SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 22, 2006

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:

Danny, I and the rest of the Search Engine Land crew would like to wish you all a Happy Holidays!

From Search Engine Land:

• Some Of Digg’s Ban Domain List
  The 10e20 blog complies a list of the sites they know are banned from Digg.com. There has been a recent wave of Digg bans, and reportedly, once your banned, you cannot get back in. Here is a current list of banned sites as per 10e20’s post.
• A Google Holiday Update Or Data Refresh
  Google Data Refresh – Rankings Fluctuations Before Christmas by Ben Pfeiffer at the Search Engine Roundtable notes a very possible Google update is taking place. He references a WebmasterWorld thread that is currently three pages deep. Most in the thread believe
• Google Says They Won’t Ask For Help In China To Compete
  In Google sticks to solo plans from the Shanghai Daily, Google said it won’t work with a local partner in China to gain marketshare. Google’s vice president of China operations, Lee Kai-fu said that they “have confidence in our current approach” in China

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere:

• 2006
  Holiday Season Search Logos, Search Engine Roundtable
• Shammi
  Kapoor: The original Yahoo man, BBC NEWS
• SideStep
  Inc. Partners With Orange in the UK, Yahoo! Finance
• NYTimes.com
  Taps Yahoo’s Gaylord as Marketing VP, MarketingVOX

• Podcast:
  Respect For SEO; Germany & France Split On Quaero; Wishing For
  Multimedia Matt Cutts & More, Daily SearchCast
• Microsoft
  adCenter Showing 40% Higher Conversion Data, Search Engine Roundtable
• Microsoft
  fights Gmail in the workplace, APC Magazine
• Ask
  has the mojo to double its search market share, Between the Lines
• Google
  considering expansion near S.C.’s coast, Mercury News
• The
  Ins and Outs of Google Webmaster Central, SEO News Blog
• Gains
  and gripes with Google, News.com
• Better
  understanding of your site, Google Webmaster Central
• Microsoft
  seeks patent covering Web feed readers, News.com
• Stepping
  into the Did It/Web Guerrilla/Searchengineland Fray, Out Of My Gord
• Can’t
  we all get along?, Frog Blog
• Happy
  Holidays from the Inside AdWords crew, AdWords Blog
• Google
  exec heaps praise on local office, The Seattle Times
• Publishers
  Noticing Yahoo!’s New Compliance Manager At Work, Search Engine
  Roundtable
• Twenty
  Days on Yahoo’s Panama, ClickZ
• Google
  May Add Referrer Data To Web Crawl Error Reports, Search Engine
  Roundtable