SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 15, 2009

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

From Search Engine Land:

• Google’s Q3: $5.94 billion, 7 Percent YoY Revenue Growth, 14 Percent Paid Click Growth
  

  Expectations were high for Google’s Q3 given some of the positive reports coming out about clicks and search volumes from third parties such as Efficient Frontier and comScore. Even though Google performed solidly (almost $6 billion in a still-bad economy) there may be some disappointment on Wall Street. Google’s Eric Schmidt said “The worst of [...]

• Yahoo To Drop Paid Inclusion Program
  

  There have been some rumors that Yahoo will be dropping their paid inclusion program by the end of this year. These are not rumors, they are indeed accurate. Danny Sullivan, the Editor-In-Chief here at Search Engine Land, has received confirmation from a Yahoo representative on a panel today at the iProspect/Range Online Media Client [...]

• Google To Open Online E-Book Store
  

  At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Google revealed its plans to launch Google Editions, an online store to sell e-books. The company says the store will launch in the first half of 2010 with about half a million e-books. The e-books will come from publishers with whom Google already works, and unlike Amazon’s Kindle e-reader/store, the Google-hosted [...]

• Enterprise Search: Keyword Arbitration Between Organic & Paid
  

  Enterprise Search Marketing programs face a multitude of challenges. Lack of resources, lack of accurate metrics, difficulty getting site changes implemented for organic optimization and so forth. Many of these challenges are more on the organizational side of things than anything else. For those of you in this camp, here’s a challenge that will sound [...]

• What Is A QR Code And Why Do You Need One?
  

  We all know that one of the keys to great SEO is making sure you keep your website updated, new and fresh. Weather you do this with a blog, or you change your homepage with new offers, coupons or new products, it serves to show Google that your site is ‘alive’. For many small businesses [...]

• Google Quietly Drops PageRank From Webmaster Tools
  

  My piece this morning, Google Removes PageRank Data From Webmaster Tools from the Search Engine Roundtable has sparked a lot of discussion on Twitter. Google had indeed removed the PageRank statistics from Google Webmaster Tools. I believe it was removed when Google released the Webmaster Tools Labs features earlier this week. PageRank [...]

• Battle Of The Augmented Reality Apps: Urbanspoon, Layar, Wikitude, WhereMark & More
  

  There seems to be an explosion of “real-time” search engines on the PC. The space is very new, still fairly open and in my opinion the tools and sites are not yet all that useful. Almost exactly the same can be said of “augmented reality” (AR) in mobile. From almost nothing about six months ago, there’s [...]

• Google Approaches 65% Market Share In Latest ComScore Survey
  

  According to the latest comScore survey, Google’s search market share climbed to just under 65% last month, and remains more than triple that of Yahoo, the second-place search engine. ComScore pegs Google with 64.9% of all searches conducted during September 2009, up from 64.6% in August. Yahoo dropped from August’s 19.3% to 18.8% in September. [...]

• Tectonic Shifts Altering The Terrain At Google Maps
  

  Google recently upgraded Google Maps with a new land parcel data layer, added a Map error reporting function, has promised map fixes to street errors in 30 days or less and has replaced Tele Atlas as their provider of roadway data. It was widely expected that Google might replace TeleAtlas but I don’ think anyone [...]

• How To Use Google’s Sidewiki For Maximum SEM Benefit
  

  Google’s Sidewiki is here and it’s not hard to see that it could be big, that it could change the way we use the internet. However, it has some frankly scary implications for website proprietors. People can visit your pages and leave messages, whether you want them to or not.

  Dell Homepage with Google SideWiki [...]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Translator widget: Delivering your site to the world, Bing Webmaster Blog
• Google Translator Toolkit and minority languages, Official Google Blog
• Google Wave secured with ‘crypto fairy dust’, iTnews.com.au
• New in Labs: Google Docs previews, Official Gmail Blog

Business Issues

• Google’s Test of Self-Discipline, Wall Street Journal

Local, Maps & Mobile

• AT&T Slams Google Over Call Blocking, Wall Street Journal
• Google Maps Adds UGC Feedback to Front Page Display of the OneBox, Mike Blumenthal
• Google Unwraps Android’s Giant Eclair, TechCrunch
• TVGuide.com Launches TV Listings and Entertainment News Application for iPhone and iPod Touch, Reuters
• You Ask, We Answer. Go Mobile!, Official Google Mobile Blog

Link Building

• SEO SpyGlass: an Advanced Backlink Research Tool, Search Engine Journal
• Buy Text Link Ads With These 101 Sneaky Tips On Paid Links, Search Engine Journal
• Tangled Web: The Most Linked to Pages on the Internet, SEOmoz

Paid Search & Contextual

• Extending "Ads by Google" notice, Inside AdWords
• Google AdSense Fixes a "Hardcore" But "Minor" Bug, Search Engine Roundtable
• Real-Life Lessons in Using Google AdWords, New York Times

Searching

• Accessing SearchMonkey Structured Objects via BOSS, Yahoo Search Blog
• Google, Heads Up, Ireland Is Not New Zealand, Search Engine Roundtable
• Post-Hype, Wolfram Alpha Turns On Its API And Preps An iPhone App, TechCrunch
• Wikia Acquires LyricWiki, Gets Lyrics License from Gracenote, Digital Media Wire

SEO & SEM

• Searcher Behavior and Search Marketplace Mature, BruceClay.com
• 3 Days Later, Bing Finally Fixes Webmaster Tools Bug, Search Engine Roundtable
• Get Out Of Google Jail For $50, Web Site Captures Mug Shots, Search Engine Roundtable
• More on geographic targeting, YouTube
• Quickly Find out Which SERPS Page You Are Ranked, Search Engine Journal
• SEO: There Is No Duplicate Content Penalty, Practical eCommerce
• The brand update is about maximising satisfaction rates, BlogStorm

Social Media

• Responding to Abuse Reports More Effectively, Facebook
• J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Social Media Networking Reaches More Prospects Than Online Search Engines or Portals According to Recent Snapshot of New-Vehicle Buyer Online Activity, Yahoo! Finance
• Oneupweb Report Shows Consumers Taking Search Social This Holiday Shopping Season, Yahoo! News
• Why Companies Shouldn’t Block Social Media in the Workplace, 10e20

Video, Music & Image Search

• Importing Photos in Picasa 3.5, Google Photos Blog
• Is TwitPic Taking Ads A Little Too Far?, TechCrunch
• Quickly Share Private YouTube Videos, Search Engine Roundtable

Other Items

• Yodeling for 500 million, Yodel Anecdotal