Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Deconstrucing
Google’s Billboard Experiment
Last week’s coverage of Google’s Goog-411 billboard in Olean brought forth a
number of other sightings of the billboards in San Francisco, Oakland and San
Jose, Ca. & Tonawanda , Buffalo and Limestone (even smaller than Olean) NY.
While there may be others yet to appear and more billboards coming… - Sphinn: Our
Internet Marketing News Site & Discussion Forums Leave Beta
It’s official. Sphinn (we pronounce it like "spin"), our social news and
discussion site for internet marketing, is now out of beta. OK — so the logo
still says beta at the moment, but that will change in a matter of hours.
Since we launched back in July, we’ve been… - Searcharazzi:
Bubble About to Burst?
As fall settles in, another chill is in the air. Rumor has it that a top tier
search and interactive services shop is about to have a management shake-up.
M&A in the space appears to have slowed down as shops that should have taken
their first offer decided to… - Google Buys
Mobile-Social Site Zingku
Google Operating System reports (and confirms) that Google has acquired a
mobile service called Zingku, which had been in private beta. Around since
2005, the service uses text messaging and picture messaging to provide a
platform for (what appears to be) entertainment and events-related
communication but also has commercial potential…. - MarketingSherpa
Report: Challenges To Bringing Search In-House
MarketingSherpa has just released the fourth annual edition of its Search
Marketing Benchmark Guide. The Guide is a comprehensive benchmark for all
things related to search marketing, including things such as expected search
spending for 2008, how search ROI stacks up against other tactics, difficulty
in SEM staffing, new ways… - Senate Hearing
On Google-DoubleClick & Post Office Metaphors
After all the buildup to yesterday’s hearing in the US Senate on the Google-DoubleClick
deal, the actual hearing itself sounded to be a bit anti-climatic. Below, a
look at what was said and how it doesn’t seem like it will influence the
ultimate decision by the US Federal Trade Commission… - Coupons Coming
To AskCity
Ask has partnered with IAC sister company EPI, publisher of "The Entertainment
Book," which offers coupons and discounts to local businesses. Entertainment,
which has had several false starts with online distribution, is planning to
pump 75 percent of its coupons into AskCity. They may also eventually make
their way to…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Conferences
- Dallas/Fort
Worth Search Engine Marketing Meetup Scheduled for October 15, Search
Engine Roundtable - SES
Chicago Speaker Updates, Search Engine Strategies -
Facebook Conference Calendar: 3 More Coming Soon, Inside Facebook
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Google Middle Earth,
ClickZ -
Has Google Street View Hit London?, Search Engine Journal -
Where’s the new Live Search Maps?, Windows Live Blog
Searching
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10 Steps AOL Should Take to Reinvent the Open Directory Project (DMOZ),
Search Engine Journal - A Yahoo Approach to Avoid
Crawling Advertisement and Session Tracking Links, SEO By The Sea -
Google Tests Search By Time, Week, Month, Search Engine Journal -
Shopzilla Realizes Its a Search Company, ComparisonEngines.com - Whois Directory, a
Tool for Brand Defenders, May Be Veiled, ClickZ -
Talking with Satya Nadella at Searchification, LiveSide
SEM Industry
- Google Punished My
Site For Selling Links – NOT!, Jim Boykin - Webmasterradio
adds premium SEO podcast membership, Pandia
SEO & SEM
- Content
Creation: About Journey, Not Destination?, Search Engine Watch
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
- A Great
Primer on Using Images to Drive Traffic, Search Engine Guide -
Making Podcasting Easier for the Listener to Access, Enjoy, and Utilize,
ResourceShelf
Other Items
Googopoly [Humor/Pic], SEO Refugee
Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News
Sharing Site:
- Everything I Know About Online
Marketing, on One Page - Stop Abusing Social Media to Boost
Your Own Ego, You Jerk! - Using StumbleUpon All Day Won’t
Bring More Traffic - All I Needed to Know About Social
Media I Learned In Kindergarten - Avoiding Clueless-Is As
Clueless-Does SEO - Linking Abuse Or Linking Awareness
- Marketing Isn’t Bullcrap
- Google Gods. I Need Your help…..
- 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock
Images - Google Doesn’t Penalize your
Rankings if you Sell Links! – by Jim Boykin - Should a Small Business Blog?
- How To Get to The Top of Sphinn on
Your First Try - Sphinn Wishlist
- Master Sphinnbaiter Lyndoman on
Psycho-Social Persuasion - Why You Better Learn the PR Side of
Search Engines - SEO QUIZ – Just the essentials
- Discovery Channel Selling Hidden
links?