search engines
Black Friday advertisement flyers from Wal-Mart have hit the web early after a leak and Wal-Mart is not only going after the sites that have posted the Black Friday specials, but also the search engines which are indexing or linking to them. Wal-mart’s legal team is targeting sites that have posted the content, claiming a [...]
With the worst holiday shopping season expected in years, this might not seem the most auspicious time to start a retail advisory service. But that isn't stopping Web analytics firm TNS Compete from launching an online retail and consumer products practice. The new service is intended to provide retailers with insights into consumers' online buying activities across retail sites, Web portals, search engines and comparison shopping sites. It will also offer data on Web marketing performance, shopper demographics and behavioral profiles.
My search activity is not only limited to Google, of course. I search multiple (vertical) resources daily (there are at least 20 of them I mentioned previously). While FireFox is the great search engine aggregating tool in itself, there are a few more applications that can be used to access multiple search engines from one [...]
What don't the major search engines do well?
A new web service that started in September takes an interesting approach towards the information overload problem on the web. Yotify takes an approach that covers the ground between search engines and social networks. While search engines provide us with results from all the web and social networks are people and activity centric, Yotify [...]
Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? It's a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines -- and what the trend looks like -- and you'll realize that algorithms are increasingly deciding what we pay attention to, what is important, what [...]
About 31% of consumers turn to a search engine first when they're on the hunt for local products and services, according to new stats from TMP Directional Marketing (TMPDM). That's up just one percentage point from 2007, but still enough to move search engines ahead of print yellow or white pages in terms of overall usage. About 30% of consumers turned to printed directories first, down from 33% last year.
Like with many other burning SEO questions, there is no definitive answer as to whether sitewide links are good or bad.
If we for just a second forget about search engines, we will see that, on the one hand, sitewides can be good for very important links (as users are much more likely to click them), [...]
New services like Nokia's Comes With Music, which was announced today, are pushing (or is it pulling?) music labels to experiment with new business models they've been hesitant to embrace for years.
Google is officially celebrating its 10th birthday today, marking a decade that Google has been serving search results (and 13 years since their concept was first launched, dubbed BackRub).
To celebrate, Google is using the above logo on its worldwide search engines while also launching a really cool and interactive Google Timeline.
Thanks Google, and Happy Birthday, [...]
