Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up June 6
More news headlines from the world of search engines!
- The Australian Federal Police tackle Google
An official Australian investigation into the search giant’s Wi-Fi privacy debacle has launched. (apc June 6 2010)
- Google using search engine to muscle into Internet businesses, study finds
Universal Search favors Google’s properties with prominent listings in its results (Inside Google June 2 2010)
- Google Health Is Alive and, Er, Well
Is Google Health, the company’s effort to help patients access their personal health records, dead or in stasis? (Google Watch June 2 2010)
- Clusty becomes Yippy
It’s one of the few search engines that I’ve come across that actively promotes censorship. (P Bradley misses the old Clusty June 1 2010)
- The Ultimate Guide to Torrent Search
Torrent search engines, torrent clients, torrent sites, and more! (About June 4 2010)
- A graphic display of what Google knows
Scott Cleland has pulled together a snappy one-page graphic on Google’s Total Information Awareness Power (Inside Google June 4 2010)
- Yahoo! Predictalot Goes Global, Takes On World Cup 2010
Predictalot , a massive crowdsourcing experiment cooked up in Yahoo! Labs, is going global. (Yodel June 4 2010)
- Google Increased The Title Tag Limit To 70 Characters?
Google is showing the blue clickable link with a maximum character limit of up to 70 characters (SE Roundtable June 1 2010)
- Google ditches Windows on security concerns
The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked (Financial Times May 31 2010)
- Attorney In Google Maps Lawsuit: It Was Dark; She Thought Google Was Leading Her To Sidewalk
Woman blames Google for directing her onto a highway where she was struck by a vehicle. (SE Land June 1 2010)
- Steve Jobs At D8: The Search Engine Edition
Cupertino won’t be going into the search business or building its own search engine (SE Land Jun 2 2010)
- YouTube Still Owns Video Share; Vevo Gaining Viewers
YouTube’s 43% market share remains light years ahead of everyone else in the space (SE Land June 2 2010)
- Bing, Google Offering Dueling “Health Maps”
Both introduce “health maps” that enable data visualization on a mapping interface. (SE Land June 2 2010)
- How To Move Your Company's Google Street View Image
What happens if you have a street view image for your business listing in Google Maps that you are not happy about? (SE Roundtable June 3 2010)
- Google Backs Down, Will Give Street View Data To Privacy Officials
Google will initially give the intercepted data to officials in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy (SE Land June 3 2010)
- 3 Search Types All SEOs Should Know
Common wisdom, supported by various research projects, has identified three primary types of searches: navigational, informational, and transactional. (SE Land June 4 2010)
- A Farewell to Bing cashback
The last day you can earn money searching Bing will be July 30, 2010. (bing community June 4 2010)
- How Google sees branding & your brand can shine in search
When you search for flat panel LCD TVs, you will find a set of links at the top of the page that says, Brands for Flat Panel LCD TVs (Search Cowboys June 4 2010)
- We Could Be Lovers: AOL Courts Google & Microsoft
Coy AOL is trying to get as much as it can for its flat to declining search volume from either current partner Google (SE Land Jun 4 2010)
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