SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 24, 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 Launches “Place Pages,” Gets Rid Of Tabbed Info Bubble
  

  Google is swapping its “info window” in Maps out in favor a much richer full-page experience that offers more information and a number of new capabilities and features. The pop-ups on Maps previously opened to an expanded info-bubble view, featuring a tabbed experience that buried much of the information available about a business. The new “Place [...]

• Google Offers New Keyword Research Tool
  

  I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that Google has a beta version of a new keyword tool available in the AdWords console. To get to it, login to adwords.google.com, go to a campaign, click on opportunities (if you have that tab), then on the left bar, click on keyword tool. [...]

• Google Starts Shopping For Businesses Again
  

  Google CEO sees one small acquisition a month from Reuters reports Google’s CEO as saying they are back in the business of acquiring businesses. He told Reuters, “acquisitions are turned on again at Google and we are doing our normal maneuvers, which is small companies.” “My estimate would be one-a-month acquisitions and these are [...]

• Eric Brill, That’s On eBay: Microsoft’s adCenter GM & Search Researcher Leaves
  

  eBay has announced they have hired Dr. Eric Brill as their vice president of research and applied science to lead up eBay’s research labs team. Prior, Dr. Brill was General Manager of adCenter Labs at Microsoft and before that, he Director and Principal Researcher and head of the Text Mining, Search and Navigation [...]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• More technical details about Google Chrome Frame, jimray

Business Issues

• AOL Readies Board Picks for Spin-Off–While Holding Off Search Suitors (Plus BoomTown Director Choices!), AllThingsD
• Baidu CEO touts growth of China’s search engine, CNET News
• Breaking News: Twitter to Raise $100 Million From Insight, T. Rowe Price, Other Investors, Wall Street Journal
• Google exec says Canada missing web’s potential, CBC News
• Person v. Google Appeal Rejected, Eric Goldman
• WhoGlue suing Facebook over patent infringment, Baltimore Business Journal

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Will Magazines Speed-Dial Mobile?, MinOnline
• Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile gets My Location and more, Official Google Mobile Blog
• Mobile Web: CDC Launches Text Messaging Pilot, H1N1 and Other Health News via SMS, ResourceShelf
• Palm Pre coming to the UK and Ireland October 16, Germany October 13, all O2 exclusives, Engadget

Link Building

• Dangers of Custom Shortened URLs, David Naylor
• How to Linkbait the Forex Market, Cornwall SEO
• Linking To Affiliates? Better Nofollow Those Links or Google Will Penalize You, Search Engine Roundtable

Paid Search & Contextual

• Touch-ups for your ad units, Inside AdSense

Searching

• Deep Links Makes Life As A New Mom Easier, Bing Search Blog
• Newswire Analysis: Google Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems, Library Journal

SEM Industry

• Fake Yahoo Employees Trying to Pick Up SEM Clients in Forums?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Oslo’s SEM Konferansen in Fourteen Photos, SEOmoz

SEO & SEM

• Adam Lasnik: Super Top Secret SEO Takeaways, Traffick
• Exact-match keyword domains: the fastest way to first page SERPs?, Econsultancy
• How should I serve different content based on user location?, YouTube
• Yes, Google Is Showing Deeper Sitelinks In Different Formats, Search Engine Roundtable

Social Media

• Facebook wastes no time putting FriendFeed to work, CNET News
• Social Media and Other Resources for the G-20 Summit Beginning Today, ResourceShelf
• Tweet, Tweet, Ka-Ching: Twitter is Changing the Way Nonprofits Make the Ask, Fast Company
• WARNING: Twitter Worm Spreading via Direct Messages, mashable.com

Video, Music & Image Search

• User Inspires Favicon Change, YouTube Blog
• Yahoo Brands Flickr; Users Retaliate, TechCrunch

Other Items

• Announcing Project 10^100 idea themes, Official Google Blog