Microsoft opens a beta test of its webmaster support tools. Google Maps lets anyone edit placemarks. Microsoft decides 10-20-30-40 is the magic number (that's 30 percent share of search, among other goals). A robots.txt survey find Google is blocked by fewest. A US law may make federal agencies be required to do SEO. And more in today's episode!
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Recap
SMX London is has ended. Search Engine Land's Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan hosted the event. Missed the fun? Don't you worry. We have lots of live coverage. Here's a rundown on coverage I've found:... - Microsoft
Launches Live Search Webmaster Tools Beta While Developing Version Two
The long expected webmaster support area from Microsoft has arrived. Microsoft Live Search has launched Live Search Webmaster Center and a new "Webmaster Tools" beta as part of the support services. I had posted detailed screen captures of the tools several days before the public beta was announced. Now that... - Live Search
Webmaster Center Blog Now Open For Business
Microsoft announced the launch of the new Live Search Webmaster Center Blog. The Live Search Webmaster Team promises to use the blog to communicate: New tools and features available to webmasters Search engine optimization tips A method of open communication with SEOs and Webmasters... - Go Daddy
Customers Now Get Bonus Google Webmaster Tools
A new partnership between Go Daddy web hosting and Google Webmaster Tools gives Go Daddy customers easy access to the features available within Google Webmaster Tools. According to the release, Go Daddy customers can opt-in to the integration for their hosted sites directly from their control centers. This jump starts... - Welcome, New
Search Engine Land Editors!
The Search Engine Land editorial staff is growing. We've had two editors join in the past few months that I've been behind in writing about, and now Vanessa Fox is coming on as our features editor, so this is a good time to bring everything up to date!... - Google Maps
Goes Wikimapia, Lets The People Move The Map Points
Registered Google users are now permitted to adjust address and location information for businesses on Google Maps (move the place marker) and soon will have the ability to more broadly edit local business information. Changes will initially go through a human editorial process to ensure the accuracy and propriety of... - Microsoft
Seeks 30 Percent Of Search Market And Much Bigger Chunk Of Online Ad Revenues
Reuters reports on a speech given at an investor conference by Microsoft's Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division. In the speech Johnson reportedly said that Microsoft wants to capture 30 percent of the consumer search market as well as a much larger slice of the online ad... - Godfather Of
AdSense Leaves Google For Own Projects
Gokul Rajaram, apparently known internally at Google as one of the "godfathers of AdSense," is leaving the company to pursue his own entrepreneurial projects and writing.... - Google To
Defend Against "Selling Top Spot" In June 2008
Australian court sets June date for Google case from Reuters updates us on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) suit against Google. The Australian watchdog sued Google over deceptive search ads back in July of this year. They then went to court to have their case adjourned to October... - Google Gears
Up For Spectrum Auction And More (Perhaps)
We've written here several times about Google's probable bid on 700mhz wireless spectrum licenses that will be auctioned by the FCC in January, 2008. This morning the Wall Street Journal has a kind of free-ranging article that explores a variety of possibilities and scenarios that could come out of Google... - Google: We
Were Misquoted On Spectrum Auction Participation
We were contacted by Google's DC-based spokespeople after we repeated the Forbes pseudo quotation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying that the company would "definitely" participate in next January's 700 MHZ wireless spectrum auction: "Schmidt now says Google will definitely participate in the auction." Forbes itself updated and corrected the... - Robots.txt
Study Shows Webmasters Favor Google; BotSeer Robots.txt Search Engine
Released
The Pennsylvania State University conducted a study that showed webmasters favored Google over other search engines in terms of allowing access to their web sites. An associated BotSeer search engine that allows searching across a collection of robots.txt files was also released.... - HD Video
Coming To YouTube & More Changes At YouTube
High-quality YouTube videos coming soon from News.com reports Steve Chen, YouTube's co-founder, said YouTube will be offering high-quality streams of YouTube videos within three months. YouTube will detect the Internet connection of the user and offer the HD quality option if the speed is fast enough. In other YouTube news,... - Report: Google
Planning New Video Venture
The UK's Guardian reports that Google is planning some sort of new TV/online video venture with Simon Fuller, the creator of the UK's Pop Idol, the precursor of the US's American Idol show.... - Wall Street
Journal Hearts Digg
Yesterday, Digg founder Kevin Rose made one of the shortest blog posts in Digg's history, announcing that the Wall Street Journal has added Digg buttons to its site which in turn give Diggers free access to paid content there. What's this new deal mean? Let's take a look.... - Inbox 2.0:
Vision And Perhaps Confusion At Google And Yahoo
A much discussed blog posting this morning comes from Saul Hansell at the New York Times, who spoke to both Google and Yahoo about their plans to turn their email products into social networks, in a manner of speaking: "Inbox 2.0." The plans discussed in the post suggest some clever... - Flickr's Two
Billionth Picture
See the image above? You are looking at the two-billionth picture uploaded to Flickr. It was taken at Market City in Chinatown Haymarket in Sydney. Holy moly! from the Flickr blog confirms that this picture, is indeed, the two-billionth image uploaded to Flickr. It is a picture of a... - Will SEO
Become The Law For Federal Agencies?
The Google Public Policy Blog wrote about a new bill that will require federal agencies to make their sites and information search engine accessible. The bill, E-Government Reauthorization Act of 2007, is being reviewed by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. The guidelines of the bill state:... - Google Transit
Comes To Europe
The Google LatLong blog announced that Google Transit now supports certain areas in Europe. Google Transit is a tool to help you find public transportation options for your trip or commute. Google Transit supports travel southeast of the UK, SBB, Switzerland, VBZ, Zurich, Switzerland, Turin, Italy, and Florence, Italy. Yes,... - European
Commission Holds Up Google's Acquisition Of DoubleClick
EU to probe Google/DoubleClick plan from Reuters reports the European Commission has decided to conduct a four-month review of the Google/DoubleClick deal. European Union said "the Commission's initial market investigation indicated that the proposed merger would raise competition concerns in the markets for intermediation and ad serving in online advertising."... - Yahoo Settles
Lawsuit With Chinese Dissidents
Yahoo Settles With Chinese Dissidents from the Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo has settled the lawsuit brought to them over the two Chinese dissidents who were jailed illegally due to Yahoo handing over evidence to the Chinese government. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but we do know... - Andy Baio To
Leave Yahoo/Upcoming
Andy Baio has posted on his blog that he is leaving Yahoo and Upcoming, the social events site he started in roughly 2003. The co-founder of Upcoming says many friendly and favorable things about Yahoo and says that he's taking some time off and next year will be "focusing exclusively... - An Inside Look
At Our Daily SearchCap
Search Engine Land's Secrets : Mining SearchCap by Andrew Girdwood shows an almost unbelievable statistical breakdown of patterns in our Daily SearchCaps.... - SMX Travel @
PhoCusWright Live Coverage Recap
The two day SMX Travel @ PhoCusWright show in Orlando is now complete. Chris Sherman hosted the travel focused agenda and we were lucky enough to have Marty at the aimClearBlog provide full coverage of the event. Below are links to his coverage.... - SMX West 2008
Agenda Up: 3 Days, More Than 50 Sessions!
Check out the just-posted agenda for Search Marketing Expo - SMX West and see why SMX West is the "must-attend" search marketing event of 2008. SMX West will be held February 26-28, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. SMX West has sessions designed just for you, whether you're just... - Search in
Pictures: Barack Obama, Google Schwag, & Life Size Google Toolbar
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....
