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

comScore: Google Gets High Again In US Search Share As with recent search stats from Hitwise and Nielsen, comScore’s latest stats for April 2008 search engine share in the United States shows Google hitting a […]

As with recent search stats from
Hitwise and
Nielsen, comScore’s
latest stats
for April 2008 search engine share in the United States shows Google hitting a
new high, breaking through the 60% mark for the first time with comScore’s
measurements.
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Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: A Conversation about the Future of SEO; Educational Standards For Learning SEO?; Link Building for Dumb Asses; and more. Read Original Post Here

Earlier this week, Google added Google News to Earth. This follows the earlier addition of the NY Times to Earth. Other companies plotting news on a map include MetaCarta, Everyblock, Outside.in, YourStreet and a couple of others.
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The Web is getting more social, and the internet allows conversations between consumers and those who sell goods and services online on a scale that can be global in reach. The nature of that conversation has changed from the days of mass media to now, and success in business on the Web may rely […]

The NY Times covers the issue of whether Google’s potential paid search deal with Yahoo can survive anti-trust scrutiny. The bottom line involves analysis of how the deal might impact the marketplace and whether it would reduce competition and lead to higher prices for search marketers.
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Microsoft this week has done a number of things in the mobile space, in addition to its introduction of the Live Search Cashback program on the desktop (which presumably will extend to mobile search/shopping). Windows Live launched a new homepage for mobile and the company introduced graphical ads and paid search for mobile.
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by Stoney deGeyter
Today, at 10AM PST I’ll be conducting a webinar for SEMpdx. The webinar is titled Secrets to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website, and it’s still not too late to register by clicking that link.
Last week I answered some questions that were submitted by registrants and I wanted to hit a few more […]

Nick Wilsdon summarizes a continued saga that is taking place over at our Sphinn on the topic of a recent linkbait tactic deployed by Lyndon Antcliff. In short, the linkbait story was named 13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers, but the story wasn’t true. Several news agencies picked up […]

In a May 1st post to this column, my colleague Tom Wilde questioned whether direct response or brand marketing would lead the inflow of dollars to the online video advertising market. While both forms of advertising are potentially applicable to what is expected to be a $4B (eMarketer) to $7B (Jupiter) market by […]