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Facebook Search and the challenges ahead
Check out this great synopsis on what the new Facebook Search is all about and the challenges and opportunities it presents from the always insightful Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land. Need a good plumber? An electrician? Someone to do your taxes? A doctor? A dentist? These are all typically questions that are great to […]
Continue reading...Apple hires Amazon A9’s William “Bill” Statssior to head up Siri unit
Monday, October 15, 2012
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Another interesting hire over at Apple these days. Kara Swisher is reporting that Apple recently hired William (Bill) Statsior to head up the company’s Siri division. Statsior previously was in charge of A9 which is Amazon’s search and search advertising unit and has been at the nation’s largest online retailer since 2003. Before working at Amazon, […]
Continue reading...Apple to share advertising revenue with Baidu
Thursday, June 14, 2012
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Bloomberg reports that Apple, as part of its inclusion of Baidu as a search engine option in iOS 6 for its Chinese customers, will receive a slice of advertising revenue. The revenue-sharing agreement with Apple follows similar accords between Baidu and manufacturers of handsets that useGoogle’s Android operating system, Wang Jing, vice president at Beijing-based […]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt touts competitive threat of Siri in letter to US Sentate antitrust subcommittee
Monday, November 7, 2011
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Google may try hard to uphold their “Don’t be Evil” mantra, but the search giant apparently has no qualms about being hypocritical. We saw this first hand a few months back when Google made a number of public statements about the sorry state of the patent system and how companies like Apple and Microsoft are resorting […]
Continue reading...2/3 of mobile Google searches originate from iOS devices
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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It’s never pretty when Congress tries to wrap its head around technology, a fact which was quite evident when Apple and Google were grilled over issues related to location tracking just a few months ago. This week, Google chairman Eric Schmidt appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights to […]
Continue reading...Google, shame on you for helping people get even drunker!
Thursday, July 14, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Check out the potential for grave repercussions from Google’s search suggest feature. Looks like it’s a little bit too accurate for it’s own good! via imgur
Continue reading...RIM to make Bing the default for search and maps; will integrate Bing on the OS level
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
By Sarah Petit: Score one for Bing! By all accounts, Google completely dominates search. Hell, Google is largely synonymous with search. Google this, Google that. But Google does have some competition in the form of Microsoft’s Bing, which has seen incremental growth over the past few years. And now comes word via Steve Ballmer at […]
Continue reading...Roger McNamee: Not excited about Android, says Apple is killing the world wide web – in a good way
Friday, April 15, 2011
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You might recognize Roger McNamee as the angel investor who invested heavily in Palm and came up with this ludicrous prediction back in March of 2009: You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using […]
Continue reading...Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta not impressed with Google’s new search algorithm
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Google in February instituted sweeping changes to its search algorithm to more effectively combat the growing problem of content farms and spam links populating search results. In the wake of those changes, some domains saw a huge decrease in Google search traffic, with Mahalo and Associated Content seeing their domains drop significantly down on Google’s […]
Continue reading...Google introduces “Instant Previews” for mobile device web queries
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Google last week announced a new feature called “Instant Previews” for mobile devices running Android 2.2+ and iOS 4+. The new feature, available in 38 languages, displays website screenshots of search results and lets users swipe through the previews to get a quick taste for what each search result has in store, a particularly useful […]
Continue reading...The implications of Microsoft’s partnership with Kayak
Friday, March 11, 2011
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Microsoft recently struck a deal whereby travel results on Bing will be powered by KAYAK, a niche travel-centric search engine that helps users find attractive deals for flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars by scouring the net and finding the best possible deals from an assortment of sites. It’s a useful travel booking search aggregate, […]
Continue reading...Google tweaks search algorithm, content farms take a beating
Monday, February 28, 2011
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Last week Google updated their search algorithm in an effort to push original content to the forefront at the expense of scraper sites and content farms which dynamically scan popular search terms and construct arguably vapid articles to take advantage of the search traffic.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
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