- American "Idol"izing Google Trends
Date: 2006-06-12 Source: Search Engine Guide
I'm going to jump on a pop culture bandwagon, but I'm doing it to prove a point. Search trends reflect the interests of our society, and they can provide an invaluable way to gain intelligence about what's on the public's mind.
[Open In New Window] - Tales of Mobile Woe
Date: 2006-06-05 Source: Search Engine Guide
My first lesson with mobile data roaming came soon after getting the iPAQ. We hopped in the motorhome and headed to California. We reached San Francisco and in trying to locate Molinari’s delicatessen we just searched for the website, found the address and walked right to it. This was what being wired was being all about! Then we got home and found out what being hosed was all about. We got the mobile bill: $800 in data charges for two weeks!
[Open In New Window] - Google is now Smarter than Daddy
Date: 2006-04-10 Source: Search Engine Guide
It was a sad day in the Hotchkiss household. While doing her homework, my twelve year old daughter Alanna had a question. Until now, she always asked me, her father. This time, she went straight to Google.
[Open In New Window] - Disney Disses Search, But Misses the Mark.
Date: 2006-04-02 Source: Search Engine Guide
Yes, Disney has invested billions in creating the machine that can churn out entertainment. But the distribution channels for that content have changed irrevocably. We, the consumers, have millions of options, we have control, and search will be the gate through which we allow that content to flow through. That puts search in the driver’s seat.
[Open In New Window] - Local Search Still Not Cutting the Mustard
Date: 2006-03-28 Source: Search Engine Guide
What's disappointing is that despite the investments poured into local search by top engines like Yahoo! and Google, the Internet search engine satisfaction rate of 39% is the same that it was last year, meaning that despite the new offerings, users aren't finding it any easier to get what they want.
[Open In New Window] - The Bold and the Beta: Two Approaches to Search Innovation
Date: 2006-03-20 Source: Search Engine Guide
When you’re penetrating a mainstream market, every day you can hold an advantage over the competition is significant. The longer something remains in beta before it becomes a significant advantage to your main user base, the longer your competition has to even the playing field.
[Open In New Window] - Enough Talk About Search Bubbles!
Date: 2006-03-15 Source: Search Engine Guide
There was also a lot of press last week about Google's share price eroding because their CFO George Reyes said he expected slowing growth in the next quarter. So what's the deal? Is search growing, or isn't it?
[Open In New Window] - Is Search a Leech on the Internet?
Date: 2006-03-06 Source: Search Engine Guide
Search works. Users know that. With that come some positives, and some negatives. The way I see it, search brings much more to these content sites than it takes away, so it's not a parasitic relationship.
[Open In New Window] - Men and Women and Search - Part 2
Date: 2006-01-23 Source: Search Engine Guide
Men appreciate the internet's ability to help them get the job at hand done. Women are social creatures. They multi task better. They are more comfortable browsing. Women will be more patient with non-obvious navigation options.
[Open In New Window] - Men and Women and Search
Date: 2006-01-16 Source: Search Engine Guide
Men and women have very distinct reasons for going online. Men tend to retrieve information. For woman, the internet is first and foremost a communication vehicle, with email usage a prime reason.
[Open In New Window] - We Are What We Search? Hopefully Not!
Date: 2006-01-09 Source: Search Engine Guide
I have said, on several occasions, that our search patterns are a reflection of our society. If that's true, our society's intellect is about as deep as the ring left by a Starbucks coffee cup.
[Open In New Window] - New Mashup Maps Your Group
Date: 2005-10-14 Source: Search Engine Guide
The name Frapper is a combination of the words “friend mapper” and aims to let users “see the zip code where your friends live or work, letting you find out who works in the office building next door and who lives in the apartment complex across the street.“
[Open In New Window] - Godin Announces Squidoo
Date: 2005-10-12 Source: Search Engine Guide
Almost anyone that has been around the web for awhile has heard of About.com and Wikipedia. One relies on hired experts to generate content about a variety of topics while the other one relies on volunteers to do the same. Online marketing guru Seth Godin announced plans for a new site dubbed “Squidoo” at Web 2.0 last week.
[Open In New Window] - Women Lead Surge in Online Shopping
Date: 2005-05-26 Source: Search Engine Guide
A recent Forrester Research study stated that online shopping by women is expected to show a surge in growth this year, with more women heading online to both research and make purchases.
[Open In New Window] - AOL Watches Star Wars Searches Soar
Date: 2005-05-23 Source: Search Engine Guide
It's no surprise that Internet users flocked to the search engines this week to look up information on Star Wars. According to recently released information by America Online, it's a good week to be Natalie Portman.
[Open In New Window] - Comparing Search Engine Results - My Experiment
Date: 2005-04-19 Source: Search Engine Guide
created a spreadsheet comparing the search results of the top search engines for a generic shopping related term "furniture" but when I saw what the data looked like I decided to dig a bit deeper and limited the scope of the engines I compared but broadened the scope of the terms I used in my comparison.
[Open In New Window] - WiFi Search Sites Offer Spring Freedom
Date: 2005-04-04 Source: Search Engine Guide
With warm spring weather and sunny days coming into season across the U.S., savvy small business owners are taking advantage of the freedom that free WiFi hot spots have to offer.
[Open In New Window] - Searching Smarter, Not Harder
Date: 2004-11-30 Source: Wired
Topic maps are smart indices that improve search capabilities by categorizing terms based on their relationships with other things. For example, William Shakespeare is a topic that would be mapped to essays about him, his plays and his famous quotes.
[Open In New Window] - Managing the Firehose of Real-Time Information
Date: 2004-11-17 Source: SearchDay
RSS feeds, search alerts and other information monitoring technologies are great, but often end up providing too much of a good thing. PubSub is a 'matching engine' that offers a promising new way to keep up to date while alleviating information overload.
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