SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 12, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
User-Driven News More Diverse Than Mainstream Coverage
In this era of fragmented audiences, with newspaper journalism feeling the pressure of blogs and the Internet more generally, the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) undertook a study comparing mainstream media coverage of news with user-driven news and content sites Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. The authors of the study also compared Yahoo News editors […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Screenshots: The New Delicious
If everyone else is pushing out the quick previews of the new Delicious, hey, we’ll add to the screenshot fodder for now. These are from an invite-only preview now out. There’s no set launch date for the public beta, but Delicious founder Joshua Schachter emailed those in the invite with, "While we still have a […]
Search & Serendipity: Finding More When You Know Less
Today, Just Behave welcomes the second of our guest columnists, Larry Cornett, Vice President of Search Experience at Yahoo.—Gord Hotchkiss Where do you go to get your daily fix of fresh information? If you are like millions of other users out there, you hit sites like Digg, Delicious, Techmeme, or just open your favorite RSS […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 10, 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 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Spot Trends With SEOmoz’s Popular Searches Tool
To spot popular search trends, you can always use our list of search research resources. But want to look across a range of various “What’s Hot” reports? Try SEOmoz’s new Popular Searches tool. As SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin explains, explains the new tool aggregates data from several places that document “rising trends and consistently buzz-worthy terms […]
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.
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 […]
Yahoo Search VP Andrew Braccia Resigns
Yahoo loses VP of consumer search, to Accel Partners from VentureBeat reports that a major Yahoo asset has left to join a venture capital firm named Accel Partners. Andrew Braccia was Yahoo’s vice president of consumer web search. He worked under Jeff Weiner for six years and was responsible for Yahoo Answers, the integration of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 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, April 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Del.icio.us Improves Firefox Bookmarks Extension
The del.icio.us blog announced an upgrade to their Firefox extension that enables the easy bookmarking of pages. The changes include: Searching and browsing your bookmarks can be done directly in your Firefox browser You can edit your bookmarks within Firefox You can define which tags to display in the Firefox toolbar also For a full […]
Yahoo Adds Networking Features To Answers
Yahoo has added a social networking feature to its Answers service, allowing you to add Yahoo Answers users to your own personal collection of contacts, providing direct access to the questions they ask, answer, and star on Answers. “This allows you to identify individuals on Answers whose knowledge you value and make them part of […]
Social Media Not Converting? Put Down The Shotgun & Use A Rifle!
One of the most frequently asked question I get about social media marketing is "Should we try and market to all social media sites or just focus on certain ones?" There are a couple ways to answer that question, and it really depends on a lot of factors. In my opinion, it makes more sense […]
Search Engine Land: January 2007 Statistics Review
Time for the second monthly update on how Search Engine Land is growing. As I said with my review of December 2006 traffic, I hope our traffic statistics will be both interesting and also provide helpful tips to other search marketers. This review especially covers social media sites as a driver of traffic. It also […]
Will Tagging Replace The Dewey Decimal System?
I’ve long held the view that while tagging can be useful for improving some types of searches, tagging also has problems that can inject noise or ambiguity and actually muddy search results. Nonetheless, tagging is clearly not a fad, and it may even eventually replace hierarchal indexing systems used by most libraries, according to new […]
New Yahoo ‘OurCity’ Local Mashups
Om Malik writes about Yahoo testing new local mashups (called “OurCity”) in India, involving content from Flickr, Del.icio.us, Upcoming and news. As Om points out, what’s missing is maps (and maybe video). But this is an interesting further push into community/social media in the local space for Yahoo. The interface is fresher and more visual […]
Yahoo To Build “Brand Universe” To Connect Entertainment Brands
Yahoo Planning to Add 100 Web Sites for Entertainment at the New York Times reports that Yahoo is undertaking a new microsite effort named “Brand Universe.” Brand Universe will create about 100 web sites built around entertainment brands and pull together content from various Yahoo properties. One such site for the Nintendo Wii can be […]
Q&A With Gabe Rivera, Creator Of Techmeme
Over the past decade, I’ve seen a lot of search tools that were supposed to transform my life. Few of them have. But Techmeme was one of those. When it kicked off back in September 2005, I wrote a review, gave it a preliminary thumbs-up and soon found myself addicted. It has become my newspaper, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 15, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Tagging Isn’t Indexing: A Study of Del.icio.us Tagging
Have you ever tagged an image in Flickr, a link in Del.icio.us, a video in YouTube? Have you used tags in these systems to find similar pictures or pages or videos? Is tagging is taking indexing away from professional indexers, and putting it into the hands of amateurs. Have you used a tag to indicate […]
New Delicious Tagometer Badge
Yahoo’s Delicious has rolled out a new Tagometer allowing people to better bookmark your pages plus see how they have been tagged. In addition, it shows the number of others who have save a page — reminiscent of Digg’s Digg Count button.