SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 6, 2007

By Fox News

April 6, 2007

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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: Master
Of Closing The Loop?
I gave SEO Book’s Aaron Wall a big mention for his piece on trust earlier this
week, but he’s got another post out now that deserves as much attention:
Google as the Invisible Hand of the Online Economy. In it, he covers things
such as how by being everywhere, Google…
Google Exec On
Board Of Company That Might Pollute Google Results
Bottom Slurping for Google Juice from Kate Kaye ClickZ is a fairly
jaw-dropping story of Associated Content, a site cofounded by Google vice
president of advertising sales Tim Armstrong, that might very well be
generating the type of AdSense-powered crud that pollutes Google and other
search engines as I…
AFP & Google
Settle Over Google News Copyright Case
The most significant copyright case against Google News, that filed by Agence
France-Presse back in March 2005, has now ended. Google has signed a licensing
agreement with AFP that settles the suit. News from the AFP here. The
statement from both companies has the usual spin that this is about…
A "New Deal"
For Online News & Search Engines?
Investment pundits have been scratching their heads this week over billionaire
investor Sam Zell’s $8.2-billion purchase of Tribune Corp., publisher of the
Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, and owner of other old-media
properties. Newspapers have been bleeding cash and losing both money and
eyeballs to online news, job and…
Shareholders To
Vote On Google Censorship In China
Google Faces Pressure Over Censorship from WebProNews reports that Google’s
shareholders will have the right to vote at the upcoming annual meeting on the
issue of censorship in China and other "abusive regimes." Marketwatch and
BetaNews both also have earlier coverage….
Google China
Releases Labs Product Very Similar To Sohu.com’s Sogou
Google evades question about software similarities from InfoWorld reports that
Google is under scrutiny on their release of a Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME).
The IME is a Google China labs product that enables "users to enter Chinese
characters by typing their Pinyin equivalents on a standard QWERTY keyboard."
The…
No Win Against
Google For Party That Opted-Out Of Click Fraud Settlement
Google AdWords Contract Upheld (Again)–Feldman v. Google from Eric Goldman
reports that Google has won a case against the one of the 556 plaintiffs that
opted out of the Google click fraud settlement." Here are some key points I
want to pull out from this:…
Teaching Google
To See Images
"Image search" is really something of a misnomer, because current generation
search engines rely primarily on text to "understand" all types of content,
including images. When you search for images on Google, Flickr or most other
search engines, they aren’t examining the pixels that make up images. Instead,
search engines…
Google AdWords
Goes Yellow & Changes On Click Event
The Google AdWords Blog just announced that they have made two changes on how
the top sponsored listings in the Google search results are handled. (1) A
color change from a blue background to a yellow background was pushed through
today after much testing. (2) Now you have to click…
Del.icio.us
Improves Firefox Bookmarks Extension
The del.icio.us blog announced an upgrade to their Firefox extension that
enables the easy bookmarking of pages. The changes include: Searching and
browsing your bookmarks can be done directly in your Firefox browser You can
edit your bookmarks within Firefox You can define which tags to display in the
Firefox…
Search In
Pictures: New Column From Search Engine Land
Last week, Barry Schwartz tried a new idea of showing what was happening in
the world of search based on pictures he found on the web. You liked it enough
that we’ve decided to make it a formal column called Search In Pictures, which
will run on Fridays here…
Search In
Pictures: Food, Sharks, Monkeys & God
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the
web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play,
who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more….