SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 23, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Truveo Says It’s The Most Comprehensive Video Search ProviderAn internal Truveo study conducted during the past month found that Truveo has a more comprehensive video search coverage than its top competitors. […]

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

From Search Engine Land:


  • Truveo Says It’s The Most Comprehensive Video Search Provider

    An internal Truveo study conducted during the past month found that Truveo has a more comprehensive video search coverage than its top competitors. According to Truveo it undertook the study itself because “there is no major testing organization, publication or consulting firm publicly conducting ongoing quality studies of video search…

  • Blog Marketing & Pay Per Post: They’re Not The Same

    The vitamin supplement company Berocca has been engaged in a vaguely interesting piece of blog marketing over here in the UK recently. Taking their cue from the recent NY Times article suggesting that blogging can be highly stressful, they have put together a blogger relief pack which consists of…

  • Google Maps Transit Information For New York Metro Area

    The Google Blog announced the availability of extremely comprehensive transit information throughout the New York metro area. Google Maps now plots transit information for subway, commuter rail, bus and ferry services from the Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit and…

  • First Android Phone: “T-Mobile G1 With Google”

    If the video shown during the press conference is any indication, T-Mobile’s “G1 with Google” should give the iPhone a run for its money. Much was made during the press conference of the “totally open” platform (vs. Apple), though Apple wasn’t mentioned by any of the presenters. Here’s the press…

  • Google Says, Don’t Rewrite Dynamic URLs To Static URLs

    Almost two years ago, Google updated their guidelines to say that they can now properly handle crawling dynamic URLs. But last night, Google posted a blog entry now telling webmasters not to use rewrite rules for dynamic URLs, at least in most cases. Google say, in bold, “avoid reformatting a…

  • 5 Ways to Target Media Outlets For Links

    Knowing where key decision-makers go for information and what type of digital media outlets influence their actions can give you a competitive edge in marketing your products, developing content and securing links. Recently, Forrester Research conducted a survey to determine the value of various publications and how key decision-makers…

  • Google’s Hal Varian Expounds The Virtues Of ‘Data Democratization’

    Hal Varian is a UC Berkeley economics professor now on leave at Google as its Chief Economist. In that latter capacity Varian waxes poetic on the Google Blog about the “democratization of data” in the internet era. The essence of his post is that volumes of relevant data, and tools…

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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