SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 2, 2008

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

From Search Engine Land:

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  Baidu Beats Music Labels In Music Copyright Case Again
  Beijing court sides with Baidu in music piracy case from the AFP reports that Baidu has won a copyright case in a Beijing appeals court against the music labels. The court upheld the decision that Baidu is not guilty of property rights infringement for displaying links to web sites that…
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  Google’s Algorithm Awarding New Pages?
  Google Artificially Promotes Recent Web Pages from Google Operating System reports that Google has been recently showing a bit too much love to new or very recent pages indexed by Google. Ionut Alex Chitu example was that Google’s New Years logo promoted a search for January 1 tcp/ip, which then…
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  A B2B Search Marketer’s New Year’s Resolutions
  Resolutions. We all make them. And some folks actually keep them. But regardless of the outcome, each year we have the opportunity to start fresh. So as you commit to improving your personal lives by eating healthier, spending more time with your family, or finally doing the one thing…
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  Inside Information: Interviews With In-House Search Marketers – Part 2
  In-house search marketers face many unique challenges, ranging from running huge or dispersed sites to finessing internal politics and corporate egos. I thought it would be interesting to get the inside scoop from five in-house search marketers that are both successful at their jobs and who command the respect…
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  Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
  Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more…
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  Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories Of 2007
  Below are Search Engine Land’s 25 most popular stories, in terms of pageviews, during the 2007 calendar year….

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

Business Issues

• Google left behind as Koreans Naver-gate the internet, FT.com
• JPMorgan: ’08 Online Ad CPMs Set To ‘Accelerate,’ Search Will Hit $30.5 Billion, MediaPost
• How Google Quietly Gained Control Of Open Source To Compete With Microsoft, NetworkWorld.com

Link Building

• Pay Per View Content & the Scarcity of Clean Link Sources, SEO Book
• Sites With Downgraded Toolbar PageRank Still Passing Link Juice?, Search Engine Roundtable

Paid Search & Contextual

• A look back at 2007, Inside AdSense
• NJ Senator Already Running Search Ads, ClickZ
• Workaround for the AdSense "top channels" reporting problem, JenSense.com
• Bidvertiser Add RSS Advertising, ProBlogger
• Google AdSense Test Ads, Search Engine Roundtable
• Jonathan Mendez’s Blog: Can Google Make You Notice Ads?, Jonathan Mendez’s Blog
• The Impact of the Dollar Exchange Rates on Google AdSense, Search Engine Roundtable

Searching

• Finding Blogs by Location, ResourceShelf
• Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks, Lifehacker
• Remainders from 2007: Good Stuff I Didn’t Get to Yet, SEO By The Sea
• EarthFrisk: Another Meta-HyBrid Search Engine Rises, Search Engine Journal

SEM Industry

• Got Ninjas?, SEOish
• Interview With Terry Plank SEMPO Institute, Online Marketing Blog
• Google Webmaster Support Over New Years Via JohnMu, Search Engine Roundtable
• Many Big SEO Firms Make Chicken Scratch, SEO Book

SEO & SEM

• SEO is not for everyone – Wait a minute – YES IT IS, Sitemost
• Developing Exciting Copy that Speak Your Visitor’s Language, Search Engine Guide
• Google Ranking #6 Penalty / Filter, SEO Book
• Why Deciphering The Truth From Speculation In SEM/SEO Is Important, SEM Spot

Social Media

• Top 50 Search and Social Media Happenings for 2007, 10e20
• Why Social Marketing is Critical to the Internet Marketing Mix , 10e20
• Now You Can Map Your Twitter Usage, TechCrunch

Video, Music & Image Search

• Top 10 9 YouTube Videos Of 2007, InsideGoogle
• 10 People Made Famous by Youtube, ViperChill
• Japan Prime Minister Debuts on YouTube, The Associated Press
• Nice payday for score to YouTube video, NY Daily News

Other Items

• Search Engines Still Think It’s 2007, Webconnoisseur

End Of The Year

• New Year’s Resolutions for 2008, SEO Book
• The Most Popular Marketing Pilgrim Stories of 2007, Marketing Pilgrim
• This year of Google blogging, Official Google Blog
• Big List of 2008 Prediction , Small Business SEM
• December ’07: Best Search/Marketing Posts, Small Business SEM
• Happy New Year 2008 Logos & Themes from the Search Industry, Search Engine Roundtable
• Predictions 2008, John Battelle’s Searchblog
• SEM Predictions for 2008, Search Marketing Standard
• 2008 Wish List: Search Engine Hangover Cures, Search Engine Watch
• New Year’s Resolutions for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, SEOmoz
• Some Predictions for 2008, Screenwerk

Last 20 Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:

• Why Social Marketing is Critical to the Internet Marketing Mix
• 5 Killer Strategies to Get Your Online Avatar Noticed
• Environmentally Friendly Web Site Marketing
• The Google Ranking #6 Penalty / Filter
• Lazy webmasters cost their employers millions of visitors
• You Trust Google More Than Your Own Family
• Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
• Sphinn, Stumble, Tweet and Drop Your Way Into the New Year!
• Big List of 2008 Prediction & Resolution Posts
• When Is A Link A Paid Link
• FREAK Video: The Secret Sauce of Social Media
• 12 Ideas to Drive Traffic Without Google
• An Open Letter to Google Engineering: PLEASE slow down a Little
• Stumbleupon Vigilantes – Friend or Foe of Stumble?
• 5 Reasons Why I Blog And Will Keep Blogging
• Top 50 Search and Social Media Happenings for 2007
• Some Days I Wish This Blog Were Private So I Could Share More
• Search Engine Identification and Filtering of Malicious Web Sites
• The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review
• Capture and Record Buries for Any Digg Stories
• From Geek to Gods: Why Have Social Media Rock Stars Emerged?
• Desire vs Commitment: in Social Media, a Graph
• 7 SEO Techniques That Google Smashed in 2007
• Baidu.com CFO Killed in Accident
• Matt Cutts corrects IZEA’s Ted Murphy’s mistakes

About The Author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.