When Google speaks, people listen. So when Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience at Google (who has been working on search at the company for over nine of its ten years) talks about where search is headed in the future, we should all take note.
Google, Microsoft Looking At BlackBerry Search
The nickname "CrackBerry" seems more appropriate than ever today as not one, but two major companies have turned their attention to the device. Google Mobile App for BlackBerry comes from one corner, while a search deal is reportedly in the works between Microsoft and RIM.
Live Search Puts Translation Options in Results
Microsoft Live Search has rolled out a new translation feature in its search results. The feature is available through Live Search, IE8, the Windows Live Toolbar, and a translation bot for Windows Live Messenger.
Video Search Gets Serious
Word on the street is that video search is about to get a huge upgrade, courtesy of a new site called VideoSurf. Video search has been a tough nut to crack for even the likes of Google, with relevancy problems plaguing pretty much every video search engine around.
Yahoo! Rolls Out Search Index Update
A lot of people seem to be seeing an increase in traffic coming from Yahoo! if this thread at WebmasterWorld is any indication. Some credit this to a September update to Yahoo!’s Search Index, and sure enough, today Yahoo! announced just that. Sharad Verma at the Yahoo! Search Blog says:
Canadians Pleased With Major Search Engines
The majority of Canadians who go online are satisfied with their search results from search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Live Search, according to a new study by Ipsos Reid.Eight in ten (80%) online Canadians said they are receiving the best results from their primary search engines. Sixty-six percent said their search results are objective and three-quarters said they could usually find what they are looking for on the first page of results.When it comes to paid advertising within search results 62 percent of Canadians say they are skeptical of paid ads.
Microsoft Says Ciao to Online Shopping Search
Microsoft is looking to boost its online shopping search market share. The company has announced an acquisition of Greenfield Online, owners of popular shopping search site Ciao.com. This is the largest purchase Microsoft has made in a while. The company appears to be playing around with the money it had left from the Yahoo deal falling through. They dropped 486 million big ones on this one.
Google, Mozilla Renew Search Partnership
A smart person might have the equivalent of six months’ expenses saved up, just collecting interest and staving off panic attacks. Mozilla is even more set, as its search partnership with Google has been extended by three years.
Search Marketing: Transform your Channel Strategy
As technology advances and the demands of customers fragment, the task of empowering resellers and distributors with effective and relevant marketing tools becomes more daunting than ever before. To solve these challenges, a handful of forward-looking companies are experimenting with emerging technologies and particularly Search‹to empower their channel partners in an attempt to make them more flexible and responsive to the changing market. The Channel Challenge
Yahoo Takes A Shot At iPhone Search Solutions
Any iPhone users who felt ignored by Yahoo now have little reason left to complain. Yahoo Search for iPhone has been announced, and it incorporates roughly everything in the company’s repertoire.