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

Video As A
Search Marketing Tool For SMBs
Video is becoming an important part of local search […]

Video is becoming an important part of local search marketing campaigns, and this week’s SMX Local Mobile conference features speaking talking about how small and medium businesses can use video to be more effective with their online marketing. Video solutions providers to these panels are Jared Simon, VP of Business Development of TurnHere, and Anupam […]

Sigh. Reading Stephen Ballmer’s latest "rally the troops" memo over
yet another
Microsoft
reorganization, I just want to scream at the man and the company in
general that they’ll never win at search if they don’t get it through their
[…]

by Ross Dunn
At Yahoo Anecdotal today Yahoo announced
that they had recently opened the Yahoo Accessibility Lab; a place
where only Yahoo employees (for now) can experience the world of
the Internet as a disabled web surfer would.
The blog posting also states:
“In addition to simulating the disabled experience, the Accessibility
Lab also provides a growing collection of […]

For
search engine marketers and clients to communicate effectively, they must
utilize a shared, common vocabulary. Some search engine marketing terms and
concepts are easy to explain, such as query terms, commonly referred to as
keywords or keyword phrases.
And […]

We’ve been
assured that just because content sits on Google’s Knol site, it won’t
gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day
after Knol has launched, how’s that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages
[…]

When Microsoft made its investment in Facebook I always had thought that Live Search would come to the site, together with search monetization. Later it appeared that search wasn’t part of the deal. Facebook’s competitors all have web search, including Google’s much publicized deal with MySpace.
Well today Microsoft announced that Live Search will be […]

I live blogged the Yahoo keynote so forgive the grammatical errors and typos.
Frazier Miller: Rise of the Local Web, A Perfect Storm.
Miller gave an engaging keynote that covered both online and mobile, user demand and advertising. Miller defined local in terms of four Yahoo properties: Search, Yahoo Local, Yahoo yellow pages, Upcoming.
Interestingly […]

Blogspot.com cited as the No. 1 host for malware from News.com reports Google’s Blogger accounts “for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts.” Sophos, an antivirus vendor, published a report showing the state of malware injections and attacks throughout the web.
Specifically, hackers can set up “malicious blogs” on the Blogger service, plus they can […]

Kevin Johnson, who was arguably the primary architect of the now apparently failed Yahoo acquisition, is leaving Microsoft to run Juniper Networks. Simultaneously the company is reorganizing the division that Johnson ran (”Platform Services”) into two: Windows and Windows Live + Online Services. Here’s the official Microsoft announcement from yesterday.
The company announced no immediate […]