SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 15, 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: Twitter & Summize Tie The KnotThe rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform has acquired Summize, a search engine that searches Twitter. […]

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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:


  • Twitter & Summize Tie The Knot

    The rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform has acquired Summize, a search engine that searches Twitter. You can read all the news at Techmeme and also make sure to check out Danny’s write up on Summize named Summize Gains “Local”…

  • Hold On — Issues Remain Over Google & Viacom’s Deal On YouTube Viewing Privacy

    Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the "anonymizing" of these records will actually work. Until those are answered, I wouldn’t breathe a complete…

  • Google Enables Political Video Search With Speech Recognition, Showcases 3D Technology

    Google is introducing an Elections Search Gadget that allows users to search transcripts of political speeches and videos that appear on YouTube candidate channels. The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of the videos, which can then searched by users of the Gadget to find precise…

  • Google’s Pittman Talks About Visual Search & Facial Recognition Capabilities

    Beet.TV interviewed R.J. Pittman, Google’s Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, about image search. The video is below, but here is my short summary of the interview. Pittman said Image Search has huge growth opportunity for Google. Google explained that text doesn’t always describe the image, so they…

  • Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature?

    The Google Like/Don’t Like feature, where you can move up results, hide search results or remove search results, seems to have been expanded to a group of test searchers. We have reports from TechCrunch, Google Operating System and Justin Hileman, with reports of users seeing this feature in the main…

  • Search Illustrated: PDF Optimization

    Don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because content isn’t HTML-based doesn’t mean it can’t be optimized. An Adobe Acrobat reader (aka PDF) document gives SEOs one more chance at ranking for targeted keywords. This week’s infographic illustrates some simple tips for optimizing PDFs:…

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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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