SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 8, 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: Google To ‘Integrate’ Microblogging? While Twitter is looking at ways to be more search-ey, Google is apparently thinking about ways to be more microbloggy. Buried in a Reuters article about Google’s […]

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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 To ‘Integrate’ Microblogging?

    While Twitter is looking at ways to be more search-ey, Google is apparently thinking about ways to be more microbloggy. Buried in a Reuters article about Google’s shareholders meeting yesterday is this paragraph about the company’s interest in the social web:
    “Company executives who appeared alongside Schmidt at the media briefing said Google was looking at […]

  • Google Does TV Ads, To Push Chrome Browser In Commercials

    It used to be common wisdom that Google never did consumer marketing. That’s changed over the past few years, with Google doing everything from billboards to radio ads to bus “wraps” to push particular Google products. Now it boldly goes into that final frontier, TV ads in the United States.
    It’s a […]

  • SMN Webcast: Get Your Questions Answered By SEO Experts

    This Tuesday, May 12, at 1 PM Eastern Search Marketing Now will present a unique format in the webcast “Ask iProspect: Strategies & Tactics for World-Class SEO.” Senior management from iProspect will be on hand to answer questions from registrants on what it takes with the biggest and the best when it comes to […]

  • Search In Pictures: Google Aptera, A Yahoo Pint & Kids At Google

    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.
    Aptera’s at Google: A Yahoo Pint: Bring Your Kids To Work Day at Google: Yahoo India Pool: Award from SE Asia […]

  • Official: Wolfram Alpha Launches May 18

    After briefly going live yesterday, Wolfram Alpha — the much anticipated fact engine — was quickly shutdown. Now the company tells us that May 18 is the official launch data.
    For more about the service, see my write-up, Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine”.

  • Live Search Mobile Adds Videos & Baseball Scores

    The Live Search Blog announced they have added video search results and baseball scores to Live Search Mobile. I decided to take a few screen shots of live.com on my iPhone:
    Live Search Mobile Video Results:

    Live Search Mobile Baseball Info:

    Why the Mets? Well, I am a Met fan, or at least, I try to […]

  • Designing For The Subconscious Mind

    In last month’s column, I brought up the idea that the first impression your web site makes can have a
    bigger impact than many of the more traditional design considerations we tend to regularly obsess about. My theory is that users’ gut-level reactions when seeing a new site for the first time—and the split-second judgments they […]

  • Gmail Goes Offline Again

    Gmail has now been offline for the past twenty minutes or so. Just take a look at Twitter Search to see how many people are upset with the downtime.
    Here is a screen capture:

    This outage seems to be impacting both web access, pop access and imap access.
    Hopefully this outage won’t be as long or serious […]

  • The Next Decade: Can Google Stay On Top?

    There’s a feeling in the air of change — from one era to another and, more precisely, from one type of media culture to another. The hearings on Capitol Hill yesterday on the “future of journalism” reflect this transition in which traditional media are under intense pressure and fighting for their lives in some cases. […]

  • Wolfram Alpha Now Live (Er, Was Live)

    Wolfram Alpha, the much anticipated fact engine, is now live. That means, you can go to wolframalpha.com and test it out for yourself.
    Keep in mind, Wolfram Alpha is not a Google competitor, it is a beast of its own. Do comment and let us know your thoughts.
    For more about this new search engine, […]

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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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