Wed 10 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info, Top News
Google continues to flirt with being an ISP or carrier. Several years ago the company was part of the aborted municipal WiFi bid for San Francisco with Earthlink. Google is also one of the major forces behind the White Spaces initiative (”WiFi on steroids“) that seeks unused TV spectrum for broadband purposes. In addition, Google [...]
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Tue 26 Jan 2010
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Google, which to some eyes increasingly looks and acts like a VoIP/mobile carrier, is now effectively being treated like one by the US FCC. Today the regulatory body sent out requests for information to wireless carriers about the adequacy of their consumer disclosures associated with early termination penalties, which can be several hundred dollars in [...]
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Wed 30 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Google: Web Search, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Mobile & Go, Yahoo: Outside US
The iPhone was introduced on June 29, 2007 and that was effectively the beginning of the mobile internet era. With the iPhone also came the acceleration of mobile search for Google, the default engine for the iconic Apple device.
This year mobile became a cornerstone of Google’s strategy with a string of announcements, product tweaks and [...]
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Wed 16 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info
The mercurial Barry Diller, CEO of IAC, decided apparently that he didn’t want to sell Ask. During the Q3 earnings call Reuters reported that Diller said the following:
“We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area of search. The answer is yes,” Diller said. “And, it is unlikely that we [...]
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Sat 12 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Top News
TechCrunch is reporting, based on a range of Tweets and chatter, that many Google employees were given an unlocked HTC handset running Android 2.1 as a holiday gift. “It’s beautiful . . . Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids” wax the rapturous Tweets.
Rumors of a Google Phone or GPhone were originally reported by TheStreet in [...]
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Mon 30 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info, SEM Industry: Conferences, SMX & SMN Alerts, Top News
Is search marketing is your livelihood? Your passion? Your future? Then come to Search Marketing Expo – SMX West for compelling content and industry connections that are certain to make you a more effective, inspired and employable internet markter. Join us for SMX West in Santa Clara, CA, March 2-4.
Register for SMX West now [...]
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Sat 14 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Google: Logos, Latest Info
NASA said yesterday it had discovered water on the moon, and Google — always big on space exploration — wasted no time producing a special logo to celebrate the event.
Google’s backing a contest to put a private rover on the moon. Who knows? Maybe one of those rovers will visit sources of water. And we’ll [...]
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Mon 9 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info
It’s the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Where’s the special Google logo for that, some have wondered. There is one, but only at Google Germany. Elsewhere, it’s apparently more important to keep celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.
The Google Germany logo is shown above. At Google’s main Google.com site (which [...]
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Fri 2 Oct 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Just Behave, Latest Info
Jim Jansen is one of the few academics I know that is fascinated with Internet search. He has spent a good part of the last decade looking at patterns in search query and website logs, dissecting them and continually looking for significant trends. Jim and I crossed paths a number of years ago and have [...]
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Tue 22 Sep 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info, SEM Industry: Conferences, SMX & SMN Alerts, Top News
60+ Sessions. 150 Speakers. Keynotes Added. See You in NYC!
Only two weeks until Search Marketing Expo – SMX East returns to New York City, October 5-7!
There’s a fantastic search engine marketing conference on the horizon. Here’s what’s in store:
60+ sessions on PPC, SEO, real-time search, social media, local search and more. See the [...]
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Tue 8 Sep 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info, SEM Industry: Conferences, SMX & SMN Alerts, Top News
The early bird rate for Search Marketing Expo – SMX East runs out at the end of the day on Friday, Sept 11. Save on your All Access ticket by registering now!
More than 150 of the world’s most knowledgable internet and search engine marketers will present at SMX East. They’re selected based on ability [...]
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Fri 14 Aug 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info
This morning comScore released data and analysis that compares search share, searcher penetration and loyalty at the combined Microsoft-Yahoo property vs. Google. While Google has a much higher share of the number of searches conducted in the US in a given month, the searcher “penetration” for MicroHoo is almost that of Google.
The chart immediately below [...]
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Wed 5 Aug 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments, Google: Business Issues, Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: General, Microsoft: adCenter, Search Ads: Contextual, Search Ads: General, Search Ads: Mobile Search
First to pounce on the SEC 8-K filing by Yahoo was PaidContent, which provides an extensive bulleted list of many of the deal terms not revealed last week during the frenzy of conference calls and articles that followed the official announcement of the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal. CNET also writes about selected aspects of the deal [...]
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Thu 16 Jul 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info, Top News
Google just reported second quarter earnings of $5.52 billion, representing “an increase of 3% compared to the second quarter of 2008.” The first quarter of 2009 was $5.51 billion, by comparison. So growth was flat quarter over quarter. According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google’s business has “stabilized” and has seen growth in certain areas in [...]
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Sat 27 Jun 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info
Oops. Bad, Google. Occasionally the service inserts direct answers to searches at the top of its results. It makes guesses at this, and in the case of michael jackson died, it’s making the wrong guess. Henry Elliss tipped us that Google’s showing that Michael Jackson died in 2007, at age 65.
The problem? Google’s drawing on [...]
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Mon 15 Jun 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Features: Analysis, Latest Info, Top News
Hunch is not a “search engine” insists Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, one of the people behind the new site. But you’ll probably start seeing it show up in (Google) search results, just like Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers. And in some ways it’s like a mix of both of those concepts, as Matt McGee discusses in [...]
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Thu 28 May 2009
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Let’s just get it out of the way first: no, Bing is not the “Google Killer.” Nor does Microsoft think that it is. But it is a much improved successor to Live Search. Undoubtedly this morning scores of articles and blog posts will appear speculating about Bing’s future and how it will impact the search [...]
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Mon 18 May 2009
Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info
Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past week. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where [...]
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