» SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:

From Search Eng
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» StumbleUpon Releases StumbleThru For Domains
StumbleUpon, a search service that displays recommended sites for users based on interest profiles, has released StumbleThru, a service that searches
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» Are Social Powered Search Engines The Future Of Search?
How about if the engines used social bookmark sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, and others and take the amount of votes into consideration a story or
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» AOL buys German Ad Company Adtech
A day after it announced it would acquire Third Screen Media, a mobile ad technology provider, AOL said on Wednesday it purchased a controlling stake
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» StumbleUpon Acquired by eBay
A WebmasterWorld thread points to an official announcement on the eBay website about its recent acquisition: social search engine StumbleUpon.
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» eBay Buys StumbleUpon
Barry Schwartz over at search engine land posted this in Search Engine Land.Lets see how things go with the partner ship
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» EBay to auction advertising on U.S. radio stations
eBay said on Tuesday it is ready to begin auctioning advertising airtime on 2,300 participating U.S. radio stations, expanding on an existing plan to
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» Google Checkout Will Not Feature Their Event During eBay Live
Google agreed with eBay not to feature their event during the eBay Live conference.

From the Google Checkout Blog:
"eBay Live attendees have ple
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» eBay Launch Firefox eBay Edition And Addon
Mozilla and eBay have launched Firefox eBay Edition, an eBay focused version of the popular Firefox browser, along with an official eBay addon for existing Firefox users.
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» eBay Brings Classifieds Site Kijiji To The U.S.
eBay has brought its Craigslist-inspired classifieds marketplace, Kijiji, to the U.S. market. The auction site acquired a 25 percent stake in Craigslist in 2004 and launched Kijiji in early 2005 outside the U.S. eBay owns Rent.com in the U.S. as wel
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» eBay Store Search Engine Optimization Tips and Tricks
Many people have opted to sell their products on eBay but are wondering the best way to give their eBay store some visibility. Such is the case as illustrated in a Cre8asite Forums post where a person is looking to optimize their eBay store.


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» Why use Craigslist to promote your Website
5 billion pages views a month, everyone of those from people looking to buy things. What more could you ask for. Except maybe a few tips on how to keep your ad on Craigslist long enough to make a sale.

This article lists some of the main reasons
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» AOL Buys an Online Ad Company - New York Times
AOL said yesterday it had agreed to buy Tacoda, an online advertising company that uses behavioral targeting techniques to track Web user habits.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by the companies. A person familiar with the situatio
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» Don’t Buy Traffic, Use StumbleUpon
What a great tool! I know it’s possible to drive great traffic from StumbleUpon but I never dreamed of getting massive traffic to my blog. Many people understimate the power of StumbleUpon and put Digg in the first place when they talk about social
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» Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium
Yahoo Inc has struck a deal to buy BlueLithium, the fifth-largest U.S. online advertising network, for $300 million in cash.

BlueLithium is a three-year-old company that specializes in the fast-growing market for technology that tracks consumer b
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» How to Become a Top StumbleUpon User (or Why You Really Shouldn’t Bother)
ust exactly how do you actually become a top StumbleUpon user? Instead of writing out another generic how-to post which struggles to crack StumbleUpon’s algorithm, let’s take a step back to see if all this focus on being a top stumbler really matter
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» Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku
Jaiku, the Twitter like service from Finland, has been bought by Google. The terms of the acquisition have not been released.
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» eBay Launches Shopping Social Networks
eBay just launched more than 600 micro-social networks on its site called eBay Neighborhoods. Each one is organized around a different product, like coffee, iPhones, Eames furniture, Seinfeld memorabilia, or Ford Mustangs.
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» Google Buys Jaiku - Is Jaiku Now A Twitter Killer? - Internet Marketing Blog
Were Twitter's technical problems too extensive for Google to swallow when they went shopping for a microblog service?
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» Microsoft buys 1.6% of Facebook
Microsoft announced it has bought a 1.6% stake in social networking site Facebook with an investment of $240 million. The agreement between the firms gives Microsoft exclusive advertising rights to versions of Facebook outside the United States.
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» How To Make Social Network Marketing Work For You!
Yesterday while in one of my networking forums, a member asked how to make Digg and StumbleUpon work for her. She said she had joined both of these social networking sites a few months ago and hadn't received a lot of 'Diggs' or 'Stumbles.'
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» Gentlemen, Start your Engines – Shopping engines, that is : ISEdb.COM
With the shopping season race about to start most online retailers have maxed out their paid search campaigns, unleashed the SEO folks, increased their ad media buys and are still looking for incremental volume that will help move the needle. They n
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» 101 Ways to Get More Traffic
1.Write and submit articles. It is a classic, but it works. This will be indefinite traffic stuck in the search engines for you. Write quality unique articles, not articles that are rehashed or provide no insight to readers, which is a huge problem
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» How To Get 10,000 Visitors Using Stumbleupon
Stumbleupon… just like Digg is a a great resource for traffic. However, in order for you to be successful you need to know the ins and outs of stumbleupon and how to harness its power.
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» Intuit Finally Buys Homestead for $170m
Small business website creation service Homestead announced tonight that it has been purchased by Intuit for $170m. In addition to Intuit's personal and small business accounting software, and the company's partnership with Google to integrate ser
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