SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: PC World
Marchex Creates AdHere, A National-Local PPC Ad Network
Marchex, which has been investing heavily in the local search market, has now brought together its broad range of assets into a single PPC ad platform and network that it’s calling “AdHere.” AdHere is intended both for brands and national entities trying to reach local consumers online, as well as small businesses seeking exposure in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 2008
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Google Aids Indian Government In Arrest Of Political Defamer
TechCrunch reports that Google has aided in the arrest of an Indian man who wrote in an Orkut community, “I hate Sonia Gandhi.” Sonia Gandhi is a politician in India. Google reportedly handed over IP information to the Indian government, to help the government track down and arrest this individual. The man was charged under […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 10, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 7, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 3, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 12, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 11, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 10, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 4, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 29, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 4, 2008
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PC World Picks Ask3D As One Of “The 25 Most Innovative Products Of The Year”
At number 23, Ask3D was named one of PC World’s “25 Most Innovative Products of the Year.” The site opined that Ask “melds comprehensive search results more coherently than competing universal searches do.” Ask saw the largest gains in consumer satisfaction in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) vs. its search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 28, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 19, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 27, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 19, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 15, 2007
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Google’s Android Arrives: Not Gphone But An Open Source Mobile Phone Platform
After literally years of anticipation, rumor, and increasingly aggressive speculation about a Google Phone, Google has formally announced that the Gphone cometh — sort of. Today, the company has gone public with news of an open source mobile operating system called "Android," named after the company Google acquired in 2005. Backing Android is the Open […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 22, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 10, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 8, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 18, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 31, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 29, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 27, 2007
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Searchers Trust Google’s Rank Above Abstracts In Search Results
University students don’t question Google from PC World reports on a recent study named In Google We Trust: Users’ Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance. The study surveyed 22 Cornell University students on the Google search results. The conclusion of the study showed that these students trusted Google’s ranking of the search results at a […]
Google To Buy Chinese Companies To Compete Better In China
Google Increases Stake in China from PC World reports that Google will be investing heavily in China over the next couple years to try to take market share from Chinese search leader Baidu. Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google China, said, Over the next year, Google will acquire one or two companies in China, and invest […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 9, 2007
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Google Deletes Custom Search Blog After Marking It As Spam
Google Custom Search Blog Hacked? from Google Blogoscoped quickly reported what appeared to be a hack of Google’s official Custom Search Blog. But what really happened was that Google marked their own blog as a spam blog and ultimately removed the blog from Blogger, allowing someone else to claim the URL.
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments
Weird. That’s the only way I can describe it. Google News is asking people who are in news stories to email them comments about the story, which will be associated with those articles. From the Google News Blog post:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 2, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 23, 2007
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Microsoft To Anonymize Log Data; Calls For Industry Standards Along With Ask.com
First Google, then Ask.com and now Microsoft have jumped onto the privacy protection train. Late yesterday, Microsoft announced that it was going to follow Google’s lead and anonymize search log data after 18 months. In addition, it has partnered with Ask to call for an industry effort to develop privacy principles. There’s a tinge of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 25, 2007
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Google’s Human Touch
The Human Touch That May Loosen Google’s Grip from the New York Times questions whether Google’s use of algorithms and computers to compile search results might lead to its demise in the future.