SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 21, 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: European Union To Question Data Retention Policies Of Other Search EnginesEU data protection group questions other search engines from InfoWorld reports that the European Union will expand their investigation beyond just […]
Barry Schwartz on June 21, 2007 at 2:50 pm | Reading time: 4 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:
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European Union To Question Data Retention Policies Of Other Search Engines
EU data protection group questions other search engines from InfoWorld reports that the European Union will expand their investigation beyond just Google and investigate other search engine provider’s data retention policies. Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor, told us this in an interview last night. Danny is quoted in the… -
Two Top Google Engineers Leave Google
Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital from VentureBeat reports Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, top Google engineers, have left Google to work at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm. Taylor and Norris were largely responsible for the development of Google Maps as well as other Google products…. -
Yahoo Search Ads Now Truncated To 70 Characters
As expected, Yahoo has confirmed that as of now, all Yahoo Search Marketing ad descriptions that are longer than 70 characters will be truncated to fit the new size requirement. There still is an optional 190-character long description box, which may be used on some of Yahoo’s distributing partner sites…. -
Yahoo Acquires College Sports Site, Rivals.com
Yahoo has acquired Rivals.com, an online college sports site. Yahoo said this acquisition “will significantly expand the community offerings and open publishing capabilities of Yahoo! Sports.” Although Yahoo did not discuss the financial matters of the agreement, paidContent.org suspects it was about $100 million…. -
The Users Are Revolting
Flickr has recently introduced content filters, allowing users more control over what images they view, and to ensure that they don’t get nasty surprises by accidently viewing some of the more adult images that are hosted. However, while this is a useful option, the option of turning it off has… -
Google Pay-Per-Action Beta Goes Global
Google launched Pay Per Action ads to a very limited user base on March 20. Now, Google is launching this beta product globally. Google Pay Per Action is a new pricing model available to advertisers to specify a dollar amount they would like to offer publishers for successful conversions. Advertisers…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
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Share
Your iGoogle, Google Blogoscoped -
Let’s
get financial, Google Finance Blog -
LG
Unveils Genuine Google Phone, The Korea Times
Business Issues
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New
Ask.com Commercial: Kato, InsideGoogle -
Learning
From Microsoft’s Error, Google Builds a Lobbying Engine,
washingtonpost.com -
Who should
buy Yahoo?, GigaOM -
Google
says Vista search changes not enough, Arstechnica
Conferences
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Siamo
tornati dall’ SES di Milano!, Google Webmaster Central Blog -
Reader
Poll: Best City for Conferences, Online Marketing Blog
Local, Maps & Mobile
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Three
new KML resources up, Google Maps API Blog -
Local
Search for Sweden and Denmark Launched, Google AJAX Search API Blog
Paid Search & Contextual
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Blinkx’s
Project Trilby: AdSense For Video, Business 2.0 -
Meet
an India payments specialist, Google AdSense Blog -
Reprise
Report on Panama, John Battelle -
PPC vs. Organic Keywords: How
To Know Where to Put The Big Bucks, Reviewlicious -
Do You Want a
Google AdWords Search Engine?, Search Engine Roundtable -
Microsoft
adCenter Adds Negative Keywords to Campaigns, Search Engine Roundtable
Searching
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Exalead
surges in French search, E Consultancy
SEM Industry
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A
look into an search engine marketer’s life, Scobleizer
SEO & SEM
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Content Strategies:
Bulk Content vs Higher Quality Information, SEO Book -
What
My Builders Taught Me About Link Building, Viper Chill -
When Choosing an eCommerce
System, Remember the Search Engines, SEO By The Sea -
[Video] Public
Relations & Search Engine Optimization, SEO Book.com -
Does
Your Site Deserve Link Love?, Search Engine Watch -
Link
Building keep adding links monthly, DaveN -
How to Make AJAX Techniques
Safe for Search Engines, Cre8pc
Social Media
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Searchles
Tries to Bridge the Gap Between Social Search and Social Networking,
Bill Hartzer -
Digg
Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million Uniques, Read/Write
Web
Video & Image Search
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Don’t
Lose Your Google Image Search Traffic, stefanjuhl.com -
ScienceHack:
Human Edited Science Video Search, Rev2org -
Youtube
Give Users FTP Details away, DaveN -
YouTube
to eclipse BBC’s homepage, Telegraph
Other Items
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Slide
Show Control now available as a Google Gadget, Google AJAX API Blog -
Mahalo
Blog Gives Links to People it Thinks Are Spammers, Wolf Howl -
Askville
Update, Search Engine Watch Blog -
Google
and open source OCR, Official Google Blog
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