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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 15, 2008
Wed Jul 16, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Twitter & Summize Tie The Knot
The rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform has acquired Summize, a search engine that searches Twitter. You can read all the news at Techmeme and also make sure to check out Danny's write up on Summize named Summize Gains "Local"...
Hold On -- Issues Remain Over Google & Viacom's Deal On YouTube Viewing Privacy
Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the "anonymizing" of these records will actually work. Until those are answered, I wouldn't breathe a complete...
Google Enables Political Video Search With Speech Recognition, Showcases 3D Technology
Google is introducing an Elections Search Gadget that allows users to search transcripts of political speeches and videos that appear on YouTube candidate channels. The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of the videos, which can then searched by users of the Gadget to find precise...
Google's Pittman Talks About Visual Search & Facial Recognition Capabilities
Beet.TV interviewed R.J. Pittman, Google's Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, about image search. The video is below, but here is my short summary of the interview. Pittman said Image Search has huge growth opportunity for Google. Google explained that text doesn't always describe the image, so they...
Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature?
The Google Like/Don't Like feature, where you can move up results, hide search results or remove search results, seems to have been expanded to a group of test searchers. We have reports from TechCrunch, Google Operating System and Justin Hileman, with reports of users seeing this feature in the main...
Search Illustrated: PDF Optimization
Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because content isn't HTML-based doesn't mean it can't be optimized. An Adobe Acrobat reader (aka PDF) document gives SEOs one more chance at ranking for targeted keywords. This week's infographic illustrates some simple tips for optimizing PDFs:...
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
- Generic Malware Debunking Post, Matt Cutts
- A common standard for the Robots.txt protocol, Pandia
- A Web Site Has the Top Eleven Spots in Google - Smart SEO or Marketing Trick?, Cre8tive Flow
- Destination Search Engine Marketing, Part II: What Would Sudden Exposure Get You, Search Engine Guide
- Domain Age: How Important Is It for SEO?, Search Engine Journal
- Duplicate Content -- A True Story, Search Engine Watch
- Five Sneaky Ways to Build Website Traffic, ViperChill
- Flash and SEO - Compelling Reasons Why Search Engines , SEOmoz
- Huge Drop in Google Traffic? Can't Find The Problem? Check Your Links, Search Engine Roundtable
- Search-Friendly Flash?, Vanessa Fox
- When Search Engine Optimization Really Matters, BruceClay.com
- Yahoo Site Command Works Without Applying [site:]?, Search Engine Roundtable
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Other Items
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