SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 15, 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: Robots.txt Study Shows Webmasters Favor GoogleThe Pennsylvania State University conducted a study that showed Webmasters favored Google over other search engines. The study looked at which robots or crawlers were listed […]

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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:


  • Robots.txt Study Shows Webmasters Favor Google

    The Pennsylvania State University conducted a study that showed Webmasters favored Google over other search engines. The study looked at which robots or crawlers were listed in a web site’s robots.txt file, and Google was listed more often than any other search engine. The paper is named Determining Bias to…

  • Yahoo Rolls Out Quality-Based Pricing In UK

    Yahoo has begun rolling out their Quality-Based Pricing in the UK. Danny emailed me from the SMX London show to tell me this was just announced. Yahoo launched this discounted based pricing method back on June 4th in the United States but they are now expanding it to the UK….

  • HD Video Coming To YouTube & More Changes At YouTube

    High-quality YouTube videos coming soon from News.com reports Steve Chen, YouTube’s co-founder, said YouTube will be offering high-quality streams of YouTube videos within three-months. YouTube will detect the Internet connection of the user and offer the HD quality option if the speed is fast enough. In other YouTube news, YouTube…

  • Microsoft Launches Live Search Webmaster Tools Beta While Developing Version Two

    We initially heard rumors of Microsoft launching a Webmaster Tools piece of software back in March. Danny then received official confirmation a month later, that indeed, Live Search will be launching a Webmaster Tools. The good news is that is it now a live beta at https://webmaster.live.com/. I have posted…

  • Effective Tagging For Both Usability & SEO

    In this era of Web 2.0, it seems that blogs, mash-ups, RSS feeds and wikis have been the buzzwords occupying most of the limelight. But personally, tagging is the Web 2.0 technology that excites me the most, because of its versatility and wide applicability. A tag, according to Wikipedia,…

  • SMX West 2008 Agenda Up: 3 Days, More Than 50 Sessions!

    Check out the just-posted agenda for Search Marketing Expo – SMX West and see why SMX West is the “must-attend” search marketing event of 2008. SMX West will be held February 26-28, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. SMX West has sessions designed just for you, whether you’re just…

  • Wall Street Journal Hearts Digg

    Yesterday, Digg founder Kevin Rose made one of the shortest blog posts in history. The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and youíll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg. The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com articles tonight….

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About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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