SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Amazon.com
Google Bad On Privacy? Maybe It’s Privacy International’s Report That Sucks
It’s a bad privacy day for Google, with Privacy International first accusing the company of having the worst privacy performance of any internet service company in a study it has just released and then accusing Google of conducting a smear campaign against it. But if you actually read the report, Privacy International itself comes off […]
Searcharazzi: Feisty, Feisty
alt=”Searcharazzi – A Column From Search Engine Land” align=”left” hspace=”5″ vspace=”3″ width=”100″ height=”100″> My, we were a feisty bunch last week. Now that it is all out of our system, let’s look to a bit more benign gossip from the rumor mill For the football fans out there, here’s some water cooler conversation for the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
More Maps Announcements Coming This Week
The conference Where 2.0 begins tomorrow in San Jose, California. It’s about mapping, mashups and location-based services and there should be a range of interesting announcements from companies large and small. To that end, Garrett Rogers speculates, based on domain name registrations, that Google will be announcing a “street view” mapping capability at the show. […]
Facebook Opens Up Its ‘Platform’ To Everyone
“Facebook is the anti-MySpace” and “Facebook is a new type of “Web 2.0″ portal” are some of the things that were and are being said yesterday and today about the social network’s new “Facebook Platform” initiative. Basically there’s no direct search angle here but it’s an interesting and potentially important development. First, what is it […]
Pipl – A People Search Engine
Pipl is a people search engine that tries to be a little different. Rather than just go off and hunt for email addresses, this tries to search through the deep/invisible/hidden web to return content that other search engines are going to miss. The interface is simple – type in first name, last name, city, state […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Might Buy NBC, Dow Jones (Walmart, Amazon, Pepsi….)
How about this? Any time some major media company may be on the block, let’s make it a requirement that all media stories automatically insert a comment from some made up financial analyst suggesting that Google is thinking of buying the company too. Maybe I’ve just had it. I mean, last week I read Google […]
Vutool: Virtual Map Of Streets Being Developed?
TechCrunch has a provocative post about a “stealth startup” called Vutool. According to the post, the company was/is seeking to create a 3-D street-level view of the entire country by having people take multiple images from cars. The post suggests that the company failed to get series A funding and was acquired by Google.
Mobile News From CTIA And Beyond: InfoSpace, V-Enable, ZenZui
Beyond the news of Yahoo’s new mobile content and ad networks and Google’s new mobile search upgrades, there’s a good deal of mobile search-related news coming out of CTIA today. Among the announcements, InfoSpace has launched a direct-to-consumer version of its mobile local-search application Find It! for Blackberry devices. Previously the company was working exclusively […]
Summize: Using Heatmaps In Product Search Results
I wrote earlier this week about Wize a shopping comparison engine that aggregated millions of reviews to compile a “WizeRank” for each product, based on the total number of positive, neutral or negative reviews found on the web. Today Alex Iskold over on ReadWriteWeb takes a takes a look at Summize, a shopping search engine […]
Google Warning Against Letting Your Search Results Get Indexed
The days of doing a Google search that brings up results leading to search results from other sites are heading for a close. Matt Cutts, in his Search Results In Search Results post today, points out a change to Google’s guidelines that shows a crackdown on this type of material may begin. More about what I’m talking about below, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Quintura Relaunches With New Interface
Quintura recently relaunched with a new interface, which has been receiving a fair amount of comment. I originally wrote about the search engine back in November, and I was fairly lukewarm in my praise of it; while it was a nice idea, the interface held it back. Well, the relaunched version is now much better, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 28, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Wikipedia Enters Top Ten Most Visited Sites
Impressive. Scanning the latest top web sites rankings from comScore for January 2007 , Wikipedia sites are highlighted for just entering the top ten most visited. OK, technically — they’re in the top ten for having the most unique visitors. In December 2006, Wikipedia sites were ranked 13th of all US web properties, with 39 […]
Searching For “The Next Google”
“Company X could be the next Google” is a platitude often bandied about by financial journalists or investment analysts touting typically obscure companies that could, potentially, score success on a Google-like scale. Most companies never come close to achieving Google’s financial or commercial success, of course. But say you were interested in finding one of […]
ClickZ/JupiterResearch Wants Your Input
ClickZ and JupiterResearch are doing their semi-annual Search Marketing executive survey, and want your participation. This survey will capture what strategies search marketers are pursuing, what features and tools are most important to them and where marketers are spending their search dollars. It’s a short, 25-question survey, and your responses are strictly confidential. As a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 29, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Kills Bush’s Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs
Google has finally defused the “Google Bomb” that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn’t a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it’s part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from […]
Boxxet Offers “Best Of” Collections On Popular Topics
Boxxet is a new service which combines aspects of computer automation with community and social commentary and ranking systems to create “box sets” of web based content for specific topics. It’s an interesting idea—sort of a multimedia directory of links to web, news and blog content, photos, forums, online bookmarks and “stuff,” products available for […]
Search Engine ChaCha Announces $6 Million Round
Led by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions, social search engine ChaCha announced that it had secured a $6 million funding round. ChaCha launched in Q3 last year and employs a network of live guides (college students, stay at home parents, retirees) to help answer user queries in real time in addition to providing traditional algorithmic […]
Amazon Promotes Askville & LinkedIn Launches Answers Services
Gary Price spotted Amazon promoting Askville more aggressively the other day. For example, a search on travel new york city brings up an Askville promotion all the way at the bottom left of the page, it looks like this: Also, Kev at SEOptimise notes that LinkedIn launched an Answers service early this morning. You can […]
Q&A With Jimmy Wales On Search Wikia
News came out earlier this week that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a new project in mind, to build a community-driven "Google-killer" search engine. I’ve just finished talking with Jimmy about his plans. Here’s a rundown on his vision and what may come as his Search Wikia project grows over the course of the next […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 25 & 26, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Wikipedia Founder To Launch Wikiasari Search Engine Early 2007
Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google by The Times unveils a new search engine named Wikiasari. The new search engine has investment backing from Amazon and others of over $4 million in capital. The “exclusive screen capture” Techcrunch has nothing to do with this new engine, according to the Wikia group. But […]
The Lies Of Top Search Terms Of The Year
I wanted to make some time and dive deep into the issue of why all those top search terms from the various search engines don’t match. Others have thankfully been doing that. The short answer, as I’ve written before, is that they are all heavily filtered. That’s why you don’t see popular terms like […]