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You’ve got a hundred million registered website visitors. Now what? Some say focus on growth and retention. Another might say the next…
eBay has been busy announcing changes and fueling speculation around others. According to the WSJ the online marketplace is going back to its roots as an “internet flea market” , as well as moving away from the retail model that Amazon owns and concentrating more on PayPal.
A new way of searching is on the way, and will come under the label Wolfram Alpha. This is a "knowledge engine" built by Stephen Wolfram, which allows users to ask questions and receive a single definitive answer rather than a page of results pointing to pages that may or may not have the answers they are looking for.
BusinessWeek asks if Twitter is the Next Monster.com, which is an interesting question because at PubCon South, Top Rank Marketing's Lee Odden referenced a company that bought ads with Monster (and other places like it) but got better results from Twitter.
Yahoo has introduced a new way for site owners to enhance their Yahoo Search results using SearchMonkey. If you have flash videos, games, presentations, etc. you can have them show up right in Yahoo's SERPs. Yahoo shares an example of how Hulu added the following code: <link rel="image_src" href="http://thumbnails.hulu.com/9/967/32912_145×80_generated__VfWxSNY3rESG1ntOzexNRQ.jpg" />
Sydney, Australia-based web developer Michael Air recounts how his “light bulb” moment about real time search came as he was looking for a new hosting company. Instead of looking on Google, he consulted Twitter about a specific brand. “Ten pages in and 99 percent of comments were saying how bad that hosting company was,” he told Webproworld. Twitter, then, becomes a kind of collective representation…
