Topic: Wiley

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 13, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s June-July Updates: Site Clustering, Sitelinks Changes & Focus On Page Quality It’s back. And it’s bigger than ever. I’m talking about Google’s monthly announcement of search quality/algorithm changes — an […]

Zagat Take Two: Google To Acquire Frommer’s Travel Guides

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is selling the Frommer’s brand, publications and content to Google. Terms were not disclosed. Frommer’s is the publisher of the venerable travel guide, website and related content. Frommer’s was founded by Arthur Frommer in the 1950s and became popular because of its budget travel guides. According to the press […]

Google Settles Book Search Copyright Lawsuit For $125 Million, Paves Way For Novel Services

Google has settled the class action litigation entitled The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., which alleged that Google Book Search, including the company’s practice of scanning books to distribute them online, violated the copyrights of publishers and authors. Subject to final court approval, the settlement calls for Google to pay $125 million […]

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Welcome New Search Engine Land Editors!

The Search Engine Land team is growing. We’ve gained two new editors this month, Matt McGee and Elisabeth Osmeloski, plus Melissa Cormier came on as our editorial assistant in August. Below, an update on the entire team, and what we each do.

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Welcome, New Search Engine Land Editors!

The Search Engine Land editorial staff is growing. We’ve had two editors join in the past few months that I’ve been behind in writing about, and now Vanessa Fox is coming on as our features editor, so this is a good time to bring everything up to date!

Microsoft Adds In-Copyright Books & New Features To Live Search Books

Today Microsoft announced that they have added in-copyright books to Live Search Books. Microsoft said they have only included books that their publishing partners have given permission to include. In addition, Live Search Books upgraded their design to enable two pane browsing of books. On the left pane are book details with “search inside the […]