Search Headlines & Links: March 5, 2008

Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:

From the SEW Blog:

  • Yahoo Launches Fire Eagle: Location Sharing
    Fire Eagle shares your location information with services and applications that you choose. This location information is obtained from the web or your mobile device.
  • Microsoft Research Unveils Three New Search Projects
    Two projects, SearchTogether and CoSearch, are aimed at collaborative search while SearchBar assists the individual searcher.
  • YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook: Most Popular Social Media Sites in UK
    Nielsen’s data, released today, proves that reports of social media’s demise in the UK may be unfounded.
  • Yahoo Fires Back
    Yahoo is taking its time setting a date for its annual meeting, since if there’s no annual meeting, there can be no vote by shareholders, bolstered by Microsoft, to replace Yahoo’s existing board with a more Microsoft-friendly one.
  • Yahoo Desperately Seeking Suitor: Time Warner
    With a Microsoft proxy battle expected soon, Time Warner’s emerging as a white knight for the Sunnyvale search engine. Or as a delaying tactic to put off the Yahoo annual shareholder meeting.
  • Google: The Spy Who Loved Me
    Web search algorithms are improved by the “wisdom of the crowds” drawn from the “logs of billions of previous search queries.”
  • SEW Experts: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?
    ComScore’s recent data showing flat paid search growth for Google led many in the media to declare that the paid search sky was falling. But the rush to judgment was wrong, and there are other factors involved.

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