SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 11, 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: Yahoo Celebrates "Ultimate Connection" Search Marketing Awards Yesterday, the Yahoo Search Marketing team honored three small business owners at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ as part of the Yahoo! […]
Danny Sullivan on July 11, 2007 at 2:33 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:
- Yahoo
Celebrates "Ultimate Connection" Search Marketing Awards
Yesterday, the Yahoo Search Marketing team honored three small business owners
at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ as part of the Yahoo!
Ultimate Connection Contest. Of over 10,000 applicants, five finalists were
chosen, and of those five, three special individuals, Glen Halliday of Kids
Crooked House, Mike Willner… - Search Spam
Fight – Mahalo: 1; Squidoo: 0
Last week, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo renewed his campaign from earlier this
year against Squidoo as a source of search spam. This time, he appears to have
gotten a result. Despite Squidoo’s belated plea that it would clean things up,
Google seems to have penalized Squidoo. Below, a timeline… - Want To See The
Latest Movies For Free? Use Google Video, Complains Watch Group
Watchdog group flags top pirated films on Google Video from News.com covers a
report by the National Legal & Policy Center named Is Google Promoting Video
Piracy? In this report, they documented fifty cases of movies and other
copyrighted material being uploaded and accessible via Google Video for free.
Some… - Google’s
Wireless Spectrum Proposal To Win In FCC
FCC Draft Auction Rules A Win For Google, Hi-Tech Industry from CNN Money
reports that Google’s wireless spectrum proposal gained backing from FCC
chairman Kevin Martin. Ultimately, this could see Google buying wireless
broadcast rights. The USA Today article, New rules could rock wireless world,
explains part of the proposal… - Google Mapplets:
Google Endorses Mashups, Makes Some More Interactive
The Google Lat Long Blog announced a new feature available on Google Maps that
enables you to add "Mapplets" directly on the "My Maps" section. These
Mapplets, often referred to as mashups, allow you to add data on top of the
maps. Some of the data overlays include real estate… - Moving Your
Site? How Quickly Do Search Engines Catch Your 301 Redirect
Most webmasters dread moving a site from one domain to a new domain and would
do whatever they can to avoid it. However, sometimes you cannot avoid making
the move. In these cases, what are the various strategies you can use to
reduce the SEO concerns with making this move?… - Best Practices
For Corporate Domain Name Management
While a decent percentage of the global business community has become aware of
the importance of search engine marketing, very few businesses seem know about
the best practices surrounding the purchasing and ownership of web site domain
names (e.g. when to purchase, what to purchase, etc.). Unlike SEO problems,
where… - How To Optimize
B2B Pay Per Click In Four Hours A Week, Part 1
In a typical B2B company, the job of managing pay per click campaigns is given
to someone in the demand generation or business development team. For this
person, managing PPC is at best a part time job, squeezed in around managing
webinars, email campaigns, field events, whitepaper creation, and… - SEO For
Seasonal Promotions
The need to promote an annual event occurs… that’s right: once a year, every
single year. Yes, each event comes and goes. But unlike the real world, where
we just celebrated our annual Independence Day holiday here in the U.S.,
there’s no need to pop all the balloons and tear-down…
Applications & Portal Features
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Our new iGoogle gadget, Google Checkout -
Gears Roadmap and Development Process, Google Gears Blog
Business Issues
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Google’s Authentic Voice Problem, O’Reilly Radar - Pay-for-blogging
site raises questions, News.com - Ask.com
Expands Network Capability with New Eco-Friendly Data Center, Bill Hartzer -
Yahoo Chief Yang May Fail in Ad Squeeze by Google, Bloomberg
Conferences
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Reminder: AdWords Editor Webinar on 7/12, Inside AdWords - Affiliate
Summit – The Peoples Conference, Shoemoney -
Up Your SEM Knowledge Now!, Search Engine Watch -
WebmasterWorld Inc. and SEO Class Announce Partnership to Produce Premium
Internet Marketing Training Program, PubCon
Local, Maps & Mobile
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Build Your Campus in 3D Competition – the results are in!, Google Lat Long -
Google Maps missing Ontario on JetBlue flight, Search Engine Watch
Zillow enters citizen journalism, Seattle PI-
More Google Map Feature & Mapping Services from Ask.com and Others,
ResourceShelf
Paid Search & Contextual
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Smart Pricing and Multiple AdSense Accounts With Different Names But Same
Address, Digital Inspiration - Interstitial
Ads, Skip This Page Ad, Are Not Allowed by Google AdSense, Search Engine
Roundtable -
Advertisers’ adCenter Success Stories: CSN & Logoworks, adCenter Blog - Stupid
AdSense, Google Blogoscoped
Domainers Can’t Get No Respect, Natural Search Blog
Podcasts & Videocasts
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What in the World is Your Website Doing?, Web Smart - Social Media Best Practices and
More with Rand Fishkin, SEO Beginning Podcast -
Mahalo Takes On Squidoo In Search Spam Fight; Which Search Engines Handle Your
Change Of Address Best? And More!, Daily SearchCast
Searching
- Search Engines and Expansion
of Acronyms, SEO By The Sea -
Data retention: the right balance between privacy and security, Google
Public Policy Blog -
Papers To Be Presented at the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
Announced, ResourceShelf -
Your first girlfriend — and the other things search engines store about you,
Computerworld
SEM Industry
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SEM & Analytics – The Love vs. Hate Relationship Continues, SEM Geek -
vBulletin Acquired By Internet Brands, Inc., Mashable
SEO & SEM
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Holistic Search Engine Optimization, Online Marketing Blog -
Paid Links – Can’t Be a White Hat With ’em, Can’t Rank Without ’em, SEOmoz -
Organic Search and the Password Paradox, ClickZ -
The Role of Trust in E-Commerce Sales, Search Engine Watch -
Google’s Supplemental Spin Is BS, YellowHouseHosting.com
Social Media
- Digg iPhone Beta Live!, Digg
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New del.icio.us design coming down the pipes, Download Squad - Scott Rafer
is Facebooking, launching Lookery, GigaOM - 29 Super
Awesome Tools Built on the Digg API, Techipedia
Video, Music & Image Search
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Seventh Circuit Opinion Cites Infringing YouTube Video–Stoller v. Brett,
Eric Goldman -
Privacy and Yahoo’s Integration of Flickr with Image Search, Search Engine
Watch
Other Items
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Overview of our accessible services, Google Blog
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