Found in the search marketing forums: SES NY Party Thread; Reining in the Search Engines; Google Penalty; and more. Read Original Post Here

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

Search In Pictures: American Airlines Google Billboard, Yahoo’s Birthday Party & Chris Gardner @ Yahoo In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at […]

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

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by Sage Lewis

Whether you’re a hard-core newspaper reader or an avid obtainer of news on the Internet, results from a Reuters’ study show that 70% of people are disillusioned with traditional journalism and that 50% of them are turning to Internet news sources. Online news sources such as the New York Times inform us […]

In what may be a sign that Yahoo is starting to accept the very real possibility of being acquired by Microsoft, various sources, including the Wall Street Journal and CNET, are reporting that informal discussions were held between the companies on Monday in Silicon Valley. According to the WSJ’s report, Microsoft representatives pitched their vision […]

Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site.
The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy and rating the search results. To do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google works and this document […]

Google announced that they have taken Google Sky from Google Earth and now made it viewable on the web at sky.google.com.
Many of the Google Sky features found within Google Earth are also available on the browser version. You can:

Search
Browse
Change the video between infrared, microwave, ultraviolet, or x-ray
Telescope galleries from Hubble and others
Up-to-date planet positions […]