SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 20, 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: New Google Blog Targets YouTube’s Big Brands & Advertisers Google has launched a new blog, the YouTube Biz Blog, that continues its effort to “help partners and advertisers find a home […]

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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:

  • New Google Blog Targets YouTube’s Big Brands & Advertisers

    Google has launched a new blog, the YouTube Biz Blog, that continues its effort to “help partners and advertisers find a home on YouTube.” It’s a theme we’ve written about recently when YouTube signed deals with major TV studios and announced plans to create the “Hulu” of music videos.
    YouTube is trying to transform from […]

  • Yahoo Launches Placemaker, Adding “Whereness” To Unstructured Internet Data

    Yesterday Yahoo spoke about taking search much more into the real world by turning “web pages” into “web objects.” Today there were a couple of announcements at the Where 2.0 conference related to identifying unstructured data online and linking it according to places and locations — in other words made geo-relevant.
    Tyler Bell of Yahoo gave […]

  • Christin Engelberth Wins Google 4 Doodle 2009 Competition

    Google announced Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, as the winner of the second Google 4 Doodle competition.
    Her Doodle will be displayed on the Google.com home page tomorrow, May 21, 2009. In addition, she will receive a $15,000 college scholarship, a laptop, and a $25,000 technology […]

  • Larry Page Embraces “Real-Time” Search

    There’s a much longer post to be written on Google and so-called “real-time” search. Twitter is both more and less than a search engine, but there are lots of third parties doing search-like things around the Twitter data. However, yesterday at an event in London, Loic Le Meur elicited this response from Google co-founder Larry […]

  • Germans Threaten Sanctions Over Google Street View

    This is now a familiar story: European privacy concerns and complaints against Google Street View. From angry mobs to European regulators, Google is confronting many more objections as it tries to visually map The Continent than it did in the US.
    This installment involves German “data protection regulators” in Hamburg who object to the way that […]

  • Google’s Missing Link Fossil Logo

    Yesterday, scientists found what they are calling the “missing link” in evolution. Scientists found the “Darwinius masillae,” which is known as the missing link between humans and apes. You can read about the discovery in this article.
    Google posted a logo for the special discover and linked the logo to a search for missing […]

  • Google Offering “Expert Advice” To Some AdWords Advertisers

    Tim Cohn noticed that Google is no offering some level of “expert” advice for AdWords advertisers with their AdWords accounts.
    When Tim logged into one of his accounts, he noticed a link that read, “Get started with expert advice on Adwords.” The link takes the advertiser to a form, which he/she can complete and Google […]

  • Search & Content Networks: A B2B Classic Combo

    Peanut butter and jelly. Batman and Robin. Milk and cookies. Some things just naturally go together because they complement one another—I like to think of them as classic combos. They remind me of search and content networks. Though not always used by B2B marketers, the search engines’ content networks can be complementary to existing search efforts, […]

  • Forget Kumo — Will Microsoft’s New Search Engine Launch Soon As Bing?

    It’s not long now. Microsoft’s new search engine has been widely expected to launch soon, and now it appears likely to happen within the next week or two. And might Bing be the new name?
    The latest report is that Microsoft will demonstrate its new “Kumo” service during next week’s D: All Things Digital conference. As […]

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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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