Wed Jul 16, 2008

Beet.TV interviewed R.J. Pittman, Google's Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, about image search. The video is below, but here is my short summary of the interview. Pittman said Image Search has huge growth opportunity for...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Google is introducing an Elections Search Gadget that allows users to search transcripts of political speeches and videos that appear on YouTube candidate channels. The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

by Mack Collier Perhaps the most important area of a business blog, is its content.  How you position your blog's content can greatly determine how successful it will be, and this is a lesson that hasn't been lost on Newcastle Square...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the "anonymizing" of...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

The rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform has acquired Summize, a search engine that searches Twitter. You can read all the news at Techmeme and also make sure to check out...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Twitter & Summize Tie The KnotThe rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Every web site owner wants more traffic and higher rankings in the search engines. In the midst of an SEO campaign however it s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. So before you change a single title you might want to shift your focus to...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Video search engine Blinkx, which has offered white label video search for some time, has introduced what it's calling "blinkx Red Label." It's basically an API and hosted solution that allows smaller sites to use the service entirely for free. Larger...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Reuters is reporting that TimeWarner is seeking to strike a deal with either Yahoo or Microsoft for AOL. It says that talks between the companies "have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1 shareholders meeting." Click to continue reading... ...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Google Sued For Selling Ads On Parked Domains from InformationWeek reports Google was slapped with a class action lawsuit over the AdSense for Domains product. In short, advertisers are upset with the quality of traffic driven through that program and...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

We will probably look back on last year's announcement of the iPhone (1.0) as the seminal or galvanizing event of the mobile internet. In fact the events leading up to the iPhone were a decade or more in the making, but it's the single moment when the...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Metadata in its simplest form is information about data. In this tutorial we are going to look at the HTML and XHMTL elements known as Meta Elements and learn to use them. Not all are still used by search engines to determine rank but they still have...

Wed Jul 16, 2008

by Stoney deGeyter Yesterday I introduced the concept of Destination Search Engine Marketing (Destination SEM) which emphasized that SEO isn't about "getting" top rankings. Getting rankings leaves open the implication that you're achieving a...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

In the latest and perhaps strangest escalation of name calling and "he-said/she-said" accusations, Yahoo, Yahoo insurgent shareholder Carl Icahn and Microsoft have all issued dueling press releases in the wake of the latest Yahoo rejection of the latest,...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Rob Norman is CEO of Group M Interaction Worldwide. Perhaps then it's appropriate that he uses the "M-word" -- monopoly -- in an AdAge piece about Google. Norman has been a critic of the Google-Yahoo paid search deal and has said several times that he...