Search, Social Media, And Missing Persons

Although search engines can be used to look up songs' names, and with Facebook, you can keep track of your friends' antics, search and social media can serve more important functions, too.  And at SES San Jose, a session focused on using these resources to find missing persons.

FriendFeed Gets a Lot of Traffic from Twitter

There is a lot of discussion going on about Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, and real-time search. This is to be expected since yesterday it was announced that Facebook is acquiring FriendFeed.

Companies Should Focus On SEO

In the SES session "Search: Where To Next?" the panel discussed what the future holds for the search industry. Coverage of the SES San Jose conference continues at Webproworld Videos.  Stay with Webproworld for more notes and videos from the event this week.

OgilvyOne Worldwide CEO Hails Digital Marketing

Brian Fetherstonhaugh, the chairman and CEO of OgilvyOne Worldwide, gave a presentation at SES San Jose today titled "The Adaptive CMO: A New Paradigm for Digital Marketing."  In it, Fetherstonhaugh stressed that marketers do indeed need to get online.

Where’s Bing’s Real-Time Search?

Google is working on an update called Caffeine, which will increase the speed at which it indexes content. This could be a step toward Google's incarnation of real-time search. Facebook has just started rolling out its own real-time search feature, much like Twitter's, which has been around for some time.