SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 13, 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:

• 
  Analyzing The Major Shopping Search Services
  This week I’ll look at shopping search from the user’s perspective. We’ll be starting with the big three offerings from the major engines, Google’s Froogle, Yahoo Shopping and MSN Shopping. In the next Just Behave column I’ll be taking a test drive of some of the dedicated shopping search…
• 
  Google Likes To Invest In “Crazy Ideas”
  Google’s Acquisitions Chief Looking for ‘Crazy’ Ideas from Bloomberg.com reports Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development as saying he conveying investing in crazy ideas. In short, the crazy ideas are the ideas that can be big successes. Ullah said, “the really crazy ones do really well,” explaining that “when…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

• Ask.com Announces New Search
  Algorithm “Edison”, SEO by the SEA
• Twitter trouble,
  Loud Thinking
• Don’t
  Just Focus on Google, Pronet Advertising
• Google
  opens Latin American headquarters in Argentina, MarketWatch
• Trying to break
  the Google habit, BBC NEWS
• The
  Log File Feedback SEO Method, V7N
• Google
  Checkout arrives in the UK!, Google Blog
• victory!
  I think!, Vanessa Fox
• Contacting
  Google, Google Blogoscoped
• Thomson
  provides PPC buying to listings customers, E-Consultancy
• Google
  AdSense Login Redesign, Google Blogoscoped
• Search
  Engine Strategies Chicago 2007 Pictures, ShoeMoney
• Use Google AdWords
  & AdSense Distribution Data to Broker Direct Ad Deals, SEOBook
• What
  Does Google Think You Look Like?, Read/Write Web
• Yahoo
  expanding ties to newspapers, San Jose Mercury News
• Google
  Website Optimizer Interview Transcript with Tom Leung, Grokdotcom
• Google
  Earth zooms in on New Zealand, Just the Flight
• An
  Interview with a Google Custom Search Engineer, Search Engine Watch Blog
• Google Reader Patent
  Applications, SEO By The Sea
• Domain
  Parking or Building SEO Assets?, Stefan Juhl
• A
  tale of two search engines, CNN Money
• Wall
  Street gears up for Yahoo and Google earnings, CNN Money
• Checking (Gary)
  Price, The Ask.com Blog
• Google
  teams with PennySaver in ad, content sharing deal, News.com
• Improve
  your account performance with expert help, Google AdWords Blog
• Yahoo!
  Search Aims for AIIM, Yahoo Search Blog
• Two-point-oh,
  Yahoo Publisher Network
• Link
  Building: Hyperlink Cliques and Clusters, Search Engine Journal
• Wrong
  Text Links for Google Apps Referral Program, Search Engine Journal
• How to generate
  search engine traffic through link building, Pandia
• Google:
  No Sponsored Links for Don Imus?, ClickZ
• Search
  Market Share Matters, or Why Yahoo! Needs Acquisitions Pronto, Traffick