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  1. Qihoo Search: Dead on Arrival?

    Baidu, the current market dominator holding about 78.6 percent of the search engine market share, will prove to be Qihoo’s biggest challenge in finding its place in the market. Baidu still has superior search technology, incorporates vertical...

  2. Making Big Data Smart: A 360-Degree Online View of a Business

    The main challenge is the lack of a common, consistent, and pervasive online business language among local search platforms. This abundance has not, however, produced standardized mechanisms to facilitate the exchange of rich descriptive...

  3. 4 Ways Developers Can Reduce Data Noise to Create Great Local Search Experiences

    With competing streams of data sources, developers must be able to filter data noise and distinguish accurate business points for local search results and other mapping features when they build mobile apps, social sites, or local directories.

  4. Chic Engine Helps You Find That Dress You Saw on Pinterest

    In a phone conversation, Rosebrock told Search Engine Watch that there was an interesting technology challenge at the heart of image search – namely what it is possible for a computer to see and what is scaleable for a computer to return.

  5. Business Listings: What’s the Crowd Appeal?

    Although crowdsourcing local business content online can be a quick and perceived easy task for some local search platforms and businesses, particularly in vertical categories like restaurants and travel, there are many reasons why it should not...

  6. How to Get Actionable Insights From Social Media Measurement and Monitoring Tools

    Take action: Search engines and free tools such as Google Alerts can help you find brand mentions quite easily, but may not afford you the ability to filter results based on influence, authority, sentiment, or reach.

  7. Mobile Search Discovers a New Path: mobilepeople

    Vertical Challenge In "Location-Based Services: Discovering Old and New Paths," we looked at a few mobile startups that are blurring the boundaries of mobile local search. In a nutshell, these represent a move from local search as we know it online...

  8. SearchDay | Judging PPC Performance

    VERTICAL SEARCH "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. Search Engine Watch Experts Columns

  9. Getting Vertical Search Right: A Sneak Preview

    I had planned to moderate the Getting Vertical Search Right panel on August 20, which will now be hosted by Lauren Vaccarello, director of publishing for FXCM. Vertical search is all about getting frequent users to your highly specialized search...