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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 2007

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

From Search Engine Land:

  • Microsoft &
    Yahoo Said To Be Talking Merger, Cooperation

    Both the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that sources
    say Microsoft and Yahoo are talking again about how they might merge or
    cooperate….
  • Goodbye Yahoo
    Photos; Yahoo Loves Flickr More

    TechCrunch and USA Today have news that Yahoo is to close its popular Yahoo
    Photos service completely in the coming months, telling people to either
    switch to Flickr or leave to a number of other competing photo sharing
    services. From USA Today: Yahoo has said that it kept both…
  • YouTube To
    Share Revenues With Popular Users

    YouTube Elevates Most Popular Users to Partners from the YouTube blog covers
    how YouTube is now starting a "user-partner" program on an invite-only basis,
    to allow those producing content on YouTube and growing a large audience to
    share in revenues that YouTube earns. From the post:…
  • Contest: Win
    SEO Training For You; Help A Non-Profit Site

    Looking to learn more about search marketing? Bruce Clay is running a contest
    for newbies to gain training through his company plus a ticket to our upcoming
    SMX Advanced show. There’s a further twist. You need to find a non-profit
    group that can get helped along with you. Review the…
  • Yahoo, Google
    Test New Search Results Pages

    Both Yahoo and Google seem to be testing new search results pages. Karl Ribas
    found that Yahoo is testing a design that has a thin top blue bar above search
    results. The blue really doesn’t remind me of Yahoo—Yahoo to me is about the
    purple and white colors. But the…
  • Thailand Taking
    YouTube To Court Over Insulting Video

    Remember that case where YouTube was hosting a video many Thais felt was
    insulting to their king? Thought it was all resolved? Think again. The Thai
    government plans to go after Google in court. Most stories I’ve seen so far
    talk about Google getting sued, but the AP reports this…
  • Kicking The
    Tires On Shopping Search, Part Two: The Independents

    A few weeks back, we looked at how the major engines, Google, Yahoo and
    Microsoft, handled shopping search. This week we look at four of the dedicated
    shopping search portals: BizRate.com, Shopping.com, Shopzilla.com, NexTag.com,
    and a relative newcomer to the space, Become.com. Each of these properties
    matched up quite…

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Business Issues

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