SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 9, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Blogger
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 26, 2009
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 23, 2009
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 26, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google (Finally) Addresses FeedBurner Problems
After weeks of reports that FeedBurner wasn’t working, Google finally talked about the situation today on the AdSense for Feeds blog. The problem surrounds the transfer of FeedBurner accounts to a new platform (and a new URL). Many FeedBurner users saw their feeds go dead when switching to the new platform; some received 502 or […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 15, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchBiz: The Economy Takes Its Toll On Google & Why Twitter Rejected Facebook’s Acquisition Overtures
The buzz today comes from the Wall Street Journal article, which you’ve probably already seen, called “Google Gears Down for Tougher Times.” In a related post, Silicon Alley Insider summarizes the piece with more than a hint of schadenfreude. The thrust of the WSJ story is that Google is trying to cut costs and reduce […]
Google Android G1 Reviews Flood Market: Mixed, But Mostly Positive
If the G1 vs. iPhone comparison were a presidential debate, the iPhone would have won — but not decisively. That’s according to a flurry of reviews out today in advance of official delivery of the first Android phone on October 22. As with the iPhone, there are many likes as well as dislikes among the […]
The Google Hive Mind
As Google turns 10 years old, that important birthday sees the company more powerful than ever before. With its competitors in disarray, the Big G seems likely to grow even further. The secret to its success? For me, it’s what I’ve been calling the “Google Hive Mind. ” Rather than follow a rigid top-down master […]
Now Blogging: Google Cofounder Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin becomes the first of Google’s three major executives to begin blogging. Spotted via TechCrunch, his blog at too.blogspot.com covers today his personal experience of being at risk for Parkinson’s Disease. In his first post, he explains the name of his blog:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 1, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google’s Blogger Makes Up 2% Of All Malware Hosts
Blogspot.com cited as the No. 1 host for malware from News.com reports Google’s Blogger accounts “for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts.” Sophos, an antivirus vendor, published a report showing the state of malware injections and attacks throughout the web. Specifically, hackers can set up “malicious blogs” on the Blogger service, plus they can […]
Google’s Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation
After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. While Google says Knol is not designed to compete with Wikipedia — and there are good arguments to back this up — I still think the easiest way to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 21, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Yahoo Announces SearchMonkey Developer Challenge Winners
Yahoo has announced the winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. The judges, including our very own Danny Sullivan, reviewed “hundreds of submissions” and selected five winners. The winners include: StumbleUpon for building the SU Infobar that shows you “website reviews and ratings” before you click on the search results in Yahoo. This tool received the […]
Using Google Mobile App On My iPhone
Today I got my iPhone and I decided to do a quick pictorial on using Google’s Mobile App for the iPhone. Here is my walkthrough:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 30, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Blocks Anti-Obama Blogs Flagged Incorrectly As Spam
My day started reading about how Google was reportedly censoring anti-Barack Obama blogs by shutting them down on Google-owned Blogger. I quickly did some debunking in a comment on our Sphinn site — but still, Google probably needs to do more to ensure its Blogger spam reporting tools aren’t being abused — especially given how […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 27, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 1, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 30, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 25, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
Google Japan Adds Tabs In New Design
Google Blogoscoped reports Google Japan has a new design being pushed out to their users. The new design can be seen at this IP location and contains tab links to other Google properties. Here is a screen capture of the new design:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 15, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 13, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 28, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 18, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
What Would A Google Antitrust Breakup Look Like?
How might Google be broken up into various companies? The story below explores the idea, in the guise of a chapter from a fictional book about how a Google break-up might have come about and the results from it. It explores the idea of a Search Engine Reform Act that breaks-up the company, as well […]
Jason Shellen, Former Google Reader Product Manager, Joins LiveJournal
Former Blogger Googler Shellen joins LiveJournal from News.com reports Jason Shellen, the former Google Reader product manager, is joining LiveJournal as the vice president of product development. Shellen announced his departure from Google in July of this year. He said he left because he has the “entrepreneurial/start-up bug,” where he needs to be with a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Knol – Google’s Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages
Move over Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo, and Squidoo. Maybe. That’s because Google’s testing its own service to let people build a repository of knowledge. In fact, knowledge forms the core of the service’s name: Google Knol. Screenshot of Google Knol page (feel free to use this and those below, just link to this story, please) […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Israel Forced To Hand Over Blogger’s IP Address To Court
Philipp Lenssen reports via Ben Ari’s blog that an Israeli court has compelled Google to hand over the IP address of a Blogger account. The conditions of this require that the blogger, who allegedly committed slander, not reply to an anonymous email to reply to the motion. Since this blogger did not reply to the […]