“TV Guide For The Internet” Clicker Comes Out Of Beta

Nov 12, 2009 at 2:24pm ET by Greg Sterling   

The label, “TV Guide for the internet,” doesn’t fully capture the intent or the extent of Clicker. We first wrote about the site when it appeared at the TechCrunch50 event. It was then in a closed beta. However today, a mere 58 days later, the site launches to the public with a number of new [...]

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Bing Launches Wolfram Alpha Collaboration & Several New Search Features

Nov 11, 2009 at 2:29pm ET by Matt McGee   

There’s a lot of news today coming out of Bing headquarters, perhaps most notably that the long-rumored partnership with Wolfram Alpha is finally coming to fruition. Bing’s announcement today explains that the collaboration will cover two specific areas: nutritional information and mathematics. Nutritional Data With help from Wolfram Alpha, Bing says it can now help users make smarter [...]

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Track Your Friends (And Yourself) With Google Latitude Location History, Alerts

Nov 11, 2009 at 10:26am ET by Greg Sterling   

Seeking to make Latitude, Google’s location-aware friend finder, more engaging and useful the company has added location history and alerts to the service. Location Alerts, which require Location History to be enabled, tell you when friends are in the area. The system is smart enough to recognize routine places like home and work so it [...]

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GoogMob Deal “A Watershed Moment” For Mobile Advertising

Nov 11, 2009 at 9:42am ET by Greg Sterling   

Just as the introduction of the iPhone changed everything in the consumer world of mobile and helped usher in the era of the mobile internet, the pending Google acquisition of mobile display ad network AdMob is an almost equally significant event for mobile advertising. Over the past few years mobile advertising and marketing have been [...]

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Bing Launches New Video Portal With Help From MSN

Nov 10, 2009 at 7:45pm ET by Matt McGee   

Bing and MSN have combined to create Bing Videos, a new video portal that combines the content from MSN Videos with Bing’s search technology.

According to today’s announcement (and more here), the new site combines videos from a variety of sources. The former MSN Videos offered original programming, as well content from the likes of MSNBC, [...]

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Google Flu Shot Locator Shows Where To Get Vaccines Near You!

Nov 10, 2009 at 1:43pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

Looking for where to get a seasonal flu shot or that hard-to-find vaccine against H1N1 swine flu? Google has a new flu shot locator that can help. When the locator loads, you many need to manually enter your location. Do so using the “Change Location” option:

After doing your search, a red needle icon shows where to [...]

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Google To Deliver New “Caffeine” Search After The Holidays

Nov 10, 2009 at 7:20am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google’s got a present for searchers and site owners. The long anticipated new Google Caffeine search index will go live soon, just after the holidays. The Google Caffeine Sandbox, where people have been invited since the summer to test Google’s next generation search infrastructure, has been closed, replaced with this “it’s coming” message: We appreciate all the [...]

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Please Take Search Engine Land’s Audience Survey

Nov 10, 2009 at 7:16am ET by Search Engine Land   

We’ve got a special request of our Search Engine Land visitors and SearchCap newsletter readers. Take our 2-minute audience survey! Please? If helping us keep the lights on isn’t enough of an incentive, we’ll toss in a chance to win a ticket to Search Marketing Expo – SMX West in Santa Clara, March 2-4. SMX [...]

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Google To Murdoch: Go Ahead & Block Us

Nov 9, 2009 at 2:17pm ET by Matt McGee   

The long-running debate over Google and its impact on newspapers and journalism took another turn today when News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch said his company may makes its sites invisible to Google, and Google fired back by saying, in essence, bring it on. It began with this interview on Australia’s Sky News (which Murdoch owns), reported [...]

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Google Acquires AdMob, Mobile Display Ad Company

Nov 9, 2009 at 12:28pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google has acquired AdMob (www.admob.com), a popular mobile display ad company, for $750 million. Google has already built their own platform for AdSense on Mobile devices, but this acquisition gives Google access to AdMob’s more than 15,000 mobile Web sites and applications. There are more details about this acquisition at google.com/press/admob. Here is the email AdMob sent their [...]

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Google’s Home Page Promotes Motorola / Verizon Droid Phone

Nov 6, 2009 at 2:21pm ET by Matt McGee   

Google really wants you to buy a Motorola Droid, the hot new phone that just hit stores today. In fact, Google is so enamored that it’s advertising the Droid on its homepage: “The Droid is on sale now. Learn more.” Clicking the “learn more” link leads to this “mobile partners” page that touts the Google search [...]

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Twitter Finally Begins Adding Search Relevancy Features

Nov 6, 2009 at 9:28am ET by Barry Schwartz   

The Twitter Blog has a short blog post mentioning that they have added technology “to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” Clearly, this is Twitter’s first step in improving Twitter Search by adding relevancy and search quality factors to the search algorithm. Currently, Twitter Search [...]

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Search Month European Edition, October 2009

Nov 6, 2009 at 6:34am ET by Bas van den Beld   

In Search Month European Edition we bring you a monthly update of European search news, with related links to full coverage. Here’s what happened in October. Yandex and Google dominate in Russia. Numbers show the Russian search market is dominated by Yandex and Google. Both giants account for 96% of all search traffic in Russia in [...]

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How Google & Yahoo Make Money Off A Twitter Typo Domain

Nov 5, 2009 at 2:57pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

Like many people, I misspelled a domain name today when I was trying to visit a web site. I typed Twiter.com (with one T) rather than Twitter.com. I wasn’t surprised to land on a site with ads, as is common when entering typos. I was surprised that both Google and Yahoo were making money off [...]

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Google Dashboard Offers New Privacy Controls

Nov 5, 2009 at 5:15am ET by Matt McGee   

Google has launched a new privacy dashboard — technically just called Google Dashboard — that gives users quicker access to, and more control over, the personal information stored in Google’s databases. The dashboard is a one-stop shop for managing this data and the settings that are associated with the Google products you use when [...]

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Google Gets Into The Shopping Cart Business With Commerce Search

Nov 5, 2009 at 1:25am ET by Matt McGee   

Google has just announced a new enterprise search service called Commerce Search. The name might remind you of Froogle, but this is not that kind of commerce/product search. With Commerce Search, Google has created what is essentially a shopping cart solution for online retailers.

Commerce Search, as Google describes it, promises to improve an e-commerce web [...]

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Build Your Own Google News Home Page With Custom Sections

Nov 4, 2009 at 4:41pm ET by Matt McGee   

Google News has made it easier to customize its home page with the creation of a Custom Sections Directory that includes material created both by Google and by Google News users.

The directory includes sections such as “Mobile Technology,” “Google,” “Social Networking,” “Apple Inc.” and “NFL.” You can browse the directory by category (Business, Science, Sports, [...]

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MSN Introduces Dramatically Improved Redesign, Portal Drives Nearly 50% Of Bing Queries

Nov 4, 2009 at 12:36am ET by Greg Sterling   

Billed as the first major redesign in a decade, Microsoft has introduced a dramatic new look and feel for the MSN portal. The redesign simplifies and cleans up most elements on the site. Among other things, it makes video more central, incorporates Facebook and Twitter, creates a dedicated new local area and emphasizes search. MSN, which [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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