SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 27, 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: Search In Pictures: A Yahoo Journey; Google Job Offer & Paper AdSense In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat […]
Barry Schwartz on April 27, 2007 at 3:14 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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Search In Pictures: A Yahoo Journey; Google Job Offer & Paper AdSense
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more…. -
Microsoft’s Online Ad Unit Revenue Increases 11%
Microsoft announced their first quarter earnings for 2007. The Online Services Business unit, which is comprised of adCenter and other MSN properties, noticed an increase in revenue of 11%, earning $6.23 million. However, they due to significant investments, the Online Services Business unit lost $200 million this past quarter, which… -
EconSM Conference: Social Media Sans Search
Yesterday’s Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference in LA, the first event from the team at PaidContent, was an impressive debut, both in terms of attendance and the range and “quality” of speakers on the stage. I’m not going to attempt to summarize all the individual sessions; rather, I have… -
Google To Build Data Center In Belgium
Google reportedly to build data center in Belgium from MarketWatch reports that Google is going to spend 250 million EUROs (about $341 million US) on a data center in Belgium…. -
Searcharazzi: Touring the SEM Graveyard
Let’s just get it out there: it appears that Zunch Communications, a Dallas-based SEM, has filed for bankruptcy. While some might call this an isolated incident, some speculative minds suggest that a correction is on the horizon for SEM agencies. Indeed, Searcharazzi is dumbfounded by the hundreds of firms… -
Google To Give Google China More Freedom
Google Aims to Make Gains in China By Giving Units Greater Autonomy from the Wall Street Journal reports Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, saying that Google plans to give Google China more autonomy. Mr. Schmidt said, “Google China is run very autonomously. We want to increase that … China is growing… -
Q&A With Google Personalization Gurus Sep Kamvar and Marissa Mayer
Last week I had the chance to talk to Marissa Mayer, Google VP, Search Products & User Experience, and Sep Kamvar, engineering lead for personalization at Google, about the inclusion of Web History into personalized search. On the face of it, this is another beta announcement from Google that…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
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Google
Personalized Home Pages Begin To Come Back After Scare, Search Engine
Roundtable -
Protecting
your security online, Inside AdWords Blog -
New
Google Apps Demo, Google Enterprise Blog -
AOL
One Step Behind Again: New Home Page Identical To Yahoo, Techcrunch -
Google
Desktop 5 in 29 languages, Google Blog
Business Issues
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Advertisers
Look Forward to One-Stop Shopping on Google, Wired -
Interview
with Chris DiBona of Google, Read/Write Web
Conferences
Local, Maps & Mobile
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Google Local OneBox Midpage
Results?, SEO By The Sea
Paid Search & Contextual
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How
to: Build an Affiliate Site You Can Sell for $1M, TropicalSEO -
Pay
Per Click Strategies, Bruce Clay -
Find
Your Tail Terms, Cat Seda -
Microsoft’s
Analytics Program Still in Alpha – “Project Gatineau”, Stepforth -
The
Eight Principles to Ensure Click Quality, Search Engine War
Searching
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Google
Site Operator: an Ode to Thee, Brian White -
Search
The Internet Without Google, ebPublishing.com
SEM Industry
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The
10 Commandments of Search, SEO Refugee Blog
SEO & SEM
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How
to Set Up a Google Sitemap with a Yahoo! Store, Karl Ribas -
Yahoo to Use Query Histories to
Improve Search Results?, SEO By The Sea -
How
to avoid duplicate content in search engine promotion, Pandia -
What
Makes an Ideal SEO Client?, Online Marketing Blog -
Google Toolbar
Showing Buggy PageRank Data?, Search Engine Roundtable -
SEO
Review of Reflections Coaching, SEO Refugee -
Link
Buying Tug of War – Buy ’em if you got ’em!, SEM Geek -
How
Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute, Search
Engine Journal -
The
Life Time Value of Links Based on Google Webmaster Central, Search
Engine Roundtable
Social Media
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When
you don’t make an effort on digg, you still get buried, Vanessa Fox -
My
Twitter Account Deleted, Restored, Techcrunch
Video, Audio & Image Search
Other Stuff
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Racing
to save the world, Google Blog -
Be
Careful Where You Advertise, Art Of Money -
Is
one of these eight search engines the next Google? (Hint: No.),
Valleywag -
ANZAC
Day Google Doodle, InsideGoogle -
Meet
the Help Group, Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog
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