Google continues to struggle with lower user awareness in China compared to Chinese search engine Baidu according to Pearl Research’s new report "Baidu vs. Google: A Study of Search Engine Preferences among Chinese Youth."
Google Video Grabs 31 Percent Of Market
YouTube continues to be Google’s good luck charm in video, when it comes to visitors and traffic to videos, anyway.
Intute Expanding Into Academic Google Alternative
The Intute web service in the United Kingdom will receive an infusion of thousands of more documents at the end of the month as they construct a “more discriminating” search engine.
Google Opens Doors To Seattle Office
There might be something special about working at a company’s headquarters, but as far as Google’s offices go, we don’t think employees in its Seattle location are missing much. A recent open house displayed things that are every bit as nice as what you’ll find in Mountain View.
Researchers Scoff At Google Generation
The kids may be able to fly around the web at ludicrous speed, but if a basic search can’t find what they want, they could have a tough time digging up more information.
Answers To Google Sitemaps Questions
Susan Moskwa and Trever Voucher from Google’s Webmaster Tools Team published a synopsis of the questions they received at Chicago’s recent Search Engine Strategies Conference. If you have ever had a question about Google Sitemaps and the effect they may or may not have on your site, this is a helpful read.Get the answers to the following questions:
Vertical Search Any Competition for Google?
Sramana Mitra has a post over at GigaOm that plays on her interest in Web3.0, which she defines on her site as the “verticalization of the web around specific Contexts”.
Google Acts Fast To Counter Microsoft
An enterprise search play by Microsoft, a $1.2 billion purchase of Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer, may be on the minds of Google.
Google & Wikipedia Banned in School Again
So another college professor has banned Wikipedia (and Google). Oh, woe is me. The world is ending. Oh, the stifling of creative thought at institutions of higher learning these days. Censorship! Censorship! Whatever.
Can Google’s Algo Co-exist with Trust?
In a previous article, Is Universal Search Harder?, I discussed how a universal type of search can actually make finding what you are searching for more difficult. Google includes their own version of Universal Search in many of their search results pages, bringing us news, images, videos and so forth along with traditional web pages.