Posts Tagged ‘search’

Via Gerry McGovern
If your customers can’t find what they want on the first page of results, very few of them will go to the second page.
More people have reached the top of Mount Everest than have been to the 5,000th search result. It’s brutal out there. Up on Everest they suffer from oxygen deprivation, but [...]

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December 24, 2008 - 9:04 am PDT - by Dan Schawbel>
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 28, 2008
If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually know. If you are researching a trip to [...]

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By Brian Solis
As online conversations continue to gain in prominence and relevance to any customer and market-focused business, it becomes critically important for marketing and service professionals to listen. It’s the listening that serves as the foundation for identifying, guiding, and establishing meaningful engagement.
Twitter is one of the more active and influential communities [...]

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by Michael Arrington on December 18, 2008
BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream.
Today they launched a new feature called Alerts that will let users track keywords included in comments [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008

Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If [...]

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by Michael Arrington on November 20, 2008

We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for months - adding a Digg-like voting feature to search results (which also changes the ranking) [...]

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September 23, 2008 - 12:02 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski 7 Comments

Searching for things through a service that scours multiple engines is one thing. Searching for things through a service that scours certain aspects of the news and social discussion space is another. This is what a new [...]

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eptember 17, 2008 - 12:13 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski Add a Comment

In late June, Microsoft was said to be prepping an acquisition of the semantic search startup Powerset. On August 1st, the two were officially bound. Forward to today, and we see Powerset deliver a short memo noting [...]