SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 29, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: IBM
Can Icahn Or Microsoft Stop Google’s “Natural Monopoly”
Reports are that Carl Icahn has acquired about 3 percent of Yahoo’s shares, apparently in hopes of taking over the company. And then? Well, you know — maybe go back to Microsoft. Except Microsoft may no longer want to talk, plus that poison pill of a Google-Yahoo ad deal still lurks out there. More below, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 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, April 16, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Cuill Gets $25 Million In VC Funding
Cuill, the stealth search startup backed by former Google, AltaVista, and IBM search experts, has completed a second round of funding to the tune of $25 million. The round was led by Madrone Capital Partners and follows on a first round of $8 million from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners. From the release:
The Google Quality Raters Handbook
Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site. The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy, and rating the search results. To do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google works and this document […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 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, January 22, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Google Challengers: 2008 Edition
Rich Skrenta — who, aside from creating the first computer virus, is more notable to search as a cofounder of the Open Directory Project and the Topix news search engine — has announced he’s founded a search start-up. A stealth one, as TechCrunch puts it. Don’t we already have several stealth search start-ups? Yep. Here’s […]
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 21, 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, December 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google, “The Cloud,” And The Future Of Computing
In this corner, with a $214 billion market cap, is Google and “The Cloud” (and partners like IBM). In the other, weighing in at $327 billion, is Microsoft and the PC desktop. This is the theme of a Sunday New York Times piece about the high-stakes future of computing. The article explains that “cloud computing” […]
How Changes To The Way Google Handles Subdomains Impact SEO
At Pubcon last week, Matt Cutts mentioned a change in the way Google handles subdomains. To better understand this change and what this means for search marketers, let’s revisit common site structure choices, how they’re handled by Google, and how that impacts SEO.
Google Tweaks “Host Crowding” Algorithm To Reduce Results From Same Domain For Search
Friday I reported that Google would be treating sub domains like sub directories. That turned out not to be 100% true. Matt Cutts clarified at his blog that Google tweaked their “host crowding” algorithm to reduce the amount of search results shown from the same domain. The examples I gave in Friday’s post reflect the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 28, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Are Your Customers Looking For A Problem? Solutions Are Search Marketing!
The main problem with marketing is it’s too much marketing and not enough problem—your customer’s problem. Too often, we focus on our product instead of what our customer needs. Instead of trumpeting how great our products are, the Internet rewards companies that let their customers come to them. And just how do you let your […]
Taking On ARF, Engagement, Interruptive Advertising… And Whatever Else You’ve Got!
In 2005, The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), through their MI4 Initiative, decided to embark on the Quixotic quest of defining engagement. The impetus was finding a more appropriate and applicable metric that could stretch across the rapidly expanding number of channels that were exploding through digital delivery. So, the good folks at ARF assembled a […]
Karen Wickre: Mother Of The Google Blog On Google’s Official Blogging
When Google launched the Official Google Blog back in 2004, it started as sort of a ho-hum event. There wasn’t anything particularly gripping, and some wondered if the company should be more edgy with its posts. Since then, Google has launched more than 70 additional official blogs over the years. Some have gotten edgy; a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart, IBM
Today Google stock crossed the $600 threshold, bringing the company’s market capitalization to $190 billion and change and making the company officially more valuable than FedEx, McDonalds, Coke, Intel, IBM, and Wal-Mart, among others. Microsoft is worth more at $279 billion and Exxon Mobil is worth still more than $502 billion.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google & IBM Team Up On ‘Cloud Computing’ Research
Google announced they have teamed up with IBM to “provide hardware, software, and services to augment university curricula and expand research horizons.” Google and I.B.M. Join in ‘Cloud Computing’ Research from the New York Times explains the two companies are building out a ‘cloud computing’ environment to help students obtain the technical training required to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Launches Presentations App & Ranames “Docs & Spreadsheets” To “Google Docs”
Tonight Google launched its long-awaited presentations tool as part of the ghastly named Docs & Spreadsheets suite. But smartly the company has simultaneously changed the name of Docs & Spreadsheets simply to Google Docs. It could equally have been changed to “Google Office,” however, which the presentation software now appropriately completes.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Office Gains New Enterprise Credibility
Capgemini Backs Google’s Software Push from the Associated Press covers how Paris-based tech and business consultancy CapGemini is going to start recommending and installing Google Apps on enterprise desktops, a move viewed as a big boost for Google’s “office” application aspirations. CapGemini also works with Microsoft and IBM and “influences the type of software used […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Report: Google’s “Brand Value” Increases 44%
Google ‘the most improved brand’ from the BBC covers an Interbrand report showing that Google’s brand has increased in value by 44% over the past 12 months. The 44% increase makes Google the most improved brand when compared to the other brands that were evaluated in this report. Google’s brand is valued at $17.8 billion, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel & Others Join Greener Computing Effort
Google announced that it and many other computer and Internet heavyweights have joined together in the global Climate Savers computing initiative launched by the World Wildlife Federation. The idea is to improve the efficiency of computer hardware and data centers so that they require less power and give off less heat. Here’s the Google Blog […]
Search In Pictures: Google Recruiter, Google Babies, Grady Booch & New Search Construction
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 30, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Ranked “Most Powerful Brand”
Gary Price reports that Millward Brown Optimor’s Brandz Top 100 has ranked Google the most powerful brand, based on the survey’s own methodology of earnings times a “branded multiplier.” The top 10 global brands are:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Teaching Google To See Images
“Image search” is really something of a misnomer, because current generation search engines rely primarily on text to “understand” all types of content, including images. When you search for images on Google, Flickr or most other search engines, they aren’t examining the pixels that make up images. Instead, search engines look for clues that might […]
March 2007: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from March 2007:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Microsoft Inks Distribution Deal With Lenovo
Buyers of Lenovo computers, including ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops, Lenovo 3000 PCs and Lenovo-brand PCs available in China will soon have Windows Live software and and Windows Live Toolbar preinstalled on their machines. This is a minor coup for Microsoft. Lenovo computers (many branded with the IBM logo) previously shipped with the Google Desktop and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: