Google grabs a bigger slice of search pie (Silicon.com) [Full Story]
Yahoo News TodaySearches at Microsoft's Windows Live Search site dropped again in November from a year ago, while Google's continued to rise, according to Nielsen Online figures released on Monday. Searches at Windows Live Search fell 16.7 per cent year-over-year, giving Microsoft 9.1 per cent market share Add A Comment »
China Launches Crackdown on Internet Pornography [Full Story]
Digg YesterdayChina launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google. Add A Comment »
Google's Search Share Rises, Microsoft's Falls Sharply (Fox News) [Full Story]
Yahoo News YesterdayGoogle's Search Share Rises, Microsoft's Falls Sharply Add A Comment »
Panorama Pivot Tables for Google Spreadsheets: Scobleizer: The ... [Full Story]
Google Blogsearch YesterdayScobleizer: The story of 2009? Enterprise disruption? Robert Scoble interviews Oudi Antebi of Panorama Software: “In addition to the interview I did yesterday with socialtext, which explores some of the disruption coming to enterprises, Add A Comment »
Google Timeline Experiment Seen In Main Search Results (Search Engine Land) [Full Story]
Yahoo News Jan 4, 2009Google's "timeline view," which was previously only available as an opt-in experiment in Google Labs , is now being seen on some queries in the main Google.com search results. Add A Comment »
Got a real-time ego problem? Get a room! [Full Story]
Scobleizer Jan 1, 2009Oh, be honest. You’ve searched for yourself on Google, right? That’s an ego search. Here’s mine. But doing ego searches today is far more complex than it was back in 1998 when I did my first Google ego search. Today you have to look at what people are saying about you on Twitter, I Add A Comment »
Google tracks our Web habits. Should we care? [Full Story]
Digg Jan 1, 2009Google recently released its annual rundown of popular searches for 2008 - what they call the "zeitgeist" list - and it's a reminder, once again, of how much we reveal about ourselves every time we type into a search bar. Add A Comment »
Happy New Years From Search Industry: Logos from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Live, Ask & Others (Search Engine Roundtable) [Full Story]
Yahoo News Jan 1, 2009Happy New Years Search Engine Roundtable readers! I would like to wish you a happy and healthy 2009 from myself and the whole search industry. To keep up our tradition, below is a collection of special logos from the 2009 New Years. The logos are from the search engines Google, Yahoo, Live.com, Ask.com Add A Comment »
This search engine can go the distance (Boston Globe) [Full Story]
Yahoo News Jan 1, 2009Snow sports marketers take note: Google has recently released a beta version of a new tool called "Insights for Search," designed to help people discern trends from online search patterns. Key in specific terms, and Google will tell you when, where, and how people searched for those words worldwide over Add A Comment »
Careful what you search for (CNN Money) [Full Story]
Yahoo News Dec 31, 2008Google recently released its annual rundown of popular searches for 2008 - what they call the "zeitgeist" list - and it's a reminder, once again, of how much we reveal about ourselves every time we type into a search bar. Add A Comment »
Google's Product Search Gaining & A Look At Google's Top Services (Search Engine Land) [Full Story]
Yahoo News Dec 31, 2008Google's Product Search Catching Up Fast With Shopping Rivals from Investor Business Daily reports on a comScore release that Google's Product Search is gaining in the category of shopping search. In fact, Google Product Search is up 786% from the year-ago November. Add A Comment »
Scobleizer: @stopdoingnothin Panorama is free for Google Spreadsheet. We talk about that in the videos. [Full Story]
Twitter / Scobleizer Dec 30, 2008Scobleizer: @stopdoingnothin Panorama is free for Google Spreadsheet. We talk about that in the videos. Add A Comment »
Multilingual Culture and Heritage Internet Search System Developed (Science Daily) [Full Story]
Yahoo News Dec 29, 2008European researchers say they are pushing online culture and heritage research way beyond Google by using a smart search system that is multilingual, multimedia and optimized for cultural heritage. Better yet, this promising system has wide application in other fields. Add A Comment »
Scobleizer: The revolutionary thing coming from Google Spreadsheet is the build out of collaborative infrastructure. Watch it in 2009. [Full Story]
Twitter / Scobleizer Dec 29, 2008Scobleizer: The revolutionary thing coming from Google Spreadsheet is the build out of collaborative infrastructure. Watch it in 2009. Add A Comment »
Hacking the World in 2009: Google Street View, "Smart Stuff," and Wikiculture. [Full Story]
Technorati - Robert Scoble Dec 29, 2008Google Street View Hacking This Google Street View Hack (via @timoreilly) will get my nomination for a Hacking the World Award this year, if there is such an award. A parade (the screenshot opening this post), a marathon, a mad-scientists laboratory, a sword fight, and more (see The Infonaut Blog Add A Comment »
The Future Of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook) (TechCrunch) [Full Story]
Yahoo News Dec 28, 2008If 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 Florence, Italy Add A Comment »
How to Program Google Android [Full Story]
Technorati - Scoble Dec 28, 2008By Reto Meier So you saw the Android announcement and decided you wanted a piece of that US$10million in prize money huh? In the week since the SDK was released more than 4,300 people have joined the Android support forum posting more than 4,000 messages between them. Robert Scoble doesn't know Add A Comment »
Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom [Full Story]
Digg Dec 27, 2008Remember the ill-fated Google-killer Cuil? Named 'Cuill' and very much in stealth mode for the first part of the year, they finally emerged end of July 2008 with a 'massive' search engine that would rival the most popular search engines of our time with an enormous index, an innovative Add A Comment »
Twitter: We Need Search By Authority [Full Story]
Disqus Dec 27, 2008There are far, far more things we need to search on first. But we do need more metadata around each Tweet to make search effective. Google built a billion dollar business on one kind of metadata: links. This is why I like FriendFeed more and more. They have more metadata (but don't let you search Add A Comment »
If you search Google for "Scoble" you'll see a thumbnail that looks like a video, but isn't. Must figure out how to fix that.... [Full Story]
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