Sep 27, 2007 at 4:48pm ET by Danny Sullivan
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
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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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