Angelsoft, a company that connects startups with investors, has launched an Investor Search Engine.
The Investor Search Engine contains profiles on over 1,000 venture capital firms and angel investment groups. It has a variety of filters similar to Web 2.0 travel search engine Kayak.com
Yahoo May Be Working On Vodafone Search Deal
On the last day of 2008, Vodafone, the mobile telecommunications company, had 289 million customers. Now, a new report indicates that Yahoo might be on its way to becoming Vodafone’s default search provider in Europe.
Facebook’s New Twitter-Like Elements Highlight Real-Time Search Need
As previously reported, Facebook is set to launch changes to its news feeds that will give it more Twitter-like functionality. The changes are set to launch next week, and will update feeds in real-time.
In addition to that, the status box is becoming a publisher box. Rather than only allowing users to update their status, it will now allow you to post content – links, photos, videos, etc that will go to the news feed stream in real-time.
Microsoft Trialing New Search Service Internally
Microsoft has begun internally testing its new search service called Kumo and is asking employees to provide feedback.
"Kumo.com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live.com traffic over to the test site in the coming days," wrote Satya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for Microsoft’s online services division in an internal memo.
How To Write For Search Engines
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) writing, as a distinct style, was born in the Internet era and has matured before our very eyes in a relatively short span of time. Although it is evolving and maturing still, and will continuously do so, we can define some of the tried and tested steps of content optimization to help unique pages place at or near the top of search engine rankings.
Mobile Local Search Advertising to Reach $1.3 Billion?
The number of people using mobile devices to get content is on the way up.
You Better Get Comfortable with eBay’s New Search
eBay is 86ing its old search engine in favor of its newer one. Up until this point, users have been able to choose the one they prefer, but according to eBay the majority are using the new one, so you can kiss the old one goodbye.
Economy Shapes Online Search Behavior
Searches for a number of terms related to the economic downturn have shown significant gains in the past year, according to comScore.
The most notable increases were searches relating to the declining job market, including searches using the term "unemployment" (up 206 percent to 8.2 million searches) and "unemployment benefits" (up 247 percent to 748,000 searches).
Do You Want Your Search Experience Personalized?
In recent months, there has been a whole lot of talk about where search is going, and what search is lacking. This is commonplace for months encompassing the changing of years.
A big part of the discussion is personalized search. Many SEOs aren’t entirely thrilled with the idea. It changes the way they have to do things. Do searchers want it though?
Celebrity Special: Search Highlights And Oscar Clips
Considering what’s going on in the world – financial collapses, mine disasters, North Korean missile announcements – celebrity-related matters may be of less importance than ever. But they’re certainly holding people’s interest – perhaps we can all use the distraction – and Hitwise and YouTube recently acknowledged the issue.