SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 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: Changes At Natural Language Search Company PowersetBig management changes are going on at Powerset, which has received much attention for its potential in using natural language processing for search. Barney Pell, […]

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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:


  • Changes At Natural Language Search Company Powerset

    Big management changes are going on at Powerset, which has received much attention for its potential in using natural language processing for search. Barney Pell, who has been CEO at Powerset, posted today in his blog that he is transitioning to CTO, that Steve Newcomb, who had been COO, is…

  • Search in Pictures: Halloween, Yahoo Bouncing Stools & Googlebox

  • Blog Searches Now Included In Google Web History

    Google Operating System reports Google Blog Searches are now included in Google Web History….

  • Yahoo’s Executive Apologizes Over Imprisonment Of Chinese Dissident

    Yahoo Executive Offers Apology to Lawmakers from the Wall Street Journal reports Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel of Yahoo, issued a statement apologizing for providing incorrect information to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs over the jailed Chinese reporter. Part of the statement read: I neglected to…

  • New York Times Adds BlogRunner To Technology Section

    The New York Times’ Blogrunner—A Techmeme Killer? from TechCrunch shows that the New York Times has added BlogRunner headlines on the Technology main page. BlogRunner is very similar to Techmeme, where the system aggregates top news, and automatically tracks the discussion from around the web via linkage data. The New…

  • Google AdWords Manager Defined Spend (MDS)

    Shimon Sandler posted about a feature he found in his Google AdWords account named “Manager Defined Spend” or MDS. I emailed Google to find out more about this MDS feature, and this is the response they sent me: Manager Defined Spend (MDS) is a new, simple way for My Client…

  • Taking On ARF, Engagement, Interruptive Advertising… And Whatever Else You’ve Got!

    In 2005, The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), through their MI4 Initiative, decided to embark on the Quixotic quest of defining engagement. The impetus was finding a more appropriate and applicable metric that could stretch across the rapidly expanding number of channels that were exploding through digital delivery. So, the…

  • Travel & Hospitality Marketers: Last Call For SMX Travel In Orlando

    Don’t miss the opportunity to attend SMX Travel @ PhoCusWright if you are responsible for driving online travel sales or managing the people who do. SMX Travel happens November 12-13 in Orlando, FL! Register today and secure your place. SMX Travel is designed for online marketers who want to dive…

  • MySpace, Others Join Google-Led OpenSocial

    First reported by Silicon Alley Insider and then confirmed with additional detail by TechCrunch, Google has added more high-profile partners to its OpenSocial initiative. They are MySpace, Bebo, and SixApart, which now join LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Friendster, among several others, in the alliance or coalition….

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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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