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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 18, 2007

By Barry Schwartz
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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:


  • Yahoo’s CEO, Terry Semel, To Be Replaced By Jerry Yang
    The Wall Street Journal reported that Terry Semel has stepped down as Yahoo’s CEO. The new CEO is Yahoo’s co-founder, Jerry Yang. With this change, Susan Decker, former executive vice president and head of Advertiser and Publisher Group, is now president. Semel told the Wall Street Journal, “As we discussed…

  • A Portrait Of The Perfect Link Builder
    If you had the chance to hire a full-time employee to engage in content publicity and link building, what type of person would you look for? What sorts of skills would you want? What personal traits would you value? As companies realize that content publicity and link building must…

  • Vivisimo’s Clusty The Latest to Mobilize
    Vivisimo has launched Clusty Mobile. As explained in the release: Clusty Mobile simplifies mobile Web searching. . .organizing search results by relevant topics and categories rather than pages and pages of search results . . . [also] Clusty Mobile optimizes all Websites clicked on for mobile viewing….

  • Video Display Ads A ‘Strategic Threat’ To Google?
    Gary Price points us to a recent IDC online ad forecast that says search will lose some of its appeal as display (specifically video) ads become more popular and prevalent online. The release identifies this anticipated shift as a “strategic challenge” to Google. While that characterization is attention getting, the…

  • ‘Local Search Advertising: Challenges and Opportunities’ Revisited
    Last Thursday I did a webcast for Search Marketing Now on local search called “Local Search Advertising: Challenges and Opportunities.” The slide presentation and a recording of the webcast are available here. Those who didn’t attend can still hear the webcast and access the slides by registering for free….

  • YouTube Remixer & YouTube Mobile Go Live
    The YouTube Blog announced that they have launched YouTube Remixer, a Web-based editing tool created by Adobe to edit your videos and mix them with other videos. Hat tip to Gary on this, plus you can see detailed screen captures at Techcrunch. Gizmodo reports YouTube Mobile going live at https://m.youtube.com/….

  • Google Adds “IP Exclusion” To AdWords & “Allowed Sites” To AdSense
    Google has added two features to Google AdWords and Google AdSense that provides both with more control on where and which ads are shown. As Brad Geddes reports, Google AdWords has added an IP Exclusion tool. The tool allows you to block certain IP addresses from displaying your ads. We…

  • Thoof: Digg Meets Wikipedia Community News Site Coming
    Another Attempt to Match Readers and Relevant News from the New York Times reports on a new social Digg-like site with an element of Wikipedia to it named Thoof. The main attraction with Thoof, which is beta invite only now, is that it will tailor the news based on your…

  • Microsoft Launches New & Improved MSN Mobile
    At one point Microsoft appeared to be backing away from the MSN brand in favor of “Live.” That no longer seems to be the case. Today the company launched a new mobile portal, signaling what would appear to be a new commitment to the MSN brand, with Live as the…

  • Google Launches Public Policy Blog
    Google has been doing more and more over the past few years to actively influence public policy issues (such as on net neutrality or recently, US immigration) as well becoming more of a potential public policy target (such as on privacy last week). As part of its outreach, the company…

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About the author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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