SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 28, 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: More Maps Announcements Coming This WeekThe conference Where 2.0 begins tomorrow in San Jose, California. It’s about mapping, mashups and location-based services and there should be a range of interesting announcements […]
Barry Schwartz on May 28, 2007 at 11:36 am | Reading time: 4 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:
From Search Engine Land:
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More Maps Announcements Coming This Week
The conference Where 2.0 begins tomorrow in San Jose, California. It’s about mapping, mashups and location-based services and there should be a range of interesting announcements from companies large and small. To that end, Garrett Rogers speculates, based on domain name registrations, that Google will be announcing a “street view”… -
YouTube Tests New Video Player
Screenshots of YouTube’s New Player from Google Operating System shows a new YouTube player being tested to “improve the way you interact with videos and will create a cinematic experience” says Ionut Alex. Chitu…. -
Google & Korea Daum In Content & Ad Partnership Talks
Google, Korea Daum in talks on YouTube, ad deals from MarketWatch reports that Google is in partnership discussions with Daum. Eric Schmidt of Google and Seok Jong-Hun of Daum are planning on meeting tomorrow to discuss Google providing Daum will access to all of YouTube’s content on their portal. And… -
Yahoo Testing Linking To Non-Yahoo Properties On Home Page
Yahoo Experiments With Non-Yahoo Links On Home Page from Techcrunch reports that Yahoo is testing linking to non-Yahoo properties directly from their home page. Typically, the only non-Yahoo links from their home page are the advertisements. On May 24th, Yahoo linked to this Crunchgear article directly in the “Featured” news…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Applications & Portal Features
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Can You Use
Google Analytics on an Adult Site?, Search Engine Roundtable -
Google
on Your Cell Phone, PC World -
Three
Minutes With Google’s Apps Manager, PC World
Conferences
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Presentations
from SES Xiamen, SEOmoz -
Special
Events at ACM SIGIR Conference Offer Numerous Interesting Presentations
From Top Researchers, ResourceShelf -
SES
Xiamen Impressions, Search Engine Journal -
SES
Xiamen – Chinese SEO Lessons, Search Engine Journal
Business Issues
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Google bosses to
visit, Monitor Online -
Google
sets its sights on Seattle, Computerworld -
Google
Making $1 Per Internet User, Read/Write Web -
Putting
users in charge, Google Blog -
Google
search juggernaut pushes forward, News.com -
Microsoft
Ad Chief Quashes Rumors of Yahoo Acquisition, WSJ.com -
In
Fierce Competition, Google Finds Novel Ways to Feed Hiring Machine,
New York Times
Local, Maps & Mobile
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Amish
Horse and Carriages in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog -
Google
Maps “Street View” to be launched at Where 2.0?, Googling Google -
Transit
Directions in San Diego and Reno, Google Latlong Blog
Paid Search & Contextual
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Second Tier Search
Engines & Clean Traffic Sources, SEO Book.com -
Microsoft
adCenter Representatives Calling Inactive Advertisers, Search Engine
Roundtable -
Yahoo! Search
Marketing Testing Panama Engine in the UK, Search Engine Roundtable -
Mindmapping Audiences and
Tasks for Category and Keyword Development, SEO By The Sea -
Click-to-play
video ads available in three new formats, Inside AdWords -
Make
room for new video ad formats, Inside AdSense -
Are
You Getting Google AdSense Traffic this Memorial Day Weekend?, Search
Engine Roundtable
Searching
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Intelliverb:
Is It Intelligent Investing in Search?, Techcrunch -
Google Plus Box Patent
Application, SEO By The Sea
SEM Industry
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Memorial
Day Commemorated: Ask.com & Search Engine Roundtable, Search
Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
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Showing an
Search Engine Marketing Project Success Before Even Beginning, Search
Engine Roundtable -
Link Bait
is the New Reciprocal Link, Search Engine Guide -
Alternate
Link Building Strategies: The Linkerati Effect, Search Engine Journal -
Google’s
Maile Ohye: 100 links per page, max, Rimm Kaufman -
Refining Queries Using
Category Synonyms for Local and Other Searches, SEO By The Sea
Social Media
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Reddit hacked,
Neomeme -
Winning
YouTube Strategies – Channel ’08: The 2008 Election on Video,
Washington Post Blog -
The
Many Tribes of YouTube, New York Times -
What
Are People Twittering About?, Twitter Blog -
There’s
Twitter in My Facebook!, Twitter Blog
Video & Image Search
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Restrict
Google Image Results to Faces, News, Google Operating System -
Screenshots
of YouTube’s New Player, Google Operating System -
How
to Check Google Censorship (Video), Google Blogoscoped
Other Items
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SITE NEWS:
Direct links now in “New Item Finder”, Memeorandum Blog -
Youtube
blocked in Morocco, Mideast Youth -
Gone Fishing,
Ask.com Blog -
More
New Google Domains: GoogleStreetView.com; Don’t Forget PagesJaunes &
MappyVisiocity, ResourceShelf -
The
High Price of Creating Free Ads, New York Times -
Google
Folk: ‘Even our bugs have fans’, Valleywag -
When it
comes to swaying a jury, remember the Google factor, Guardian
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