SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 9, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.From Search Engine Land: Sphinn Japan Launches: Internet & Search Marketing News, In Japanese When we launched our Sphinn social news site for search and internet marketers last year, we quickly were hit by a huge […]

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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:

  • Sphinn Japan Launches: Internet & Search Marketing News, In Japanese
    When we launched our Sphinn social news site for search and internet marketers last year, we quickly were hit by a huge number of Japanese-language submissions. Unfortunately, we had to go to an English-only rule, as we had no easy way to moderate those submissions, such as checking for spam. Now, problem solved.
  • Google Puts New AdSense Ads Under Maps
    The continued success of Google Maps gives Google another growing revenue stream to tap into, and that’s what they’re doing with the placement of new AdSense ads immediately under maps on Google Maps.
    The ads don’t show up on all searches, but they do appear on enough searches to suggest this is more than a limited…
  • Looking Back At “The Summer Of Local”
    At the start of this summer, I wrote “it seems like Local has been rumored to be “the next big thing” in Search as many times as Cubs fans have said ‘this is the year’…2008 finally could be the year where the prediction, at least for Local, comes true.”
    Well, here we are in October…
  • Google Starts To Classify Content Types In Web Search
    Like other search engines, Google already distinguishes between various types of content. You can search specifically for images, videos, books, blog posts, and so forth. Google has separate search engines for each. But two recent changes suggest that Google is improving its ability to classify different types of content that’s gathered from ordinary web pages.
  • Sneak Peek: Stunning New Google Satellite Imagery
    New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. GeoEye has just released the stunning image below as a preview of what’s to come: GeoEye says this image of Kutztown University, Pennsylvania, is the first image taken by…
  • Best SEO Practices During A Website Redesign
    Performing a complete website redesign is a lot of work and a daunting process. Whether you want to keep your existing rankings and targeted search engine traffic, or you are using your redesign process to get started on a new SEO campaign, there are a number of best practices to keep in mind.
  • The SEO Impact Of Google’s New Speech Recognition In Videos
    Google has rolled out Google Audio Indexing for video just in time for the final stretch of the U.S. presidential election. Using speech recognition technology, Google has indexed all the words spoken within YouTube political channel videos. This allows users to find videos that contain their search term and navigate directly to the part of….
  • Yahoo Launches Web Analytics
    Yahoo has announced that they’ll begin to roll out Yahoo Web Analytics (beta) on a limited basis beginning this week. According to Jitendra Kavathekar, Yahoo’s Web Analytics VP, the service has already been made available to select Yahoo advertisers and third-party application developers. The next “big deployment,” Kavathekar says, will be for Yahoo’s 13,000 e-commerce customers….
  • Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results
    Google has confirmed for Search Engine Land that they’ll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.

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