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Yext begins to verticalize local business listings syndication with ‘Yext for Food’
Moves seek to provide enhanced data with more vertically specific attributes to various consumer search and discovery points....
Twiggle offers plug-and-play semantic search to online retailers
Company says its sophisticated search can be implemented without replacement of existing enterprise...
Pinterest’s Lens app turns your phone’s camera into a search bar
Pinterest is bringing search to the real world. On Wednesday, the social-network-slash-search-engine introduced Lens, a mobile app that uses the...
Google’s AMP Viewer: the Tinder UX for content?
Google’s hosted AMP viewer takes the risk — and commitment — out of clicking a mobile search result. Contributor Barb Palser discusses...
Android launcher and search engine Evie “reimagines” the mobile home screen
Company wants to offer a better home screen and help users get things done across apps and the mobile web more...
With relaunch, Jelly makes another run at Q&A-style “social search”
It uses AI and a routing algorithm to match questions to potential...
Preparing to relaunch, Jelly wants to bring “humanity” back to search
In SXSW conversation Jelly founder Biz Stone discussed #NextSearch with Danny Sullivan and teased the relaunch of his social answers engine....
Consumers shape new world of search advertising
Since Bing entered the search space just over six years ago, the landscape has transformed and technology has advanced, and the changes are only...
Relcy Founder Satapathy Says He Has Built A Better Mobile Search Engine
The founder of mobile search app Relcy, Rohit Satapathy, believes he has built a better mobile search engine. His focus is less on mobile web...
DuckDuckGo Is The Default Search Engine In New Adblock Browser
In addition to being the default Adblock browser, the privacy search engine says it will sign the "Acceptable Ads...
Report: 75 Percent Of Google’s Mobile Search Revenue Comes From Apple Devices
If true Google will likely fight to maintain search relationship with Apple....
Apple Renews Maps Agreement With TomTom, Will It Buy The Company?
Reuters reported this afternoon that publicly traded TomTom is up on news that its mapping-data contract with Apple has been renewed. Rival HERE...
How Google & Other Voice Search Engines Focus In On Your Voice
Google says error rates on voice searches are only 8%, down from 25% just a few years...
YP Launches New Local Search Marketplace For National Advertisers
Once dismissed as the exclusive concern of small businesses, brands and national advertisers are recognizing the importance of location data and...
Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market
International restaurant search provider Zomato has acquired Urbanspoon from IAC for between $50 and $60 million in cash. Zomato was founded in...
App Search Engine Quixey Annouces China Deal With Alibaba
App search engine Quixey has announced a relationship with Alibaba in China that will bring its search capabilities to the latter’s mobile...
Call Gap: Survey Finds 54 Percent Of Search Marketers Don’t Track Phone Conversions From Search Campaigns
How important are offline phone calls to search marketers? Google has reported that 70 percent of mobile searchers have called a business...
In-App Search: Great Idea, Not So Great Experience
Google, Facebook and others are trying to bring the world of internet-style “deep linking” to apps. Google is indexing in-app links...
New Foursquare App Bets The Company On Personalization
After months of anticipation, the new Foursquare app has finally arrived. It will be available this morning from the three major app stores. The...
It Will Take “Act Of God” For Relcy To Win In Mobile Search
Last week TechCrunch profiled a “stealth” startup called Relcy, which is seeking to build a “native” search engine for...
