SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 12, 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: Pics From Inside Digg LabsDigg Labs is a wonderful place where the folks at Digg create new and interesting tools for using the popular social news site. I was lucky enough […]

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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:


  • Pics From Inside Digg Labs

    Digg Labs is a wonderful place where the folks at Digg create new and interesting tools for using the popular social news site. I was lucky enough to score some exclusive inside photos of the construction that goes on there. Heh. OK, it’s a slow Friday, and I’d been meaning…

  • Yahoo CEO Yang To Give First Public Speech At Right Media Conference Following Q3 Earnings

    In perhaps his first public speech since talking the helm at Yahoo, CEO Jerry Yang will deliver the opening keynote at the upcoming RightMedia Open in Half Moon Bay, CA October 22 – 24. Yang will speak on the morning of October 23. And John Battelle will moderate what will…

  • Search in Pictures: Yahoo Foozapalooza, Google Rubiks Cube & Danny Sullivan At Yahoo

    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….

  • Farecast Offers Hotel Search

    In the context of a larger discussion of how data mining is being used by several Internet sites, Gary Price posts about the introduction of hotel search on the Farecast site. Farecast’s core service has sought to save consumers money by using historical information and other data to determine whether…

  • Microsoft Introduces ‘Windows Live Events’

    Microsoft has introduced an Evite-like events service, Windows Live Events. Rather than an “Evite killer,” think of it more as a home page or website for events, with public events eventually to most likely be integrated into the broader local database and other services that Microsoft has. Currently it integrates…

  • Yahoo Site Explorer Not Showing All Link Data to All Users

    Yahoo Site Explorer Showing Different Counts For Registered vs. Non-Registered Users from the Search Engine Roundtable is where I reported that Yahoo Site Explorer seems to be showing a lot more linkage data to a logged in user who authenticated their site in Site Explorer as opposed to a user…

  • Gmail To Increase Email Capacity With New Counter Algorithm

    The Gmail Blog announced that in an effort to continue to gradually increase the storage space for their Gmail users, they have updated their counter algorithm. The new formula will speed up the rate at which they increase the capacity for email storage in Gmail. Googlified documents how this new…

  • Yahoo Setting Up Shop Next Door to Microsoft’s Headquarters

    Confirmed: Yahoo expanding to Microsoft’s backyard from SeattlePi has confirmed reports that Yahoo has signed a lease on Bellevue’s One Twelfth @ Twelfth complex for 115,000 square feet. The new office can potentially fit between 500 to 600 employees. It appears Yahoo is hiring software engineers for the Bellevue location….

  • YouTube Comes to Google Earth; Pity YouTube Itself Doesn’t Offer Geosearch

    I just posted a bunch of videos to YouTube yesterday of skating down the boardwalk in Newport Beach. Maybe one day they’ll show up in Google Earth. That’s because Google Earth is now showing video clips that have been geotagged to particular areas, according to Google’s LatLong Blog. To find…

  • No, Buying Ads Still Won’t Help You With Google’s Free Listings

    PPC Discussions noted that a long-standing page at Google advising that buying ads is not a way to rank better for free on Google had disappeared. Sign of a new change? No, Google says it was accidentally removed and will be restored when new help pages are published shortly. FYI,…

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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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