This day in search marketing history: January 5
Google AdWords introduces click-to-call ads, plus: IndexNow WordPress plugin, AdWords 2x budget change, search being solved and more.
Topic: OnStar
NORAD Santa Tracker Starts Its Countdown
Celebrating its 60th anniversary, this year's NORAD Santa Tracker program includes a website with holiday-themed games, movies and music.
GM Turning Its Cars Into Rolling (Local) Search Engines
Company hopes that 4G LTE will attract and retain OnStar subscribers.
TomTom And deCarta Join Forces To Take On Google Maps
Personal navigation device (PND) and maps provider TomTom teamed up with independent mapping and local search company deCarta to offer developers an “end-to-end” alternative to Google Maps. The new joint offering provides connected mapping and navigation, local search and real-time traffic to enterprises and developers. Kim Fennell, CEO of deCarta, laid out for me last week the […]
Bitly Launches Search Platform & Reputation Monitoring For Shortened Links
Bitly currently is the leader in shortned URLs, minimizing 80 million URLs each day. Not only is Bitly shrinking URLs, but they are now “crawling & classifying” each shortened URL thanks to a a new social search platform. An index has since been created that will allow searchers to view the most distributed, viral and highest clicked links […]
Google Maps “Send To Car” Running Out Of Gas?
There have been a number of comments in forums and tweets that people aren’t seeing the Google Maps’ “send to car” option any longer. The following comment is representative: The send to car option is gone from the Google Maps Beta: there is only a send to email and send to phone option. Is it […]
Bing Scores First In-Car Search Deal With Toyota
Bing has landed its first deal to provide in-car search capabilities with today’s announcement of Toyota Entune at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Entune is Toyota’s new navigation system, a combination in-car hardware and mobile phone application that will be available in select Toyota vehicles later this year. Entune features Bing for Mobile […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 8, 2010
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 Instant Search: The Complete User’s Guide Google Instant promises to change the way people search. Speaking at today’s announcement, Google’s Marissa Mayer called it a “fundamental shift in search.” As […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 30, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Send To TomTom: Google Maps Partners With Personal Nav Device Maker
TomTom, the maker of personal and in-car navigation devices that just won a bidding war ($4.2 billion, 2.9 billion euros) with competitor Garmin for digital mapping provider TeleAtlas, has announced a partnership with Google. Google Maps will now give users the option to send maps or business listings to TomTom devices. Google (and Yahoo) already […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
MapQuest Partners With GM’s OnStar For ‘Send to Car’ Directions
General Motors’ OnStar Division and MapQuest have announced a partnership (see the video and related info on how it works) that allows OnStar subscribers to plan their trips via MapQuest and then send those directions to their cars. The service is called “Web Destination Entry” and will reportedly be made available to roughly 2 million […]