SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 23, 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: Google & Dell’s Revenue-Generating URL Error Pages Drawing Fire Last year, Google signed a landmark deal to become the default search engine on new Dell computers, plus to bundle Google software. […]
Danny Sullivan on May 23, 2007 at 2:28 pm
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 & Dell’s
Revenue-Generating URL Error Pages Drawing Fire
Last year, Google signed a landmark deal to become the default search engine
on new Dell computers, plus to bundle Google software. Now, people are noting
anew that a consequence of the deal seems to be pushing Dell users to search
results dominated by Google ads, rather than editorial… - Direct
Navigation And Domain Empires
Business 2.0 has a fairly comprehensive (cover) story about domain portfolios
and "direct navigation." It starts off with a profile of Vancouver
entrepreneur Kevin Ham ("The Man Who Owns the Internet"), who operates a $300
million domain "empire" but goes on to discuss others who have become wealthy
from domain… - Google’s
Biotech Investment In Brin’s Wife’s Company, 23andMe
Raising some eyebrows this morning is Google’s investment in a biotech firm
called 23andMe, which states as its mission to: "help you make sense of your
own genetic information . . . [and] put your genome into the larger context of
human commonality and diversity." Anne Wojcicki, Google cofounder Sergey… - TechCrunch:
Google Is Buying FeedBurner
$100 Million Payday For Feedburner – This Deal Is Confirmed from TechCrunch
has Michael Arrington saying last week’s rumors of a Google purchase of
FeedBurner are true: Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by
Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly… - Yahoo Closing
Webjay
Odd. Just a year and a half after buying music playlist sharing site Webjay,
John Udell notes that Yahoo is closing the service. From the closure notice:
We are sorry to announce that Webjay will be closing its doors at the end of
June, 2007. Please take this time to… - Google’s New
AdSense For Video Pilot
Today Google introduced a "closed beta" that allows for the in-stream
insertion of ads in video content on its AdSense network. Here’s the Inside
AdSense explanation: "[W]e’re extending AdSense to online video content.
Publishers in this test will be able to define at what point in their videos
that streaming… - Technorati Blog
Search Relaunches
Technorati has relaunched today, and I’m on a short day, so I can’t dive in to
play with it in depth. Below, I’ll recap what some others are saying. add a
few off-the-cuff remarks on blog search in general, plus comment on how
Technorati continues to be masterful in working… - Q&A With Seth
Godin, Founder & CEO Of Social Search Service Squidoo
Seth Godin is widely known as one of the foremost advocates of "permission
marketing," promotional campaigns that don’t rely on interrupting the
attention of your customers, but rather engage them and even turn them into
enthusiastic advocates that volunteer time and effort to help you promote your
products or… - Driving Online
Registrations: Think Beyond the White Paper
Successful B2B marketing efforts—particularly search advertising
campaigns—often utilize landing pages designed to collect registrations.
Website visitors must complete a (hopefully short and simple) registration
form to receive something of value. Typically this registration data is then
cultivated and, if warranted, entered in the company’s lead management and
sales system…. - Search
Illustrated: Blocking Search Engines With Robots.txt
While most of the time we want search engine crawlers to grab and index as
much content from our web sites as possible, there are situations where we
want to prevent crawlers from accessing certain pages or parts of a web site.
For example, you don’t want crawlers poking…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
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Getting it done with Google Apps, Google Blog
Business Issues
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HotJobs Exec Departure from Yahoo Won’t Affect Newspaper Group, ClickZ -
Microsoft’s Berkowitz: Consider aQuantive Deal a Merger, Search Engine
Watch -
Microsoft pours more cold water on Yahoo-merger speculation, All About
Microsoft -
What Should Ask.com Do?, Search Engine Watch -
Google
is failing the Microsoft litmus test, All About Microsoft -
Google Can’t Google?,
Jeff Barr -
Google Urged to Share Code, PC World -
Newspapers want Google
News’ quarter, News.com -
IAB: Ad Spend up 35% in 2006, John Battelle
Local, Maps & Mobile
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1-800-GOOG-411: Freedom With Speech, Google Lat Long Blog -
Cingular BlackBerry 8800 has Google Maps and GPS, Google Blog -
Majority Would Purchase
Google or Yahoo Mobile Phone, Cellular-News.com -
GeoCommons, Share Your GeoData, O’Reilly Radar
Paid Search & Contextual
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Google AdSense Preview Sandbox 1.0, Download Squad
Podcasts
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The Marketing Pilgrim Podcast – Episode 7, Marketing Pilgrim -
Universal Search, Microsoft Buys Chris, AdSense MFAs, Google Hot Trends, SEO,
Link Bait, & More, Search Pulse - AdSense
Arbitrage Media Coverage, Shoemoney
Dell’s Google-Powered
Bad URL Money Machine; Technorati Mark II & More!, Daily SearchCast
Searching
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Google Base Learning, ComparisonEngines.com -
Download US Patents in PDF, Google Operating System
SEO & SEM
- What
Does Universal Search Mean for SEM?, Search Engine Watch -
WebmasterCentral it’s just crap, Dave Naylor -
Digging
Deeper Into the Latest Release of Google Analytics, Search Engine Watch
Social Media
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Google and FeedBurner – Strong Growth in the Blogosphere, Hitwise -
Digg Bans Users Who Digg Too Often, Search Engine Journal -
Report: Microsoft building apps to personally identify anyone online,
Boing Boing -
WebJay
closing in June
Video & Image Search
- Is the
Google Video PlusBox Fair?, Google Blogoscoped - MeeVee Adds
Feeds from Several Major Networks, Mashable - Pageflakes
Users Create 100,000 Pagecasts, Mashable -
Briefs: Image Recognition Software Used to Find Stolen/Looted Art and
Valuables; Exalead Launches Video Search Beta, ResourceShelf
Other Items
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Next Open Hack Day!, Bradley Horowitz
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