SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Topic: Web 2.0
Pew Research: ‘Web 2.0’ Crowd A Small Minority
The Pew Internet & American Life Project just released the findings of a new survey of 4,001 U.S. adults that segments Americans into a range of groups based on usage of and attitudes toward the Internet and mobile phones. The report is provocative (even surprising) but long, so I’m just going to summarize it at […]
Goodbye Yahoo Photos; Yahoo Loves Flickr More
TechCrunch and USA Today have news that Yahoo is to close its popular Yahoo Photos service completely in the coming months, telling people to either switch to Flickr or leave to a number of other competing photo sharing services. From USA Today: Yahoo has said that it kept both services going after the acquisition because […]
Return To The Search Engine Shoot-Out
My colleague Chris Sherman briefly looked at the PC World ‘Search Engine Shoot-out’ article the other day, and I also mentioned it in my own weblog. I read through the article briefly, but something about it kept nagging me, so I wanted to go back and look at it in rather more detail. The more […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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:
Properazzi – A European Property Search Engine
Properazzi is a multi search engine that scans property websites and provides access to over 1,800,000 properties for sale or rent in 45 European countries. Searchers can limit searches to particular towns or countries, by price, keyword and sale or rental. A Google powered map allows another method of locating a particular place or region. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 23, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Linking In The World of Web 2.0
The new social media sites popping up in the wake of the Web2.0 revolution are providing us with unique opportunities when it comes to link building. Since I’m always on the look-out for resources that attract and target specific demographics, I’ve hit the linking jackpot on more than one occasion by developing promotions that take […]
Microsoft PowerPoint, Meet Google Presentations
Google adds presentation software to Google Docs from Reuters has Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirming the rumors that Google will be rolling out presentation software within the Google Docs suite.
Q&A With Garrett Camp, Founder & Chief Architect, StumbleUpon
Search engines are great tools to help you find things you suspect exist on the web, but they leave a lot to be desired when it comes to discovering the unexpected or unknown. Sure, you may find something really cool after doing the result-page/back-button tango for a while, but that’s an inefficient approach. Enter StumbleUpon, […]
The Impending Social Search Inflection Point
Search has changed. Online consumer information retrieval has reached another inflexion point – a shift from pure algorithmic search to social search. Searchers have become increasingly sophisticated, and basic algorithmic web results are getting diluted out of most mainstream search experiences such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask. Search is not solved. At their […]
Topix Transforms Into Community Generated Local News Site
This evening Topix is doing something entirely logical and taking a big risk at the same time. The site, which has been a “top 25” news destination, is now effectively flipping its model and going from being a news aggregator with comments and community at the margins to a community generated local news site with […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
StreetAdvisor: Local At The Micro-Level
Maybe you’ve heard of “hyper-local?” Now let’s invent a new term, “micro-local.” That’s what StreetAdvisor (spotted via Mashable) seems to be going for. A nice looking site in the now familiar “Web 2.0” style, StreetAdvisor seeks to make information even more local, down to the street level — literally. It’s a user-generated content site targeting […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 26, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Rebranded Canadian Local Search Site ZipLocal Launches
ZipLocal is a new, consolidated “Web 2.0” local search destination growing out of a number of earlier local search sites including Zip411.net and redToronto.com, among them. Here’s an example results page for “Sushi , Toronto.” The site has many Ajax features and offers send to mobile, as well as the capacity to email listed businesses. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 13, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Revamped My Yahoo Launches Amid Intensifying Competition
Read/WriteWeb has a good overview of the just yesterday relaunched (ahead of schedule) new, more ajaxified MyYahoo. There are a number of improvements and upgrades: * Pre-built personalized pages * Category pages for topics and “content suggestions” * Further customization of their page with drag-and-drop modules * Feed previews and a full post reader on […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Pandia Offers Custom Search For Search Information
Pandia is offering a free custom search called the Search Engine Detective, a meta search engine which lets you do specialized searches for anything search engine related. Search Engine Detective give you two options: “All the best sites about search engines” searches a wide variety of sites and blogs on search engine optimization and the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Happy Birthday, Flickr: Web 2.0 Pioneer Turns Three
On March 3rd, Flickr turns three. Flickr is in many ways the company that helped define “Web 2.0” and was its poster child for quite some time. And Yahoo’s acquisition of Flickr, in March, 2005, after only a year in existence and, even then, a longish courtship was one of the best consumer moves Yahoo’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 23, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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:
Search Rises Above Porn In U.K. Visits
Hitwise reports that search engines have overtaken adult sites in share among U.K. internet users. In January, search engines accounted for 13.3% of all UK internet visits, compared with 11.5% for adult websites. The market share of UK internet visits to search engines grew 21% year-on-year in January, while Adult websites declined 14%. Search engines […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Searching For “The Next Google”
“Company X could be the next Google” is a platitude often bandied about by financial journalists or investment analysts touting typically obscure companies that could, potentially, score success on a Google-like scale. Most companies never come close to achieving Google’s financial or commercial success, of course. But say you were interested in finding one of […]
New Yahoo ‘OurCity’ Local Mashups
Om Malik writes about Yahoo testing new local mashups (called “OurCity”) in India, involving content from Flickr, Del.icio.us, Upcoming and news. As Om points out, what’s missing is maps (and maybe video). But this is an interesting further push into community/social media in the local space for Yahoo. The interface is fresher and more visual […]
Search Engine Journal’s 2006 Blog Awards Announces Winners
Search Engine Journal has announced all the winners of the 2006 blog awards that we voted for a couple weeks ago. Here are the winners broken down:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 27, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Search Blog Awards By Search Engine Journal
Loren Barker’s Search Engine Journal is running his annual Search Blog Awards contest. You can vote for your favorite blog over here. The categories available for you to vote for include:
Stop The Freak Out Over Linking
On Friday, Google Webmaster Central had a post about linking that I’m watching generate all types of new worries of what’s allowed or not allowed. I’ll do the freak out, then a summary of it, then try to push the reset button by revisiting my golden rules on linking.
MySpace Passes Yahoo In Page Views But Not Audience
I’ve been waiting for comScore to publicly post figures on November 2006 traffic before pointing to the news of MySpace topping Yahoo in terms of page views. But everyone’s getting into it, so I’ll pass it along now as well.