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

From Search Engine Land:

• Yahoo-Google Deal: Shrewd Move Or Screw Up?
  When the highly anticipated Yahoo-Google paid search deal was announced on Thursday the fallout and speculation began immediately: would it help Yahoo or was it an act of capitulation to Google? Coming as it did with the formal end of talks with Microsoft, was it a betrayal of Yahoo shareholders?…
• Google Local Business Center Undergoes Redesign
  The Google Local Business Center is undergoing a redesign from within, as Mike Blumenthal reports. The main differences that I see are on the add and edit listing screens. The add listing screen seems to have consolidated much of the information retrieval process onto less screens. You can see a…
• Yahoo’s Google & Microsoft Deals, Side-By-Side
  I was off most of Friday when the Google-Yahoo deal was announced — and then details of Microsoft’s last proposal to Yahoo also came out. Today was catch-up, and I wanted to put the deals next to each other in chart form. Google-Yahoo doesn’t seem as bad as some…

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Firefox 3: Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support, lifehacker.com
• Google preps net neut dowser, The Register
• Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector, HotHardware

Business Issues

• Analysts don’t rule out a Microsoft-Yahoo deal just yet, news.cnet.com
• Icahn says Yahoo-Google ad deal has merit, biz.yahoo.com
• Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?, TechCrunch
• Yahoo: ‘Everything But The Kitchen Sink’ Approach Not Paying Dividends, Read/Write Web

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Double Chicago Building Error in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
• Better Terrain Representation in Google Maps, Google Operating System
• Google Maps Local Business Center Upgrade: Bulk Upload MIA, Mike Blumenthal
• Unused "white space" spectrum and wireless microphones, Google Public Policy Blog

Link Building

• The Importance of Internal Linking, and How to Do it Right, Search Engine Guide
• 5 FireFox Extentions To Explore Backlinks, Search Engine Journal
• Matt Cutts and Eric Enge Discuss Link Building, Stone Temple
• The Quizzical Duality of Paid Links, SEOmoz

Paid Search & Contextual

• Getting started with adCenter: creating campaigns - adCenter Advertiser, adcentercommunity.com
• Bounce Rate: Your Single, Most Important Metric Re: PPC , adcentercommunity.com
• By 2009 Will PPC = AdWords? As Keywords , SEO Book
• Is Google Hiding Cost Data From Placement Performance Reports?, SEM Geek
• Plotting the Effects of your PPC Changes, Site Visibility
• Speaking the language of small businesses, Inside AdSense

Searching

• Technorati Confirms New Financing; New Business Focus Coming, TechCrunch
• Kigose - the Citation Search Engine, altsearchengines.com
• Google Toolbar Available for Firefox 3, Google Blogoscoped
• Indeed Job Search Launching Job Analytics for Employers, Search Engine Journal
• Shopping.com adds related products, ComparisonEngines.com

SEM Industry

• Apologies For Having Been An Asshole, Danny Sullivan
• SEO, ASA and the spectre of legislation, SEOptimise
• Why Google’s Matt Cutts Reminds Me of My Older Brother, Adam, Barry Schwartz

SEO & SEM

• The 3 Trust Factors of Web Sites and Their Design, seoaware.com
• Don’t Know What You’ve Got Til Its Gone: SEOs and Rank Checking Software, Search Marketing Sage
• Google Sitemap Meta Data, beu blog
• Google Sitemaps: Are They Really Important for SEO?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Webmaster Tools To Fix Verification "Bug" with Google Sites, Search Engine Roundtable
• How a Search Engine Might Use a Searcher’s Knowledge, Interests, and Education to Rerank and Validate Search Results, SEO By The Sea
• Keyword Best Practices: Part II of the Seven Habits of Highly Successful Search Engine Marketing, Search Marketing Standard
• MVC Site Architecture: Handle With Care (Thoughts From SMX Advanced), SEMpdx Blog
• Paid Content - A Dying Business Model?, Andy Beard
• SEO is Less About One/Two Word Keywords & More About Longer Tail Keywords, Search Engine Roundtable

Social Media

• Congratulations, Twitterrific, Twitter Blog
• Twellow People Search for Twitter by iEntry, Reality SEO
• Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic, ViperChill

Video, Music & Image Search

• If it can’t find a solution, Google should kill YouTube, News.com
• Microsoft to Use YuMe to Place Ads in Videos, Wall Street Journal

Other Items

• Jeff Dean on Google infrastructure, Geeking with Greg
• Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 15, 2008 :: Father’s Day, Search Engine Roundtable
• Father’s Day ‘08 Logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile , Search Engine Roundtable
• Charlie Rose Interviews Vint Cerf at Opening Session, Infotoday Blog
• Making Room for our New Addition, Yahoo Search Blog

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