Search Headlines & Links: May 18, 2006

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

Yesterday From The SEW Blog…

• 
  Daily
  SearchCast, May 18, 2006: Yahoo Analyst Day; Google’s New Ad Budget Options &
  More!
  Podcast for the day.
• New
  Search Patents: May 18, 2006 – Yahoo’s Active Abstracts are Calling
  Some new patents and patent applications from the last week cover a wide range
  of search related topics. On Tuesday, I wrote about some possible enhancements
  to Ask’s Binoculars. Yahoo seems to be looking at providing more information
  on search results pages with smarter snippets, or what they call “active
  abstracts” that can lead to such things as refined queries or maps or can even
  allow you to place a phone call. Microsoft comes up with an intermediary query
  interface which could be used with more than one search engine. IBM and
  Hitachi both present different ways of looking at…
• 
  Specialty Search Roundup #1
  Even though Gary Price left SEW Blog a few months ago and is now working at
  Ask.com, ResourceShelf, the site he compiles and edits with a team of
  librarians is going strong as an independent resource. As I’m sure you
  remember, Gary has a strong interest in specialty search tools. One thing
  (there are many others) that stood out, since Gary’s departure, was that we
  were missing coverage of some specialty search topics. So, here’s a quick
  rundown of some of the databases he’s posted about recently on ResourceShelf….
• KDDI,
  Japan Mobile Phones, Signs Deal With Google To Provide Mobile Search
  Gary Price spots that KDDI, a Japanese mobile operator, has signed a deal with
  Google to provide mobile search for au phones. The service is to begin as
  early as July 2006, and will enable not only mobile searches, but also be
  enhanced to provide search enabled services aimed at PCs….
• Google
  AdWords Adds Budget Options For Ad Delivery
  I reported at SER the other day that Google AdWords has added a new option
  under the campaign settings to allow you to select standard or accelerated
  delivery options. Standard ad delivery spreads your ad impressions throughout
  the day, in order to not use up your whole daily budget right away in the
  morning. The accelerated ad delivery option doesn’t hold back, it just
  continues to display your ads, until your budget is all used up. There are
  more details on this new feature at the AdWords Help site. Want to discuss?
  Join our forum thread named Changes in the…
• Google
  In Talks With China Mobile
  BusinessWeek.com reports that Google and China Mobile are in talks about
  developing an Internet search engine for mobile devices in China. Wang
  Jianzhou, the chairman and chief executive of China Mobile (Hong Kong) told
  Business Week, “I recently met with Google’s CEO for the second time. And we
  both share the same idea: how to turn cell phones into a new kind of Internet
  search engine.” China Mobile is China’s largest mobile carrier and is looking
  for ways to increase revenue per user….
• A Talk
  With Vinton Cerf On Google Book Search
  Leslie Walker from the Washington Post sat down with Vinton Cerf, founding
  father of the Internet and Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, about Google
  Book Search. They basically talked about Google’s goal in digitizing books to
  make them easily findable via search. Read the article at WashingtonPost.com….
• Google
  Faces Criminal Charges For Child Porn & Racial Material
  News.com reports and Bloomberg.com has more detail on Brazil’s Attorney
  General seeking to charge Google Brazil for the distribution of “child
  pornography and racial materials” by Orkut users, Google’s social networking
  software….
• The New
  Online Library of Alexandria
  Most of the information created prior to the advent of the web is still in
  printed form. Fortunately, a number of groups and companies around the world
  are busily scanning books, magazines and other printed content so that it can
  be accessed with search engines. Once this content is online, the
  possibilities for using and mashing up the content with other types of
  information are just about limitless?but current copyright laws may throw a
  huge wrench in the whole works. In today’s SearchDay article, Building the
  Universal Library, I’ve done a “review” of a terrific new essay from Wired
  Magazine’s…

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

• ScanSafe
  tackles unsafe search, News.com
• 
  Interview With Fast CEO: Mobile Search Triple-Play, paidContent
• 
  Search Marketing Spotlight: Search is ‘Element’-al for Honda, MediaPost
• 
  AOL’s Uncut Video; a YouTube copycat, but history suggests it’s a long-shot,
  SiliconBeat
• 
  Larry Page and Sergey Brin on Dilbert, Joseph Morin
• 
  Yahoo sees no financial gain from ad system in ’06, Reuters