SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Importance Of SEO Makes Front Page Of Los Angeles Times What a nice surprise to see on the front page of the Los Angeles Times today a story that features how […]

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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:

  • Importance Of SEO Makes Front Page Of Los Angeles Times

    What a nice surprise to see on the front page of the Los Angeles Times today a story that features how important SEO is to web sites.
    It’s Web 101 for this experienced intern covers how a former magazine editor, Lois Draegin, has entered a new life of online editing after losing her job with TV […]

  • Search In Pictures: Yahoo Birthday Cake, Ask.com Bus & Google Ski Hat

    In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

  • Google Maps Allows Third Parties To “Close” Local Businesses

    Google has allowed the community to edit Maps listings for some time. That capability has not been generally abused although there have been some persistent issues with mapspam. Today Barry posted at SEO Roundtable that anyone could go in and request that a business listing be permanently removed because the location was, allegedly, permanently closed:

    Let’s […]

  • Microsoft Cashback Comes to the MSN Toolbar

    Although I don’t personally use it I’m a fan of Microsoft’s Cashback. That sounds like a contradiction I know. But I thought it was a very clever consumer-advertiser proposition when it launched in May of last year.
    It gives advertisers a way to stand out in search results* (and only pay if there’s a sale) and […]

  • AdSense Publisher Sues Google And Wins

    Why I Sued Google (and Won) from the Huffington Post has a story about an AdSense publisher who sued Google and actually won.
    The beginning of the story, I have seen hundreds of times in forum threads, emails and via Twitter. Google terminated the publisher’s AdSense account because of “posing a signficicant risk […]

  • Search and Trends On Twitter Begins Showing Up

    We recently reported Twitter started testing search and trends directly in their top navigation bar. Now, many Twitter users (not myself) are noticing the new search bar and trends tab.
    Here is a picture of the new search and trends tab that many users are now noticing at Twitter.

    If you prefer Google, you can […]

  • Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?

    Some time ago, I wrote an article called “Are Our Brains Becoming Googlized?” It became my most read Search Engine Land post ever. Apparently I wasn’t the only one fascinated by the prospect of wholesale rewiring of our brains through exposure to technology.
    UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is one of the hotbeds […]

  • Google Touts Wisdom Of Crowds For Financial Help

    Talk about irony: Although we’re living through a financial crisis that we created ourselves, Google is touting the so-called “wisdom of the crowds” to offer financial help. That’s the premise behind today’s announcement of TipJar.
    TipJar is sorta like Yahoo Answers, only without the questions. It’s people submitting answers to the question, How can I […]

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is 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. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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