In addition to today’s Internet Marketing Monitor coverage, we felt these stories were worth pulling out of the multitude of news items for July 10, 2007:

Google Has 10,000 Human Evaluators? [Search Engine Roundtable]

You knew there had to be at least some people looking over Google’s search results, right? Well according to Google VP Marissa Mayer, it’s not just “some” people - it’s 10,000. 10,000? Surely that’s not a team of 10,000 dedicated to JUST evaluating searches. I imagine this includes groups who monitor various aspects of the index as well. 10,000 full-time evaluators just seems like *major* overkill.

Flickr Gains 38% Market Share After Yahoo Search Integration [Search Engine Journal]

According to Hitwise data, Flickr has seen a pretty dramatic increase in market since Yahoo added integration with the service to its standard image search. In fact, based on these numbers, Flickr has become the #2 photo site after Photobucket.

Update: Google is removing the supplemental query [Small Business SEM]

Based on comments left at SEOmoz by Google’s Matt Cutts, the general consensus is that the search query that allowed you to see which pages of a site were listed in the supplemental index has been turned off. Maybe for good. Like many others who have weighed in on the subject, I think it’s a bad idea. Cutts says Google doesn’t want people to “get fixated” on supplemental results. For one, I’m not sure why Matt Cutts or Google even cares what people “fixate” on. But more importantly, the supplemental query told you a lot about how Google (and most likely other search engines) saw your site. I guess my assumption that Google was getting better about restricting information was wrong.

Have a great night, everyone!  Until tomorrow morning…