SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 15, 2010

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

From Search Engine Land:

• OneRiot Launches RiotWise Ad Network For Real-Time Search

  OneRiot has announced the full rollout of RiotWise, a service that it calls “the first ad network for the realtime web.” Today’s launch follows a pilot phase that the company says was successful in allowing developers to monetize mobile apps, desktop clients, social search engines, and similar applications. Partners during the pilot phase included Digsby and […]
• comScore: Bing Share Up – Will It Overtake Yahoo? Plus, Ask.com Sale Speculation Returns

  According to comScore’s December search numbers (now being circulated by various financial analysts), Ask is down slightly, so are AOL and Yahoo. Google and Bing are up. Here are the new comScore figures, which will be formally released today or Monday:[…]

• Amazon Slaps UK Affiliates Using Search Marketing Techniques

  Like Amazon did several months ago to U.S. affiliates, Amazon sent an email to their UK affiliates basically preventing them from using certain paid search techniques and free search techniques to drive sales to Amazon. The message sent to their UK affiliates yesterday read: […]

• It’s A Great Time To Be A Search Marketer…It’s About To Get Better

  Recently, my agency has been putting a lot of time and resources into the ad exchange space. For those of you paid search folks with SEM blinders on, let me elaborate because the opportunity here for those with paid search experience is about to open up tremendously in the next few years. Ad exchanges are […]

• A Principal Goal Of SEO Should Be Customer Loyalty

  How search engine optimization (SEO) professionals can measure customer loyalty as a part of a successful search experience.

• Google Pledges $1 Million To Haiti Relief Efforts, Bing & Yahoo Add Donation Info

  As real-time searches for information on the Haiti earthquake disaster have bombarded Twitter, Facebook, as well as mainstream media websites and the search engines themselves, each of the major search engines have responded by linking information about disaster relief efforts from their homepages. Google has created the Google Crisis Response page, on which they pledged: “Google […]

• Where Have All The Old Tweets Gone?

  Looking for old tweets? You won’t find any that are more than a week or so old on Twitter. Put the blame on all the massive number of new tweets coming in. The engines, they canna hold captain! Or that is, the search index behind Twitter Search can’t hold it all. To see this in action, […]

• Google Search Suggestions For Mobile Get Locally Relevant

  At the recent Google Search Evolution event late last year, Google Engineering VP Vic Gundotra demonstrated search suggestions on mobile devices that varied by location. He showed that query suggestions could and would be different based on user location. Today Google is rolling that improvement out for the iPhone and Android devices. The geographic point of […]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• New MSN Home Page Still Set To Launch ‘Early This Year’—But Some ‘Tweaks’ Coming, paidContent.org
• Clean Up Your Contact List with a Click, www.ymailblog.com

Business Issues

• Audio: Google’s David Drummond Interviewed on NPR About China and Censorship, ResourceShelf
• China Says Google Won’t Impact U.S.-China Trade Relations, Wall Street Journal
• Google 4Q Net Seen Clicking Along On Recession-Proof Web Ads, Wall Street Journal
• Google ‘Concerned’ About Berlusconi’s Web TV Rules (Update1), Bloomberg
• Microsoft IE Flaw Exploited by Hackers to Steal Info From Google, www.dailytech.com
• Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack, Ars Technica
• White House backs Google, seeks China explanation, Reuters

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Alerts on Place Pages? I Want More From Google, Small Business SEM
• Bing – New Streetside Coverage: Vancouver and Whistler, www.bing.com
• Google changes pricing options for Nexus One: 100 new reasons to purchase the N1, androidandme.com
• Loci2009: Greg Sterling: An Explosion of Interest in “Local” in 2009, Mike Blumenthal

Other Items

• Haiti imagery layer now available, Google LatLong
• Helping Haiti, ycorpblog.com

Paid Search & Contextual

• ComScore: AOL the Top Ad Network, gesterling.wordpress.com
• Google Transfers AdWords Account from Consultant to Client in Dispute, Search Engine Roundtable

Searching

• Google Now Shows Haiti Relief Message on Home Page Before Fade, Search Engine Roundtable
• This week in search 1/15/10, Official Google Blog

SEM Industry

• 2010 Predictions From 10 Internet Experts, Vertical Measures
• Im-Portent SEO: My Interview With Ian Lurie, Search Engine Journal
• Ruud Questions: Joanna Lord, Search Engine People
• Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 15, 2010, Search Engine Roundtable

SEO & SEM

• Effective PPC Ad Copy Testing Techniques, Searching Beyond the Paid
• Fonts, SEO, and Compatibility: a Designer’s Dilemma, SEO.com
• Beginners Guide to Google Base/Product Feeds, Site Visibility
• The Google Search Screw: Google Knows Best, Search Engine Roundtable

Social Media

• Social media powers local word-of-mouth marketing, www.lostremote.com
• Twitter’s Answer To Facebook Connect, TechCrunch
• Why Your 4,243,564 Twitter Followers Don’t Mean Jack, AIM Clear Blog

Video, Music & Image Search

• YouTube’s APIs and Refresher on our Terms of Service, YouTube Blog