Nominate Us For The 2007 Search Blog Awards (Please!)

Loren Baker and Search Engine Journal are once again holding nominations for the annual Search Blog Awards. The categories are below, and we'll happily accept your nomination for any you find relevant. In particular, if you'd especially liked a particular blog post on Search Engine Land, we'd encourage ...

Dec. 17, 2007 at 1:41pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Blog Searches Now Included In Google Web History

Google Operating System reports Google Blog Searches are now included in Google Web History. I personally use Blog Search often to find new links to my blog, as well as locate more details on recent stories I may be covering. Here is an example of a search in blog search that shows the new feature ...

Nov. 2, 2007 at 9:18am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Threadwatch, Search Industry Blog/Forum, Says Goodbye

Aaron Wall, owner of Threadwatch, has announced that the blog/forum will be closing down this Friday. Threadwatch went live in early October 2004, with a focus on finding threads from forums as "less of a blog and more of an alert system," Nick Wilson, the founder of Threadwatch told me then ...
Related Searches: Forum

Jun. 26, 2007 at 9:19am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Deletes Custom Search Blog After Marking It As Spam

Google Custom Search Blog Hacked? from Google Blogoscoped quickly reported what appeared to be a hack of Google's official Custom Search Blog. But what really happened was that Google marked their own blog as a spam blog and ultimately removed the blog from Blogger, allowing someone else to claim the ...

Aug. 9, 2007 at 8:37am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Map & Google Earth Get Official Blog: Google LatLong

Finally, Google Maps and Google Earth get their own official blog: Google LatLong, which has just gone up. Given the amount of activity going on with both services, it's long overdue. Welcome! I've added to my list of reading, along with the excellent unofficial blogs of Google Earth Blog, Google Maps ...
Related Searches: Google Maps | Google Earth | Google

May. 10, 2007 at 8:03am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google Testing Showing Blog Results Instead Of Sitelinks?

... shot of Google testing a different form of Google Sitelinks. Instead of showing Google Sitelinks under a search listing, Google was showing relevant blog posts from her blog. Here are pictures illustrating this: (1) This is a typical Google Sitelink for a search on pink cake cookie boxes: (2) Jesse ...

Aug. 18, 2008 at 8:04am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Adds News Blog & Finance Blog

... adds new blogs, most are for international translation of their other blogs now - but recently Google added two new blogs. The Google News Blog was launched yesterday and the Google Finance Blog was launched Wednesday. Hat tip to Googlified.
Related Searches: Finance

Jun. 22, 2007 at 9:27am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search & Internet Explorer 8

... me to add them, nor did any of the search settings within IE8 seem to point you at them. In the end, it was via the official Internet Explorer blog where I found them. The post about IE8's beta illustrated some of these Visual Search choices and linked to some from the New York Times and Amazon but ...

Aug. 27, 2008 at 10:40pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 27, 2008

... Respond To Google Earth Threat, InformationWeek Upstart JumpTap takes on Google, News.com Paid Search & Contextual adCenter Feedback - adCenter Blog for Advertisers, adcentercommunity.com Google AdSense Stops Displaying on Google Cache Results?, Search Engine Roundtable Google AdWords Marking " ...

Aug. 27, 2008 at 4:20pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Offers New Content Hub For US Presidential Elections Home Stretch

... this US electoral season. Now the company has introduced an additional set of election-related guides and services, explained in this Google Blog post. In other to tie all this content together there's a new central hub: Google 2008 Election. It links to the various electoral guides, video, news, search ...

Aug. 27, 2008 at 12:16pm Eastern by Greg Sterling