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

Google StreetView Coverage Grows: Australia, Japan, More US CitiesThe Google LatLong Blog announced the expansion of imagery for Google StreetView to include Japan and Australia. The post […]

by Scott Buresh
We often deal with clients that are planning to “revamp” their sites with Flash, with SEO having already generated tremendous gains in their sales. The thing that we most dread to hear is that they’ve hired an experienced “Flash designer” that will be taking their websites to the “next level.” Unfortunately, that “next […]

The Google LatLong Blog announced the expansion of imagery for Google StreetView to include Japan and Australia. The post also said that images have been released for 30 new US cities, including New Orleans.
Europe is on the way but privacy hurdles need to be cleared. Google recently introduced StreetView images for the Tour de […]

As much as I’ve enjoyed comedians poking fun at
John McCain’s ad
that uses Paris
Hilton to mock Barack Obama, even better
is a new fake ad where
Paris Hilton
herself takes on […]

SmartMoney reports that Google has sold off the search marketing division of DoubleClick, Performics, to a French company named Publicis Groupe.
When Google purchased DoubleClick, they acquired Performics with it. Google promised to sell off the Performics division, due to the conflict of interest in owning such a company. Today, they sold it to […]

Sweat glistened down his chiseled, tan face. Clad in his trademark gold jersey and black sunglasses, the icon finally put the finish line where it belongs… behind him. Yet despite the obvious missing hardware—his bike—and his dismal 488th place finish, the seven-time winner of the Tour de France considered the race a success. He […]

I must have done something in a past life that now requires me, as punishment, to write about the obscure politics of Yahoo’s corporate governance on an almost daily basis. Accordingly, a recount of board votes from last Friday’s Yahoo annual shareholder meeting found that the “no” votes against most of the current board membership, […]

Music 2.0 has shared detailed screen captures and commentary on the launch of Google China Music Search. I personally cannot get to this site, but Music 2.0 does have screen captures and calls this Google service “more impressive” then many of the international counterparts.
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For some time I’ve tried to argue that product search is part of “local search,” because 90 percent or more of all products searched for online are purchased in physical stores. This is a neglected part of the local search story, which has heretofore largely been about “plumbers and pizza.” But the internet is fundamentally […]

Rob Crigler is Director, Interactive Marketing for Orkin (NYSE: ROL) overseeing online media, DRTV, web dev, Internet yellow pages, SEO and SEM. Rob has over 20 years marketing experience, and he has been working in the interactive space for so long that he can actually remember days of the Internet long before the […]