September 7, 2007 – 12:33 pm
As this was the first major search event following the launch of Google Universal, no surprises about which topic would really dominate this year’s conference. Let’s say I didn’t see any spare seats in any of the sessions on Universal, 3D, Blended or any of the other terms devised to describe the new search [...]
The first time the major engines collaborated, it was to introduce the rel=nofollow tag to combat comment spam on blogs. Comment spam where anyone can add a link in the comment section of blogs was getting to the point, where it was almost impossible o administer a blog without spending hours deleting unrelated comments [...]
March 14, 2007 – 11:04 pm
Microsoft has announced that it will be buying the voice recognition company TellMe. A leading player in the field of voice operated phone services, TellMe announced the launch of the first Voice search service earlier this year. So not very surprising that Microsoft wants to acquire their technology. This acquisition makes perfect sense for both [...]
January 27, 2007 – 4:52 pm
Finally Google has changed their algorithm to prevent Google bombing from working. All the old favourites like a search for ‘miserable failure’ which returned the George Bush page on the White house site, and ‘liar’ which returned the Blair page on the number 10 site have been cleaned up.
According to Google, they have made [...]
January 23, 2007 – 10:37 pm
TellMe a company started in 1999 by Mike McCue of former Netscape fame, has created the first voice activated local search application for mobile phones. The search functionality may be currently limited to providing local business information on a selected range of handsets, but this may be the start of the mobile voice search revolution [...]
January 21, 2007 – 7:30 pm
John Battelle predicts, this is the year to re-define our web metrics. The traditional methods of looking at hits and page views are just not good enough when it comes to video, Ajax, blogs, RSS and the numerous applications that have surpassed the humble static web page.
With the majority of Bandwidth taken [...]
January 7, 2007 – 11:52 am
An interesting post by Brian over at SEOMoz got me thinking about the importance of on-page optimisation. Couple of years ago as Google’s trust in what other people had to say about you increased, traditional on-page factors seemed less relevant. A lot could be achieved by a an anchor text focussed link campaign with content [...]
December 30, 2006 – 2:01 pm
According to a report on Information Week, Wikipedia founders plan to build a commercial search engine (Wikiasari) combining algorithmic technology with human power. Combining the Open source search engine Nutch with human input they plan improve relevancy and compete against Google and Yahoo!. The detail of how this would work is still unclear
Wales doesn’t know [...]
December 12, 2006 – 1:54 pm
According to The Wall Street Journal last Saturday, some of the biggest organisations in the media including News Corp, Fox, Viacom Incm, CBS Corp and NBC Universal are planning a video rival to YouTube.
They plan to develop an online video platform for publishing ‘their’ network content, and cash in on the popularity of their material [...]
December 5, 2006 – 10:09 pm
Yahoo! partner with Reuters inviting the general public to contribute pictures and videos of important news events taken on their mobile phones and digital cameras. The news distribution system called ‘You Witness‘ will enable citizen journalist to contribute news media to feature alongside Yahoo! news articles. Reuters will edit and distribute the photos for use [...]