A new infographic by Chitika insights reveals the latest trends in search, with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and AOL as the main players. The results are a bit different than revealed in comScore qSearch analysis, where Google Inc. ( GOOG ) sites led the explicit core search market in November with 65.4 percent market share. …
Beginning December 17, 2012, Google’s new Director of Engineering is Ray Kurzweil, a renowned futurist whose affinity for Google has been known for years – since Google funded Kurzweil’s Singularity University. At Google, Kurzweil will be working on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. The announcement comes one month after Kurzweil’s release of …
The mighty promoter of the free Internet for all, freedom of expression and the like, has made a significant change to the way it displays explicit images in its image search. reddit users, and not only them, are in disbelief, and their concerns about censorship attracted immediate media attention. While Google denies intent of censorship, …
It may not be doomsday, but 12/12/12 is an important date in social networking history. The Pope joined Twitter and reportedly, he had trouble sending out his first tweet. He was assisted by Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli of the Vatican’s communications department. The Pope still writes his speeches by hand, so technology may be challenging, …
Scoop.it, the social media platform for topic-centric content curation, has launched an all-new version of its platform with a key new feature that highlights user’s insight. The new Scoop.it aims to offer more visibility for professionals, businesses and the community. Not long ago, Scoop.it announced integration with powerful web services like SlideShare, Hootsuite and Buffer, …
This is big, SEJ friends, and if you landed on this page, you are now searching for the next big trend of the Internet: 12/12/12. This is the last time in your life to be part (and see) a repetitive date, a big thing for promoters of the Apocalypse, the boogieman in the closet… and …
According to the Business Insider SAI chart of the day, and by all accounts, according to all stock charts you may want to use, Yahoo’s (YHOO) stock is outperforming Google’s (GOOG) this year – a great victory for Marissa Mayer and her team. Google may still be winning with higher profits than all its competitors, …
If you visited YouTube in the past 24 hours, you probably felt that you landed on the wrong site. More like TV, and less cluttered, this is the new YouTube, or, at least, Google’s declared intention behind the redesign. The site is so clean, and clutter-free… it’s almost boring. But a good boring. The redesign …
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) plus Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT): already a partnership made in heaven for the two, especially through Bing’s social search features that make search a sharable, social networking experience. Now, this relationship is taken a step further, with news of a possible ad deal. Although the possible Atlas acquisition by Facebook is still in …
2013 is 25 days away. 25. The countdown is near, and we all look ahead, with hope. All industries are looking at 2012 in retrospect: what changed, what went wrong, what could we do better. These are the fundamentals of a vast range of predictions for 2013 – mere projections of truth, according to what …
