SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 1, 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:

  • Organizing Your PPC Account For Maximum Success

    Account organization is the first and most important step in the optimization process – it’s the foundation for success.

  • Google News Gets Search Suggestions

    The Google News Blog announced search suggestions have been added to the Google News search box as you type. Google added search suggestions as the default to Google.com just a bit over a year ago today. Now, it is the default on Google News. Here is a picture:

    The suggestions are actually tailored to news-like [...]

  • Preview Your Google Rich Snippets With Google Webmaster Tool

    On May 12th, Google began supporting rich snippets in the search results. That meant Webmasters could mark up their HTML with richer data using microformats and RDFa and Google could then, if they deemed it to be appropriate, display the richer snippets in their search results. One of the issues on the webmaster front with [...]

  • Yahoo Board Member Icahn Trims Stake, Bartz Wants Wants To Stop “Navel Gazing”

    Investor and Yahoo board member Carl Icahn has reportedly reduced his holdings in Yahoo by roughly 12 million shares, according to a recent regulatory filing with the US SEC. Icahn became a board member last year after a prolonged and very public episode that involved heavy criticism of then Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and an attempt [...]

  • Should You Alter Your Current Backlinks?

    What should you do, as a polite and plucky link builder, if some of your inbound links just aren’t up to snuff? Do you risk alienating a well-meaning webmaster by pointing out that he’s linked to an old page that no longer exists? That he’s spelled your company’s name incorrectly, or, even worse, your URL? [...]

  • Surchur: Beyond Real-Time Search To Real-Time Discovery

    Surchur has been around for more than a year, but its recent facelift aims to take real-time search toward a new idea: real-time discovery. It may sound like splitting hairs to some, but the point is valid: Real-time search isn’t of much value if you don’t know what to type into the search box. This is [...]

  • When UGC Means Users Give-Away Control

    Last month, Google was forced by a New York judge to hand over the personal details of a user of its Blogger service to someone who wished to sue the blogger in question for defamation. In a series of posts, fashion model Liskula Cohen was described by fashion student Rosemary Port as a “psychotic, lying, whoring [...]

  • Of Living URLs, Newspaper Rankings & California Fires

    As Google has grappled with newspapers firing rip-off accusations at them, one of the key responses has been from Google’s Marissa Mayer. A move to “living URLs” would drive them more traffic, she’s said, talking about it twice this past month. But such a system won’t work unless Google News fundamentally [...]

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Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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