SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 7, 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:

• Revisionist History: Bartz Claims Yahoo Was Never A Search Engine

  The New York Times has an interview out with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz where she declares that Yahoo has “never been a search company.” Astounding, in that that this is not true.
  Part of me thinks, “Why bother arguing?” As my A Search Eulogy For Yahoo post from last week explains, whatever Yahoo was, if the […]

• Search In Pictures: Yahoo Sand Castle, SMX São Paulo & Yahoo Park

  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. Yahoo Sand Castle: SMX São Paulo: Yahoo Park: Yahoo Basketball:

• Google Webmaster Central Wants Your Help Videos

  Michael Wyszomierski announced at the Google Webmaster Central blog that they are looking for the SEO and Webmaster community to create videos that they can share in the Google Webmaster YouTube channel. You have seen many of the videos from Matt Cutts in this channel, and now they want to allow the community to […]

• How To: Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part 6

  Ah, what a summer! The initial concept of this In the Trenches column was to provide the day-to-day search engine marketer with tips, tricks, and news to make them better at their jobs. I have been wanting to do this Microsoft Excel series for over a year, so I thank again my editors […]

• Optimizing For Re-finding Search Behavior

  Re-finding search behavior is common in web search, image search, and video search. What is it, and how can you make it easy for searchers to re-find your content?

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Alibaba.com Plans U.S. Push, Wall Street Journal

Business Issues

• Does Google Want On2 for a Gaming Console?, eWeek
• Eric Schmidt on Where Google Is Headed, BusinessWeek

Local, Maps & Mobile

• How to Update a Bing Local Listing, Small Business SEM
• Google Local Business Center Updates Not Working?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google plans to bypass Apple’s App Store on the Web, AppleInsider

Link Building

• What 70 Hours Of Backlink Checking And Research Shows…, Search Engine Journal

Paid Search & Contextual

• New Interface Thursdays: Keep tabs on your account with custom alerts, Inside AdWords

Searching

• Calculating Your Daily Food Intake with Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram|Alpha Blog

SEM Industry

• The Winner of the 4th Annual SEM Scholarship Contest is…., Marketing Pilgrim

SEO & SEM

• How Search Engines May Mine SEO Forums to Find Web Spam, SEO By The Sea
• 300 Status Response Codes: What Do Search Engines Do With Them?, Search Engine Roundtable
• 7 Deadly SEO Sins Of Web Design Companies, Hobo
• Does Google Know What Websites You Own, Michael Gray
• I’M TELLING! (or reporting your SEO competitors), outspokenmedia.com
• Poll: Ranking Top in Regional Googles & Google.com, Search Engine Roundtable
• SEO Advice in Your CMS!, BruceClay.com
• SEO Guide: How to Properly Move Domains, SEOmoz
• Whiteboard Friday – How to Get Re-Tweeted, SEOmoz

Social Media

• Digg Ads beta rolling out this week, Digg the Blog
• Digg Ads To Begin Testing This Week, TechCrunch
• Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user, News.com
• Twitter, Facebook, Google and LiveJournal under attack, The Guardian
• Update on Today’s DoS Attacks, Twitter Blog
• Answers to Social Media Questions You Should Know, Online Marketing Blog
• Customer Service: The Man Behind the Conversational Curtain, Search Engine Journal
• Doing social media right…and wrong, Econsultancy
• The Adventure Continues, Twitter Blog