SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 23, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Netvibes
Hakia Debuts “Digital Newspaper” Start Page
If you’re a general search engine that competes with Google (Yahoo & Microsoft), as you know, it’s very hard to make headway in that game. But if you recharacterize or reposition yourself as other than a “search engine” you might gain some adoption. To some degree that’s what Kosmix did by building out multi-media rich […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 29, 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, June 30, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From My Inbox: Some Search Tools To Check Out
After Yahoo-Microsoft madness, there’s been a bit of a lull so I’m cleaning out my inbox and wanted to mention a few items that might be of interest. Below, a way to quickly search blogs & social media sites all at once, a new video search tool, a study into automatic search queries, an awesome […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 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, January 22, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Engine Land Stats: 2007, In Review
As promised, now that a full calendar year has gone by, it’s time to look at some key stats about how Search Engine Land has grown in various ways over the year. Let’s dive in!
Search News Headlines Application For Facebook
Finally, Barry and I can share an application that we’ve been cooking up — Search News For Facebook. Install this, and by default you’ll get the top headlines from Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable combined, showing on your Facebook profile page. You can also add your own feed or any feeds you like […]
Inbox 2.0: Vision And Perhaps Confusion At Google And Yahoo
A much discussed blog posting this morning comes from Saul Hansell at the New York Times, who spoke to both Google and Yahoo about their plans to turn their email products into social networks, in a manner of speaking: “Inbox 2.0.” The plans discussed in the post suggest some clever and creative thinking about how […]
Search Engine Land’s Blogroll, Sliced, Diced, & Categorized
We’ve had a huge blogroll on Search Engine Land since we started last year. Inspired by some recent posts, I’ve now organized that massive list into categories, to make it easier for those looking to find some good blog reading. Below, a guide to our blogroll, designed to help those who want to seek out […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 23, 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, July 3, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Buttons, Buttons — Let’s Clean Up The Feed Buttons!
As part of adding our new "Lands" tabs to Search Engine Land last month, I cleaned up our feed page that helps people understand how to add our feeds to various feed readers. The biggest challenge was dealing with the inconsistent sizes of feed buttons from the different providers. I wanted to share how we […]
AOL’s Truveo Builds Video Search Network With 40 Million Users
Video search engine Truveo, acquired by AOL in late 2005, announced that it now has a user base of almost 40 million monthly uniques (per comScore). This is not at Truveo.com but across a diverse network of partner sites, which it powers. The company also said that since late last year it has seen 50 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
iGoogle, Personalized Search And You
Yesterday was “Google Personalization Day” for me and a number of others who attended a meeting at Google with Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience, as well as Google Personalization Technical Lead Sep Kamvar and iGoogle Product Manager Jessica Ewing. Barry has captured much of the factual information coming out of the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Offers ‘Themes’ For Personalized Homepage
There’s a flurry of activity in the newly invigorated personalized homepage category. Within the past two weeks all the major competitors have made announcements. First, AOL launched MyNetscape, followed by the release of “universal video widgets” on Pageflakes. Then the new MyYahoo launched. Yesterday Netvibes unveiled “Coriander,” its next product release with new content modules. […]
Revamped My Yahoo Launches Amid Intensifying Competition
Read/WriteWeb has a good overview of the just yesterday relaunched (ahead of schedule) new, more ajaxified MyYahoo. There are a number of improvements and upgrades: * Pre-built personalized pages * Category pages for topics and “content suggestions” * Further customization of their page with drag-and-drop modules * Feed previews and a full post reader on […]
My Yahoo Update Coming In “Few Weeks”
PC World reports that My Yahoo will be launching an updated version within a few weeks. The reports do not specify exactly what we will see from the upgrade, but I am suspecting we may just see an enhanced RSS reader built into the portal.
February 2007: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from February 2007:
The Numbers Behind Your Feeds
FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market at FeedBurner’s blog gives us a detailed look at the numbers and statistics behind your feeds. With the recent adoption of Google Reader subscriber numbers, many bloggers have seen their “subscribers” and other feed stats spike up. In fact, we learn from FeedBurner’s post that overall; publishers noticed an […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Will Google Remain ‘The Start Page For The Internet’?
This subject is worthy of perhaps a 10,000 word New Yorker article. But this will just be a relatively short post based on some thinking following a meeting with Netvibes CEO Tariq Krim in San Francisco the other day.
Search Engine Land: January 2007 Statistics Review
Time for the second monthly update on how Search Engine Land is growing. As I said with my review of December 2006 traffic, I hope our traffic statistics will be both interesting and also provide helpful tips to other search marketers. This review especially covers social media sites as a driver of traffic. It also […]
News Search + Personalization + Social Media = Wikio
Wikio is a relatively new startup that blends articles from major news web sites and blogs with commentary and tags from Wikio users. It also offers powerful search and customization options that go beyond what you find at most other “media harvesting” sites on the web. Google News offers personalization, but doesn’t let you choose […]
Dan Cohen, Ex-Yahoo Lead, New CEO of Pageflakes
Ex-Yahoo Exec now Pageflakes CEO by Om Malik reports that Dan Cohen, who was the Head of My Yahoo business unit, left Yahoo to become the CEO of Pageflakes. Gary Price recently reviewed Pageflakes, describing it as an easy and free way to “build a dynamic personalized home/start page.” It is a lot like Google […]
Search Engine Land Stats: December 2006 Preview
I’ve been trained from internet birth that site stats are a precious thing, never to be shared. Well, not trained, but somehow I got it in my head. It’s somewhat silly, given that any site that carries advertising often reveals this information in their media kit anyway. With Search Engine Land being all new, a […]