Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]
I’ll get straight to the point here. Is it just me, or are there local results showing up for not-so-local searches? At SMX West last week, someone asked Carter Maslan, Director of Product Management for Google Local, about what to do if their business doesn’t have a physical location. Carter sayssss: Don’t create a Places [...]
I know this isn’t necessarily a search blog, which is why I deemed it necessary to post about the Google vs Bing so maybe those who are out of the loop can join in on the discussion! Let’s start with why I’m writing a post on how Google and Bing got beef, because you’re probable [...]
I was doing some research yesterday on local intent via mobile phones, and I ran across this tweet from Greg Sterling, who is an internet analyst and great thought leader at http://screenwerk.com.
In case you needed more proof that we can’t spell good.
Today Google annouced it was replacing the SearchWiki feature with Stars. With stars, you can simply click the star marker on any search result or map and the next time you perform a search, that item will appear in a special list right at the top of your results when relevant. That means if you [...]
US And EU Regulators OK Yahoo! And Microsoft Search Deal.
It’s amazing what you find on Twitter if you stay up late or maybe it’s just that the stream quiets down a bit and you get a chance to see more detailed content. Either way, last night when I was suffering from a bit of insomnia I found a post on the topic of the [...]
In the social web, you don’t control your own message, your customers do. Those of us in the social network world know this, however more traditional brands can be a bit slow to adopt this ideology. However, 360i has put together some amazing data that might convince them that this is indeed the case. In [...]
