SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 7, 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:

• 
  Kevin Ryan Named VP Of Search Engine Watch & Search Engine Strategies
  Kevin Ryan was named the vice president of global content for Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies, by Incisive Media today. Ryan in the past worked as the vice president, Interactive Media for the Interpublic Group agency, Wahlstrom Interactive and CEO of Kinetic Results. He also founded Motivity Marketing,…
• 
  Yahoo Share Holders Asks To Vote Against CEO’s Salary
  Yahoo holders urged to use votes to protest Semel’s pay from the Mercury News reports that two independent proxy advisory firms are asking to shareholders to vote against the reelection of three of the board members who are responsible for approving Yahoo’s CEO, Terry Semel, $71 million compensation package….
• 
  Zvents Expands Distribution To New York Times Regional Media Group
  Long neglected in local search, online events search is fast becoming a very competitive and full category. Yesterday, Google announced its public calendar directory and today events aggregator and platform Zvents is announcing that it has added the papers of the New York Times Regional Media Group to its list…
• 
  Gambling For Fun Adverts Now Disallowed By Google AdWords UK
  I reported this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable that UK Google AdWords advertisers are being notified by Google that they can no longer accept ads for any kind of gambling site. That includes gambling sites that are just for fun, have tutorials on gambling and content related to gambling….
• 
  Google Asks Congress To Increase H-1B Visas Cap
  A Google Blog post explains Google recent initiatives to influence congress to increase the H-1B visas annual cap of 65,000. Google said it has prevented 70 Google candidates from receiving H-1B visas in the past year….
• 
  YP Corp. Acquires Classifieds Site LiveDeal
  YP Corp., operator of directory site YP.com, has acquired classifieds destination site LiveDeal in a stock transaction worth roughly $12 million. The two sites will, in the near term, maintain separate destinations but trade and combine content. Over time, the destinations will likely tighten or merge. Classifieds is the third…
• 
  Privacy Group Amends FTC Complaint Over Google/DoubleClick Acquisition
  Groups want limits on Google from the San Francisco Chronicle reports that privacy groups have amended their complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the Google & DoubleClick acquisition. The amendment requests that Google first obtain permission from their users before collecting any information about them. In addition, the privacy…
• 
  YouTube Adds Related Videos To Embedded Players
  The YouTube blog announced that they have now added related views to videos embedded on external sites. We saw hints of this coming when we saw YouTube testing a new player. So view the related videos, just mouse over the video as it is playing on your browser. You will…
• 
  Sprint And GPShopper Bring Local Shopping To Mobile Phones
  The Wall Street Journal (subscription req’d) writes about a partnership between mobile carrier Spint and GPShopper to provide information about local shopping inventory on mobile phones. The consumer application offered by GPShopper is called Slifter, which used to require entry of a Zip code. The partnership with Sprint removes that…
• 
  Google Calendar Launches Public Calendar Directory
  Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Calendar has added a gallery of public calendars that users can subscribe to. The directory is cataloged by Top Picks, TV shows, Events, Sports, Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Holidays and By Google. Wouldn’t it be nice if the By Google category showed scheduled Google Search updates?…
• 
  11 Steps to Developing a Web Literacy
  The Web reaches out to embrace businesses online, even if the owners of those businesses hesitate at the attempt. There are many that haven’t taken the step of placing themselves on the internet, and yet they are there, even without a Web site. They may appear in business directories,…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

Applications & Portal Features

• See
  shared docs & spreadsheets before logging in, Official Google Docs
  & Spreadsheets Blog
• Feeds
  on a plane!, Google Blog
• All
  New AOL Feed Reader Coming Soon, Techcrunch
• On the
  menu, Google Reader Blog
• Google Fighting Phishing
  Websites, SEO by the SEA

Business Issues

• Google
  search not enough to locate taxpayer, court says, News.com
• Google:
  Foreign workers are key to our success, News.com
• Can
  Google Get Any Bigger?, TIME
• Rumor
  Mill: Amazon-Netflix, Yahoo!-Facebook, Read/Write Web
• Yahoo
  Hires Kinder As GM, HotJobs; Newspapers Partners Gear For Integration
  Push, paidContent.org

Conferences

• SES
  Miami: Catch The Latin Heat, Smart Keywords
• SEO,
  Meet SMM Session at SMX Advanced, Search Engine Journal

• More
  Thoughts from Internet Retailer 2007, Marketing Pilgrim

• Seattle
  Search Marketing Expo Update 3, Manta SEO
• SMX
  Advanced Conference Review, Rentvine

• SMX Coverage, SEOish

• In
  Good Company at SMX, SearchViews
• Danny
  Sullivan Goes Casual – He’s SMXY!, Blaawg

• WebmasterWorld
  Inc. and SEO Class Announce Partnership, PR Web

Local, Maps & Mobile

• DragZoomControl
  v1.0: Easier zooming, coming right up!, Google Maps API Blog
• Monthly
  Cloud Animations for Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
• Instant
  Answers from Live Search Add Real Time Traffic to Web Results Pages and
  More, ResourceShelf

Paid Search & Contextual

• Yahoo Addresses
  Concerns Over New Search Ad Pricing Model, Search Engine Roundtable
• Quality-Based
  What?, Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog
• Google AdSense
  Ads Causing JavaScript Errors on Sites, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google AdSense
  Disables Third Party Click Trackers, Search Engine Roundtable
• Help
  Forums for Italian and Russian, Inside AdSense
• Your
  account at-a-glance using the Account Snapshot page, Inside AdWords

Searching

• AJAX
  Feed API Slide Show Enhancements, Google AJAX Search API Blog
• From AskX to
  Ask3D, Ask.com Blog
• A Brief Interview
  With Udi Manber, Google, On Universal Search, John Battelle’s
  Searchblog
• Ask.com
  Takes On Google, Forbes Digital Download

SEM Industry

• Are You Lazy
  Enough?, Tropical SEO
• Who
  is the Real Matt Cutts?, SEM Seattle
• Will
  The Real Matt Cutts Please Step Forward, Conversation Marketing
• Buffy,
  in duplicate, Vanessa Fox
• Search
  Engine Optimization (SEO): More Old-School Than You Think, ExaBlog

SEO & SEM

• Google
  UK Site Command Search Broken, SEOptimise
• Customizing
  Landing Pages Based on User Intent Gleaned from Search Results,
  Search Engine Roundtable
• How
  to Deal with Pagination & Duplicate Content Issues, SEOmoz
• Got
  Supplementals? Accepting PageRank is Only The Beginning, Half’s SEO
  Notebook

Social Media

• Coca-Cola
  sets up mobile social network, Reuters
• MeetMoi
  raises cash, for Twitter of sex, VentureBeat
• MyLifeBrand
  Aggregates Social Networking Sites, Techcrunch
• Tumbling,
  erica’s joys
• Pro
  Surfer Mary Osborne Joins Go211 Social Networking Site, Bill Hartzer
• Incuby
  to Launch Social Network for Inventors, Rev2.org

Video & Image Search

• Google
  Video: Indexed 70-80 Million Videos, Googlified
• Class
  Action Lawsuit Against Google’s YouTube Adds Plaintiffs, Marketing
  Pilgrim

Other Items

• A
  consortium joins the Library Project, Google Book Search Blog

• Get
  more from your Base listings by using Google Checkout, Official Google
  Base Blog

• Google
  Bits: From Feedburner Concerns to a New Library Project Partner to the
  Need for Foreign Workers and More, ResourceShelf
• WordPress
  Exploit and Dreamhost, DaveN

• Google
  Scholar Library Links Hits 1,200 Participating Libraries, Google
  Librarian Central