Topic: The Seattle Times

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Bing

Bing Ends Sponsorship Deal With WNBA’s Seattle Storm

After a four-year sponsorship deal with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, the Seattle Times reported yesterday that Bing will no longer be the marquee sponsor for the team co-owned by Microsoft executive Lisa Brummel. The report claimed the deal had been valued at $1 million per year, giving the Bing premium marketing space at Seattle Storm’s Key […]

| May 8, 2014 at 8:02 am ET
Apple

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 10, 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: Tracking Changes To Google’s 50 Webmaster Guidelines Pages Shaun Anderson created a tool to keep track of changes made to 50 of the top Google webmaster guidelines. The tool shows you […]

| Oct 10, 2012 at 5:03 pm ET
Uncategorized

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 25, 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: Google Antitrust “Settlement” Take Two: Not Quite Yet On the basis of statements and representations made in a Financial Times report, I wrote a post yesterday entitled “Google Strikes Antitrust Deal […]

| Jul 25, 2012 at 4:54 pm ET
Apple

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 23, 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: Is SEO Killing America? Last week at the Tools of Change conference, Clay Johnson, author of the new book The Information Diet gave a keynote talk titled “Is SEO Killing America“. […]

| Feb 23, 2012 at 5:08 pm ET
Content

The State of the News Media 2011: Americans Shifting to Online News, Still Only Paying for Print

Everyone knows that print newspaper circulation is declining and consumers are increasing accessing news online. Some may wonder why newspapers are slow to move way from print, but the truth is that print still provides the bulk of newspaper revenue and at this point, print heavily subsidizes online efforts. Print, then, enables newspapers to experiment […]

| Mar 14, 2011 at 3:16 pm ET
Apple

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 25, 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: Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with “shallow” or “low-quality” content. […]

| Feb 25, 2011 at 4:45 pm ET
Apple

Paul Allen Refiles Patent Suit Against Google, Facebook, Yahoo & Others

As expected, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has re-filed his patent infringement lawsuit against some of the biggest companies on the web. The suit alleges that 11 companies have infringed on technology developed in the 1990s by Interval Licensing (AKA Interval Research Corporation), one of Allen’s companies. The 11 companies named in the suit are Google, […]

| Dec 29, 2010 at 12:59 am ET
Bing

Microsoft’s CEO, Ballmer: Google Is “Copying” Us

The Seattle Times Newspaper published an interview with Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer. The interview covered many topics but I wanted to highlight the search specific topics. Ballmer in the interview said, “They’re [Google] starting to look at the stuff we’re doing and copying it back. What is it? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” […]

| Sep 29, 2010 at 9:30 am ET
Apple

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 26, 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 Mobilizes Place Pages for Android Devices Today Google announced upgraded Maps for Android, with the addition of a new mobile version of Places (not to be confused with the Android […]

| Jul 26, 2010 at 4:59 pm ET
Apple

SMX Advanced 2010 Day Two Live Blog Coverage

SMX Advanced 2010 day two is now just about complete and below is the live blog coverage from the day: Microsoft Looks to Broaden Search Role, Wall Street Journal Best of SMX Advanced 2010, Managing Greatness Bing announces new Social vertical, LiveSide Bing loves Apple back: Details of Microsoft’s iPhone ‘partnership’, techflash.com Bing ready to […]

| Jun 9, 2010 at 6:31 pm ET
Bing

Bellevue Building With Bing Lights

The Seattle Times is reporting that a building in Bellevue, specifically around the area of NE 8th St & 112th Ave NE in Washington is lit up with the word Bing. Reportedly, the lights are spread across several stories and in green. It spells out the name of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing. And it’s on […]

| Jan 5, 2010 at 9:13 am ET
Apple

Year In Review: Local Search & Maps

While analysts and practitioners have been prognosticating the imminent arrival of local search for the last several years, 2009 was finally the year that proved us right. A number of innovations and developments in mobile search, such as the widespread adoption of the iPhone, the release of Android, and a burgeoning number of location-based apps […]

| Dec 31, 2009 at 7:00 am ET
Google

Google Builds Out A National Real Estate Search Engine

While the National Association of REALTORS® is planning to launch its own national property database sometime next year, Google seems to have just stolen the NAR’s thunder. How? By rolling out individual “place pages” for every property that’s listed in Google Maps. Like this one for a home in Seattle: The real estate listing place […]

| Nov 20, 2009 at 12:02 am ET
Google Shopping

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 10, 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: SEM Lessons From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall Twenty years ago the fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t just change politics in Europe—it changed Europeans behavior. To this day we […]

| Nov 10, 2009 at 5:32 pm ET
Bing

The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal, In Simple Terms

What a day! Still trying to digest all the news about the Yahoo Microsoft search deal? So are we. While answers are still coming in, here’s what we know so far. NOTE: The deal has now been approved. See Yahoo & Microsoft Receive Go Ahead To Implement Search Deal. In a nutshell, what just happened? […]

| Jul 30, 2009 at 12:06 am ET
Link building

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 14, 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: Report: Google Has Nothing To Fear From Bing Itself The only thing Google has to fear is fear itself. The immortal words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt sum up the findings of […]

| Jul 14, 2009 at 5:01 pm ET
Apple

Google OS Reactions: The Positive, Negative & The Paranoid

Late yesterday Google announced (or finally admitted) that it had developed an operating system, called Chrome OS, not to be confused, exactly, with the related Chrome browser. Everyone and their grandmother seems to have an opinion about it. Here’s a sampling of the reaction, positive, negative and in-between: The fans, boosters and generally positive takes: […]

| Jul 8, 2009 at 7:12 pm ET
Microsoft

Microsoft Goes Social (& Local) With Vine

Microsoft is launching Vine today as a limited beta in Seattle only. It’s an interesting local/social communications and information tool that plays in the same sandbox as both Twitter and Facebook, and also competes to a degree with online news sites. Vine is Windows-only software that’s intended to sit open on your desktop so that […]

| Apr 28, 2009 at 4:22 am ET
Google News

Google News Timeline Offers Powerful Search Options

In addition to the new similar image search, Google has also announced the addition of Google News Timeline as a Google Labs experimental service. Google News Timeline is what it sounds like — a tool that lets you see news coverage over a period of time. A search for “somali pirates” showing weekly coverage looks […]

| Apr 20, 2009 at 5:23 pm ET
Microsoft

Microsoft Demo Fest Shows Off New Ideas, Reporter Not Impressed

Last month, Microsoft researchers from around the world showed off some of their most unique creations at the company’s TechFest 2009 event in Redmond. This month, a smaller group of Microsoft researchers took part in the 5th “Demo Fest” event — a smaller event that’s designed for researchers from adCenter Labs to show off their […]

| Mar 19, 2009 at 1:19 pm ET
Local

Can Newspapers Be Saved?

Have you noticed the number of layoffs being announced by newspapers of late? When the New York Times announced in February 2008 that they were cutting 100 positions from their newsroom, it was a sad moment. A prominent national paper that informs our opinion and dialogue was announcing a cutback. Then the San Francisco Chronicle […]

| Aug 12, 2008 at 12:46 am ET
Google

Google Getting Ready To Partner With Clearwire On Wireless Spectrum Licenses?

Last week Forbes wrote that Google will “definitely” participate, according to CEO Eric Schmidt, in the upcoming 700MHZ wireless spectrum auction. Also last week, Google partner Sprint said that it was ending its relationship with wireless broadband provider Clearwire to build a nationwide WiMax network. (Sprint is a member of the Android Open Handset Alliance.) […]

| Nov 12, 2007 at 8:00 am ET