SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 6, 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: Search in Pictures: Google Bathroom, Yahoo Art, Sulu @ Google Parade In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at […]

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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:


  • Search in Pictures: Google Bathroom, Yahoo Art, Sulu @ Google Parade
    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….

  • ‘Hyper-Local’ Site Backfence Shutting Down
    Backfence emerged about the same time, a couple of years ago, as InsiderPages, Judy’s Book and Yelp. Now it appears to be closing its doors. The seemingly imminent closure of Backfence raises questions about the economics and viability of so-called “hyper-local” sites. InsiderPages, for its part, was recently sold to…

  • Official: Google AdWords Adds Impression Share Metric
    The Inside AdWords blog announced the official release of a new metric you can find in your AdWords reports. The new metric is impression share, which we actually reported back in April. The new metrics include: Impression Share (IS): The percentage of times your ads were shown out of the…

  • Map Of Google’s Products
    Ever want to see all of Google’s products and services mapped out in icon view on one single page? Zorgloob has created a map of Google products, which is just enormous. If you click on a product image within the map, you are taking to a page that describes the…

  • Did Wojcicki Create AdSense?
    Yesterday we wrote Profile Of Susan Wojcicki: Mother Of AdSense. covering a USA Today article article describing Susan Wojcicki as being responsible for creating Google AdSense. Valleywag soon came out with a bold blog post countering USA Today’s article, calling Wojcicki a liar: AdSense was not a prototype that Wojcicki…

  • Want Competitive Keyword Information? Just Subpoena Google!
    Eric Goldman reports that Google has received a subpoena to turn over AdWords keyword purchase data that a company hopes will help it in a trademark case. Google plans to comply unless companies that bought the words “sports court” among others object to it formally….

  • Making Google Universal Search (Sort Of) Work Like Ask3D
    Google Universal Search and Ask3D are two different approaches to the same thing: how to blend results from various search databases into a single page. Ask has received praise for being more elegant in its presentation. What if you could make Google act like Ask? You can, with a new…

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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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