Click-to-play video ads available in three new formats, Inside AdWords
- Make room for new video ad formats, Inside AdSense
- Are You Getting Google AdSense Traffic this Memorial Day Weekend?, Search Engine Roundtable
Searching
- Intelliverb: Is It Intelligent Investing in Search?, Techcrunch
- Google Plus Box Patent Application, SEO By The Sea
SEM Industry
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Memorial
Day Commemorated: Ask.com & Search Engine Roundtable, Search
Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- Showing an Search Engine Marketing Project Success Before Even Beginning, Search Engine Roundtable
- Link Bait is the New Reciprocal Link, Search Engine Guide
- Alternate Link Building Strategies: The Linkerati Effect, Search Engine Journal
- Google’s Maile Ohye: 100 links per page, max, Rimm Kaufman
- Refining Queries Using Category Synonyms for Local and Other Searches, SEO By The Sea
Social Media
- Reddit hacked, Neomeme
- Winning YouTube Strategies – Channel ’08: The 2008 Election on Video, Washington Post Blog
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The Many Tribes of YouTube, New York Times
- What Are People Twittering About?, Twitter Blog
- There’s Twitter in My Facebook!, Twitter Blog
Video & Image Search
- Restrict Google Image Results to Faces, News, Google Operating System
- Screenshots of YouTube’s New Player, Google Operating System
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How
to Check Google Censorship (Video), Google Blogoscoped
Other Items
- SITE NEWS: Direct links now in “New Item Finder”, Memeorandum Blog
- Youtube blocked in Morocco, Mideast Youth
- Gone Fishing, Ask.com Blog
- More New Google Domains: GoogleStreetView.com; Don’t Forget PagesJaunes & MappyVisiocity, ResourceShelf
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The High Price of Creating Free Ads, New York Times
- Google Folk: ‘Even our bugs have fans’, Valleywag
- When it comes to swaying a jury, remember the Google factor, Guardian Unlimited
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