SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: New Google CIO: Morgan Stanley’s Benjamin Fried News.com reports that Benjamin Fried, a Morgan Stanley managing director, has been pegged to fill the chief information officer spot that opened up when […]

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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:

  • New Google CIO:
    Morgan Stanley’s Benjamin Fried
    News.com reports that Benjamin Fried, a Morgan Stanley managing director, has
    been pegged to fill the chief information officer spot that opened up when
    Douglas Merrill left earlier this month. Google’s confirmed the move….
  • MicroHoo: Let
    The Proxy Fight Begin!
    The Seattle PI is suggesting that the fight for control of Yahoo’s board,
    which Microsoft had previously threatened, may begin in earnest this weekend.
    Conversations with institutional shareholders have already been taking place.
    The three week deadline set by Steve Ballmer for Yahoo to come to the table
    will expire…
  • Yahoo! Launches
    SearchMonkey Developer Tool in Limited Preview
    Today, Yahoo! is providing a "limited preview" of a tool that enables
    developers to create SearchMonkey applications. Yahoo! CTO Ari Balogh will be
    unveiling the tool at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco today, and more details
    are available in the Yahoo! Search Blog. Yahoo! first announced SearchMonkey
    in February…
  • US Justice
    Department Scrutinizing GooHoo Paid Search Test
    According to Reuters the US Justice Department is taking a look at the paid
    search partnership test between Google and Yahoo. According to the article,
    there are antitrust concerns raised by the test and its implications and the
    Justice Department has "initiated an investigation" of it….
  • Yahoo Search
    Circle Allows Users To Easily Expand & Narrow Results On Map
    Yahoo just announced that it has added a nifty tool to Local (called "search
    circle") that allows uses to alter the geographic scope of results by
    expanding or narrowing a circle on the map. The circle can also be dragged to
    a particular area easily, allowing for more efficient neighborhood…
  • Video: Details
    On Setting Your Site’s Geographic Target In Google Webmaster Tools
    Google launched the set geographic target feature in October of last year.
    Since then, many webmasters began experimenting with it and I have personally
    not seen too many complaints about it, which is always a good thing. Google’s
    webmaster central team said they have been receiving some questions on the…
  • Diagnosing The
    SEO Health Of Your Website
    Is your website sick? In many ways, SEO consultants are like doctors, only
    instead of analyzing your personal health symptoms, we analyze the overall
    health of your website. It’s true we’re not working with life or death
    situations the same way doctors do, but having a website that is…
  • Google Finally
    Hands Over Alleged Pedophiles Profiles On Orkut To Brazilian Authorities
    Google hands over data on suspected pedophiles to Brazil via the AFP reports
    Google has finally handed over profiles of suspected pedophiles to Brazilian
    authorities. As expected, Google did hand over 3,261 files with information
    about alleged pedophilia activities in Google’s Orkut communities. A member of
    the senate commission, Demostenes…
  • Google Image
    Ads: Display Ads For Mobile
    Yesterday Google announced mobile image ads. The ads are displayed on the
    mobile sites of publishers that are participating in AdSense for mobile (or
    that opt-in to the new program). Mobile image ads are created in users’
    AdWords accounts and require more or less the same type of setup as…
  • A Closer Look
    At EveryZing
    For those of you in need of a turn-key, hosted solution to gain natural search
    engine visibility for your video and audio content, the company EveryZing says
    they’re the ticket. EveryZing’s solution consists of a suite of products:
    ezSEARCH, ezSEO, and RAMP. The products are designed to provide users…
  • Tools For
    Engaging In Social Media
    We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are
    numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a
    profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is
    only natural that you would like to have some helpful…
  • Link
    Development Tool Shortcuts for Firefox
    A few weeks back I did a post on my blog about creating Firefox quick search
    bookmarks. I was surprised at how well received it was, though I think people
    were most pleased with the fact that I had created a download of a very small
    selection of the…

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