With its market capitalization of over $160 billion, Google can probably do just about anything. The search engine giant has chosen not to focus on manufacturing the Google Search Appliance, however – and instead handed over those duties to Dell.
Xerox Takes A Stab At Semantic Search
Every day, we bring you news of the latest comings and goings in the search engine industry. The names Google and Yahoo come up a lot . . . Xerox, not so much. But it’s that last company that is preparing a semantics-based search engine.
Cutts Likes “Look Into Search Engine Marketing”
Robert Scoble and Matt Cutts have two of the most recognizable names in the search engine industry. So when Scoble does an interview that gives “[a] look into Search Engine Marketing,” and Cutts compliments him on it, the 20-minute piece may well be worth a look.
DMA Search Marketing Council Interviews
Here is a collection of short video interviews taken during day one of the DM Days conference in New York. The Direct Marketing Association has a variety of special interest groups called “councils”. One of them is focused on search marketing and appropriately named, the Search Engine Marketing Council, or SEMC.
(Yawn) Google Still King of Search
The US uses just four search engines mainly, and one of them almost two-thirds of the time. The same one dominates traffic driven to most ecommerce sites. Can you guess which?
Meredith Acquires Health Search Engine Healia
The vertical search engine Healia, a health search engine that specializes in finding high-quality and personalized health information, has been acquired by Meredith Corporation.
Feeds and Search Engine Submission
There is a science behind feeding your data to the search engines. It has become a complicated specialty. As the search engines and the internet have become more and more complicated to avoid spam and clutter, the criteria for placement on the first page results of coveted search terms has become more stringent and the competition has increased.
Google Image Search Bests Others In Britain
In Britain, Google UK is king – no surprises there. What’s interesting is that Google Image Search is also doing incredibly well, and a report from Hitwise (released earlier today) examines the relationship between the two.
Google Video Now Search Engine
Google Video went through many reincarnations in the past. It allegedly started out as one of those 20% side projects within Google, and Larry Page admitted, “We’re not quite sure what we’re going to get, but we decided we’d try this experiment.”
Google Update Video Search Engine
Google Video is now more search engine than video site as the search giant revamps it to include framing similar to how they present images on Google video.
Google Video Search