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 […]

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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:

  • 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

Business Issues

Local, Maps & Mobile

Link Building

Paid Search & Contextual

Searching

SEM Industry

SEO & SEM

Social Media


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is 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. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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