Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Google Adds Street Views To Step-By-Step Driving Directions The Google LatLong Blog announced that you can now see street views turn-by-turn (when available) when you are seeking out driving directions via Google [...]

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This morning I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that several webmasters began noticing three values being displayed under some AdWords ads that might reveal some details on how Google may rank AdWords ads. The scores include the “Pscore,” “mCPC,” and “thresh.” Danny and I took guesses at what each might mean and the mCPC [...]

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The Google LatLong Blog announced that you can now see street views turn-by-turn (when available) when you are seeking out driving directions via Google Maps. For example, when driving from the Empire State Building to Times Square, you can see that Google has street views available for every turn. A camera icon, next to each [...]

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A variety of interesting research papers on search have come out of WWW2008, the 17th International World Wide Web Conference. Some I’ve blogged already. Below is a rundown on those andsome other papersthat may be of interest. For the attention-challenged, I’ve also included my now patented "Twitter" summary for some of the interesting or more [...]

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Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please The Mozzers, Pssst.  I’ve got a secret. It involves the hokey pop culture phenomenon, The Secret, and the controversial SEM, Dan Hollings. Okay. I lied. It’s not a secret. In fact, the whole nasty mess is public record because the owners of The Secret are suing their [...]

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