Traditionally, we came to learn about the “Golden Triangle” or the F-shaped scanning pattern. Now, Gord Hotchkiss says that with a change to personalized search, we are seeing more of an E-Shaped pattern.
Universal Suit Insults Veoh’s Footsteps
A little less than a month ago, Veoh preemptively sued Universal Music Group; the video-sharing site claimed it was receiving “unreasonable threats.” That lawsuit seems to have little effect, however, and Universal is now suing back.
SES – Universal & Blended Search
I was running around the convention center the whole day today, making sure the magazines where in the bins and that the booth was set up so, regrettably, I was only able to make it to one session.
The session was dedicated to universal and blended search, a topic of interested to many marketers these days. The big takeaway for me from this session was that universal search is still in flux and even the leading industry experts don’t have all the answers.
Google, Universal Get In On DRM-Free Music
Thanks to Universal Music Group and a new service called gBox, DRM-free music will become available through Google’s search engine. Sounds interesting, right? You should also know that these songs will be 30 cents cheaper than the ones sold by iTunes.
Veoh Squares Off With Universal
Internet Television company Veoh is suing Universal Music Group in federal court to reinforce its rights as a copyright complaint company under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Dancing Baby Takes Universal To Court
If some copyright holders had their way, you couldn’t listen to a CD in your car with the windows down. Somebody might hear it without paying for it. The latest Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawsuit against Universal Music hopes to prevent similar abuses on the Internet.
Mike Grehan Reloads on Universal Search
Rebecca Lieb announced the newly redesigned Clickz site. This rollout honors ten years of loyal service to the web design community. The look is clean and organized better. Avoid mousing around the header, however, unless you want to view a show or be pounced on with unannounced PDF files.
What is Universal Search?
Organic search engine optimization, until recently, had been a fairly straightforward endeavor. The goal was to optimize the content on a website so that it would show up in the organic results on one or more of the major search engines – results that were comprised of nothing but other websites.
Top Universal Search Influencers
To recap, Universal Search is a term coined by Google in which results from different vertical search engines (images, video, news etc…) are integrated into Google’s regular search results.
Universal Search Not Universally Good For Google
To some people, the launch of Google Universal Search meant nothing – it’s a good bet that the release went unnoticed by many. Yet to others, it was a big deal, and bits and pieces of Google itself seem to have been affected in major, traffic-related ways.