Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search
Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged
separately:
From The SEW Blog…
Search
Forums Roundup: Sept. 1, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links
to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: TrueLocal
Launches Canadian Local Search Engine – The Video Void: Where Are All The
AdSense Video Ads? – Here Comes Social Media Optimization? – Google Apps for
Your Domain, and more….
Google
Images Labeler: Google’s Challenge To Flickr?
Google Blogoscoped spotted the Google Image Labeler game, designed to help
Google improve its image search results through tagging. It feels like a
catch-up game with human-powered efforts that Yahoo is embracing via Flickr —
plus it also looks pretty influenced by the work of Luis von Ahn and his ESP
Game….
Search
Engine Roundtable Starts Podcast: The Search Pulse
This is a self-promotional post but I wanted to let you know that I will be
launching a new search podcast named The Search Pulse. The show is run in
conjunction with WebmasterRadio.FM, much like the Daily SearchCast, but only
once per week, on Tuesdays at 5PM (EST). The show will recap the most
discussed and important topics within the search marketing community and have
expert opinion and commentary from Ben Pfeiffer and Chris Boggs. The persona
of the show will be a lot like Bill O’Reilly’s show but only on search. It
should be one hour of deep discussion…
Google
Modifies Navigational Search Results
I reported this morning that Google has changed the way they handle
navigational like searches. For example, if you do a search on a site’s name
(i.e. navigational) you now get a different type of result set then you did a
week or so ago….
Google
Has 15 Days To Provide Data To Brazil Or Be Fined $23,000 Per Day
AFP reports that Brazil has given Google Brazil 15 days to turn over the data
on the Orkut users they have been asking for. If Google Brazil does not
comply, they will be fining them $23,000 per day. Google has said that they
would work with Brazil to shut down Orkut some communities but according to
the court filing in Sao Paulo yesterday, those requirements have been
‘unsatisfactorily met.’…
Yahoo
Tests Enhanced Yahoo Answers Integration In Search Results
Threadwatch discovered Yahoo testing a new way of displaying Yahoo Answer
results within the Yahoo Search results interface. The new interface is larger
and more pronounced, but in the same location (under the main organic results)
as before. Threadwatch posted a screen capture of this here. I have posted a
comparison of the current integration of Yahoo Answers and the test
integration of Yahoo Answers at the Search Engine Roundtable….
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