SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 12, 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: Goodbye Teoma Algorithm, Hello Edison, Says Ask.comJim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, has confirmed with me that Ask.com is working on Edison. Edison is the code name behind merging of Ask.com’s two […]
Barry Schwartz on April 12, 2007 at 7:36 pm | Reading time: 4 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:
From Search Engine Land:
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Goodbye Teoma Algorithm, Hello Edison, Says Ask.com
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, has confirmed with me that Ask.com is working on Edison. Edison is the code name behind merging of Ask.com’s two different search technologies they own, Teoma and Direct Hit. Jim would not give me more information beyond that. I did speak with Apostolos Gerasoulis who… -
Hitwise: Search Popularity Static; Live.com Only Tiny Slice Of Microsoft’s Share
The latest search popularity stats for March 2007 have come out from Hitwise. They show nothing different than last month. Google had a tiny 0.2 percent rise, while Yahoo dropped the same tiny amount. Live had a tiny 0.3 percent rise, though given Live’s already small amount of traffic, that’s… -
CBS To Distribute TV Shows Via MSN & AOL According To WSJ
CBS’s Web Reach to Grow from the Wall Street Journal reports that CBS Corp. is “close” to announcing a deal with MSN and AOL over distributing some of their TV shows and “other video programming.” The Wall Street Journal believes we will hear announcements as early as today that CBS… -
Utah Law Limiting Use Of Keyword Advertising
Google opposes Utah law limiting keyword advertising from the LA Times, that Danny covered earlier, picked up on Eric Goldman’s coverage of a new state law passed in Utah that limits the use of the types of keywords you can buy in your sponsored search campaigns. Reportedly, Google is “objecting”… -
Small Businesses Getting Social: Individual and Community Efforts
In the online world, we’ve seen the emergence of social networking sites that allow for the discovery and sharing of websites, of bookmarks, of common interests, and the meeting of friends and friends of friends. In the business world offline, small businesses have the opportunity to be socially active…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
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Google
as shopper’s helper, News.com -
Google
Releases Detailed Content Network Reports, Marketing Pilgrim -
British
Government Asks Google for Help Fighting Cyber Bullying, Marketing
Pilgrim -
Temporary
Downtime: Account Maintenance and Unavailability, Google Analytics Blog -
Google’s
challenge: Prevent the exodus, Seattle Times Newspaper -
302 Hijacking Returns to a
Google SERP Near You, Threadwatch.org -
5
Reasons Why Google Personalized Home is better than My Yahoo!, Web
Analytics World -
Presidential
candidates to appear on YouTube, News.com -
Google.com
Search Results Shake Up on April 10, Search Engine Roundtable -
More
than Four Million Permanently Archived Web Pages from U.S. Congress Now
Available via 109th Congress Web Harvest, ResourceShelf -
Technorati
makes first major acquisition, News.com -
3D
buildings on Google Maps, Googling Google -
Yahoo! Contextual Advertisements
in Print Publications, SEO by the SEA -
New
Google Maps Feature – 2.5D Buildings, Google Earth Blog -
Tele
Atlas Plans to Map Out Asia, The Hartford Courant -
Yahoo!
Eyes Voice Search Space, The Street -
Yahoo! Gift Supports
Global Communications Research, Georgetown University -
Google’s acquisition strategy
should think small (and mobile), ZDNet -
A
note on traffic exchange programs, Google Adsense Blog -
Google
Answers Down, Google Blogoscoped -
The
Economics of Content – Yahoo Close To Acquiring Rivals.com; Price Could
Reach Nine Figures, paidContent.org -
Google
denies plans to overhaul YouTube, New Media Age -
Google Acquisition
Strategy: Go Nuts, Use Code, John Battelle’s Searchblog -
Now
you can blog in Hindi, Google Blog -
How
to use Google Webmaster Tools, Joost devalk -
Where???s
SEM These Days at SES NY 2007?, SEM Geek -
Why
Search Sucks/ Why Search Rocks, Search Engine Journal -
Yahoo!
Increases Quality Initiatives, Yahoo Publisher Network -
Where
most Search Engine traffic Comes from, ViperChill -
Book
Review: How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders, Marketing Pilgrim -
How
To Export Your Google Adwords Account, PPC Lab -
I
Tie Up Mike McDonald & Interview Vanessa Fox… Again, SEOmoz
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