Best Buy: “Would You Like A Google App With That?”
Nov 6, 2009 at 8:56am ET by Greg Sterling
In the increasingly high stakes game of mobile search, Google is leaving almost nothing to chance. Take the company's very interesting new partnership with Best Buy stores for example. According to the Google Mobile Blog:
We're happy to announce today that we've partnered with Best Buy Mobile to make Google Mobile App available through Best Buy stores in the US . . . now [users] have the option to get some help installing the app or to see a live demo of what the application can do. Just go to the mobile department at your nearest Best Buy store and talk to an associate. If you have a BlackBe [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing
Google Tries Related Links Again
Nov 3, 2009 at 10:08am ET by Barry Schwartz
Back in 2006, Google had a product named related links, which showed related sites on the internet based on your content. Google just recently relaunched related links at relatedlinks.googlelabs.com. The major difference between the old related links and the new one is that the new one only shows related content from within your site, whereas the old one took away visitors from your site.
Often, Google Related Links were confused with AdSense. They did and do look somewhat similar to AdSense link units.
The new related links can be tried out over here. Here is a picture of how they [...]
Filed in: Google: Web Search
Google Adds “Page Preview” To Search Options
Nov 3, 2009 at 9:51am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Operating System noticed Google has added a new search option named "page preview." If you go to Google, search on something and click on "show options," you can then look towards the button on the left hand side and click on "page previews." For example, here is a view of a search for apple with page preview selected.
As you can see, Google adds thumbnails of the page directly on the search results.
Page previews is nothing new to search, Ask.com did it with binoculars and there are many Firefox add-ons that add page previews to the Google search results. [...]
Filed in: Google: Search Customization, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Top News
Google, Yahoo, Bing Bury GeoCities.com, But Some Zombie Sites Are Still Alive
Nov 2, 2009 at 3:01pm ET by Matt McGee
Although some GeoCities web sites are still online, all three major search engines have removed the domain from their search indices. As of this morning, a site:geocities.com search on Google, Yahoo, and Bing shows that geocities.com is dead and buried.
Yahoo announced earlier this year that GeoCities -- a free web hosting service that it bought in 1999 -- would close this past Monday, October 26. But many users were still able to access GeoCities web sites last Tuesday. That's when Yahoo actually pulled the plug. Millions of pages and images, the "neighborhoods" they belonged t [...]
Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Search
iCrossing: Google’s Share Of Search Almost 77 Percent
Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00am ET by Greg Sterling
We received some interesting data from search agency iCrossing yesterday. The data show US search market share percentages and distribution quite different than the major traffic metrics firms. The company says its numbers are "based on a large representative sample of Fortune 1000 companies, across all major verticals," which use its search tracking tools.
Accordingly the iCrossing data show US September natural search market share to be the following:
Google 76.7 percent
Bing (increasingly slightly from Aug to) 8.2 percent
Yahoo (decreasing to) 11.1 percent
AOL and Ask show "pre [...]
Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: Popularity, Stats: Size, Stats: comScore, Top News
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