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

Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and bridging […]

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft: Worst Decision Ever?; Optimization by Numbers; Black, White, and Blue All Over; and more. Read Original Post Here

Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts
later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and
bridging the offline-online gap in analytics. SMN webcasts run about 40-50 minutes and start at 1 PM Eastern
Time. Here’s more about each one:
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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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Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and advanced query operators, […]

Yesterday before Google’s annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could be set up in a way […]

by Jackie Baker
This week we’re looking at an e-commerce website for educational toys, Brainwaves Toys. I met the proprietor, Karen, at Small Business Marketing Unleashed
last month. She’s having a blast with the site because she’s passionate
about what she sells, but she’s new to website marketing and looking
for ways to improve.
As always, I asked three […]

by Sage Lewis
Sage addresses the failure of Microsoft’s attempt to buy Yahoo!. The winners and losers of the whole ordeal are brought to light in an article by Andy Beale at Marketing Pilgrim, in which, ironically, Google comes out top winner, despite Yahoo!’s successful acquisition of Fast Search. Google also takes center stage with their […]

In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today’s in-depth look, “Google’s Tools Section, Part 1 - Intro” and this week’s free tips and tools.
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Today’s the last day to get the "early bird" rate on a ticket to our
SMX Advanced show this
June 3 & 4. Perhaps more important for those thinking of going, 85 percent of
our available tickets have now gone. We’ve got less than 100 left. You typically
see a last minute spike in sales when the early bird […]