The first of the breakout sessions was a choice between click fraud and this session on video search optimization.
Search Share: Microsoft Continues To Fall
The Hitwise count of US search market share found Google rising, Yahoo and Microsoft dropping, and Ask picking up a smidgeon of searches.
Search Insider Summit – Day 1
The day started with a sponsored breakfast by Compete.com with a presentation by Jeremy Crane on Compete functionality.
Recap: The Week in Search
This week the search world has been rampant with news of buyouts and related rumors. Here is a snapshot of the events of interest:
Big Brands Clueless On Site Search
Visiting the website for a major consumer brand should lead people to a useful, easily found site search if desired. Vivisimo’s VP of Marketing, Rebecca Thompson, gleefully mocked several big name brands for their unimpressive site search efforts.
Social Search – The Future of Image Search
[Disclaimer: I’m CEO of Zooomr, we are building both a social based image search system as well as a stock photography platform]
Personalized Search (The Death of SEO?)
Search Engine Optimization has been a topic of debate since the concept was developed in the mid 1990’s.
Search Exec Punches Out Of Yahoo
The executive who helped drive the launch of the very successful Yahoo Answers product has hit the eject button and landed in the world of venture capitalism.
Search Eats Little Of Food Budgets
The food and beverage industry is the leader in the U.S. consumer packaged goods (CPG) when it comes to online advertising, but they only put 2.1 percent of their total $8.7 billion advertising budget online in 2006.
Personalized Search Pollutants
I’ll start by saying Thank you Google, for the web history and personalized search idea – which is great in theory, but plain sucks in practice! At least for this searcher.