Topic: Star Trek: The Original Series

Searching For The Voice Of Siri: Voiceover Actor Susan Bennett Says, “It’s Obviously Me”

A story on CNN.com claims that Atlanta voiceover professional Susan Bennett is the original voice of Siri, Apple’s iPhone voice application. According to the story, Bennett did voice work for the software company ScanSoft in 2005. CNN says ScanSoft was then purchased by Nuance Communications, a company that is credited with providing Apple the technology […]

Shatner’s Tweet Hints That He May Like Bing Just As Much As Bing Likes Captain Kirk

In a brief exchange on Twitter yesterday evening, the original Captain Kirk gave Bing a shout-out, recommending the Microsoft search engine could possibly enlighten a fellow Twitter user. William Shatner responded “I hear Google pr Bing helps with that problem” after @Andypops1 tweeted on Shatner’s feed, “I still have no idea what spumoni is.” Assuming […]

Growth Of Mobile Search “Like Seeing My Second Child Grow” Says Google Search Chief At #SXSW

The growth of mobile search is like seeing a second child grow up. SEO isn’t bull. The knowledge graph, speech recognition and natural language are search’s biggest challenges. And, he really, really likes Star Trek. That’s just some of what the head of Google’s search efforts, Amit Singhal, shared when talking at SXSW today. Singhal is […]

The Google (George) Ferris Wheel Logo

Featured on Google home pages worldwide today is an ultra special Google Doodle not just for Valentine’s Day but also for the 154th birthday of George W.G. Ferris Jr., the inventor of the Ferris Wheel. This year’s Google Valentine’s Day logo has tons of layers behind it. It is a Valentine’s Day logo, it is […]

Play The Frank Zamboni Google Doodle

Google has a special worldwide logo, aka Doodle, for Frank Zamboni’s 112th birthday. The interactive Doodle allows searchers to play the Zamboni game by cleaning the ice after it is being used by children, hockey players and ice dancers. Frank Zamboni invented the Zamboni ice resurfacer in 1949, and it’s found on virtually every ice […]

Google’s Doodle Of Doodles For New Years Eve 2012

If you visit Google today, New Years Eve, you will see a very busy Google logo. The logo makes up many of the best Google Doodles created in 2012. In a sense, it is a Google Doodle of Google Doodles. The Google Logo links to the specific Google Doodles directly in the Google Doodle Directory. […]

SEO

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 7, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Tablets Use Bing As Default Search Engine Ubergizmo is reporting that Bing (not Google) will be the default search engine for the Amazon browser on the new […]

Live Blogging: Interview with Amit Singhal, Google Fellow

Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman are on the stage at SMX London to interview Amit Singhal. Amit is a Google Fellow, a honorary title reserved for Google’s most accomplished engineers, and he has spearheaded Google’s core ranking team since 2000. He’s also a key influencer of Search Plus Your World, Google’s search experience centered around […]

WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!

The Wall Street Journal is out with a story saying that Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history of offering web search, providing more direct answers and gaining “semantic” smarts to understand more about what words mean. I’m scratching my head, since Google already does this. Methinks Google’s PR […]

Interesting Quotes From Google’s Search Lead, Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal is the man who is responsible for Google web search. All the searches done on Google are technically under his watch. So when an interview was posted named The human search engine, where Mark Prigg from the London Evening Standard interviewed Amit Singhal, I got excited. The interview shares some insights into Amit’s […]

YouTube Gets Full-Length TV Shows, Click-To-Buy Options

YouTube has experimented with long-form content in the past. However, the site is now rolling out full-length episodes of vintage TV shows like Star Trek, MacGyver, and the not-so-vintage Beverly Hills 90210. Users can also watch these in the recently introduced “theater view,” featuring an expanded player that looks similar to the Hulu player.