Pandia Weekend Wrap-up Oct 12 2008
Search! Search! Search! What the Web had to say about search this week…
- How to Search Images Online - Most Advanced Methods
Search Engine Journal presenting image search engines (Oct 8 2008)
- Yahoo Upgrades Calendar, Integrates With Other Yahoo Properties
Yahoo announced details of the new Yahoo! Calendar beta, which uses technology from their 2007 purchase of Zimbra. (SE Land)
- The SEO Impact Of Google’s New Speech Recognition In Videos
YouTube political channels are just the beginning. (SE Land Oct 9 2008)
- How Google Might Differentiate Between Trust and Authority
Search Engine Journal sums up a Webmaster World discussion (Oct 9 2008)
- Sneak Peek: Stunning New Google Satellite Imagery
New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. (SE Land Oct 9 2008)
- Google Premieres Text Ads in Maps; Audio Comment Preview in YouTube
Google Maps are now sporting text ads below the map results. (Marketing Pilgrim Oct 9 2008)
- U Rank - Microsoft’s Social Search Experimental Site
Out now from Microsoft Research is U Rank, an experiment that allows people to move results around, as well as share them with friends and add comments to listings. (SE Land Oct 9 2008)
- Sphinn Japan Launches: Internet & Search Marketing News, In Japanese
Search Engine Land Oct 9 2008.
- Link Information From Google’s Point Of View
On the importance of link architecture (PageTraffic Oct 10 2008)
- Yahoo Investor Seeks New Microsoft Takeover Bid
Mithras Capital, a small Yahoo institutional shareholder, is suggesting that Microsoft take another look at Yahoo and buy the company for $22 per share. (SE Land Oct 10 2008)
- Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results
RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email. (SE Land Oct 8 2008)
- Yahoo Web Analytics to be Launched
As part of the acquisition of IndexTools, Yahoo will be launching Yahoo! Web Analytics. (SE Roundtable Oct 10 2008)
- Facebook “friends” Live Search
Now Facebook users in the U.S. have the option to “Search Facebook” or “Search the Web” using Live (Live Search Blog Oct 7 2008)
- Blogs Help Search, Search Helps Blogs
One of the biggest benefits of building a blog for your company is the increased traffic that comes from new content and new search listings in the search results. (SE Guide Oct 10 2008)
- Google Showing Content Attributes on Search Results
Google is now showing additional attributes from the content on the page. (SE Roundtable Oct 10 2008)
- Hitwise: Microsoft’s Pay for Traffic Working
MSN Cashback successfully attracting visitors. (Beyond Search Oct 6 2008)
- Discovery of the Month! Amazing SearchCube!
searchcube is a graphical search engine that presents search results in a compact, visual format. (AltSearchEngines)
- Settlement In Google Lawsuit Appears Near
Nearly three years after publishers filed a lawsuit against Google over its controversial program to scan books from library shelves, a settlement could be near. (book2book via Beyond Search Oct 9 2008)
- Yahoo BOSS: Not with Much Authority
Yahoo is going to have to find a way to create a more homogeneous approach to search. (BeyondSearch Oct 11 2008)
- AOL Sends Journals Users to Google’s Blogger
AOL recently announced that it would be shutting down its blogging platform as well as its Hometown service on October 31 (Wired Oct 9 2008)
- Activate Gmail Goggles to Prevent Sending Embarrassing Emails
Google introduces a sobriety test in email service (Google Tutor Oct 9 2008)
- Google Readies iPhone Ad Options
Google has presented a new option to show different ads in response to searches made from iPhones. (AdWeek Oct 9 2008)
- Concerns Rise As Yahoo’s Shares Fall
Yahoo Inc. shares fell to a five-year low of $13.20 on Wednesday before rebounding to close down 5.6% at $13.76 (Media Info Center Oct 9 2008)
- Turkish search engine Attabot in beta testing
Attabot creates a digital profile for users and connects people who make the same query. (AltSearchEngines Oct 10 2008)
- Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm
Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship. (Network World Oct 10 2008)
- Fast-Growing Yandex Postpones IPO
The leading Russian search engine Yandex has reached 50 million searches per day. Yandex have still decided to postpone its multi-million dollar IPO on Nasdaq because of the world’s financial crisis (Quintura blogg Oct 11 2008)
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