SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2007

By Fox News

March 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:

Dissecting
Microsoft Slams At Google As Copyright Infringer
Last October, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer gave us a taste of how Microsoft was
going to position Google as a copyright leech. Today, Microsoft launched a
full-out assault on the company. Google deserves some of this, no doubt. But
the idea as Microsoft as some altruistic copyright savior deserves some
critical…
Google’s
Schmidt At Tech Conference Talks On Mergers, Ads, Apple & Arrogance
Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, spoke at the Morgan Stanley technology conference
in San Francisco yesterday. Blogging Stocks has live coverage from Eric
Schmidt’s speech and question and answer session. The four main points taken
from his presentation were: Google Says Using Cash for Merger Spree Unlikely
at PC Magazine explains…
More Google
Phone Rumors
Simeon Simeonov has an excellent write up on the recent Google Phone rumors
that have been buzzing around the blogosphere over the past day or so. In
short, the recent Google acquisitions and partnerships, coupled with the
Google & Orange talks and Google & Samsung partnership, with some insider
information…
Report: Google
Gaining, But Baidu Still Dominates In China
Reporting from the Fourth Annual Piper China Growth Conference, analyst Safa
Rashtchy says that China-based search engine Baudi continues to dominate in
market share for both organic and paid listings, but apparently Google’s
increased investments in China are paying off. Baidu also believes the
opportunity in Japan will be significant…
Google & Yahoo
Execs Stay On $1 Salary
There is this theme in the technology world where high-profile executives get
an annual salary of $1. Apple’s Steve Jobs has been earning one dollar for
years. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
earn $1 each, as well. Even, Yahoo’s CEO Terry Semel makes a…
Pandia Offers
Custom Search For Search Information
Pandia is offering a free custom search called the Search Engine Detective, a
meta search engine which lets you do specialized searches for anything search
engine related. Search Engine Detective give you two options: “All the best
sites about search engines” searches a wide variety of sites and blogs on…
Buttons,
Buttons, Everywhere – Site Owner, Beware!
Placing social media buttons all over blogs and web sites has been a hot
trend. Webmasters feel that adding these small buttons to their website will
increase their social traffic. In some cases this is true, but in most it is
not….
Meta Robots Tag
101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages & More
Last week, I covered a new command for the meta robots tag — one to prevent
search engines from using Yahoo titles and descriptions. In doing that, a
number of questions came up about the meta robots tag syntax itself. Google
Webmaster Central has now posted "Using the robots meta…