Virgin Mobile USA, which has been working since December with private-label mobile search provider JumpTap, announced that it would add now add local mobile search. Users will be able to type a query and their zip, city or state to get local information. Both search functionality and local content on mobile devices are core, strategic […]
Google’s novel idea for FCC radio spectrum auction from USA Today reports Google has put in a proposal to the FCC urging the agency to allow companies to sell radio spectrum through an auction process to others.
To grow share, revenue and market capitalization, Google should adopt Extreme Transparency. Google dominates search with 70% market share. Google has soaring revenue, 63% up year-over-year Q1. Google has a monster market cap, north of $140B. But there’s a problem lurking in the wings, and pulling that problem into the sunlight and solving it—nay, obliterating […]
Google has launched a meme-like feature to Google Trends. The Google Trends home page now has a section named “Hot Trends,” which shows the hottest queries for the day. You can also look back historically and see the hottest queries for that day. Plus, Google Trends upgraded the trends history to show not only country […]
Local search is coming to a neighborhood near you – literally. Google is the latest and highest profile site to introduce what might be called “colloquial” neighborhood level search into Google Maps. What it means is that people can now use popular terms and even geo-slang in some cases to identify businesses and points of […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Steve Rubel reports that Google Coop has added integration with Google Gadgets. For example, I subscribed to a weather subscribed link within the Google Coop and then did a search for weather 10901 and got this:
Google reach deals with news websites from the Sunday Herald reports that Google has reached a deal with several large UK newsgroups to carry content on Google News, but Google tells me no such deals have been agreed.
‘Month of bugs’ pins bull’s-eye on Google, Yahoo from Computerworld reports Websecurity.com.ua says it will post a security vulnerability about the most popular search engines of the world each day throughout the month of June, in particular cross-site scripting ones.
The Daily Telegraph reports Yahoo is after Bebo, a social networking site, while TechCrunch reports hearing a rumor that Google may launch its own phone service in the UK.
Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft from the Wall Street Journal reports that the two companies are rumored to be in discussions about working together to compete against Microsoft. By teaming up with Salesforce.com, the Wall Street Journal says teh two can compete with Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) software. Google already offers email, […]
A lot of business owners I work with understand they need inbound links but aren’t sure how to get started or prioritize their efforts. I suggest they begin by establishing a base of links from authority sites that work toward building their business reputations. I refer to these as foundational links and believe they are […]
One month ago I mused about possible impact of Google’s DoubleClick acquisition on SEM agencies and bid management tool vendors. This week’s Microsoft acquisition of aQuantive sheds an interesting new light on the situation. As I reported, DoubleClick (and now Google) sells a powerful PPC bid management system called DART Search. Features include one-screen management […]
This is a special message for our SearchCap newsletter readers and anyone who visits Search Engine Land, regarding Search Engine Land’s first conference: Search Marketing Expo Advanced. It’s coming up fast — only two weeks away, in Seattle this June 4th and 5th. This is mainly a reminder that if you’re thinking of going — […]
I wrote before about the inherent conflicts of both Google and Microsoft potentially owning firms that do search marketing. Since Microsoft is now back on track to join Google in doing this, I can’t help myself. Let’s have some fun. From a future Google help page (apologies to the existing help page):
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Rumour: Google to buy Feedburner from Seth Sethi earlier today reports that Google is rumored to buy FeedBurner, a feed management, analytics and advertising company. Valleywag has said they confirmed the rumors and add that the purchase price is about $100 million.
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.
I love an underdog, especially a smart underdog. So I’m definitely rooting for Ask.com, because I think they’ve been an undervalued player in the search game. All the headlines have been focused on the big three and in the meantime, the team back at Ask.com has been quietly building a better search engine. A much […]
Fair Isaac Claims Pay-Per-Click Fraud Is 10% to 15% from InformationWeek says Fair Isaac is going to report today that it has found the click fraud rate of billed paid search and contextual advertising to be 10 to 15 percent, though the figures are based on what the Associated Press characterized as being a “handful” […]
Since the announcement of Google Universal Search, I have been waiting eagerly to see videos show up within Google’s search results. Last night, it finally started. For me, it was for a search on star wars kid (here’s more about him). You can see the embedded video showing up in the middle of search results […]
A day after 24/7 Real Media was acquired by WPP, Microsoft announced plans buy digital ad firm aQuantive, which owns Atlas and Avenue A | Razorfish, for $6 billion in cash. It is apparently the biggest acquisition in Microsoft’s history.
Although Google currently has a wealth of books in their Google Book Search database, this isn’t enough either for them or us, so they’ve taken steps to improve the situation. If you now do a search, you’ll find references to millions of books that they haven’t yet digitized. You can then click on an “About […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Local Matters, a company that provides a lot of behind-the-scenes technology and data for a number of local search services, has released a beta version of its own “social-local” site, LocalGuides.com. Local Matters CEO Perry Evans describes it like this: “In a nutshell, LocalGuides.com is a new approach to creating a “social-local” experience in the […]
In conjunction with Universal Search, the Google Maps team created a new “text view” that features images of local businesses and a smaller map. The placement of ads is different, below the map on the right. And there’s a pull-down menu to adjust distance. Here’s an example for “coffee houses, New York.” The traditional “map […]
For the 30 year anniversary of Star Wars, Lycos has compiled a list of the top search terms related to Star Wars, used by those at the Lycos site. Leading the list overall is Natalie Portman. Portman also tops the “real people” list, while the top Star Wars character is Oola.
Yesterday, Google announced that it will soon be launching a cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) feature. As Greg Sterling wrote: “Search queries will be entered in the native language, translated into English and run against Google’s index. Any retrieved pages/sites will then be translated from English back into the native language. [Google’s Udi] Manber said it […]
One of the fun things about starting up the Search Marketing Expo conference series has been getting involved with lots of the details. Here’s one — walk in music. You know when you come into a session, and there’s music playing? Our SMX Advanced conference will have music like that when the show happens in […]
Google Korea to censor search results from InfoWorld reports that Google Korea — like other search engines in the country — will require people to prove their age in order to get back unfiltered results for certain searches.
Via Mashable, YouTube, CNN partner for presidential debate from the San Jose Mercury News coves how YouTube will be co-sponsoring the first official Democratic debate, along with CNN and others. There are very few details about what the sponsorship means. Would YouTube be airing the debate live? We know YouTube doesn’t air anything live. So […]
UK based global advertising firm WPP has acquired the publicly traded 24/7 Real Media for a whopping $649 million. The company was previously being looked at by Microsoft (for $1 billion) according to rumor. It follows on the heels of several high-profile acquisitions, including Yahoo’s intended purchase of Right Media and Google’s planned acquisition of […]
Having a supposedly “search engine friendly” website isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, it can be quite a disappointment. That’s because it’s not the same thing as being “search engine optimized.” I’ve seen the words “search engine friendly” bandied about quite a lot, particularly to market and sell blog platforms, shopping carts, […]
Spotted via LiveSide, Imagine Live Search is a new experimental search engine from Windows Live. Like those from Ask (Ask X), Google (SearchMash) and Yahoo (Alpha), it provides a mixture of results all on the same page. Below is a look at Microsoft’s new test bed search engine, Imagine Live Search, as well as a […]
There are many reasons why your site might lose search engine result rankings. Some of those reasons can be traced to a particular fault while others just occur in the natural course of life. In essence, rankings change because change happens. But understanding what causes typical loss of rankings can give us a better insight […]
In December, 2005 after the AOL deal was announced, Marissa Mayer declared, “There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.”
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
There was a laundry list of announcements that Google made today. Danny has captured the big ones. Here are a couple of things on the list that didn’t make the headlines: CLIR and Google Views (Experimental/Labs).
Many have joked about how Wikipedia seems to rank at the top of practically any Google search that you do. Often, that’s a good thing, as Wikipedia has lots of great information. But a search on george washington today shows a downside. Someone edited the start of the Wikipedia entry about the first US president […]
Corporate spending for electronic-discovery services, estimated at roughly $1.77 billion in 2006, is expected to increase by more than a third to $2.42 billion this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The reason? New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure passed by Congresss that are accelerating deadlines for companies to identify and describe electronically searchable […]