SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 3, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Israel
Interviews With Ruth Kedar, The Woman Who Designed The Google Logo
The Israeli woman behind the Google logo from Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, has an interview like story about Ruth Kedar. Ruth was contracted by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to design the Google Logo. Unfortunately, she did not accept payment in shares of Google stock. Besides for the Haaretz interview, Google Blogoscoped has a brief […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Report From The Field: Search In China 2008
We’re wrapping up SMX China in Nanjing this afternoon. By all measures, the show was a success, with about 300 attendees and a dozen exhibitors, with people from China as well as many other Asian countries, India, Israel and even Africa in attendance. Search in China is thriving, seemingly impervious to the economic turbulence that’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 19, 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 18, 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 8, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Posts Official Webmaster Help Group Chat Recordings, Transcript, & Presentations
Google has posted the official blog post summarizing last week’s live chat event. Yes, we did post the unofficial version on Thursday night, but now we have the official version live for viewing. Q&A Transcript available via Google Groups John’s Personalized Search Presentation via Google Presentations Maile’s Case Sensitivity in Web Search via Google Presentations […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 2, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SphinnCon Comes To North Carolina On May 2, 2008
SphinnCon, the smaller, informal SEM networking events, is now coming to North Carolina with SphinnCon North Carolina. The North Carolina event is taking place on May 2, 2008 at Kress Terrace in Greensboro, NC. Max attendance for this event is 150, so register quickly! Oh and the price is only $150, which includes refreshments, lunch, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 7, 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, March 27, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Earth Hour: Google Shuts Out The Lights In Israel
Google Israel turned out the lights and flipped their white background color to black for שעת כדור הארץ (aka Earth Hour). What is ironic is that we reported in the past that Google argued that black uses more energy that white. (Although they participated in Lights Out San Francisco last October as a symbolic turning […]
YouTube Insight: View Your YouTube Video Statistics
The YouTube Blog and Google Blog announced YouTube Insight, YouTube’s new video statistics area. In short, additional statistics are now available to users who upload videos to YouTube. You can get stats on the number of views per day your video received, where those viewers are in the world, and how popular your video is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 12, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Biz: Google’s Project Management Tools, Iowa Seeks Microsoft, & More
Click Forensics gets $10 million in funding. An early Googler donates money to San Jose State. The fight to control IAC carries on. Disney doesn’t want AOL. Yahoo and Microsoft do research labs in Israel. A glimpse into the internal tools Google uses to manage products, and Iowa passes tax breaks in hopes of getting […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 27, 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, February 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google: We Didn’t Censor Aboutrika’s Gaza T-Shirt Photo
Google’s Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search team so they could debunk a rumor that Google censored an image of an Egyptian football player, Mohammad Aboutrika, stripping off his team jersey during the African Cup Of Nations to show a "Sympathize With Gaza" T-shirt underneath. No censoring, says Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 6, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SphinnCon Israel 2008 Recap
Photo from Yos SphinnCon Israel 2008 is now complete, and I wanted to share the coverage I found for the conference. SphinnCon is a networking event series from Search Engine Land’s parent company, Third Door Media. I hosted the first ever event in the series in Jerusalem, Israel.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 28, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Lego Logo: Google Offers Lego 50th Birthday Wishes
Google has a special logo up on the Google home page today. The Google logo is made up of legos, to celebrate Lego’s 50 year birthday. Google’s culture has always had a special place for Lego. Google’s first servers were “modded” up with Legos. The Google founders have admitted to having a special “fondness” towards […]
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.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 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, January 14, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
IncrediMail Gets Crushed Financially By Google AdSense Ban
Google AdSense Has The Power To Lower Your Stock Price from paidContent reports IncrediMail, an email marketer based in Israel, has been banned by AdSense. The ban seemed to have caused their stock price to drop 45% in one day. IncrediMail did not say why they were banned. Was the 45% drop in the stock […]
Introducing SphinnCon; SphinnCon Israel Agenda Posted
The agenda is now up for our first SphinnCon internet marketing event — SphinnCon Israel, to be held on February 5 in Jerusalem. Below, more about the inaugural event and details about the low-cost networking series that is backed by Search Engine Land’s forum site, Sphinn. The idea behind SphinnCon is simple. Many readers know […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 29, 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 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 15, 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 12, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
AOL Buys Q&A Provider Yedda
AOL announced that it has acquired Israeli Q&A provider Yedda for an undisclosed sum. Comparable in many respects to Yahoo Answers, Yedda bills itself as a next generation “semantic” Q&A service. AOL will more broadly integrate the functionality into a number of its sites and properties, as Yahoo has with Answers. The release also suggests […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 7, 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, October 26, 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, October 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Global Search Usage & PPC Statistics
The Multilingual Search Blog posted their Global Search Report 2007 today. It is a compilation of search engine usage and PPC statistics from countries around the world. The report covers 16 counties, including Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic | Slovakia, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia | Ukraine, South Korea, Spain, The Netherlands, and the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
User-Driven News More Diverse Than Mainstream Coverage
In this era of fragmented audiences, with newspaper journalism feeling the pressure of blogs and the Internet more generally, the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) undertook a study comparing mainstream media coverage of news with user-driven news and content sites Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. The authors of the study also compared Yahoo News editors […]