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Happy New Years 2010 Search Logos & Google’s Surprise
Dec 31, 2009 at 5:22pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Happy New Years! The Search Engine Land team would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and successful 2010. Just for fun, I wanted to share the various logos from the search engines and also Google's surprise.
Let's start with Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" count down to New Years. Remember when you hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google.com, it would show you how many minutes to 2010? Well, when 2010 hits, it then shows you a fireworks display. Here is a video I made of it.
Now for the logos, which is basically a repost of my listing from the Search Engine Roundtable:
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Filed in: AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: General, Search Engines: Baidu, Top News, Yahoo: General
Year In Review: Local Search & Maps
Dec 31, 2009 at 7:00am ET by David Mihm
While analysts and practitioners have been prognosticating the imminent arrival
of local search for the last several years, 2009 was finally the year that proved
us right. A number of innovations
and developments in mobile search, such as the widespread adoption of the
iPhone, the release of Android, and a burgeoning number of location-based apps
like Foursquare have certainly helped fuel local search's rise. But local has
gained mind share among SEO's, marketers, business owners, and perhaps most
importantly, searchers, in its own right as well.
Let's take a loo [...]
Filed in: AOL: MapQuest, Google: Maps & Local, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, SEO: Local, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Marketing: Local Search Marketing, Top News, Yahoo: Maps & Local
AOL To Cut Staff By One-Third
Dec 24, 2009 at 9:23am ET by Barry Schwartz
In a Security and Exchange document filed on Tuesday night, AOL plans on cutting about one-third of their staff, about 2,300 people. The filing said, "the Restructuring will include the reduction of approximately a third of the Company’s current employee base, which will be conducted on a voluntary and involuntary basis."
AOL became an independent company earlier this month, as the "new" AOL. It is unfortunate that so many people are going to lose their jobs early next year. It is also very unfortunate AOL had to officially announce this a day before Christmas eve. [...]
Filed in: AOL: General
MapQuest Integrates Citysearch Content
Dec 22, 2009 at 9:04am ET by Greg Sterling
MapQuest or variations on its name represent five of the top 22 search queries in the travel category (in November) according to Hitwise. However Google Maps is solidly in first place now as the top mapping site online. That puts MapQuest in the position of having to figure out whether to be content with its second place position or do some things to try and regain the lead.
It's not clear whether MapQuest could regain the lead; however, the company has introduced a number of features and upgrades recently in a bid to improve the look and functionality of the site:
360 View: street-leve [...]
Filed in: AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest
MapQuest (Finally) Launches Street Views With “360 View”
Dec 14, 2009 at 10:21am ET by Greg Sterling
We're more than two years in with street-level photography, although Google was the only game in town for most of that time among the majors. There were also less-well-known independents such as Everyscape and MapJack. Then two weeks ago, Bing made a big splash with a very enhanced Silverlight version of Bing Maps and national coverage with its Street Side imagery.
MapQuest for years had been the leader in Maps and it's still the top search term in Travel according to Hitwise. But in February of this year Google passed MapQuest to become the top mapping site for the first time. Throughout t [...]
Filed in: AOL: Local, AOL: MapQuest, Google: Maps & Local
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