The Google LatLong blog announced that Google Transit now supports certain areas in Europe. Google Transit is a tool to help you find public transportation options for your trip or commute. Google Transit supports travel southeast of the UK, SBB, Switzerland, VBZ, Zurich, Switzerland, Turin, Italy, and Florence, Italy. Yes, Google Maps and Google Transit […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Multilingual Search Blog posted their Global Search Report 2007 today. It is a compilation of search engine usage and PPC statistics from countries around the world. The report covers 16 counties, including Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic | Slovakia, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia | Ukraine, South Korea, Spain, The Netherlands, and the […]
In honor of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti’s birthday, Google has replaced the “l” in their logo with with a cartoon Pavarotti singing (opera, one would assume, although maybe it’s a Britney Spears cover). Pavarotti’s Wikipedia has already been updated to note the honor. The Google logo links to a search for “Luciano Pavarotti“, which returns […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
After a period of beta testing, Google is rolling out AdSense For Mobile in 13 countries: US, England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, India, China, and Japan. Much like AdSense on the desktop, it’s aimed at publishers and site owners and intended to extend Google ad penetration farther into the mobile Internet.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at one point that one of the reasons Google wanted to get into radio advertising was that the company couldn’t reach users during the morning or afternoon commutes. That’s all changing very quickly. Both Google and Yahoo have almost simultaneously announced in-car mapping and local search functionality.
Google just reported Q2 revenues: “Google reported revenues of $3.87 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, representing a 58% increase over second quarter 2006 revenues of $2.46 billion and a 6% increase over first quarter 2007 revenues of $3.66 billion.” Revenues were somewhat short of high-end Wall Street expectations and shares were down […]
The Google Lat Long Blog announced a new feature available on Google Maps that enables you to add “Mapplets” directly on the “My Maps” section. These Mapplets, often referred to as mashups, allow you to add data on top of the maps. Some of the data overlays include real estate listings, jogging trails, events and […]
Yahoo Go 2.0 and related mobile oneSearch offerings are coming out of beta this Friday and going into “general availability” in the U.S. While consumers pay no attention to these distinctions — alpha, beta, gamma and so on — it signals Yahoo’s confidence in the product. Simultaneously, nation-specific versions of Go will be released in […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
YouTube, until now a single site serving a worldwide audience, now has gained country-specific versions for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom. For the initial launch, the sites have been translated into each country’s language and have gained localized home pages. Over time, YouTube-owner Google promises to make […]
American journalists and news reporters never reveal their sources. Google News follows suit, nowhere providing a list of the more than 4,500 English language news sources it claims to track. However, Henk van Ess, an investigative journalist from the Netherlands, offers a service that reveals the names of 1,256 news sources used by Google News […]
It’s Searchology Day today at Google, where the company is devoting time to look at the past, present and future of search at Google. There will be a number of significant announcements coming out of the event. Want to keep up? Stay tuned to this page. We’ll keep it updated with a summary of major […]
Although Microsoft might disagree, Yahoo was really the company that kicked off the dynamic mapping arms race back in March of 2004 with the introduction of a feature called “SmartView” ( a version of it still exists on Yahoo Maps “dial-up” presentation). SmartView enabled users of Yahoo Maps to conduct map-based searches using category buttons […]
Yahoo isn’t waiting for consumers to download its mobile application Go or for handset makers to distribute it. The company is stepping up its push to make Go’s central feature, oneSearch, available via any Web-enabled mobile phone. This evening Yahoo oneSearch, which launched in the U.S. in March, replaces existing Yahoo mobile search in five […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Pagebull is a visual search engine in the sense that it displays search results simply by visually displaying page thumbnails, highlighting the term(s) searched on. Some search options are available – limiting to particular country results (currently Any, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, UK, USA) being the main one, though you can […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: