Search Engines

Is Content King?

Kevin Bermeister | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Google, Digital Media, Search Engines, Content, Copyright, Advertising, Social Networking, Pinterest, Digital, Cisco, Youtube, Facebook, Technology, Technology News

The days of unrestrained Internet downloads and open access content are approaching the end. People are the Internet's biggest content owners and they want their share of value.

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"Likes" Are the New Links

Edward J. Black | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Social Media, Search Engines, Social Networks, Internet Advertising, Internet, Facebook Likes, Internet Competition, Spotify, Social Media Information, Technology News

Links may be the foundation on which the Internet was built, but they are not its future. "Likes" have become the new links that drive our connections online.

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Read More: Cell Phones, Tmi, Efficiency, Twitter, Email, Search Engines, Editing, Texting, Business Writing, Digital Systems, Ring Lardner, Analytics, Database, Jr., Communications, Pcs, Productivity, Media News

We live in an era of over-communication surpassing the grotesque, bordering on the obscene. We are now the helpless victims of TMI, or Too Much Information.

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Search Engines 101: Part 4 Vertical Search Is the Next Big Market

Marc Ostrofsky | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Internet, Search Engines, Vertical Search Engines, Content Aggregators, Technology News

Vertical search is search narrowly defined around a central topic, industry, niche, format, genre or location. Vertical search engines or websites tha...

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MILESTONE FOR MICROSOFT

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Google, Video, Bing, Microsoft, Yahoo Bing, Search Engines, Ap, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Bing Yahoo, Technology News

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal — its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google ...

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Search Engines 101: Part 3

Marc Ostrofsky | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Pay-Per-Click, Search Engines, Online Advertising, Direct Navigation, Domain Names, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Tips, Technology News

If you want to truly understand the good, the bad and the ugly of search engines, I strongly recommend you read this. Keywords for a website need to b...

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The New Yorker's Ken Auletta Talks about Google, Facebook, and the Future of Content

Anis Shivani | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Facebook, Sergei Brin, Ken Auletta, Google, Internet, Content, Future of the Internet, Digital Content, Google Search, Search Engines, Eric Schmidt, Internet Revenues, Internet Advertising, Goodle AdSense, Books News

Ken Auletta has constructed probably the best narrative yet about Google's rise and rise. But to what extent is the company in control of its destiny?

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What's Detroit Searching For?

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Google, Google Zeitgeist, Search Engines, Detroit Searches, Detroit Around Town, Google Zeitgeist 2011, Detroit Media, Google Zeitgeist 2011 Detroit, Detroit News

Google, the search engine behemoth, released its report of the top searches of 2011 Thursday. The "Zeitgeist Report" consolidates Google's billion...

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Website Can Help You Find The Best...ANYTHING

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Holidays, Comparison Shopping, Search, Shopping Guide, Hanukkah, Video, Search Engines, Find the Best, Specs Comparison, Gift-Guides, Shopping, Christmas, Findthebest, Shopping Search Engine, Technology News

FindTheBest.com is a website name that illustrates its purpose: The site exists to help shoppers compare any similar product side-by-side -- cars, gad...

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Search Engines 101: Part I

Marc Ostrofsky | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Google, Online Marketing, Search Engines, Online Advertising, Search Engine Optimization, Tips, Technology News

Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.

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Can This Startup Make Local Search Smarter?

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Google, Search Engines, Data Mining, MIT Startups, Facebook, Search Startups, Local Search, Locu, Rene Reinsberg Locu, Rene Reinsberg, Online Menus, Local Search Startups, Small Business News and Trends, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walmart Small Business, Small Business News

In the not too distant future, Internet search engines and social networks will have access to data that will allow users to see in real-time the item...

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Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Google, Video, Congress, Search Engines, Bing, Pat Leahy, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Microsoft, Eric Schmidt, Baidu, Bill Gates, Herb Kohl, Google Antitrust, Barack Obama, Foreign-Agents, Internet, Intellectual Property, Trade, Antitrust, 112th Congress, China, Silicon Valley, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google ...

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Does Google Deliberately Engage in Deceptive Practices? Maybe and Maybe Not

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Eric Schmidt, Google, Search Engines, Technology News

Google has frequently been accused of search bias, that is, of presenting its search results in an unfair and subjective order. What does that mean? And why should anyone care?

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Is Google Just Another Advertising Company? Maybe and Maybe Not

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Search Engines, Google, Paid Search, Advertising, Technology News

Let's see why search is not just another form of advertising, using a sequence of progressively more subtle examples.

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A Guide To The Action At Eric Schmidt's Testimony, Part 1

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Google, Eric Schmidt, Antitrust, Search Engines, Technology News

People who think of Google as the provider of free search to the world may have difficulty understanding why the FTC has launched an investigation, or why Chairman Eric Schmidt was pressured to testify before the Subcommittee.

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Review: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, by Eli Pariser

George Mocharko | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: The Filter Bubble, Search Engines, Facebook, Google. Internet, Eli Pariser Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser, Business News

The Filter Bubble becomes an important part of the debate about the future of the Internet that faces new issues and challenges such as cyberwarfare, net neutrality and whether or not Google is making us dumber.

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One Click Away? Maybe and Maybe Not

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Anti-Trust, Google, Search Engines, Sherman Act, Technology News

Google's first line of defense against complaints of monopoly power is its claim that choice is "only one click away."

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The Social Life of Information

Aaron Rudenstine | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Google, Search Engines, Facebook, Social Networking, Web Search Engine, Google Plus, Social Media, Foursquare, Twitter, Technology News

The introduction of Google+; into the market marks a real paradigm shift -- not so much because it is innovative; in fact, most critics would argue that it is simply Facebook with a sexy fig leaf.

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Porn Infiltrates Microsoft Anti-Scam Help Site

MSNBC | Matt Liebowitz | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Microsoft Help Site, Search Engines, Internet Security, Microsoft Help, Microsoft Search Engine, Microsoft, Technology News

Microsoft disabled the search function on its Safety and Security Center this past weekend after scammers hijacked it to redirect queries to porn site...

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You're Not Google's Customer -- You're the Product: Antitrust in a Web 2.0 World

Nathan Newman | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Internet, Search Engines, Economics, Antitrust, Neoliberalism, Regulation, Business, Privacy, Google, Technology News

People deserve to be back in control of their online experience, not merely a data point in a product marketed to advertisers. But there is no "market" incentive for this to happen. Only regulation can bring it about.

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How Yahoo Can Save Itself

Danny Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Search Direct, New Search Engines, Yahoo, Yahoo Search Direct, Google News, Aol Huffington Post Merger, Google Instant Update, Google Search, Search Engines, Real Time Search Results, Yahoo News, Yahoo Search, Search Engine Algorithms, Business News

Yahoo may just yet redeem itself with its latest search engine update, Search Direct. This advancement in the usability of search engines is incredible.

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Techno-Thriller: Deep Search Comes to Hollywood With Tagging of Universal Catalogue

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erel Margalit, Oren Nauman, Anyclip, Search Engines, Film Indexing, Search Technology, Hollywood, Technology News

While Google says it wants to index the world's content, it hasn't done made much progress in Hollywood. But an Israeli start-up called AnyClip has already indexed hundreds of movies in the Universal Pictures library.

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Watson, Come Here, We Need You

Dr. Philip Neches | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Spencer Tracy, Romantic Comedy, Search Engines, Katherine Hepburn, Science Fiction, Jeopardy, Smarter Ideas, Technology News

A machine named Watson became the new Jeopardy champion on national television last night. What should we make of it?

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Search Zen-gine

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Justin Bieber, Zen, Search, Comedy and Satire, Finding Zen, Comedy and Humor, Humor, Satire, Search Engines, Comedy, Humor and Satire, Comedy News

You searched: Friday dance nights downtown. And your search returned: Do you know the sound of one hand clapping?

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Enough Spam in My Search Already

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Google-Spam, Search Engines, Demand Media, Firstrain, Technology, Google Spam, Google Search, New Google Search, Technology News

Google is getting cluttered up in a way that is now starting to impact its usefulness as a search engine -- and we users need a better solution.

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