How many users does Clubhouse have? 40+ Clubhouse stats
List of key Clubhouse stats, with a focus on users and user growth.
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Perplexity AI user and revenue statistics
Perplexity is one of the fastest-growing AI search engines. We break down the latest Perplexity stats, including growth, revenue, and more.
Why frontloading your ad spend usually backfires
Launching with a bigger budget doesn't guarantee faster growth. Here's how to build momentum without wasting spend.
GEO startup Lorelight shuts down: ‘The problem didn’t need solving’
Lorelight’s closure has SEOs saying GEO is just SEO. Maybe. But that might just be the hype cycle doing its usual crash-and-correct.
Should your early-stage start-up invest in SEO? 4 questions to address
Choosing between SEO and PPC? Assess your startup’s needs with these key questions and make the right choice for driving early growth.
SearchBot: Executive/C-suite
I’ve been “pre-prompted” as a senior exec (CEO/CFO/COO/CMO, etc.) expert with decades of experience launching, growing, and managing companies of all sizes. I advise founders, CEOs, and teams on how to engage with C-suite and leadership roles and can provide guidance, mentorship, and feedback from that perspective. If you want to see my full context […]
AI-powered content marketing: A startup’s guide to success
Discover how to leverage AI to create compelling content, improve efficiency, and connect with your startup’s audience.
Web Hosting Recommendation: Bluehost
In case you were wondering: There are no affiliate links on this page. Everything that is written on this Product Recommendation page is the writer’s honest opinion. For small businesses and startups looking for a host for their website, Bluehost is a great choice. It’s incredibly simple to use, it’s good value, and has great […]
Preparing to relaunch, Jelly wants to bring “humanity” back to search
In SXSW conversation Jelly founder Biz Stone discussed #NextSearch with Danny Sullivan and teased the relaunch of his social answers engine.
It Will Take “Act Of God” For Relcy To Win In Mobile Search
Last week TechCrunch profiled a “stealth” startup called Relcy, which is seeking to build a “native” search engine for mobile. The post mentions the company has raised $9 million in funding so far. In an interview with the site, founder Rohit Satapathy says his company is developing a “PageRank” style approach to mobile search but […]
Introducing Trove: Already The Best Facebook Search Around & Set To Tackle Other Social Networks Next
It’s no secret that Facebook’s existing search engine is bad; that drum has been beaten to death. But you don’t have to wait for Facebook to make it better; there’s a pretty darn good Facebook search engine out there now. It’s called Trove, and it’s officially launching on Tuesday. But you can connect your Facebook […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 11, 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: Must-Have Browser Tools For Link Builders Of all the tasks associated with content advocacy (I have never actually liked the term link building, and my business card has never included those […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 12, 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: A Google Marketplace? New Google Shopping Is One Indicator Imagine if Mall of America had unlimited space and let all merchants setup shop for free. Now imagine if Mall of America […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 22, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Blekko Expands: Bigger Index, More Slashtags & New Design Blekko is closing out 2011 with a round of updates that affect the search engine’s front- and back-end — both how it […]
Google Takes Top Floor In Silicon Roundabout & Builds Three Data Centers In Asia
Google boosts London’s Silicon Roundabout from BBC News reports Google has signed a ten year deal to lease the entire top floor of the seven floor building in what is known as the Silicon Roundabout. The Silicon Roundabout currently has about 300 firms in the area and it is located in the Old Street area […]
Facebook To Step Up Acquisitions: Report
There was a time before the “Great Recession” when a cluster of companies were seemingly always bidding against one another to acquire the hot startup of the month. The core of that group consisted of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, AOL and News Corp. But while AOL and Yahoo still buy companies — AOL bought HuffingtonPost […]
Amazing Early Google Video Shows Boyish Larry & Sergey, Bored Employees Who Would Become Millionaires
With management changes and numerous other efforts Google is trying to “get back to its startup roots.” So how about a video from when Google was really a startup. On the Xooglers blog (and below) is a video of a “TGIF meeting.” Taken in 1999 by Doug Edwards, who was then the director of consumer […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 16, 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: Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs – Maybe Delicious & AltaVista News is traveling fast about a leaked slide from a Yahoo “all hands” meeting earlier this week that listed several […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 3, 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: Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else’s ad network — Twitter’s, as Google integrates Twitter’s new Promoted Tweets into […]
Report: Google Buying Social Calendar, Acquisition Count Dwarfs Rivals
It’s being reported this morning that Google is buying a “social calendar” for mobile devices called Plannr (we’re back to the heady vowel-free days). There have been a number of largely unsuccessful efforts to create group or social calendars in the past and there are several existing competitors in the segment, most notably Plancast. The […]
And The Winner Is: Search’s Rich List + Most Valuable “Startups”
People love lists. Publishers love lists too because they sell copies of traditional print newspapers and magazines and, online, they generate lots of clicks and page views. For example, the HuffingtonPost has become a veritable archive of slideshows: “the 10 best places to live,” the “hottest beach bods of the summer” and so on. US […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 11, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Furor Over Google CEO’s Comments On Privacy One of the big themes of the week is privacy. Facebook just did a major overhaul of its privacy settings to promote more public […]
A Services “Open Table,” RedBeacon Wins TC50’s Top Prize
Startup RedBeacon, a self-described “Open Table for service businesses,” has won TechCrunch 50’s top prize and $50,000. I wasn’t at TC50 but I watched the demo pitch on video. RedBeacon is the just the latest startup to take aim at the massive local services segment. The demo was elegant and the theory behind the site […]
Collecta And CrowdEye Join The “Real Time” Search Club
This morning there are two new entrants in the “real-time” search derby, run by two search veterans. They are CrowdEye and Collecta. CrowdEye is from Ken Moss, who ran search engineering at Microsoft and built the new engine himself. At the helm of Collecta is Gerry Campbell, who was a search executive at AOL and […]
Where Have All The Xooglers Gone?
Esquire explores what it calls “the Google Diaspora,” chronicling the departures of some of Google’s higher profile employees. There’s a lot of color but nothing really new here. In one sense the real story, which the magazine partly acknowledges, is how the company has managed to hold on to so many folks given the inclination […]
Former Googlers Ready Mechanical Zoo Social Recommendations Engine
CNET writes about a new “stealth startup” from former Google News product manager Nathan Stoll. The new site “Mechanical Zoo” is reportedly in alpha right now. Here’s how CNET’s Stefanie Olson describes its intended function:
Microsoft Live Search Core Relevance Program Management Director Eytan Seidman Moves On
Eytan Seidman, Program Management Director over core relevance for Microsoft Live Search, is leaving Microsoft (and Seattle) after six and a half years and heading to New York to work on a start up with his brother. I talked to him about life at Microsoft, the birth of Live Search, and singing karaoke in New […]
The Google Challengers: 2008 Edition
Rich Skrenta — who, aside from creating the first computer virus, is more notable to search as a cofounder of the Open Directory Project and the Topix news search engine — has announced he’s founded a search start-up. A stealth one, as TechCrunch puts it. Don’t we already have several stealth search start-ups? Yep. Here’s […]
Local Classifieds Site Edgeio Shutting Down
According to TechCrunch, classifieds site Edgeio is shutting down after having run out of money. The site was targeting a global audience but was fundamentally local. Edgeio competitor Oodle recently redesigned and appears to be doing well. And the classifieds category continues to gain traffic.
“What’s Open” The First Android App?
ValleyWag speculates that a local search startup called “What’s Open” has written the first Android application. The site has some screenshots, which suggest a fairly familiar local search tool, with a map and some social networking features. The differentiator is likely — as the name suggests — data about what local stores and businesses are […]
Dodgeball Founders Crowley & Rainert Quit Google In Frustration
Dennis Crowley, cofounder of Dodgeball, which was acquired by Google in May 2005, has announced his resignation and that of Dodgeball’s other cofounder Alex Rainert:
Top 25 Web 2.0 Start Ups To Watch
The Next Net 25 by Business 2.0 ranks the top 25 up and coming Web 2.0 for this year. Here is the ordered list:
Google To Invest In Indian Companies Via Seedfund
Google to Fund Indian Startups by Red Herring, reports that Google is to hand over undisclosed amount to Seedfund, to indirectly invest in technology in India. Both Google and Seedfund have not confirmed this but Samir Sood, Corporate Development, Google, who heads the Venture Investments and M&A team of Google in India, said, “I am […]
Yahoo’s Anti-Spam Guy Tim Converse Leaving
Yahoo’s lost a number of executives over the past year to small start-ups. Now count another one, especially close to home for search marketers. Tim Converse, the engineering manager who leads anti-spam efforts at Yahoo, is moving on to a start-up himself. Tim writes on his personal blog: