SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 15, 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:

Search in Pictures: Yahoo Hippies, Protesting Via Google, Vint Cerf With Ask
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….
Google Snubbed By Dow Jones
As Canada’s Globe & Mail reports, Google wasn’t invited to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) when other, arguably less impressive companies were, in the first changes to the composition of the DJIA since 2004….
Four Newspapers Join To Create Another Local Network For National Advertisers
Newspapers have watched as “their” national advertisers have gone elsewhere online to get the reach and local placements that they provided almost exclusively offline. There have been several disappointing attempts in the past to build a national network of newspaper publishers: the failed New Century Network and the existing but…
Yahoo Video Gets An Upgrade
The Yahoo Video Blog announced that Yahoo Video has undergone some improvements. The improvements include:…
Porn Company Wants Google & Yahoo To Protect Kids From Pornography
Porn studio wants Google, Yahoo to protect kids from adult video from the AFP reports Steven Hirsch, the co-founder of Vivid Entertainment, a pornography company, wants Google and Yahoo to do more in protecting children from accessing pornographic content. Steven Hirsch said: None of the search engines and portals, but…
Official: Microsoft Management Reorg Announced; Dueling Ad Groups?
We expected a management shuffle from Microsoft today, and now they’ve delivered it. The company has announced seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice president. I’ll focus on the search and advertising front, where we now have two different senior vice presidents overseeing advertising. Best I can…
AdWords + Video: Video Ads Come To Google Search Results
We’ve been expecting them — now they’ve arrived, video ads on Google. Google Tests Video Ads on Search Results Pages from the New York Times has confirmation from Google that they are out there, though I haven’t seen anyone reporting them live and in the wild yet. It really shouldn’t…