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

New Google CIO:
Morgan Stanley’s Benjamin Fried
News.com reports that Benjamin Fried, a Morgan Stanley managing director, has
been pegged to fill the chief information officer spot that opened up when
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News.com reports
that Benjamin Fried, a Morgan Stanley managing director, has been pegged to fill
the chief information officer spot that opened up when
Douglas Merrill left
earlier this month. Google’s confirmed the move.
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The Seattle PI is suggesting that the fight for control of Yahoo’s board, which Microsoft had previously threatened, may begin in earnest this weekend. Conversations with institutional shareholders have already been taking place. The three week deadline set by Steve Ballmer for Yahoo to come to the table will expire this weekend, hence the Seattle […]

by Stoney deGeyter
Performing a complete website review is rarely easy. I’ve found that you can start a site analysis intending to spend just a few minutes looking over it only to find that it quickly spirals into a multi-hour marathon of research. Complete website reviews can be time consuming and often produce many more hours […]

Google’s being sued for tricking advertisers into advertising on its content network – but the truth may be more damning than the lawsuit claims. Or is there a fatal mistake in the lawsuit filing? Read Original Post Here

Today, Yahoo! is providing a "limited preview" of a tool that enables developers to create SearchMonkey applications. Yahoo! CTO Ari Balogh will be unveiling the tool at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco today, and more details are available in the Yahoo! Search Blog. Yahoo! first announced SearchMonkey in February at SMX West, and followed […]

According to Reuters the US Justice Department is taking a look at the paid search partnership test between Google and Yahoo. According to the article, there are antitrust concerns raised by the test and its implications and the Justice Department has “initiated an investigation” of it.
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Yahoo just announced that it has added a nifty tool to Local (called “search circle”) that allows uses to alter the geographic scope of results by expanding or narrowing a circle on the map. The circle can also be dragged to a particular area easily, allowing for more efficient neighborhood search (screenshots below and […]

Google launched the set geographic target feature in October of last year. Since then, many webmasters began experimenting with it and I have personally not seen too many complaints about it, which is always a good thing. Google’s webmaster central team said they have been receiving some questions on the tool, so they […]

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