SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Virtual world
Google Kills Lively
The Google Blog announced they will be discontinuing Lively, Google’s Virtual World project. In short, they said that Lively is simply “not going to pay off” and that they will be closing it down by the end of December.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Lively New Virtual World From Google
In a way, it’s very un-Google. The new Lively 3D “virtual world” that launched today is perhaps another run at social networking after the mixed experience of Orkut (popular in Brazil and India, among a few other places). Apparently aimed at teens and even tweens cutting their virtual teeth on sites like Webkinz and Club […]
Six Minutes With Former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone
AllThingD’s Kara Swisher does a wide ranging video interview with former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone. Among other things, Swisher and Lanzone discuss “the future of search” (at only the very highest level, however).
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 4, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Coke Opens CC Metro, A Virtual Island In Virtual World There.com
Beverage maker and uber-brand Coke has had a few false starts in “social media.” Not long ago it ended “The Coke Show,” a video-centric platform that was intended to engage consumers and support user-generated content. Most recently, the company opted out of Facebook’s Beacon program amid the controversy surrounding involuntary tracking of user behavior on […]
YouTube Comes To Google Earth; Pity YouTube Itself Doesn’t Offer Geosearch
I just posted a bunch of videos to YouTube yesterday of skating down the boardwalk in Newport Beach. Maybe one day they’ll show up in Google Earth. That’s because Google Earth is now showing video clips that have been geotagged to particular areas, according to Google’s LatLong Blog. To find them, click Featured Content in […]
Google Earth And 3D Warehouse Opened Up To ‘Game Developers’
On the cusp of the Virtual World Conference, starting today in California, a company called Multiverse Nework has announced a partnership with Google that opens up Google’s 3D Warehouse — terrain and metadata from Google Earth — to third party use. According to CNet, Multiverse Nework offers a platform for game developers. However, the implications […]
Building Ask’s Traffic: It’s The Toolbar, Stupid!
Can Zwinky Save Ask? from the New York Times reports that the real winner in growing Ask.com’s search volume growth is their FunWebProducts division. The division launched a product named Zwinky.com that enables people to create avatars of themselves online. They then place these avatars throughout their social network pages. The thing is, the only […]
Google To Build Second Life Metaverse On Google Earth In China?
Over the past week, there were many rumors that Google is pondering building out a Second Life like application. Michael Eisenberg’s Google Earth as a Virtual World kicked it off, stating, that heard a rumor “through the PhD grapevine” that Google is working on such an application. Techcrunch quickly picked up on this rumor, summarizing […]