Mar 15, 2012 at 5:53pm ET by Gary Price

March Madness (an annual U.S. tradition where virtually all sports fans go crazy over college basketball finals tournaments) is underway. Want to keep track of what's going on? There are many places on the internet to access statistics and other useful information as the games are played and teams move toward the Final Four games in New Orleans. So, here's a collection of direct links to databases, record books, searchable archived video and other material direct from the official information source for the Final Four, the NCAA. Men's Tournament 1. 2011-12 Men's Basketball Statistic [...]

How Did The Beatles Sell 2 Million Songs On iTunes? Mostly Facebook (Not Search)

Nov 26, 2010 at 9:27am ET by Matt McGee

Although at least one recent study says search beats social media when it comes to product discovery, those rules don't apply to The Beatles. When you're known worldwide and have set the standard for commercial and critical musical success, social media is where it's at in 2010. Billboard magazine reports that The Beatles sold more than two million individual songs worldwide and in excess of 450,000 albums in its first week on Apple's iTunes Music Store. (The Beatles' catalog was added to iTunes on November 16th.) According to Experian Hitwise, it was social media -- not search -- that d [...]

Live Matrix Wants To Be Your Guide To The Live Web

May 25, 2010 at 4:45pm ET by Matt McGee

If you're looking for something to do, there are several event search engines you might use: Upcoming.org and Zvents are two biggies, while Joobili is a smaller one that combines events with travel search. But all of this is for finding offline events. What about the thousands of things happening on the web every day? Enter Live Matrix. It's a new site that's just launched (into private beta) with enormous ambitions: to serve as a guide to everything happening online. "We don't include anything happening offline," says co-founder Sanjay Reddy. "We include anything happening online t [...]

Bing, Google & Yahoo Gear Up For The 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Feb 9, 2010 at 4:22pm ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski

With the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada just days away, the engines are unveiling their special coverage sections and search features in anticipation of spiking user searches and social conversations about the winter games and Olympians. Here's a preview of the features from each, along with preliminary medals for search coverage. We'll see how it stacks up during the games. Bing: Gold Medal On the basis of their official partnership with NBCOlympics.com alone, Microsoft takes the top prize, but it's also well earned because they were first to anno [...]

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