Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:

From Search Engine Land:

• 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
• SES Xiamen – Chinese SEO Lessons, Search Engine Journal
  

Business Issues

• Google bosses to visit, Monitor Online

• Google sets its sights on Seattle, Computerworld

• Google Making $1 Per Internet User, Read/Write Web
• Putting users in charge, Google Blog

• 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

• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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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