The big game provided the starting point to push traffic from the commercials broadcast during the Super Bowl to online destinations. Not all of those big names took advantage of the buzz as they could have.
Yahoo: The Social Search Engine?
There’s no denying that Google is far and away the most visited search engine on the Internet, eclipsing Yahoo in terms of user base by quite a significant margin. Is it possible that Yahoo could make up some of that ground by leveraging itself as a niche search portal, specializing in social search?
Lenssen Predicts The Evolution Of Search
Philipp Lenssen, the resident guru at Google Blogoscoped and a frequent Murdok contributor, has looked far, far into the future, and he’s sharing his predictions with the rest of us. They cover the next two technological “levels” of search, and even delve into the intriguing years “beyond.”
Search Marketers Declare War On Pork
Pork may be like mother’s milk to some, but a very few of them would confuse the two because, in general, people understand metaphors. Lawyers don’t. Lawyers don’t get metaphors, even if they did really well on the analogies portion of their LSATs. Search marketer Jennifer Laycock suddenly finds herself trying to teach this subtle nuance of language to lawyers, and the entire SEM community is her assistant.
Get Your Google Search Position in C#
If you want to test your position in Google for a certain search term, you can do so by using the Google website. By position I don’t mean Page Rank, but the actual place in the search results.
Take Vista Search To The Next Level
Mike Torres writes about a hidden Windows Vista option that gives you a much more powerful search in Windows Vista.
SuperPages Adds Social Networks To Search
SuperPages.com wants local business reviewers and is willing to pay any amount of vanity for them. The online directory unveiled its “Reviewer of the Week” program, an effort to meld local search and social networks.
Tagging: ‘Next-Stage Search Phenomenon’
Though currently only seven percent of Internet users tag content on a daily basis, tagging is expected to grow because of its sheer utility – maybe even at the expense of the now quite old-world categorizing ways of the Dewey Decimal System. Internet search as we currently know it is also expected to change as a result of people-powered indexing.
Serph To Take Over Social Media Search
Cameron Olthuis, a web strategy consultant announced this morning in an interview with Loren Baker that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will enable the users to know what other people are commenting over the web at the moment.
Search Overtakes Porn In The UK
It is yet determined if patterns in the UK are mirrored in the US, but Hitwise is looking into it for us. Heather Hopkins’ “lofty” look into the future of the Internet revealed that, in the UK, vice online is on the decline, while search, social media, and more utilitarian Internet activities are on the rise.