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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 3, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Enhances Image Previews Yahoo announced they have enhanced their image previews. Virtually all search engines show you a preview of the image in a framed page set, when you click […]

Barry Schwartz on April 3, 2009 at 5:37 pm | Reading time: 5 minutes

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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:

Yahoo Enhances Image Previews
Yahoo announced they have enhanced their image previews. Virtually all search engines show you a preview of the image in a framed page set, when you click from the search results on a specific image. Yahoo has taken this one step forward by enhancing that preview page.
The enhancements include a search box, additional […]
Microsoft Funds Opposition To Google Book Settlement
Microsoft is contributing $50,000 to help challenge the Google Book Search lawsuit settlement that was announced last October.
According to reports in MediaPost and Wired.com, the Microsoft money will help New York Law School with four projects — including a friend-of-the-court brief asking that the settlement be delayed until federal antitrust officials can give opinions […]
Search In Pictures: Google 3d Glasses, Yahoo Baseball & Broken Google Mugs
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. Google Chrome 3D Glasses, Yahoo Gum Ball Machine, Googles for only $0.25?, Yahoo Korea Watching Baseball, Broken Google Mug, Yahoo’s Fantasy Baseball […]
“Heard” Mentality: Twitter In Acquisition Talks Or Not?
TechCrunch reported late last night that Twitter was in late stage talks to be acquired by Google. That sent what used to be called the “blogosphere” into a frenzy. Kara Swisher, of AllThingsD, striking back against what she believes was sloppy journalism (and TechCrunch more generally), said no:
In fact, Twitter and Google have simply been […]
Twitter Google AdSense Ad Units?
AdvertisingAge reports that Google has teamed up with some advertisers to offer a stream of their “Tweets” onto Google’s content network. It appears that Google has designed special AdSense ad units that pull the five most recent Tweets from @turbotax and displays them on publisher sites.
The purpose is to both promote the TurboTax product […]
The Wiring Of The Digital Native
My daughters are different than I am. And not in just the obvious ways: like age and gender. They’re different in the way they use technology. The reason why lies in the way the brain is formed. In today’s Just Behave, I’d like to explore what might be happening to our children’s brains.
Several months ago, […]
It Takes A UK Village To Thwart Google Street View
Google’s Street View recently hit the UK streets, and an angry throng of Brits has hit back. It happened in the wealthy village of Broughton: Seeing the Street View car driving through town, residents formed a human chain to stop the car and hassled the driver until he turned around and left.
The Times reports that […]