I was chatting with Danny about the Yahoo Olympics Shortcut on the Daily SearchCast and Danny noticed a search for beach volleyball olympics on Google returns a Google OneBox result.
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Search Launches Olympics ShortcutsThe Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have launched their 2008 Summer Olympics Yahoo Search Shortcuts. Yahoo Search Shortcuts allow you to search […]
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have launched their 2008 Summer Olympics Yahoo Search Shortcuts. Yahoo Search Shortcuts allow you to search for specific phrases and Yahoo will return an enhanced search listing with premium information.
For example, a search for Olympics medal count returns the current standings, by medals, of the 2008 Olympics. […]
At last Friday’s annual Yahoo shareholder meeting, the Yahoo slate of directors was re-elected, with CEO Jerry Yang and Chariman Roy Bostock receiving 15 percent and 20 percent “no” votes. AllThingsD points out these numbers are actually better than last year, in the absence of the MicroHoo controversy and proxy contest. Yahoo Director Robert A. […]
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Bruce Clay, Inc. will be presenting its SEOToolSet Training from October 9-10 as an expansion of Search Marketing Expo - SMX East.
“SMX is one of the strongest opportunities for networking and education available in the search marketing industry,” said Bruce Clay, president and founder of Bruce Clay, Inc. “That our SEO training has been […]
Yahoo has partnered with LucidMedia to bring contextual display ad targeting capabilities to the company’s RightMedia ad exchange. Advertisers will be able to contextually target display ads according to 63 vertical ad categories that RightMedia has established for the program. They include things like automotive, careers & jobs, clothing & apparel, finance, sports & recreation […]
TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Yahoo both lost two important employees. Google lost Richard Kimber, Google’s Managing Director of Sales and Operations for South East Asia, to Friendster. Yahoo lost Adam Hyder, Yahoo’s Senior Director of Engineering for its Advertising Management Platform, to Jobvite.
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The Google Earth Blog reports that Googler Michael Weiss-Malik has proposed to his girlfriend, Leslie, via Google Maps. They documented everything on their new web site, MarryMeLeslie.com, but here is a picture of the proposal using an embeddable Google Map:
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Google Sued For Infringing Patent With AdSense from InformationWeek reports Google has been sued for the fourth time this year over patent infringement, this time by Daniel D. Wexler, who has a patent named Third-party on-line accounting system and method therefor.
The patent was filed on October 11, 1996 and ultimately issued on September 28, 1999. […]