Everyone using Facebook's mobile app has a mechanism for researching and checking into a place called Local Search (on iOS) and Nearby (on Android). Users can also rate places they checked into by using Nearby in their Facebook mobile app (now...
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings [Update: Google Removed App] – Search Engine LandThe app was accidentally released early, no word on when/if it will actually be available again.
Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has "improved driving, transit and walking directions, as well as up-to-the minute traffic incidents notifications...
Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others – TechCrunchGoogle plan for http://search/: to use it as a "redirect service" that will "enable users to easily conduct searches with firms that...
Quick stats about local mobile use:
percent of mobile search is local.percent of local searches result in purchases.percent of smartphone shoppers use a GPS/mapping app to find a retail location. Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org...
Google search has technical issues listing iTunes app pages – CNET App rankings suffered as Google had some technical issues fetching iTunes pages. After slamming Google AdWords for taking control away from customers, Bing says "…we do not believe...
Now there's a GoogleApp for that. Aside from being an obvious shot at Google, what is Bing Basic? So if you go to Bing's home page and type in "Google" you'll see this: Bing Introduces Bing Basic, New SEO Tag
Nothing has change today besides the screw press being replaced with the app store and the paper boy by Tweetdeck. Facebook Graph still needs to figure out its mobile app integration and how to move out from under its current overlooked location in...
I use Yelp to find restaurants, the Weather Channel app for local weather, Google Maps for directions, etc. It is in the app environment on mobile devices where I think Graph Search has the greatest potential to reach critical mass and experience...
The app itself is a web browser. When you click a result link, the page will open within the app. You can download the Izik app for both Android and iOS 6 devices. Sorry, iOS 5 users, no native app for you.
There's also a mobile app. Bing also has a great keyword research tool. Lisa Buyer wrote a fantastic piece about how to use it for visual marketing and even though it wasn't news per se, it was useful to the target market at Search Engine Watch.
On October 1, 2012, Yandex launched their own browser and mobile app to keep their position secure against Google, their only real competitor in the space. In recent years, search market share has remained mostly unchanged – for much of the world...
Webmasters and app developers can build Superfish into their own site and even earn revenue for doing so. Visual search, done right, is more than simply the image search feature on Google, Bing or Yahoo.
The mobile search engineapp “Dancing with the Stars” contestants are: Instagr.am comes up first with App Store and Google Play right after. After that, there are App results for IMDb and TV guide. This iPhone search app does what it is designed to...
Very Important Note: Your website is not an app. Don't make the mistake of confusing your mobile website for an app. Don't think your mobile site is an app, don't make it into an app, don't make it look like an app, and always make sure you have a...
Designers, especially those who were already getting into mobile app design, felt cramped by the conventions of traditional web layouts, and understood that mobile users related and responded to different design cues, that actually make...
Not long ago Bing quietly launched Bing Linked pages for users signed into Facebook via Bing's own Facebook app. Bing Linked Pages are essentially self policing as you have to enable permissions on the Bing for Facebook app which allow Bing to...
Bing on Xbox also isn’t an app, like Netflix or ESPN. A Bing spokesperson suggested to Search Engine Watch it is yet another way Bing is trying to move people "outside the search box. In what they are calling the "future of entertainment search...
His BurrellTime iPhone app allowed users to keep up with him in real time, while his DanceJam.com site, then in beta, pulled from his experience in entertainment and the requisite advertising involved.
Although the WP7 with Mango didn't receive the full 10 points, Computerworld emphasized the great strides Microsoft's shot at mobile has made, concluding that, "[I]f you're looking for a smartphone with a task-based approach rather than an app...