I always say that Yelp combines the engineering-driven product focus of a Foursquare or Facebook, with the direct SMB sales of a YP. Since looking at Facebook's moves in local search last month, much more has come to light.
Chris Yerga, Android engineering director, unveiled the service, which will take on Spotify and Rdio with its subscription based music offering. Google has confirmed earlier rumors that it was working on a streaming music service.
Most other major publishers don't have the level of science, investment, and platform engineering that we do," Burke said. Yahoo's front-page news stream now displays personalized ads alongside news articles and other features.
Engineering a Link Research is the first phase of the engineering process and the key to finding out exactly what is needed. As search engines have changed what they are looking for, the efforts we make as link builders have changed as well.
There’s a university level feed, with more campus-wide news, and each college or school within that university generally has a dedicated news page that highlights accomplishments of students, faculty or staff members specific members of that...
As social networks become more algorithmic, you will see more social media marketers reverse engineering their presence (some are already doing this for EdgeRank). Yet, many people are still trying to figure out exactly how social plays into their...
Yelp has an edge here, as it brings engineering and product focus together with direct local ad sales. I'm frequently asked who's winning in local. The answer always surprises me in how short the list is.
Google software engineering director Lawrence You is expected to take over for Whitten this June. Google's privacy director has resigned from her position after nearly 10 years of service at the search giant.
In 2004, Copernicus was the inspiration of an April Fool’s Day joke from Google, which announced it was interviewing candidates for engineering positions at the Copernicus Center, a lunar hosting and research center, set to open in the spring of...
As consumers, we reach out to the device closest to us to find the information we need” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google, “Advertisers need to be present and relevant across the growing number and wide range...
Our two engineering teams worked together to advance a unified search experience," he wrote. Graph Search is adding another dimension to Facebook; another way for users to get a little something more out of the system.
A Google spokesperson says the company's engineering team has fixed an issue that was causing conversions from Google Analytics to not be properly imported into AdWords. Past data will be restored in the coming days.
Non-trivial engineering challenges stand in the way of mass availability of this feature set. The potential for Facebook’s new Graph Search feature is huge. Brands, digital marketers, and publishers can and should be doing a number of things right...
As part of this product, our two engineering teams worked together to advance a unified search experience. Bing has been providing Web search results within Facebook since October 2008. At the time, it was a very basic implementation Web results...
Because Facebook doesn’t have native conversion tracking, you will have to devote engineering resources to writing code to track and attribute conversions to Facebook, search, and GDN, to see which channel works.
Google continues to evolve its algorithm to promote great content and demote sites that are focused on gaming or reverse engineering the algorithm. 2012 has been a year of rapid change. The markets have changed, the search algorithms have changed...
Announcing the updates in a blog post, Twitter's engineering manager of Search and Relevance Daniel Loreto said users can now preview article summaries and photos in both Search and Discover without having to access the stories.
Reverse engineering competitor keyword strategies and URL mapping is a critical part of any keyword research process. Google makes roughly 500 changes per year to its algorithm, requiring agile companies to change direction and strategy in real time.
While at Google she focused on product engineering. Recently appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has promised to make technology innovation the center of the company's future during Yahoo's third quarter investor call.
When Google launched Knowledge Graph in May, Engineering SVP Amit Singhal described the “People also search for” feature as “magical,” crediting this feature for some of his “most serendipitous discoveries.
