SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 26, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Gmail
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Japan Adds Tabs In New Design
Google Blogoscoped reports Google Japan has a new design being pushed out to their users. The new design can be seen at this IP location and contains tab links to other Google properties. Here is a screen capture of the new design:
Search Biz: Alibaba Gains, Google Loses, & Eric Schmidt Says Don’t Call Me Daddy Anymore
China’s Alibaba.com, in which Yahoo is a significant minority shareholder, enjoyed a massive 340 percent gain in net profit tied to China’s fast-growing economy. As Google argued earlier, it appears that those doing business in Asia and China in particular are somewhat insulated from the United States’ economic woes.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 14, 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, March 10, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 7, 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, March 5, 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, March 4, 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, February 28, 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, February 27, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Takes Top Prize At SMX Search Bowl
Last night was the first ever SMX Search Bowl. Basically, the Search Engine Land team created fifty questions that were asked to the various teams. The teams consisted of two players from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live Search, and the SEM All Star team. Danny displayed the questions on the screen and the first team to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 26, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Talk / Gmail Adds Live Chat & Invisible Mode Features
Google Talk has announced a couple new features, including Google Talk Chatback and invisible mode. The first feature is similar to a live chat box that you can add to any web page and chat with anyone via your Google Talk or Gmail account. Google calls the feature “chatback,” and it allows anyone, even without […]
Google Joins “Unity” Undersea Cable Consortium For More Transpacific Bandwidth
Google has joined a consortium of Asian companies, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet, and SingTel, to build an undersea transpacific fiber optic cable that will provide much greater bandwidth capacity between the United States and Japan. According to the press release, the cost of the new “Unity” cable effort will be $300 million. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 21, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Gmail User Gains Access To 30 Other Gmail Accounts Due To ISP Caching Glitch
Google says ISP glitch exposes Gmail data in Kuwait from News.com has confirmed reports that a Gmail user in Kuwait has inadvertently accessed about 30 Gmail accounts that were not his. Supposedly, he also accessed an email that had “keycodes for some embassy gate.” Whose fault is this? Not Google! A Kuwaiti ISP was having […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 18, 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, February 14, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 12, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
January 2008: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from January 2008:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 4, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 1, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 31, 2008
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Google Revenues Up 51 Percent, Social Networking Monetization “Disappointing”
Google posted Q4, 2007 revenues that represented 51 percent growth vs. 2006. Quarterly revenues were $4.83 billion, compared with $3.21 billion a year ago. However, earnings and revenue per share fell short of analyst consensus estimates. The headline that everyone is repeating is that social network monetization is not performing as well as hoped by […]
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 30, 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, January 29, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 28, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
DoCoMo And Google In Japanese Mobile Partnership
Reuters and InfoWorld describe a new partnership between Japan’s largest wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo, and Google. NTT DoCoMo is a member of the Google-sponsored Open Handset Alliance, as is Japan’s number two carrier, KDDI, which is a Google partner as well.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 21, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 16, 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, January 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Loves The iPhone, But Google’s Eric Schmidt Won’t “Talk” About It
MacWorld starts today in San Francisco, and there probably won’t be any announcement to equal the iPhone, which continues to reverberate across the mobile landscape. Google, in particular, continues to reap dividends from its suite of iPhone apps, a new version of which is launching today according to both the NY Times and CNet. The […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Mahalo Adds More Social Features
Mahalo has just launched several new features that entwine the human-powered search engine even further into social networking and online community building. The Mahalo Follow toolbar now enables you to post links to Delicious, Ma.gnolia, Mahalo Social, and Twitter with the click of one button. The sidebar now displays quick tips when you’re on sites […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 4, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Googlebot In Aisle Three: How Google Plans To Index The World?
Robots reading cereal boxes in the supermarket? Googlebot at the art museum? Street signs and building addresses snatched from Street View images for local search, image search, and product search? Three new patent applications published at the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office this week explore the intricacies of reading text in images taken from Google’s […]