Back in 2005, topical search was the driving force behind many startups. With qualities like relevancy and targeted audience, topical search engines quickly became the desired object of general search companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, nearly every big search engine incorporate some sort of vertical search in its own interface (e.g. search wikipedia or how …
Zanran is an interesting search start-up that both indexes and maps the numerical content-finding ‘semi-structured’ (as they put it) data on the web. Such data could be a graph in a PDF report, a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a bar chart shown as an image on an HTML page. Currently, the search engine …
Likeonomics (n.): The study of how affinities and passions affect the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The Keyword Made The Web What it Is You might not realize it, but the way Google works has shaped the web for the last 10 years. Think about it for a second… How many new …
As you may know, I’m Ukrainian – which means when I do searches on the internet, I use two languages: English (mostly) and Russian. This also means I’m constantly shifting back and forth between the two languages. All this switching inevitably leads to many instances where I’ve forgotten to swap to the intended language before …
Bing has been able to hold its share of the search market while scrambling slowly up the ladder thanks to its “niche targeting.” Rather than trying to provide the best possible results in every sector, they have focused in on sectors like shopping, sports, images, maps, and travel. To help further this approach, Bing recently …
Norwegian travel startup Stay.com, was the proverbial “toast of travel town” at the end of last year. Moreover, judging from today’s release of their version 2.3 Beta, it looks as if the Scandinavian startup is ramping up for some more accolades for 2011. While Version 2.3 is not a Noah’s Ark of online travel exclusivity, …
Before I started writing about Google, Bing, Yahoo, and all the rest, I didn’t even know about the existence of half their services. This wasn’t to say I was some flunky who didn’t keep up; actually, I taught webinars, training courses, and wrote documentation on SEO as it regarded the various ins and outs of …
Most of the world looks at corporations as unfeeling, sometimes mechanical organizations that act in the interests of shareholders and (we hope) the general public. What we don’t expect is that these corporations will start throwing insults and accusations at one another like aggravated adolescents. However, that’s precisely what’s happening. Google, convinced that Bing has …
It’s not often that the major technology companies start accusing each other of cheating directly. In fact, while constantly at each other’s throats, these groups usually pretend to play nice — while doing everything legally possible to prevent each other from progressing. With that in mind, it’s been a very entertaining week, with Google accusing …
Bing may not have the biggest portion of the market (in fact, being generous, they have about 10%), but the group they have is fiercely loyal. Why? Is it the National Geographic images on the home page? Is it the dedicated loyalty to any Microsoft product? Is it how memorable the name “Bing” is? We …
