Topic: Empire State Building

Google’s Knowledge Graph Gets Smarter With Comparisons & Filters

Google’s Knowledge Graph is a little smarter today with the addition of filters and a way to compare two Knowledge Graph items side-by-side. These are some of the Google search updates that the company announced today at a media event celebrating its 15th birthday, and explained in more detail on Google’s Inside Search blog. Knowledge […]

Google Buys New York City Office Building For $1.9 Billion

Google to Buy New York Office Building from the Wall Street Journal reports Google has signed the deal to buy the NYC office building they currently lease for close to $1.9 billion. This was an expected move by Google, who currently leases about 2 or 3 of the floors of the massive building. The building […]

Google May Buy New York Office Building

Google’s big buy by the New York Post reports Google may shell out $2 billion to buy the New York office building they currently rent a portion of. The building is well known, previously the home of the Port Authority, with space of about 2.9 million square feet. It fills an entire city block, from […]

Google New York Expanding

The New York Observer reports Google is expanding their already humongous New York office by 57,000 square feet. Google leased two floors of the old Port Authority building on 76 Ninth Avenue, between 15th and 16th street, spanning from 8th to 9th avenue, back in 2006. The building spans a complete avenue and Googlers are […]

SEO For Semantic Search Engines

A new generation of search engines is starting to become publicly available, so it’s time to start thinking about how it will affect SEO efforts. The new search engines I’m talking about are the semantic search engines, meaning they are search engines that can be queried using natural language (not keywords like when using Google). […]

Google Adds Street Views To Step-By-Step Driving Directions

The Google LatLong Blog announced that you can now see street views turn-by-turn (when available) when you are seeking out driving directions via Google Maps. For example, when driving from the Empire State Building to Times Square, you can see that Google has street views available for every turn. A camera icon next to each […]

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Yahoo Maps Get A Makeover

Although Microsoft might disagree, Yahoo was really the company that kicked off the dynamic mapping arms race back in March of 2004 with the introduction of a feature called “SmartView” ( a version of it still exists on Yahoo Maps “dial-up” presentation). SmartView enabled users of Yahoo Maps to conduct map-based searches using category buttons […]

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Searcharazzi: Google Hearts DoubleClick

Searcharazzi asks: Why must all the good rumors come out on Friday afternoon? Today’s announcement that Google has indeed acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cold hard cash puts to shame even the juiciest details from this week’s SES New York show – from Reprise Media’s announcement that it was picked up by IPG to […]