The rumors were true. Among a boatload of announcements today Apple is introducing its own mapping product as part of the iOS 6 update, which is available to developers today and will be available to the rest of the iOS-using public “this Fall.” Here’s the short version of what Apple announced: Maps with local 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: Google Finally Takes A Clear Stance On Mobile SEO Practices Today at SMX Advanced during the iSEO panel, Pierre Far, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, announced clear guidelines and recommendations on mobile […]
Later this morning Google is going to hold an event to update us on the current state of all things Google Maps. This is widely seen as a pre-emptive PR strike of sorts against Apple. Next week Cupertino is potentially going to announce its own advanced mapping service as an integral part of iOS 6. […]
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 Fleeting Nature Of Twitter: 17 Percent Of Top Searches Change Every Hour Nearly 20 percent of the top search queries on Twitter at any given moment won’t be a popular […]
The Wall Street Journal has another interesting article this morning about the Google-Apple relationship and the all-but-certain eviction of Google from Maps on the iPhone: Apple could preview the new software, which will be part of its next mobile-operating system, as soon as next week at its annual developer conference in San Francisco . . […]
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 Fleeting Nature Of Twitter: 17 Percent Of Top Searches Change Every Hour Nearly 20 percent of the top search queries on Twitter at any given moment won’t be a popular […]
With its latest iPad — “the new iPad” — Apple introduced voice dictation capability (via Nuance) but not its virtual assistant Siri. Now comes a report that Siri will soon come to the iPad with the iOS 6 update, which is also supposed to mark the debut of Apple Maps/iMaps. Next week is Apple’s WWDC […]
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 Releases Penguin Update 1.1 No matter that it’s late Friday night on the start of a three-day holiday weekend in the U.S., Google has just pushed out the first update […]
Slowly Bing is handing over more of its mapping “back end” functions to Nokia, as part of the deal that brought the two together for the Lumia-Windows Phone partnership. Yesterday Microsoft announced that in 24 countries, including the US and UK, Nokia (Navteq) will be delivering traffic data to Bing Maps. The company also said […]
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 Big Data Changed Crime Fighting & Is Changing The Practice Of SEO In the mid 1990’s, New York city Mayor Rudolph Giuliani introduced a technology-based crime measurement system called CompStat. […]