SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 30, 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: Microsoft Live Search Adds More Images, Multimap, Find My Location, & Celebrity RankLive Search has informed us that they have made a few enhancements to the search engine. The enhancements include […]

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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:


  • Microsoft Live Search Adds More Images, Multimap, Find My Location, & Celebrity Rank

    Live Search has informed us that they have made a few enhancements to the search engine. The enhancements include an expanded image search index, a new integrated mapping experience with Multimap, a location based mobile search feature to “find me,” and more content for the celebrities and books sections. Here…

  • Court Documents: Microsoft Allocates $1.5 Billion For Yahoo Employee Retention

    Court documents cited by the Wall Street Journal (also CNET) show that Microsoft has set aside $1.5 billion to retain Yahoo employees in the event of a successful takeover. This is apparently not tied to the generous “poison pill” severance packages that Yahoo put in place in the event of…

  • Outsourcing To Increase SEO Throughput

    Even with budgets getting tightened, your SEO program may be kicking, but the head count you requested to keep the program moving upward may not get approved. When this happens, it’s time to look at a Plan B for increasing throughput without adding staff. Many people I talk to…

  • Will Yahoo Create An Open Ad Profile?

    Yahoo’s mantra these days is openness. To that end, Yahoo may create the ability for users to view their ad profiles — the data that’s being used to target them with advertising on Yahoo and its extended network. Yahoo EVP Jeff Weiner, who spoke at the Economics of Social Media…

  • Google Ocean To Complement Google Earth, Maps & Sky Soon

    Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans from News.com reports Google is working on a new mapping system to map the Earth’s oceans. The tool might be named Google Ocean and will complement Google Earth and Google Sky. News.com says Google Ocean will contain 3D oceanographic maps with underwater topography,…

  • Google Toolbar PageRank Update Creates Major Webmaster Buzz

    Over the past few days, many webmasters and SEOs have been noticing an update to the PageRank score found in the Google Toolbar. Usually PageRank updates aren’t that noteworthy, but it seems something is different about this PageRank update…

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About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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