Local and Social: It's all Coming Together
Google and Bing strike deals giving them access to real-time social feeds. What does it mean for the future of local search?
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Google and Bing strike deals giving them access to real-time social feeds. What does it mean for the future of local search?
The latest mobile search products have elements of push and pull that represent this interplay of local search and discovery. Those that win the land rush currently underway will balance these in the most publisher-, advertiser-, and user-friendly...
The TechCrunch50 has concluded and the winners announced. Best in show went to local search startup RedBeacon. The site has elements of ServiceMagic and OpenTable and more can be found in the TechCrunch writeup and video of the company's demo on...
Facebook just announced from the TechCrunch50 stage that it has reached 300 million active users and is cash flow positive. The latter milestone has been reached in advance of its initial goal of first quarter 2010.
I'm at the TechCrunch50 show where Google and Microsoft yesterday announced new visual interfaces for news and image search, respectively. Today, I'm on the hunt for interesting mobile & local companies. One that just demoed, City Sourced,...
Search has improved content delivery and ad performance over many existing media, due to clearer expression of user intent. But does the mobile device possess capabilities that can make it even more effective?
Voice search could have a bright future in mobile, and even evolve beyond the phone itself. An area known as speech controlled Internet devices (SCIDs) transforms the myriad electronics that surround into their own little search engines.
Readers of this blog are aware that we're less than a month away from SES San Jose (Aug 10-14). In anticipation of some of the mobile local content that will be featured at the show, I was able to catch up with Michelle Moore, director of search...
Google's Chrome OS is getting quite a bit of hype this week. But this time it may be at least partially deserved, though it's more evolutionary than revolutionary.
Improved capabilities of the Safari mobile browser in the latest iPhone have lots of implications for mobile local search. They essentially make it easier to build mobile products without having to spend time and money on native app development.
Twitter search brings structure to all the noise with an index of real time conversations. but is the excitement around Twitter causing us to force unnatural mashups, as with local search?
The online phone service will spin off as an independent company next year, giving it a greater ability to redefine itself. Local search could be one way to do this, tying Skype in with a local search engine with click-to-call functionality.
The year of mobile has perpetually been on the horizon, proving time and time again to only be a desert mirage. Now we're closer than ever, but the market is understandably cautious of bold claims about mobile search and location-based services.
With mobile Web publishers, Google is following the same path it did online many years ago: Partnering with publishers to share ad inventory and planting its search box all over the place.
This week saw a series of events and announcements that indicate more love for local search, despite a continually faltering economy.
Local search sometimes seems like Rodney Dangerfield: It can't get no respect. But there have also been glimmers of hope for local, if you watch closely enough.
TV and search are converging. Finding something good to watch could soon be more like online search, and less like browsing through a cable channel guide.
Location awareness -- the concept that a device knows exactly where it is -- is changing the way mobile search works. Search applications are being developed to tap into this capability and serve more locally relevant content. The next steps will...
"Research online, buy offline," (ROBO) is the concept that a growing volume of product research is happening online while the majority of buying remains offline in physical stores. A growing number of local search engines are basing their business...
Video search has been a key topic at the TechCrunch50 show in San Francisco. Lots of newly launched companies presented (kind of like DEMO minus the payola). In a “rich media” grouping of companies, the proverbial challenge of making images and...
