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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 7, 2007

By Barry Schwartz
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:


  • 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,…

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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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