This day in search marketing history: March 17
Google AdWords further dilutes exact match, plus: DMOZ officially closes, Matt Cutts hints at HTTPS ranking signal and more.
Topic: Apache Hadoop
Yahoo Buys Mobile Startup With Big Search Chops
Earlier today Yahoo and Jybe announced that the latter was being acquired by the former. Jybe, which I had not heard of previously, is described by Yahoo as “a personalized recommendation company founded with the vision to help people find the things they love to do based on what’s trending in their social circles.” It sounds […]
Reddit AMA Reveals Graph Search Has Been In The Works Since Early 2011 & Specs On How It Works
Last Friday, Lars Rasmussen, Facebook’s Director of Engineering, did an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit to discuss the ins-and-outs of Graph Search. Lars answered 20 questions from fellow Redditors shedding some light on the history, importance and technology behind Graph Search. According to Lars, the initial Graph Search was internally launched in Summer of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 28, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Facebook Competitor, The Google+ Social Network, Finally Arrives Google’s long expected second shot at taking on Facebook in the social networking space has arrived in the form of the Google+ […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 20, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Buys Search Ad In Response To The China Decision The Wall Street Journal noted that Google has purchased search ads for queries done on Google.com for “Google Leaves China” or […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 11, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft Doubles Up On Cashback To Give Bing A Boost Microsoft announced that they have created a “Bing stimulus package” using the Cashback program, in an attempt to encourage searchers to […]
Doug Cutting Leaving Yahoo
Doug Cutting, creator of the Hadoop technology that powered Yahoo’s search index, is leaving the company at the end of August for a position at Cloudera. While the immediate reaction is to assume this is related to the Yahoo-Microsoft deal, in which Microsoft would take over Yahoo’s search engine, Cutting tells the New York Times […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 10, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Adds Change of Address To Notify Google Of Domain Change Google announced a new feature in Google Webmaster Tools named change of address. This feature allows webmasters to notify Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 17, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Making Sense Of All The Data: Google, Hadoop & Cloudera
The article, Hadoop, a Free Software Program, Finds Uses Beyond Search, explains the very interesting history behind Hadoop. What is Hadoop? It’s distributed computing software that enables data mining and analysis on a huge scale. It also, apparently, is an open-source version of proprietary software developed by Google to process and analyze massive volumes of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
WWW2008: Search Research Paper Roundup
A variety of interesting research papers on search have come out of WWW2008, the 17th International World Wide Web Conference. Some I’ve blogged already. Below is a rundown on those and some other papers that may be of interest. For the attention-challenged, I’ve also included my now patented "Twitter" summary for some of the interesting […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Yahoo Search Index Now Supported By Open-Source Hadoop Architecture
As the Yahoo Search Blog explains, open-source Apache Hadoop is now at the center of Yahoo’s search index: We are now using Hadoop to process the Webmap — the application which produces the index from the billions of pages crawled by Yahoo! Search … Our implementation of a Hadoop-based Webmap is part of a larger […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 19, 2008
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, November 14, 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, August 3, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.