SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 9, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Offers Duplicate Content Tips Roundup Struggling with duplicate content woes? Google’s done a blog post today to try and provide further advice and guidance. Among the highlights:… "Nobody’s Safe In […]

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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:

  • Google
    Offers Duplicate Content Tips Roundup

    Struggling with duplicate content woes? Google’s done a blog post today to
    try and provide further advice and guidance. Among the highlights:…
  • "Nobody’s
    Safe In Cyberspace": Stalking And Wikipedia

    The article, "Nobody’s Safe in Cyberspace," by Wikipedia editor and
    photographer David Shankbone details a personal ordeal he experienced with
    an online stalker. It’s a horrible story that involves intimidation and
    threats of violence. But as Shankbone writes there’s little recourse
    available to the one who is stalked and harassed…
  • Kaiser
    Chooses Microsoft Over Google For Personal Health Records Initiative


    Kaiser Permanente, with is the largest HMO in the US, has selected
    Microsoft’s Health Vault personal health records initiative over Google in
    a big new test with Kaiser employees, according to the NY Times. If
    successful the offering could be extended to all of Kaiser’s almost 9
    million members….
  • No,
    Advanced SEO Does Not Mean Spamming

    Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself
    doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if
    advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing
    to this confusion? For the record — no, advanced SEO doesn’t mean you
    have…
  • Marchex
    Creates AdHere: National-Local PPC Ad Network

    Marchex, which has been investing heavily in the local search market, has
    now brought together its broad range of assets into a single PPC ad
    platform and network that it’s calling "AdHere." AdHere is intended both
    for brands and national entities trying to reach local consumers online,
    as well as…
  • Travel Muse
    Brings “Discovery” To Travel Search

    The Travel category online is an example of how the Internet has made our
    lives both easier and more complicated. It very clearly exemplifies “the
    paradox of choice." Indeed, there are hundreds of travel sites that
    provide booking services and travel content of one sort or another. You’re
    "empowered" with…
  • Vertical
    Search Engine Healthline Launches “Semantic Ad Network”

    Vertical health search engine Healthline has introduced what it’s calling
    the Healthline Media Network, a contextual ad network for medical and
    health-related sites. According to the company, the new ad network will
    utilize Healthline’s “semantic health search technology” to better
    understand partner page content and do a better job of…
  • Microsoft’s
    CEO Steve Ballmer Discusses The Future Of Media, The Company’s Strategy
    And Expresses Mystification Over What Google’s Doing In Mobile


    "We didn’t get to paid search first, and it turns out that’s the best part
    of the market," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Washington Post Editors
    as part of a meeting that explored a range of topics. Among other things,
    Ballmer discussed Microsoft’s strategy and mission statement, why it
    aspires…
  • Google’s
    New Icon: It Sucks & Now You Can Submit Your Own

    As we’ve covered earlier, Google’s updated its icon recently to one it
    said reflects a "simple, playful and unique" brand. Today, the company has
    blogged more about the design change and calls for ideas from others.
    Good. Sorry, that new icon is just ugly to me, no matter how…
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    Register for SMX Local & Mobile today at the Early Bird rate of just $1095
    for an All Access pass; you get all of the sessions, keynotes and
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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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