SEM News: SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 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:

Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN
Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and bridging the offline-online gap in analytics. SMN webcasts run about 40-50 minutes and start at 1 PM Eastern Time. Here’s more…
Search In Pictures: Cinco De Mayo At Yahoo, Google Lego Monster & Yahoo’s Soccer Team
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more….
Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari
Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and…
Google Executives Defend Potential Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft Releases “Proxy Directors” And Looks Beyond Search And “The Last Click”
Yesterday before Google’s annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could be…
Search Engine News, An In-Depth Look At Google’s Tools & The Google SERP Tester
In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today’s in-depth look, “Google’s Tools Section, Part 1 - Intro” and this week’s free…
SMX Advanced Selling Out — Book Soon!
Today’s the last day to get the "early bird" rate on a ticket to our SMX Advanced show this June 3 & 4. Perhaps more important for those thinking of going, 85 percent of our available tickets have now gone. We’ve got less than 100 left. You typically see a…
Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature
Some users like Mathew Ingram noticed that Google has now added images from Picasa and Panoramio into the bar beside their maps….
Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports & Launching Mid-June
As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword’s landing page. Here is a picture of what…