Search Headlines & Links: May 12, 2006

Below, a recap of
stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged
separately:

Today From The SEW Blog…

• Search
  Forums Roundup: May 12, 2006
  Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links
  to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Dear Matt
  Cutts, I Want To Know About… Yahoo and Telemundo in Online Deal to Grab More
  Latino Internet Users – Two Emerging SEO Certification Programs – Are Meta
  Tags Still Necessary? – Microsoft Invests in Analytics Firm DeepMetrix, and
  more….
• 
  del.icio.us Adds Inline Editing
  The del.icio.us blog announced that they have added a few more features,
  including inline bookmark editing and prettier URLs. The changes enable users
  “edit and arrange your bookmarks much more quickly” and enhance the ability to
  “get at the conversation around the links.” More details at the del.icio.us
  blog….
• 
  Microsoft Fires Back at Google Over IE7 Complaint
  News.com reports that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, feels Google is asking
  for special treatment with the whole controversy on IE7 defaulting the search
  to MSN Search. Ballmer explains that if you configured IE to use Yahoo search,
  then when you upgrade to IE7, Yahoo will remain as the default. Only when you
  get a new computer, will the default search be MSN Search. Also, if you want
  to change that, the first option in the list is Ask.com, since the search
  engines are sorted alphabetically. More food for thought off Danny’s last
  comment on this….
• 5% Of
  Search Results Lead To “Dangerous Sites”
  Andy Beal reports on a Wall Street Journal article that claims 9% of paid
  search ads lead to “dangerous sites.” Three-percent of organic results lead to
  risky sites, in comparison to the PPC ads. So on average, the article shows
  that “roughly 5% of the search results on average were risky sites.” The
  SiteAdvisor study estimates a searcher will click to an “unsafe site from a
  search engine once every 15 days.” Risky sites are defined as sites that can
  “infect consumers’ personal computers or expose them to nuisances such as spam
  email.” Postscript by Detlev Johnson: You can find…
• Google’s
  CEO & Founders Keep Control Over Google
  News.com reports that Google has kept the criticized dual class stock
  ownership structure. The dual structure gives Class B stockowners 10 votes per
  share, where Class A stock owners have 1 vote per share. Guess who the only
  Class B stockowners are today? You got it, only the CEO Eric Schmidt and
  founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. More details on the politics involved at
  News.com….
• Gmail
  Adds “Gmail Pictures”
  Garett Rogers reports that Gmail has announced the addition of Gmail Pictures.
  Gmail pictures allows you to add a picture of yourself or for your contacts.
  To add your own picture follow this instructions, to add a picture for your
  contacts follow this instructions. You can also define who can and cannot see
  your picture, more on that here….
• Preview
  Of Google Notebook
  Google will be launching Google Notebook next week, but if you want to take a
  sneak peek, you can so. Philipp Lenssen found several screen captures released
  on Flickr already….

Other Things We Read, Didn’t Blog But You Might Want To Read…

• Dan Thies Video on
  Links Again…, SEO Book
• 
  Gas Prices Redux, Hitwise
• Poems
  inspired by Google’s priciest adwords, Boing Boing (see also from 2002,
  Google
  AdWords: Sublime Poetry?)
• 
  Testing Google Reader – part two, Currybetdotnet
• Google
  Tech Talk by Lauren Weinstein (Video), Google Blogoscoped
• A
  Practical Example of Google Subscription Links, Google Blogoscoped
• US Defense Dept.
  Agency to Use Microsoft Virtual Earth, CIO
• Queen Asks For Loo Rolls Via
  Google Maps, Gray Hat Search Engine News
• 
  Visualize, then Optimize, Direct
• 
  Gmail Gets Sounds, Official Gmail Blog
• 
  Gmail chats in more languages: Google Blog
• Where: Geo
  Developer Day at Google, O’Reilly Radar
• EBay Will Host Media
  Marketplace Ad Test, paidContent
• 
  PrimeTime ABC Show, Boston Legal, Talks SEO Strategy, Search Engine
  Roundtable
• 
  Gore could buy election with Google money, Valleywag
• 
  Google, Nokia Plan Hand-Held Device, Wall Street Journal
• 
  Cricket Subscription Links and Google Coop: A How and Why Guide, The
  Radioactive Yak
• 
  Review: Winning Results with Google AdWords, Matt Cutts
• 
  Search Wars Intensify, ClickZ
• Yahoo CEO laments
  not buying Google: News.com
• BBC at
  Googleplex (Video): Google Blogoscoped