This day in search marketing history: February 13
Google AMP stories launch, plus: unconfirmed algorithm updates, faceted navigation and infinite scroll, AdWords display URL policy and more.
Topic: Eurekster
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 2, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search 4.0: Social Search Engines & Putting Humans Back In Search
Previously I’ve covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into “regular” web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be used to refine search results.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 23, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Biz: Where’s Eurekster?, Grab Google’s Gazillions?, WiFi “On Steriods,” & Yahoo Readies For Proxy Battle
Google’s recent decision to make its UK keyword bidding policy conform with the US practice of allowing competitors to bid on each other’s brands has drawn ire and threats of legal action. Today brings more such news of potential legal action against Google from a range of travel companies and retailers in the UK.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 28, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
SMX Social: Just What Did Calacanis Say About SEO & More Recaps
At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search, and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took part. Jason had some remarks on SEO that set off the usual wave of upset. But as I […]
SMX Social: Mahalo To Do Microformats, Search Wikia Adds Alpha 0.2 Features & More
News from the first day of our SMX Social Media Marketing conference. Mahalo is now doing microformats as a way to enhance its search results and allow local businesses to be added to your address book. Wikia Search has gone to "Alpha 0.2" with new features. And other conference coverage, below.
Hakia Goes For “Quality” Over “Popularity”
If Hakia were using an automotive analogy, the site might be saying to Google, “We’re BMW, you’re Chevrolet.” The Hakia blog explains how the engine is taking a “quality” approach, trying to assess the credibility of sites in ranking them, together with the help of professional librarians. Hakia specifically discusses this in the context of […]
Preview: Search Engine Land’s SMX Social Media Marketing Conference
Last year in New York, Search Engine Land held its first SMX Social Media Marketing conference. I’ve been organizing conferences for nearly 10 years now, and this one was exceptional, if I say so myself. Every speaker blew me away with great ideas on how to tap into social media to drive traffic and help […]
Google’s Marissa Mayer On Social Search / Search 4.0
VentureBeat has a nice Q&A with Google’s Marissa Mayer on how the search engine is considering using social data to improve its search results — what I’ve described as "Search 4.0" as a generational jump in my Search 3.0 article from earlier this year. Some highlights below:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 14, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Mahalo Adds The Social Graph To Search
Everyone’s been talking about how the social graph is the next evolution of search. Search 4.0. The next step forward after Search 3.0’s blended and personalized search. Today, Mahalo is taking that next step and adding a social layer to their search results. Jason Calacanis, Mahalo founder, says that the problem of search will be […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Eurekster Emerges From Beta A Different Product Than When It Started
Eurekster started life in 2004 as a “personalized search engine” for consumers. How ahead of its time the company was. The idea was to provide a layer of “social search” results on top of the general results. In late 2004 the company announced a partnership with Friendster, then the hot social network, for social search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Blinkx Offers Video Ad Widget, Does Partnership With Social Search Engine Eurekster
On the heels of yesterday’s Google AdSense video announcement, video search engine Blinkx has announced advertising for video using its “AdHoc” contextual ad platform. The difference is that the AdHoc contextual ad widget works with other video players embedded in third-party sites.
The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines
I’m having a bad day. Aside from my desktop crashing, we get another spate of “let’s blame SEO” to start my morning off. Robert Scoble uses that theme as a launching pad for a series of videos on how Facebook potentially could be a killer search engine — regardless of the fact he seems to […]
Return To The Search Engine Shoot-Out
My colleague Chris Sherman briefly looked at the PC World ‘Search Engine Shoot-out’ article the other day, and I also mentioned it in my own weblog. I read through the article briefly, but something about it kept nagging me, so I wanted to go back and look at it in rather more detail. The more […]
The Impending Social Search Inflection Point
Search has changed. Online consumer information retrieval has reached another inflexion point – a shift from pure algorithmic search to social search. Searchers have become increasingly sophisticated, and basic algorithmic web results are getting diluted out of most mainstream search experiences such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask. Search is not solved. At their […]
PreFound Relaunches, Tries To Rise Above Social Search Din
The term “social search” is kind of a catch-all category now for a range of companies that are bringing people back into the algorithm. Not only are these companies seeking to improve search results with humans, they’re trying to differentiate vs. Google from a marketing standpoint on that basis as well. Eurekster, ChaCha, Jimmy Wales’ […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 13, 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, Feb. 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Eurekster Adds More ‘Wiki’ To Swickis
Eurekster, the social-vertical search engine, has introduced some new features that make its flagship product Swickis more social. Swickis are social site-search widgets. Eurekster has added “Q&A” functionality to Swickis and the ability for site users to add links directly into the site’s index. And you can now vote on the relevance of any result […]
Google Ramps Up Personalized Search
Google is stepping up the push into personalized search results. A new change announced today should cause many more people to take up the service. In turn, the growth of personalized search should have a dramatic impact on search marketers as the days of “same results, all around” eventually come to an end. For searchers, […]
Q&A With Stephen Baker, CEO Of Reed Business Search
Reed Elsevier is one of the largest, most influential publishers in the world, a powerhouse in the science and medical, legal, education and business markets. But the company also has a major online presence, with more than 1,000 web sites in just its business group. Last year, Reed Business decided to leverage this significant online […]
Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly
The Wikipedia search engine has arrived — Wikiseek — but it’s not the Wikipedia search engine you’re thinking of. Wikiseek is completely different than the Search Wikia project backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that I wrote about last month. Below, a look at the disappointing new service along with a revisit to how it […]
More Rounds In The “Is SEO Overrated” Debate
The "Is SEO Overrated Or Rocket Science" debate continues. Sigh. OK, I give up. I guess we have to have this every two or three years. All the arguments I’m reading, I’ve read (or made before). But maybe that’s healthy in an industry where you always have new people coming in. I’ll give you the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 15, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Eurekster Swicki Improvements
Eurekster have quietly rolled out some interesting improvements on their swicki system. Swickis are search engines created by individuals and used by groups which learn from their users and deliver more focused and targeted results. There are currently over 40,000 swickis in operation on websites and weblogs, with over 13,000 unique publishers, delivering 21,000,000 searches […]