SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 26, 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: Video Search Challenge Isn’t Speech Recognition, It’s Content Owner Management Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them from the New York Times is a big giant love […]
Danny Sullivan on February 26, 2007 at 3:52 pm | Reading time: 5 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:
- Video Search
Challenge Isn’t Speech Recognition, It’s Content Owner Management
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them from the New York
Times is a big giant love story to video search firm Blinkx, suggesting that
the idea of finding video content will take a leap through new idea of speech
recognition. In reality, it’s not… - Google Video
Plus Box Results
Philipp Lenssen spotted plus box results at Google for Google Video results.
He noticed it for a search on nightwish videos, but I do not see it myself.
For a screen capture check out Philipp’s Google Blogoscoped. We have covered
two other plus box results in the past. Google "Plus… - Google AdWords
To Show Advertisers Exactly Where Their Contextual Ads Are Displayed
If you are an advertiser running Google AdWords on the content network, the
only way to know where those ads are being run is to dig through raw logs and
extract the content site URLs from the massively long AdWords referral
strings. But in an article in the New York… - Google Checkout
Australia Coming Soon?
Is Google Checkout coming to Australia? It appears that Google registered
Google Payment Australia PTY. LTD. in Australia recently, which could be a
sign of that. A reader pointed me to the Australian Securities & Investments
Commission web site that shows a record for a Google Australia payments
company. On… - Google Ordered
To Change AdSense Contract By South Korea’s Watchdog
S. Korean watchdog orders Google to fix unfair contract clauses by Yonhap News
(and see longer version here) reports that Google has been ordered to change
its AdSense contract to be more publisher friendly. The Fair Trade Commission
said the contract is currently enabling Google to "one-sidedly cancel
advertisement deals"… - Pew Research:
Wireless Internet Grows
Amid an increasing body of consumer research showing that more Americans are
using their mobile devices for more than just voice, The Pew Internet Project
surveyed 1,623 U.S. adult Internet users in December, 2006. The survey broadly
asked about wireless Internet access, whether on desktops, laptops or mobile
phones…. - 2007 SEMPO
Board of Directors Announced
SEMPO has released the names of the 2007 board of directors. The board for
2007 includes: Chris Boggs, Avenue A/Razorfish (reelected) Massimo Burgio,
Global Search Interactive (new) Fionn Downhill, Elixir Systems (new) Dave
Fall, DoubleClick Inc. (new) Duane Forrester, Sports Direct Inc. (new) Sara
Holoubek, Free Agent Consultant (reelected, currently… - 3 Jump-Start
Methods For Passionate Linking
For a lot of people, link building is a drag. It’s like going to the dentist
or writing that tax check every quarter… you don’t really want to do it but
you know you have to. It’s that drag factor that makes a lot of people look
for short… - NASA & Google
Earth Color Earth With Near Real Time Information
Garett Rogers summarizes a post at the Google Earth Blog explaining that
Google and NASA now have added more KMLs (a file format used to display
geographic data in an Earth browser) to Google Earth. The new files provide
almost real-time information including: Sea Surface Temperature [KML File]
Chlorophyll Concentration… - Google Steps Up
Web Page Malware Notifications
The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that they are now stepping up
malware notifications to webmasters. They are giving more detailed reports on
the malware issues with a specific site and they are also sending email
notifications to webmasters about these malware warnings. In the past, Google
just posted a…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Business Issues
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Yahoo shareholders submit ‘Plan B’, BusinessWeek -
Some Google deal records blocked, Charlotte Observer -
Google in Content Deal With Media Companies, New York Times -
Gmail domain dispute looms for Google in China, Reuters.co.uk -
Microsoft to Buy Medical Search Engine, New York Times
Local Search
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Local Search Engine Marketing White Paper, Blumenthals -
CTO of Google Earth On Adding Web Search, O’Reilly Radar -
Google Maps Stickers Are For UK Businesses Only, Search Engine Roundtable -
Local Online Advertising, Entrepreneur
Paid Search
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MyBlogLog Tracks Your Visitors Ad Clicks, Shoemoney -
Yahoo Publisher Network’s Trojan Horse, Techcrunch -
Link unit, front and center, Inside AdSense -
Microsoft Refunds adCenter Advertisers Over Weekend, Search Engine
Roundtable
SEO
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Google Selling PR7 Links For $10,000!, Conversion Rater -
Chip expert says Google threatened to blacklist his sites, News.com - Misc
bits, Matt Cutts [comments on above two items] -
Five Steps to Effective Keyword Research, Search Engine Guide -
New Keyword List Cleaner Tool, SEO Book.com -
Is Effective SEO Always Good SEO?, Search Engine Guide -
Ready to Become an ODP Editor at Dmoz.org?, Search Engine Journal -
Building Links through YouTube, Link Building Blog -
Asking Bloggers For Links, Link Building Blog
Security
Shopping Search
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Item Quality: Keep Your Items Live, Google Base Blog
Other Stuff
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An Update on the Image Wall, Bloglines, News -
SES London 2007: The Comic Strip, SEOmoz -
Know your Road Rules with Ask.com, Ask.com -
A visit to Apple, Official Google Mac Blog -
The Blank Test Ad, Google Operating System -
Tips for Google Toolbar, Google Operating Systems -
New Version (Beta) of Skype Released, Offers User-Built Business Directory,
ResourceShelf -
The Content Warning for Google-hosted Blogs, Google Blogoscoped -
New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities, New York Times - Podcast: What Video
Search Needs Is More Video; Matt Cutts Does Google Accusation Debunking & More!,
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