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One complaint that Internet users tend to lodge about Google is that the Web services company tries to force users into adopting all of its various properties to get the full range of benefits from using just one of them. Of course...
A few weeks back, Bing made some design changes to its search results pages that were meant to offer a new de-cluttered experience and make it easier for users to quickly find the best results for their queries. Microsoft’s search...
Foursquare wants its users to explore. The location-based company launched an “explore” feature for smartphones last March, and the feature has now migrated to desktops, which allows users to discover new places based on...
Bing has made an announcement that might prove to be the biggest blow ever dealt to rival Google. Starting now, Bing will incorporate Facebook data into search results in the most personal and actionable social search to date. In short...
Responding to user complaints about its search accuracy and speed, social news aggregator Reddit has launched a new search engine. The company outsourced the project to a search business called Flaptor — which counts blogging...
Search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns have moved far beyond simply optimizing <title> tags, page content, and generating incoming links. Now that Google “universal” or “blended” search has become...
Google is on a social roll. After announcing social sharing feature Buzz in Gmail, they now have announced the acquisition of Aardvark , a social media search startup. Aardvark is a sort of mashup between services like KGB and Yahoo...
On October 27, 2009, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco California, (about the same time Google negotiated a deal with Twitter for a real-time feed) Google announced the release of their latest search feature: Google Social Search...
A very notable advance in social search pretty much flew completely under the radar last week. Social powerhouse Digg announced several important enhancements to their API which will make it easier for developers to build applications...
There are clearly some changes occurring in the search marketplace - namely, the process and the practice are evolving. Steve Rubel has co-authored a fascinating 13-page position paper on Search Engine Visibility and is making it public...
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