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

Utah Backtracks Search Ad Trademark Keyword LawThe Google Public Policy Blog informed us that Utah reversed the law that restricted search engines from triggering ads based on trademarked terms. This reversal now puts Utah in […]

The Google Public Policy Blog informed us that Utah reversed the law that restricted search engines from triggering ads based on trademarked terms.
This reversal now puts Utah in sync with the precedent set forth by the federal trademark law. In short, you can now legally bid on trademarked terms in Utah, assuming you comply […]

Google Integrates TV Ads Into Adwords Platform by Pinny Cohen shows screen captures of AdWords reports with TV ad integration. Pinny said that Google sent out more invitations for AdWords advertisers to test out TV ads within the Google AdWords system.
The features you get with Google TV ads include:
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Google mappers banned from U.S. bases from the LA Times reports the U.S. Pentagon has banned Google street view photographers from accessing military bases. The ban came after street view photographs of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio were found on Google Maps.
The Pentagon told all Defense Department bases to restrict access to all […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is perhaps showing signs of a mildly unhealthy obsession with rival Google. At Microsoft’s MIX08 online technology conference in Las Vegas yesterday he told interviewer Guy Kawasaki in a question and answer session that he was going to continue to chase Google in search even if it costs him his “last […]

Google has confirmed that they will be adding page load time as a quality score metric in the near future. The feature will go live in the “next few weeks” but it won’t impact your quality score right away. A month after the metric goes live, Google will then implement the grade into the […]

At the recent SMX show in Santa Clara I had the opportunity to present at a couple of sessions that explored the topic of user behavior. One of the things I said in one of them is that humans are more alike than we’re different. Because of this, there are some behaviors that a determined […]