Reed Business Information is launching business-to-business vertical search portal. Reed is using proprietary categorization, entity extraction and taxonomy management software from Teragram, provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies. The software automatically organizes content from hundreds of Internet sites into a vertical search engine….
Reed is using proprietary categorization, entity extraction and taxonomy management software from Teragram, provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies. The software automatically organizes content from hundreds of Internet sites into a vertical search engine.
Google Reader just added a Reader Trends feature that highlights blog posts users have read, starred, and shared in the past 30 days. A post by Paris Lemon Blog, via Digg: What's completely clear now is that the user statistical data is there and ready to go…the question is…
Google Reader just added a Reader Trends feature that highlights blog posts users have read, starred, and shared in the past 30 days.
A post by Paris Lemon Blog, via Digg: What’s completely clear now is that the user statistical data is there and ready to go…the question is how long until Google utilizes it to showcase the ‘most starred’ or ‘most shared’ of Google Reader?
The Google Reader Blog announcement describes Reader Trends as an efficiency tool to allow users to identify subscriptions wanting removal or a catch-up read.
YouTube's failure to create a copyright detection software to help avoid legal entanglements may put spell trouble for the GoogTube. Since the announcement of Google's purchase of YouTube on October 9, the answer to every question of copyright violations and lawsuits has been this software. It was the also…
Financial Times:
YouTube said on Friday the technology would not be formally launched this year and YouTube’s offices were closed until the new year. While providing no further details about when the system would be made formally available, it said tests of the system had been under way with some media companies since October and the system remained “on track”.
If the delay lasts for more than a week or two into the new year, suggesting more than just a slight technical hitch, “this is certainly going to be a serious issue”, Mr McGuire (a digital media analyst at Gartner) added.
Read MoreSpeaking of dominating a list of the best search engines, in case you missed it, the New York Times recently did a piece on a trio on entrepreneurs setting their sights on just that: besting the giant. ("In Silicon Valley, the Race Is on to Trump Google") ReadWriteWeb has…
Speaking of dominating a list of the best search engines, in case you missed it, the New York Times recently did a piece on a trio on entrepreneurs setting their sights on just that: besting the giant. (“In Silicon Valley, the Race Is on to Trump Google”) ReadWriteWeb has a summary and follow-up that breaks the competition into categories of competition to Google: Better Technology, Better UI, and Vertical Search. Well worth a read, but the conclusion Alex Iskold draws is that no one’s quite ready to battle Goliath yet.
A post on Skrenta heralds Google as the winner in the third age of computing. Worth a read, some major points include: * Yahoo is effectively letting $1.5 billion in revenue sit on the table so long as they chose not to allow AdWords to handle their search monetization….
* Yahoo is effectively letting $1.5 billion in revenue sit on the table so long as they chose not to allow AdWords to handle their search monetization.
* “Google is the start page for the Internet. The net isn’t a directed graph. It’s not a tree. It’s a single point labeled G connected to 10 billion destination pages.”
* Alluding to Battelle’s database of intentions: “Google’s CPMs are $90-120, vs. $4-5 for an average browse page view elsewhere. This value premium on search vs. content is because of the massive concentration of choice potential which exists on the decision point, Google.”
* Next step, dominating the verticals: “It’s actually not inconceivable that they could eventually own all of the destination page views too. Crazy as it sounds, it’s conceivable that they could actually end up owning the entire net, or most of what counts. Complaints are already being heard about Google using their starting point power to muscle into verticals.” Here Skrenta is referencing the new Google Tips on their homepage, on which Firefox brain Blake Ross, generally a friend of Google, just posted a scathing note of criticism.
Hitwise research reports that Google Blog Search passed Technorati in traffic for the first time last week. As a percentage of total US Internet Visit market share, Technorati moved to .0023%, and Google's Blog Search to .0025%. Google Blog Search has experienced massive growth since October, when a direct…
Google Blog Search has experienced massive growth since October, when a direct link to it was placed on Google News— to the detriment even of Blogger Blog Search, which slid from .0025% in October to .0019% last week.
Matt, a Searchblog reader, noticed something interesting in his Google search results today: "I was just doing some searches on Google and noticed something I've never seen or heard about before. One of the links in the main search results had two feedback buttons (see screenshot)." Matt also notes…
“I was just doing some searches on Google and noticed something I’ve never seen or heard about before. One of the links in the main search results had two feedback buttons (see screenshot).”
Matt also notes that the user satisfaction question is appearing in results both with and without AdSense.
Read MoreOnline revenues hit $4.2 billion in Q3, up 2 percent over Q2 earlier this year ($4.1 b), Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP announced today. This quarter is also 33 percent higher than $3.1 billion in Q3 2005. Sheryl Draizen, SVP and General Manager of IAB, notes, "Marketers are…
Sheryl Draizen, SVP and General Manager of IAB, notes, “Marketers are experiencing how this medium enhances their ability to target and engage the audience that matters to their brand and then measure its effectiveness in ways no other medium provides.”
Today Microsoft launched a campaign for Live Search with digital and print ads in major newspapers—New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times/PI, SF Chronicle, USA Today— featuring its new capacities. You can tryout the future successor to MSN Search now, here. The campaign highlights the new mapping, local…
Today Microsoft launched a campaign for Live Search with digital and print ads in major newspapers—New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times/PI, SF Chronicle, USA
Today— featuring its new capacities. You can tryout the future successor to MSN Search now, here. The campaign highlights the new mapping, local search and image search technology of Live, as well as targets some misunderstandings about the Live branding from the past year.
The Microsoft ad opens by quoting Battelle from The Search:
“Search is at best 5% solved–we’re not even in the double digits of its potential.”
By the demo that follows, in the digital copy, Microsoft is making a serious effort to push out beyond that five percent.
As the Live campaign copy states:
“Before we begin, let us state the obvious. We’re late to the game. We admit it. But instead of shrugging our shoulders and becoming a footnote in search history, we’ve decided to write a few new chapters.”
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