Archive for May, 2009
Day two for ‘Bing’ Launch
It’s D-Day plus one for Microsoft’s (MSFT) new search engine Bing, and more reviews are in. Let’s go to press:
CNet editor Rafe Needleman: “I planned to write this story with the headline, ‘Bing isn’t Better,’ but the new engine won me over. The new game in search is parsing information and displaying it in the [...]
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Tags: bing, bing launch, bing.com, decision engine, decisionengine.com, kumo, microsoft search, msn search
6 tactics for maximizing your AdWords investment
The current economy has been tough on businesses and customers alike, and it can be a lot harder these days to connect with more price-concious customers. To reach these customers, here are 6 tactics that will help your AdWords campaigns be more relevant to your customers.
1. Focus your ads [...]
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Tags: adwords, adwords consultant, adwords investment, google, maximize adwords, optimize adwords, pay per click, ppc
The Mobile Decade
The Mobile Decade
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Michael Jones, Google’s chief technology advocate, claims that, “The mobile phone is for the next decade what the computer has been for the last two or three. As such, he argues that the whole experience of the Web will become more personal; it’s something that [...]
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Tags: blackberry, download decade, future of mobile web, mobile internet, mobile revolution, mobile web
Struggling US newspaper publishers are painfully aware of it but a survey released on Friday found that the use of online classified advertisement sites such as Craigslist is soaring.
The number of Web-connected US adults who use online classified sites has more than doubled in the past four years, according to the survey by the Pew [...]
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Tags: Craigslist, local directories, local marketing, margin of error, online classifieds, percentage points, Pew Research, U.S. National
Microsoft’s New Search Engine: “Bing”
The New York Post
Microsoft is expected to unveil a revamped version of its search engine at the D: All Things Digital conference in San Diego this week. The new search engine had been codenamed “Kumo,” but according to The New York Post, it has been given the new name, “Bing”. Company [...]
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Tags: bing, hook, kumo, microsoft, microsoft bing, microsoft hook, microsoft kumo, microsoft sift, new msn search, new search engine, sift
Google Squared: Google’s Swift Answer to WolframAlpha
TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld says that one of the next big things in search is taking all of the unstructured data spread across the Web and making it searchable. “It is easier to get answers out of a database where everything is neatly labeled, stamped, and categorized,” he says. Well, [...]
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Tags: google, google experimental search, google laps, google squared, squared, squared google, wolfram, wolfram alpha, wolfram|alpha
WOW! Probably the best option for a google killer yet.
A New Kind of Google Killer
Wolfram|Alpha is the latest Google Killer that probably won’t kill Google. But then again, it probably won’t die on the vine, either, like so many would-be Google Killers that came before it. Indeed, Alpha is powered by very different technology than [...]
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Tags: future of online marketing, future of online search, mathmatica, search egine evolution, search engine marketing, stephen wolfram, wolfram, wolfram alpha, wolfram|alpha, www.wolfram.com
Noted tech venture capitalist Fred Wilson thinks the end of the IPO drought is nigh, possibly as soon as the end of this year. He cites five reasons why this will happen:
VCs “have been in the penalty box” for nearly a decade now, and it’s time to come out (hey, the investment bankers who helped [...]
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Tags: bankers, investors, ipo, ipo drought, ipos, start up, tech start ups
