Tag Archive | "Search"
Eric Schmidt touts competitive threat of Siri in letter to US Sentate antitrust subcommittee
By Josh Rosenthall: 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 [...]
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.
Continue reading...Google claims Bing is copying their search results
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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Search Engine Land wrote a few weeks ago: Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this. As a result of the apparent [...]
Continue reading...Google’s Matt Cutts discusses 5 examples of SEO misinformation
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Below, Google software engineer and webspam guru Matt Cutts discusses 5 examples of SEO misinformation. Topping the list is the misconception that if a company does negative things towards their customers so that they complain on customer complaint sites, that those links are nonetheless factored into Google’s mysterious search algorithm.
Continue reading...Don’t try and game Google with poor user reviews
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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The official Google Blog writes: A recent article by the New York Times related a disturbing story. By treating your customers badly, one merchant told the paper, you can generate complaints and negative reviews that translate to more links to your site; which, in turn, make it more prominent in search engines. The main premise of [...]
Continue reading...Google releases “Google Instant”
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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The folks at Google are always up to interesting things. Using the new system, as a query is typed, the search box immediately jumps to the top of the search page, and a constantly changing list of suggested pages appears. If the user finds the right site, they don’t need to finish typing or hit [...]
Continue reading...Google adds iTunes app listings to mobile search results
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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Google announced on Wednesday that iTunes and Android listings for mobile apps will now appear in Google search results initiated from mobile devices. Users can then hit the links to take them directly into the iTunes app page or Android’s Marketplace where they can then purchase the app. As mobile apps continue to proliferate in [...]
Continue reading...Ballmer on Google: “They did it right first”
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Earlier this week at the Search Marketing Expo (I was going to go but I couldn’t find it), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer addressed if Bing can ever supplant Google as the top search engine on the market. “There’s no good answer to this question,” Ballmer explained, “If you say yes, you sound arrogant. If you [...]
Continue reading...Apple nets over $100 million per year via Google search on the iPhone
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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Citing a source “familiar with Apple’s operations”, Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Apple, contrary to some previous reports, has no intention whatsoever of building its own search engine from the ground up. The most sensational item from the report, however, is that Apple’s partnership with Google on the iPhone nets Apple over $100 million [...]
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Monday, November 7, 2011
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