Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video Earlier in the year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo as the world’s second largest search engine. In June 2011, ComScore reported that in the U.S., […]
The data were coming in all weekend; retail sales on Black Friday broke records this year. Figures released by a varied group of sources, including IBM, the National Retail Federation (NRF), comScore, Channel Advisor and ShopperTrak all reported significant increases in Black Friday consumer spending. Lured by “doorbuster” deals and earlier opening hours, Black Friday […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Mobile Traffic To Retail Sites To Hit 15% During Holiday ’11 More evidence of the growing importance of mobile comes this time from IBM, which predicts that “an unprecedented 15 percent […]
More evidence of the growing importance of mobile comes this time from IBM, which predicts that “an unprecedented 15 percent of people in the U.S. logging onto a retailer’s Web site are expected to do so through a mobile device.” This is based on data analyzed by IBM and collected from the 500 leading US […]
Yesterday Yahoo released Q3 revenues. While they generally met expectations, and operating income came in at the “high end” of Yahoo’s guidance, overall revenues and profit declined: Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,072 million for the third quarter of 2011, a 5 percent decrease from the third quarter of 2010. Income from operations […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing “Action Buttons” Lets You Book Flights, Rent Cars & More Bing announced a new feature in the search results named “Action Buttons.” Action buttons give you quick links to perform […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SMX East 2011 Day Three Recap Day three of the SMX East conference is just about done. Below is some of the live blog coverage I discovered throughout the day. Beyond […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Users Are From Internet Explorer; Google Users From Firefox, Chrome & Safari While almost 75% of Bing visitors in North America use Internet Explorer, only about 40% of Google’s search […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Doctor Is In: Using An Unbranded Health Site Recently, I had an amazing experience. I was invited to be a part of an all agency partner meeting. Throughout the day, […]
Why was he there? Who wasn’t invited and why? What did they talk about? Why was he really there?
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 Congratulates Watson On Twitter; IBM Says Thanks Among those watching IBM’s Watson win Jeopardy last night were folks at Google, which just tweeted congrats over to IBM. In response, IBM […]
Among those watching IBM’s Watson win Jeopardy last night were folks at Google, which just tweeted congrats over to IBM. In response, IBM has said thanks. Ah, sweet.
Like many people, I was amazed to watch IBM’s Watson supercomputer playing Jeopardy this week against past human champions. But could Google have done the same thing? Let’s go behind the scenes of these two search masters to understand what they can — and can’t — do.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The New York Times, Demand Media Edition Demand Media — widely described as a “content farm” — went public yesterday and quickly racked up a valuation higher than the New York […]
Google: Go to the head of the class. Wikipedia: You stay after school for extra tutoring. That seems to be one of the conclusions you can draw from a fun blog post today by Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram. Writing about the Jeopardy battle between past champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and IBM’s Watson computer […]
You’ve had a week to put 2010 in the past and start unpacking 2011. If you’re the type to do so, you’ve probably already made your own marketing resolutions for the new year, or thought about the trends and predictions that might make a difference as the year goes along. You have? Good. So has […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Previews “Rich, Immersive” Search Experience Yahoo previewed a new search experience that’s coming this fall during its Yahoo Product Runway event this morning. The event focused on several Yahoo products, […]
Interbrand released their best global brands report of 2010 and your favorite search engines are all on it. Microsoft is ranked number three, Google is ranked number four and Yahoo is ranked number sixty-six. Coca-Cola and IBM are ranked number one and two, respectively. While Microsoft’s rank remained the same from 2009 to 2010, Google’s […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Gnarly, Dude: Google Solves Rubik’s Cube In 20 Moves This’ll make a lot of us feel a lot dumber: Scientists have used Google to prove that Rubik’s Cube can be solved […]
So, you’ve actually launched a PPC account! Woo-hoo! I think back to that great IBM commercial from a few years ago where an anxious boardroom launches the company website and the first sale appears on the monitor. They all cheer. Then another sale. And another. The boardroom is going wild. And then, the sales counter […]
No, this is not another top-level domain vs. sub domain article but one that goes more to a deeper problem global companies are having with a haphazard approach to their local language content management. I have seen far too many global companies large and small cobble together local language sites that make Frankenstein look like […]
Google has upgraded its “commerce search” offering for retailers, e-commerce sites and manufacturers. Commerce search is a product of the enterprise search team and version 1.0 launched roughly six months ago. Commerce Search 2.0 has more features and the price has been cut in half from $50,000 per year to $25,000 to drive more adoption. […]
Among the major search engines, Microsoft is still the biggest spender when it comes to lobbying politicians, but none are spending lobbying dollars faster than Google. According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Google’s spend on lobbying has gone from $260,000 in 2005 to more than $4 million in 2009, an increase of more […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Logo The Worst Identity of 2009, According To Brand New Under Consideration’s Brand New devision posted their best and worst identities of 2009. Guess who made the top of the […]
Sam Palmissano has transformed IBM over the past decade or so that he’s been in top positions in the company. IBM isn’t just a mainframe hardware company any more—it’s involved in a wide range of businesses, throughout the world, and unlike many tech companies is still growing—and some of the best SEOs in the world […]
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 Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle” Google Social Search is rolling out, a new service from Google that allows you to easily find material written by […]
Microsoft and Yahoo are making it official: a deal about search. And to share the news, they’re gathering thousands of their closest friends to a press conference at 5:30am Pacific time today. Having been awake now for nearly 30 minutes, I’m just itching to get in and live blog this puppy. So come along for […]
The NY Times offers a broad article about Google’s efforts to define, explain and clarify its place in the market in the face of increasing anti-trust scrutiny (Google Makes a Case That It Isn’t So Big). There are currently three Justice Department investigations pending that involve Google, concerning its Book Search settlement, overlapping directors with […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Live Search? Kumo? Bing? Put Your Questions To Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu At SMX Advanced Dr. Qi Lu, the leader of Microsoft’s search efforts, will be keynoting on day two of […]
Peanut butter and jelly. Batman and Robin. Milk and cookies. Some things just naturally go together because they complement one another—I like to think of them as classic combos. They remind me of search and content networks. Though not always used by B2B marketers, the search engines’ content networks can be complementary to existing search efforts, […]
Brian Fetherstonhaugh, Chairman and CEO, OgilvyOne Worldwide will be presenting the keynote address at SMX London next week. We’re extremely excited and honored to have Brian give this talk. He has a unique vantage point on how brands are built, how corporate cultures are created, and what happens as the world goes digital. Brian is […]
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 […]
Maybe that headline overreaches a little but not entirely. For those that have been wondering whether Google’s GrandCentral acquisition, which the company made in mid 2007 and thereafter seemed to neglect, would suffer the same fate as Dodgeball or Jaiku . . . wonder no more. Using the GrandCentral infrastructure, and currently only available to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The rumor becomes reality. Microsoft has named Dr. Qi Lu, formerly of Yahoo, to run its Online Services Group. And Brian McAndrews, as AllThingsD highlights, is leaving Microsoft. More details in the release below:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Mike Blumenthal has been diligently covering how local listings can be hijacked in Google Maps. He’s also been frustrated that Google doesn’t seem to be fixing the local hijacking problem. So, to illustrate the problem, he’s posted how he took over Microsoft’s business listing — turning it into Microsoft Escort Service — and how those […]
As Google turns 10 years old, that important birthday sees the company more powerful than ever before. With its competitors in disarray, the Big G seems likely to grow even further. The secret to its success? For me, it’s what I’ve been calling the “Google Hive Mind. ” Rather than follow a rigid top-down master […]
Can any start-up search engine “be the next Google?” Many have wondered this, and today’s launch of Cuil (pronounced “cool”) may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to be a comprehensive index of the web, offers a unique display presentation, and emerges at a […]
Today’s Search Biz is a nearly all Google column. Barry wrote about departures at Yahoo and Ask, which were originally part of today’s roundup. So today’s column is mostly culled from a series of interviews in which Google CEO Eric Schmidt opines about a range of topics, from Android-iPhone competition to whether Google has become […]