SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 27, 2007

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft Introduces New Live Search Index, Adds Features In Effort To Close ‘Relevancy Gap’ And Improve User Experience Compete and Nielsen show Microsoft gaining search share over the summer, while comScore […]

on September 27, 2007 at 4:48 pm | Reading time: 7 minutes
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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:

  • Microsoft
    Introduces New Live Search Index, Adds Features In Effort To Close ‘Relevancy
    Gap’ And Improve User Experience
    Compete and Nielsen show Microsoft gaining search share over the summer, while
    comScore and Hitwise show the company losing share. Regardless of these
    numbers, however, Microsoft is confident that the search engine it’s
    reintroducing tonight in conjunction with its Searchification event will be a
    substantial improvement of the current version…
  • Live Blogging:
    Microsoft Searchification Day 2007
    I’m sitting at the Microsoft conference center for Searchification Day. We’re
    within walking distance from the Googleplex, where I was for Google
    Searchology Day just a few short months ago. Searchology was all about
    Google’s unveiling of universal search, and interestingly, today could be seen
    as Live’s answer to that….
  • Google Birthday
    Logo: Nine Years Old
    The Google home page is sporting the special logo above, celebrating the
    company’s ninth birthday, with one of the Gs turned into a nine. But wait?
    Didn’t Google just turn 10? Google Is 10 Years Old? Finding The Real Google
    Birthday that I posted earlier this month covers how…
  • Listen To The
    Google-DoubleClick Hearings Live
    If you have curiosity, a vested interest or just have a lot of time on your
    hands, you can listen live to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings
    today considering the implications of the intended acquisition of DoubleClick
    by Google (courtesy of Gary Price, who has instructions on a couple…
  • Should a Small
    Business Blog?
    More and more small businesses are starting blogs on the Web, and it’s a
    positive development, if done correctly. One of the benefits is the chance for
    business owners to hold a conversation with potential clients, and with people
    who may be interested the services, or goods that the…
  • Marchex
    Relaunches OpenList As Broad Local Search Destination
    Marchex has been making lots of moves in local lately. It recently acquired
    VoiceStar to add PPCall and call tracking functionality to its advertising
    capabilities. It launched 100,000 local content sites featuring search and
    browse functionality, making an otherwise static domain portfolio into a much
    more compelling local and vertical…
  • Yahoo Podcasts
    To Close; The Sorry State Of Podcast Search
    Sigh. As someone who produces a podcast — and who has enjoyed searching for
    podcasts when going on roadtrips — I don’t get why podcast search isn’t more
    supported by the major search engines. Yahoo Podcasts, rolled out with promise
    back in October 2005, now sports a message at the…
  • Avoiding
    Clueless-Is As Clueless-Does SEO
    Sometimes I think SEOs have lost the plot. Not all SEOs, mind you, but many,
    especially the newbies. It’s like they don’t understand the reason for doing
    the SEO things that they know they need to do. I think many walk around with a
    checklist of SEO-type duties and…
  • Search People
    In Video From Reuters
    Greg recently mentioned that Reuters have launched a new video/people search
    engine powered by Viewdle, and I’ve been playing around with it. While it has
    some drawbacks (currently it’s only possible to search through 612 hours of
    footage held by Reuters), it has a lot of features that I like….
  • Google Maps
    Causes US Navy To Change Its Swastika Building
    You have to feel a bit sorry for the US Navy. They have a building in
    California that looks like a swastika from the air. But who looks at buildings
    from the air? Until Google Maps popularized easy access to aerial views, only
    the occasional bored air traveler. But…
  • Search
    Marketing Expo – SMX Coming to Stockholm & London – Register Now & Save
    Join the Search Engine Land editorial team and their guests for SMX Stockholm
    (Oct. 31-Nov. 1) or for SMX London (Nov. 15-16). Register today and you’ll
    save 20% off the on-site registration rate – but do it now because this offer
    ends soon! Driving traffic is critical to internet business…
  • Google To
    Keynote At SMX Local & Mobile
    I’m delighted to announce that Michael T. Jones, Chief Technologist, Google
    Earth, Google Maps, and Google Local Search, will be delivering the keynote
    address on Monday at our inaugural SMX Local & Mobile Conference in Denver.
    Michael will be offering an inside look at Google’s various local and
    mapping…

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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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