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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 14, 2007

November 15th, 2007 by

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

From Search Engine Land:


  • Welcome, New Search Engine Land Editors!
    The Search Engine Land editorial staff is growing. We’ve had two editors join in the past few months that I’ve been behind in writing about, and now Vanessa Fox is coming on as our features editor, so this is a good time to bring everything up to date!…

  • How To Manage In-House SEO When Your Team Is Ignoring You
    It’s one month before your deadline and you realize nothing is done. Specifically, you need to get others to buy into your plans to move things forward…and no one has responded to your e-mails. What to do?…

  • Report: Google Planning New Video Venture
    The UK’s Guardian reports that Google is planning some sort of new TV/online video venture with Simon Fuller, the creator of the UK’s Pop Idol, the precursor of the US’s American Idol show….

  • Google: We Were Misquoted On Spectrum Auction Participation
    We were contacted by Google’s DC-based spokespeople after we repeated the Forbes pseudo quotation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying that the company would “definitely” participate in next January’s 700 MHZ wireless spectrum auction: “Schmidt now says Google will definitely participate in the auction.” Forbes itself updated and corrected the…

  • Inbox 2.0: Vision And Perhaps Confusion At Google And Yahoo
    A much discussed blog posting this morning comes from Saul Hansell at the New York Times who spoke to both Google and Yahoo about their plans to turn their email products into social networks in a manner of speaking: “Inbox 2.0.” The plans discussed in the post suggest some clever…

  • Flickr’s Two Billionth Picture
    See the image above? You are looking at the two-billionth picture uploaded to Flickr. It was taken at Market City in Chinatown Haymarket in Sydney. Holy moly! from the Flickr blog confirms that this picture, is indeed, the two-billionth image uploaded to Flickr. It is a picture of a…

  • Will SEO Become The Law For Federal Agencies
    The Google Public Policy Blog wrote about a new bill that will require federal agencies to make their sites and information search engine accessible. The bill, introduced by Mr. Lieberman as E-Government Reauthorization Act of 2007 is being reviewed by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. The guidelines…

  • Google Transit Comes To Europe
    The Google LatLong blog announced that Google Transit now supports certain areas in Europe. Google Transit is a tool to help you find public transportation options for your trip or commute. Google Transit supports travel South East of the UK, SBB, Switzerland, VBZ, Zurich, Switzerland, Turin, Italy and Florence, Italy….

  • European Commission Holds Up Google’s Acquisition Of DoubleClick
    EU to probe Google/DoubleClick plan from Reuters reports the European Commission has decided to conduct a four-month review of the Google/DoubleClick deal. European Union said “the Commission’s initial market investigation indicated that the proposed merger would raise competition concerns in the markets for intermediation and ad serving in online advertising.”…

  • An Inside Look At Our Daily SearchCap
    Search Engine Land’s Secrets : Mining SearchCap by Andrew Girdwood shows an almost unbelievable statistical breakdown of patterns in our Daily SearchCaps….

  • Are Online Registrations REALLY Sales Leads?
    One of the most common B2B search marketing practices is offering whitepapers, demos, trial software, and other assets in exchange for registration information. Many companies immediately turn these registrations over to the sales team, but this may not be the best approach based on lead quality and a lengthy…

  • SMX Travel @ PhoCusWright Live Coverage Recap
    The two day SMX Travel @ PhoCusWright show in Orlando is now complete. Chris Sherman hosted the travel focused agenda and we were lucky enough to have Marty at the aimClearBlog provide full coverage of the event. Below are links to his coverage….

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