SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Google Video
AOL: Tomorrow’s Google Free Friday Alternative
Tomorrow is the first of the Google Free Fridays that Search Engine Land is promoting in July. As our previous This July: Try Google-Free Fridays! post explains, the point is to encourage people to open their eyes to some of the other major search engines, whether it to be to discover something great and new […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 15, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Some Q&A On Recent Google Video & YouTube Changes
When Google launched Google Universal Search, we saw changes in how Google dealt with video in regular result and in Google Video. Yesterday brought more changes. Danny and I had several follow-up questions related to these. Google representative Gabriel Stricker spent the time with me answer some of them. The answers below are not quotes, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Video Morphs Further Into New Video Meta Search Role
Last month in Video Hits Google Universal Search & Google Video Now Live With Meta Search?, we covered how Google Video was morphing into its new role as a meta search engine. Now reports of new video sources have emerged.
Google’s New AdSense For Video Pilot
Today Google introduced a “closed beta” that allows for the in-stream insertion of ads in video content on its AdSense network. Here’s the Inside AdSense explanation: “[W]e’re extending AdSense to online video content. Publishers in this test will be able to define at what point in their videos that streaming video ads will appear.”
Video Hits Google Universal Search & Google Video Now Live With Meta Search?
Since the announcement of Google Universal Search, I have been waiting eagerly to see videos show up within Google’s search results. Last night, it finally started. For me, it was for a search on star wars kid (here’s more about him). You can see the embedded video showing up in the middle of search results […]
Google Launches “Universal Search” & Blended Results
Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a “Universal Search” system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages. The new system officially rolls out today for anyone using Google.com and searching in English. Not everyone will see it […]
Google Searchology Day: Recap Of Announcements
It’s Searchology Day today at Google, where the company is devoting time to look at the past, present and future of search at Google. There will be a number of significant announcements coming out of the event. Want to keep up? Stay tuned to this page. We’ll keep it updated with a summary of major […]
Search In Pictures: A Yahoo Journey; Google Job Offer & Paper AdSense
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.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 4, 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, Feb. 26, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Video Search Challenge Isn’t Speech Recognition, It’s Content Owner Management
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them from the New York Times is a big giant love story to video search firm Blinkx, suggesting that the idea of finding video content will take a leap through new idea of speech recognition. In reality, it’s not a new idea. It’s been in […]
Google Video Plus Box Results
Philipp Lenssen spotted plus box results at Google for Google Video results. He noticed it for a search on nightwish videos, but I do not see it myself. For a screen capture check out Philipp’s Google Blogoscoped. We have covered two other plus box results in the past. Google “Plus Box” Puts Maps In Search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
New Stats On Google’s Products Show Video & Blog Increasing While Froogle & Directory Decreasing
The Compete.com Blog released new data showing us the trends of Google’s various properties. Grouped in the “super performers” are Google Video, Google Blog Search, Google Scholar (up and down) and Google Desktop. In the standard performers included Google Maps, Google Toolbar, Google Book Search, Google Web Search, Google Image Search, and Google News Search. […]
Google Scores Higher On Forbes Tests
Google Boosts Its GPA at Forbes rates each of Google’s products and then gives Google an overall GPA (grade point average). Overall, Google did better than last year, gaining a B- rather than a C+. Here is a look at how each product was graded.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Video Search Now Includes YouTube Results
Google just announced that Google Video Search now includes YouTube video results. For example, a search on michael jordan in Google Video, brings back many results from YouTube already. Here is a screen capture: The remainder of the press release discusses how Google will keep YouTube as an “independent subsidiary” but will continue to build […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 22, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
BBC To Partner With Google On Video Content Deal
BBC in talks on Google link-up at the Guardian Unlimited reports that the BBC and Google Video are in deep discussions to work together. Under this agreement, Google will make some of BBC’s content available through Google Video and possibly, Google’s YouTube – much as how they do it with the NHL and other producers. […]
Looking At Microsoft’s Continued Long Game In Search
Hooked on Google from the San Jose Mercury News revisits a theme from Microsoft that I’ve reported to readers over the years. That’s how Microsoft’s failure to beat Google in search — despite millions in spending — gets the "it’s early days, give us time" defense from Microsoft. The defense is partially true, but it […]