Daily SearchCast: August 28, 2008

The day's news in search. Tune-in by listening to this MP3 file, listening via WebmasterRadio at 2:00pm Pacific Monday through Thursday (see instructions here), through iTunes via this link or in other ways listed here. You can also listen on our Digg podcasts channel.

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Stories Discussed In The Show

  • Search & Internet Explorer 8
    After finally getting the new Internet Explorer 8 beta installed (demands to upgrade Windows, verify Windows, sigh), I spent some time playing with the new search functionality and checking to see if Microsoft was going to try to stack the deck in its favor with the new browser. So...
  • Google & Mozilla Extend Default Firefox Search Provider Deal
    TechCrunch reports Google has extended a deal to be the default search engine in Firefox for an additional three years, to 2011. The news comes the day after Microsoft released a beta of IE8. The deal is somewhat ironic in that Google has lobbied to to prevent Microsoft from making...
  • Veoh Decision Good News For Google, Potentially Bad News For Viacom In YouTube Litigation
    Online video destination Voeh Networks was sued in 2006 for copyright infringement by IO Group (an adult video producer). The facts in the case and claims are generally similar to those of Viacom vs. YouTube. Yesterday a federal District Court judge in California issued a ruling that, barring an appeal...
  • Google Testing Two Videos On One Web Search Result
    Ever since the launch of Google Universal Search, Google has been showing videos in the web search results. But sometimes, there are more than one video shown in the web search results and, in many cases, those multiple videos will take up the space of 2 or more of the...
  • Bill Tancer On 20/20 This Friday, Talking Search Behavior
    Many search marketers know of "data geek" Bill Tancer, who has long entertained folks at search marketing conferences with tales and observations of what you can tell about people through search trends. Bill's got a great new book coming out, Click, which shares those insights with a broader audience....

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