July 18, 2007

From the SEW Blog:

• Hyper-Local Gets a Vote of Confidence
  Dallas based Hyper local news and events site Pegasus News has announced it will be acquired by Fisher Communications.
• Matt Cutts Seeking Search Bugs
  Matt Cutts is asking for anyone that is aware of any search engine bugs to post them in comments on his blog.
• FoodieView Is Recipe Search Engine, Restaurant Review
  If you have some chicken breast in the fridge and want a new way to cook them, then FoodieView.com may be the search engine for you.
• Yahoo Buys Part of Indian Ad Company Tyroo
  The purchase of a major portion of Tyroo, the Indian online ad company, is seen as a further push into the fast growing Indian market.
• Gmail Holding A T-Shirt Design Competition With Sweet Prizes
  Gmail with online "do-it-yourself" t-shirt design/printer Threadless has started a competition to design the Gmail t-shirt.
• Google Readies To Photograph America
  Gizmodo has posted pictures of an armada of cars with mounted photo equipment taken at Google HQ.
• Home Design Vertical Search
  Convera and Nielsen Business announced earlier this month that they are partnering on a new vertical search engine for the Kitchen and Bath industry. The site can be found at KitchenandBathSearch.com.
• Blinkx to Include Content from Pyro.TV
  Over the past few months the video search marketplace has resembled a homesteading land rush, as video search players strike deal after deal with content sources and aggregators.
• Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick
  So who is quietly trying to solve your search and discovery problem? Librarians.
• Yahoo Q2 Post Slight Decline, Yang To "Put Back On Winning Path"
  Despite posting a slight decline from last year's numbers in their Q2 report yesterday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang intends to put the company back on "a winning path."
• SEW Experts: Housebreaking the Search
  Kevin Ryan struggles with search marketing for grown-ups.
• SEW Experts: Analyzing Data to Lower Your CPA
  Eric Enge takes on the challenge of optimizing a PPC campaign, showing you one way to lower your cost-per-acquisition by analyzing the data.

Headlines & News from Elsewhere:

• It’s time for a more serious Facebook, InformationWorld Review
• Local.com: Hearst Apparently Sells Entire 22% Stake, Barron's Online
• Eye On You: Google Streetview Camera Car Fleet Set to Invade America, Gizmodo
• Personalized, Universal and Optimized, ClickZ
• Search Engine Optimization: Do It Yourself or Farm It Out?, Bruce Clay Blog
• Why Small Businesses Need SEO to be Successful, Search Engine Journal
• How to capture one of the largest target audiences ever...Women., Search Engine Guide
• What Semantic Search Isn't, Mike Moran
• The first rule of indexing: make sure you’re letting the site be indexed., Vanessa Fox
• Competing With Google Search, Read/Write Web
• The ABCs of SEM, Searching Beyond the Paid