An analysis of "SEO" vs.social media" coverage on the top two major tech blogs, while not the most scientific study ever done, shows that social media was covered 4x more frequently on TechCrunch and 58x more frequently on Mashable.
Because of ad character limitations, sitelink extensions are a great way to communicate more information and target your audience with various calls to action that might be more appealing to them. Details about the different kits, presented in a...
Help the Internet solve the information overload issue by filtering quality information and offering it on one platform. As Clay Shirky put it simply: "It's not information overload. Creation is a creative process but curation is a logical and a...
While our classifications are non-scientific, organizing the information in such a manner provided some interesting insights into Google’s priorities for search in 2012. Google made an Olympic effort to be the go-to resource for timely information.
“Picture the communications future: every home linked via cable TV, push‐button phone, and video cassette to virtually every information retrieval bank in the country; every citizen able to efficiently get an answer to every question, a solution...
With so much raw data at our fingertips, many web analysts look to social media, analytics experts and peer discussion to determine what data can be compiled into meaningful information. Here are top 10 segmentation tips that can transform your...
Information you can later use for analysis, segmentation, and prioritization of your visitors and leads. This includes more than the basic information you are likely to have in your core search analytics systems, such as source, campaign, and...
Campbell starts by examining the all-too-common issue of information overload (in SEO), reflecting on personal experience when first learning SEO and the problem of where to seek knowledge and how to filter the vast range of information in any...
What percentage of users that search for your products or services are looking for information, looking for a "how to," or looking to buy? I put this little equation together myself and it's far from scientific, but it will help you understand how...
This information meant that Google could provide easily accessible data about where flu cases were (probably) worst to help planners deliver medications, etc. The scientific method is simple and it works well.
The Trojan-infected apps (all of which were published by Myournet to the Android Market and were downloaded up to 200,000 times in four days) attempted to gain root access to users' devices, gathering a wide range of available personal information...
The test of the computer is to understand the answer and find the right question in its database of information. After four years, our scientific team believes that Watson is ready for this challenge based on its ability to rapidly comprehend what...
Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web. Governments--totalitarian and democratic alike--are monitoring people's online habits, endangering important human rights," he wrote in the...
If you could turn back the Internet clock 15 years, armed with the information you have in 2010, how would you use this knowledge to get ahead online? China imports almost $2 billion of electrical machinery each year, with petroleum and related...
Though it's still early and information is scarce, I've pulled together enough of it on Google's website and a few other sources to get a better understanding of what this means to search marketers and how it can improve your lives.
Yahoo Labs "focuses on the scientific areas of information retrieval, machine learning, data and text mining, and natural language processing," Yahoo said in the blog post. We like to consider search not as a stateless, information-extraction, but...
For example, check out some of the information we pulled from Sysomos about the newly infamous "Old Spice Guy": click to enlarge Scientific or not, a one time fact-finding mission to correlate metrics with revenue is a decent approach.
A non-scientific review of tweets showed that users are providing information and advice (reviews) on restaurants and entertainment topics such as movies, clubs, and music. But it's a great way to share information quickly and succinctly.
After several unsuccessful searches for medical information and scientific data comprised of very detailed sentences, I gave up and tried a suggested example search for "measles outbreak" that automatically populated the massive search box with...
Whenever I have any information or an inside angle, I like to share it with all of you. Editor of anything -- machining, food, scientific equipment -- is an underground ruling class that very few average people know about.
