Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:
From Search Engine Land:
- Rand Fishkin’s
Belated SuperBowl Proposal Gets A Yes
Have you been wondering who the mystery guy was behind plans to pop the
question to his girlfriend during a SuperBowl commercial last Sunday? Now you
know — search marketer Rand Fishkin. Rand’s plans for the SuperBowl
announcement didn’t happen, so it was backup plan time — a commercial
during… - Google To Roll
Out Fee-Based Google Apps?
Google Steps Into Microsoft’s Office from BusinessWeek covers how Google
appears ready to begin charging corporations for use of Google Apps, which is
free at this time. I suspect the "subscription fee amounting to a few dollars
per person per month" described in the article is to allow Google to… - Gmail Now
Public Beta, Open To All
Google Operating System reports that Google has opened up Gmail for anyone to
sign up for a Gmail account. Some history of how getting into Gmail has
evolved, below:… - Searching For
"The Next Google"
"Company X could be the next Google" is a platitude often bandied about by
financial journalists or investment analysts touting typically obscure
companies that could, potentially, score success on a Google-like scale. Most
companies never come close to achieving Google’s financial or commercial
success, of course. But say you were… - SideStep Raises
$15 Million
SideStep today announced that it raised $15 million in it’s Series C round,
led by Norwest Venture Partners. Other VCs involved include Trident Capital,
Leader Ventures and Saints Capital. To date, SideStep has raised aproximately
$32 million. Competitor Kayak has raised $30 million…. - Live Search
SOAP API Out Of Beta
The Live Search Blog announced that the Live Search SOAP API is now out of
beta. In addition, they added some new features including more languages,
increased search results, enhanced search tags, more local options, improved
phone results and more coding samples…. - Yahoo Adds
Featured Search Builder Sites Box
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have added a box to the home page in
order to promote user generated search sites. Yahoo will feature selected
sites that use the Yahoo Search Builder tool. If you want to ask Yahoo to
feature your site, you can use this form… - Google Sends
Mr. Schmidt To Washington
Google Still Searching For Recognition in D.C. from the Washington Post covers
how Google sent CEO Eric Schmidt to Washington yesterday. Schmidt had meetings
with several important politicians and decision makers, but the article says
Google’s still working to gain respect. The attention Google gets in the
technology world and… - Kudos To
National Pork Board For Apologies & Fundraising Efforts
One more on the entire National Pork Board going up against search marketer
and breastfeeding activist Jennifer Laycock. Jennifer has now received two
letters of apology, plus the National Pork Board is backing a fundraising
campaign for the Mother’s Milk Bank Of Ohio. Good move, National Pork Board!
In addition,… - Name The Search
Engine Land Gossip Column!
Next week, Search Engine Land’s gossip column launches. OK, so it’s less
gossip of the Valleywag style and more about "movers and shakers" and rumors
stuff. Who is moving where? Who has already gone? What’s about to be launched
that everyone’s trying to keep quiet? We wanted to have a… - Google Maps
Australia Turns 30 Second Walk Into 18 Minutes Drive
Send for the search party, Google gives a bum steer from the Sydney Morning
Herald reports how the just launched service Google Australia Maps was dinged
after someone discovered it turned a 30 second walk into a 18 minute car
journey….
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere:
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Senator to propose
surveillance of illegal images, News.com -
Personalized Search Brouhaha, Out Of My Gord -
When Google Changes, SEO Takes It Personally, ClickZ - Podcast: Daily
SearchCast, Feb. 6, 2007: Google’s New Link Reporting Tool; Google Penalties
Roundup, Headlines To Hook Linkbait & More!, Daily SearchCast -
Google Base Bulk Upload
fails with Zero (0) Errors, e-Business Resource Blog -
MeeVee now gives you guide for "every" video, VentureBeat -
Google and cable firms warn of risks from Web TV,Reuters.co.uk -
Hello World, Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog -
Add Book Search results to your site, Inside Google Book Search -
Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines, OEDb -
Yahoo! opens office in Manchester, England’s Northwest -
Google Webmaster Tools –
Query and Link Stats File Converter, Search Engine Journal - January
Top Search Terms: Death, Taxes and a Really Nice House, Compete Blog - Yahoo touts
virtual Pontiac car club, News.com -
Google Earth may blur sensitive sites, VNUnet -
Google Earth Censors Sensitive Indian Sites, Google Watch - Google
Maps Smoke Signals, Google Blogoscoped - MySpace’s Deal
With Google Hits a Bump, With eBay In The Middle: WSJ, PaidContent.org -
MySpace’s Pact With Google Hits a Snag, Wall Street Journal -
The Science of Search Engine Rankings, ClickZ -
Top
10 Search Providers, December 2006, ClickZ -
Online Forecast to Hit 20 Percent of Total ’07 Ad Spending, ClickZ -
Why Socially Driven Sites Hate SEOs, Pronet Advertising -
What 15 Days on Digg Can Do For You, Pronet Advertising -
Rush Hour: Our new podcast, Pronet Advertising
Increasing your StumbleUpon Audience, Link Building Blog-
Yahoo and Microsoft Indexing Blogs Poorly, WebProNews -
AllTheCode
Launches New Code Search, TechCrunch -
All The Code – New Search Engine for Programmers, Search Engine Watch Blog -
Blinkx Co-Founder, Suranga Chandratillake, Chats with Technology Review,
ResourceShelf -
Sex Lives of
SEOs – The Inside Scoop, Threadwatch -
Google Adwords
Arrow Trick To Increase Click Through Rates, Shoemoney -
Bruce Clay Adopts Collarity, Bruce Clay Blog -
More trouble ahead for Google’s SF Wi-Fi plan?, Google Watch -
25 things to see at the Googleplex before you die, Valleywag -
Some
Googleplex Photos, Google Blogoscoped - Googler
Opens "Pay What You Want" Cafe, Google Blogoscope -
The Last Word on Link Buying, Marketing Pilgrim -
Google may identify search engine spammers using historical data, Pandia -
Google
Europe Domains, Google Blogoscoped -
Google’s Home Page Has 67 Validation Errors, Search Engine Roundtable -
When Is Search Engine Optimization Not Required?, Search Engine Roundtable -
Google: Glamour…Puss?, Forbes.com -
The best kept secrets in SEO, SEO Theory -
Google Patent on
Extended Search Indexes, SEO By The Sea -
Google Talk URLs, juberjabber -
Jill Whalen Interview – SEO Seminar Minneapolis, Online Marketing Blog -
Welcoming Princeton University to the Library Project, Official Google
Blog -
How to Share Your Favorite Search Results, Google Operating System -
Centralized Search, Google Operating System - Cnet Bastards,
WebGuerrilla -
Duplicate Content Problems Only For The Weak, Marketing Pilgrim -
LinkMoses On The New Google Link Analysis Tools, Eric Ward - WTF? It’s a new
feature!, Technorati - Technorati
Seriously WTF Dudes, Shoemoney -
Technorati WTF annotates keyword search results, Niall Kennedy -
Search Engine Strategies London Attracts Record Number, SES Blog -
LondonSEO.org
Party Confirmed For 15th, Threadwatch - SES
/ Incisive seeking Danny Sullivan 2.0, SEOassassin - Search In The
City Of Dallas, Media Post