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 Ranks
Second In Merriam-Webster’s Word Of 2006 List
Gary Price reports Google, the verb, was the second most popular word in
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year survey that just came out. Merriam-Webster
published the top ten words over here. The top word is "truthiness" by Stephen
Colbert…. - Google Blog
Search Passes Technorati In Visits
Hitwise reports that Google Blog Search has passed Technorati in visits this
week. Hitwise explains that when Google added a link from Google News to
Google Blog Search in October, the traffic for Google Blog Search spiked by
168%. Hitwise reports that currently about 60% of Google Blog Search traffic
comes from Google News referrals…. - Patent Filing
for Google Mobile Search Provides Indexing Clues
Mobile search has its own rules, and if you want your pages indexed for people
searching with handhelds, it may help to take a look at some of the patent
applications that have come out lately from Microsoft and Google on the topic.
Microsoft provided some details about what they are looking for in a patent
filing from September, Mobile friendly internet searches. They note there that
they will only index some pages for their mobile search. And Google…… - How Google
Sitelinks May Work, From Patent Application
Back in September, Vanessa Fox at the Official Google Blog shared with us a
little information about sitelinks, the groups of links to internal pages that
sometimes appear under the top result on a search results page. She also
pointed to a page on Google’s Webmaster Help Center that provides some more
details. A patent filing with a pretty generic name, Systems and methods for
providing search results came out last week on these extra internal links. It
held a couple of surprises…… - Yahoo To Open
New Research Center In Bangalore
The Business Standard reports that Yahoo is to open a new research center in
Bangalore, India. The research center is to focus on hiring "mentors and
partners" for the existing research and development center in Bangalore, that
currently employees 700 individuals. The head of Yahoo Research, Prabhakar
Raghavan, said; "We have initiated the process of setting up our lab in
Bangalore and have started hiring scientists for this unit. There is no
time-frame when this centre will start its operations as it depends on the
caliber of people we hire and when the centre will be acquire a critical
mass… - New Mobile
Flight Status Tracker By FlightStats
Gary Price reports that FlightStats has added a mobile flight tracking site at
http://mobile.flightstats.com/. So for all you holiday season travelers,
bookmark this address on your mobile device (I did), to check flight status,
departures and arrivals, flight arrivals, airline & airport information,
security wait times and more…. - Question &
Answer Search Engines Ranked
Via Slashdot, What’s the Best Q&A Site? from MIT Technology Review tests
several question and answer search engine services. They reviewed and ranked
AnswerBag, Askville, Live QnA, Wondir, Yahoo Answers and Yedda. So how did
they rank? Out of a total 12 points, Yahoo Answers scored 11 points, coming
out tops…. - Top 101 Search
Stories Of 2006
Chris Winfield over at 10e20 has compiled a list of the top 101 stories in the
search industry for the past year. He orders the stories in descending
priority order, and most of the stories link to external sources. Here are the
top five: (5) Google & Yahoo & Microsoft supporting the Sitemaps.org protocol
(4) The Big Daddy Google Infrastructure change (3) Social search and media
optimization and how it can be leveraged for SEOs (2) Danny Sullivan leaving
Search Engine Watch for this fine blog (1) Google Buys YouTube for $1.65
Billion… - Search Bloggers
On Their Most Popular Posts & Stats For 2006
Search bloggers around the globe are celebrating the holiday season by giving
the gift of competitive intelligence. From sharing their most popular posts to
giving up all of their precious web statistics – a community of search
bloggers are sharing more than they ever have….
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere:
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Google
Chief Executive Sells Shares, AP -
You Are So Wrong About Google, The Motley Fool -
Top
10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, November 2006, ClickZ -
Yahoo! Christmas Update? I Doubt It, Search Engine Roundtable -
How Does Google Crawl Pages & Index Them?, Search Engine Roundtable
Yahoo to launch ‘Big Thinker Series’ in India from January, New Kerala-
Microsoft’s adCenter Promotional Codes Not So Promotional?, Search Engine
Roundtable - Webaroo
Secures $7.5 Million Second Round Funding, PaidContent.org -
62 posts on how to squeeze the juice from digg, Cornwall SEO - Stupid
Things We Say – Part 2, Greg Boser -
How to become a top 100 Digg user, Pronet Advertising -
Consumers Submit To Yahoo Local, WebProNews - Megite’s
Alternative Way to Rank Popular Videos, TechCrunch - More on
Yahoo-AOL Combination Possibility: Financial Models, Savings Etc,
PaidContent.org - Possibility Of
A Yahoo-AOL Merger in 2007; Google-AOL Change of Control Clause,
PaidContent.org - Jobless in
Seattle?, GigaOM -
Make Google Services Opera-Friendly, Google Operating System -
Google not pointing to “best in their class