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.
Topic: USA Today
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 24, 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, August 31, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results
Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year. Google News is also promising better duplicate story detection, so that the original […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google’s Wireless Spectrum Proposal To Win In FCC
FCC Draft Auction Rules A Win For Google, Hi-Tech Industry from CNN Money reports that Google’s wireless spectrum proposal gained backing from FCC chairman Kevin Martin. Ultimately, this could see Google buying wireless broadcast rights. The USA Today article, New rules could rock wireless world, explains part of the proposal means that you might be […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Did Wojcicki Create AdSense?
Yesterday we wrote Profile Of Susan Wojcicki: Mother Of AdSense. covering a USA Today article article describing Susan Wojcicki as being responsible for creating Google AdSense. Valleywag soon came out with a bold blog post countering USA Today’s article, calling Wojcicki a liar: AdSense was not a prototype that Wojcicki developed. Instead, AdSense was the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Local Mobile Search Provider 1-800-Free411 Touts Patent Against Rivals
USAToday writes about a recently awarded patent obtained by Jingle Networks, which operates the 1-800-Free411 ad-supported directory assistance service. After conducting several searches at the USPTO and elsewhere I was unable to find a copy of the patent itself. However, according to the article: Jingle’s patent, which it bought from inventor Scott Wolmuth, is for […]
Search Engine Marketing (& Search Engine Land) Not Notable For Wikipedia?
Earlier this year, Wikipedia pondered whether Matt Cutts was notable enough to continue having a Wikipedia entry. Good sense prevailed, and his entry remained. Now debate has shifted to whether the entry about search engine marketing should go. Oh, and apparently Search Engine Land has an entry that might also get deleted, since we might […]
Revealing The Sources Of Google News
American journalists and news reporters never reveal their sources. Google News follows suit, nowhere providing a list of the more than 4,500 English language news sources it claims to track. However, Henk van Ess, an investigative journalist from the Netherlands, offers a service that reveals the names of 1,256 news sources used by Google News […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 22, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google To FCC: Sell Radio Bandwidth Through Real-Time Auctions
Google’s novel idea for FCC radio spectrum auction from USA Today reports Google has put in a proposal to the FCC urging the agency to allow companies to sell radio spectrum through an auction process to others.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 16, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 2007
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Goodbye Yahoo Photos; Yahoo Loves Flickr More
TechCrunch and USA Today have news that Yahoo is to close its popular Yahoo Photos service completely in the coming months, telling people to either switch to Flickr or leave to a number of other competing photo sharing services. From USA Today: Yahoo has said that it kept both services going after the acquisition because […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 26, 2007
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Topix Transforms Into Community Generated Local News Site
This evening Topix is doing something entirely logical and taking a big risk at the same time. The site, which has been a “top 25” news destination, is now effectively flipping its model and going from being a news aggregator with comments and community at the margins to a community generated local news site with […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 30, 2007
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Google Under Fire For Showing Pre-Katrina New Orleans Images; Others Doing The Same?
Google goes back to pre-Katrina maps from USA Today reports that Google Maps has changed their satellite imagery of New Orleans to show pre-Katrina images, getting some local residents angry and wondering if there’s some type of cover-up in the works. However, it’s unclear if these are pre-Katrina images or not — and the situation’s […]
Google Stock Driven Up By “Put Options” Scam, Says SEC
Indian Crime Ring Targeted Google in Online Fraud from Bloomberg reports that civil and criminal charges have been filed against three Indian citizens for allegedly manipulating Google’s stock price to make a profit.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2007
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What’s So Different About Being Small?
Let’s get this out of the way right now: Hands-on SEO and SEM for small businesses is no different than it is for large corporations. Small businesses need to develop great content around targeted keywords and get quality inbound links… just as any other business does. On the PPC front, small businesses need to write […]
Text Messaging: Where The Volume And The Dollars Are Today
In case you hadn’t noticed mobile marketing is generating lots of buzz these days. And with buzz usually comes revenue forecasts. Indeed, various research firms are throwing out numbers for mobile advertising, music and video that make online advertising look like a fly on the butt of an elephant by comparison. There’s a certain logic […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 13, 2007
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Search Engine Land: January 2007 Statistics Review
Time for the second monthly update on how Search Engine Land is growing. As I said with my review of December 2006 traffic, I hope our traffic statistics will be both interesting and also provide helpful tips to other search marketers. This review especially covers social media sites as a driver of traffic. It also […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 15, 2007
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Googlers Give Overwhelmingly To Democrats; Google’s PAC Gave More To Republicans
Google contributes thousands to conservatives from USA Today looks at how while 98 percent of Google employee money went to Democrats in the last election, the company-controlled Google NetPAC gave 61 percent of its contributions to conservative candidates. Then again, donations of $31,000 were tiny and the "company" PAC has donations that come almost entirely […]
Open Letter To Wikipedia Editors: Yes, Matt Cutts Is Notable
Dear Wikipedia Editors: I came back from vacation today to discover that in (some of) your infinite crowd wisdom, apparently the page at Wikipedia about Google’s Matt Cutts might get deleted. Wow. It’s inept things like this that can instantly reduce any respect I have for Wikipedia that builds up over time.