Yahoo! recently highlighted in the Yahoo! Search Blog that they have now integrated the millions of Flickr photos into the image search results. This lets users of Yahoo! Image search access 300 million Flickr photos directly from Yahoo!. I am a...
As reported yesterday in Clickz, Quantcast has added online video and widget audience measurement tools. The service enables publishers to measure the usage of videos and widgets on their Web sites. These free tools will report stats on all...
Today MySpace re-launched its video sharing site, renaming it MySpaceTV. The New York Times reports that this is a serious attempt by News Corp, the owner of MySpace, to challenge YouTube. Users of the new service do not have to be signed in...
PodZinger, a major multimedia search and advertising platform, has just changed its name to EveryZing , signaling the extension of their market offering beyond podcasts. Employing the capability of their speech-to-text technology in extracting...
For those who like to search using multiple engines, but who are tired of opening multiple browsers or tabs, there's now a simple, elegant solution . . . Sputtr. At first glance, Sputtr looks like a keyboard with a text window. . . perhaps some...
Whenever I see the term “mashup,” I visualize cleverly altered, often funny video or audio clips, modern contributions to the art of bricolage. What I'd not considered until the launch of Yahoo! Pipes is the employment of mashup tools to filter...
Yoono has officially publicly launched a beta version of Yoono Buzz It!, a free social Web clipping and annotation plug-in for FireFox and IE. It combines the best features of online highlighters, bookmarks and clipping services on a single web...
With the acquisition of Truveo last year, AOL signaled clear intent to extend its capabilities in video search. For developers, the good news is that AOL has recently followed a successful industry trend by “giving away the good stuff” to build...
Search optimization for mobile sites presents many challenges already familiar to search marketers, yet adds different twists that make it unique.
As reported in the Guardian, a survey of over 300 U.K. podcast users done by Chrysalis Radio's download division found that 80% of those surveyed indicated that they would be more likely to seek out products and services after hearing about...
According to data released by ClipBlast video news is the fastest-growing category on the Video Web. ClipBlast has found that video news now accounts for 32 percent of all the video that ClipBlast indexes. This is up from only 15 percent in...
ChaCha, a search engine that search engine that uses human guides to enhance its search results, has announced a partnership with video search engine blinkx for multimedia content. Now, the video search results shown on ChaCha will come from...
Online radio station Last.fm is expected to add a video section to its site this week that will allow users to create their own personalized video channels. Last.fm is partnering with a number of major producers such as EMI and Warner as well as...
Through a partnership with VODEO.TV, a video-on-demand French language portal, video search engine blinkx has added 1500 hours of French television content to its index. Under the terms of the agreement , blinkx will transcribe and index...
Video search engine blinkx has added PBS streaming video content to its index. Now blinkx users will find hours of PBS educational, news and public affairs streaming content online. The searchable content that has been added includes...
Industry and SES veteran Catherine Seda has authored a new book published by New Riders entitled: How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders. Written for the small to mid-sized business owner or entrepreneur, this book provides a clear roadmap for...
Video search engine blinkx has just introduced a tool, blinkx Remote that will let TV users find full-length TV programming available on the Web. The tools uses blinkx's speech to text recognition algorithm to identify TV shows by season and...
Eric Schmidt in an interview with John Seigenthaler, a former reporter with NBC's Nightly News, at National Association of Broadcasters conference noted that Google is close implementing a filtering service that would prevent copyright content...
As any attendee at SES will vouch, one of the reasons to attend is to gather and chat with others who understand the peril of a 302 redirect, how to construct a good Title, and that a quality score isn't related to a sporting event. In the past,...
In November Google, MSN and Yahoo! announced that they were all going to support a unified protocol whereby webmasters could notify the search engines of the URLs on their site that they wanted crawled. As expected, enhancements have been made...
