It was clearly emphasized from the onset of the announcement that this was not a product that would compete against traditional web search. We're not indexing the web. This is about filtering and sorting through the 240 billion photos and nearly 1...
I can click web, images or maps in the black bar, but now have the identical option in the new bar between the search box and the search results. Whilst, I can't imagine there is a reason for Charmin to worry about lost marketshare, it does...
With this massive movement to more of a Web universe where you are based on what you write and how people engage and share your content, what will become of the modern link as we know it? A majority of the web and sites are based around this model.
Content curation is about finding the most relevant content about a topic online and listing all the relevant links found on that topic after a thorough research on the web. If creating such content on a regular basis isn't possible for your...
As Google+ continues to gain traction, Google is well attuned for filtering through the noise to find the signals that can be localized and served up in any number of Google web properties. You will very likely find what you seek prominently...
However, perhaps unsurprisingly, the current state of web search still poses challenges for 3M Rao said. We know that the net present value of search is $1.6 billion if we assume that the web only influences 30 percent of our customer purchase...
Content is often written with distinct personas in mind, so leverage that same content targeting nomenclature for your web analytics reports. With so much raw data at our fingertips, many web analysts look to social media, analytics experts and...
This tool facilitates web research, and in particular, link prospect discovery for a particular link building tactic. Regex Filtering Tool While anchor text can provide ample clues about the content of a page or site, nothing beats Archive.org for...
If you don’t already use dashboards (they’ve been around for about a year) welcome to the world of fast and easy information on your web traffic, to help you make better-informed business decisions. Maybe you want to report on your traffic to other...
It starts with the five tabs at the top for Web, Images, Places, News and More for filtering search queries. Also, just like the web version, you can tap the Google icon to the left of the search bar and see the dropdown for further search filtering.
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Sergey Brin Clarifies Open Web, Apple, Facebook Comments Brin also took jabs at Google's major rivals, Apple and...
Mashable uses ShareThis with their responsive web design; depending upon screen width, the social widget adjusts to appear at the top or as a floating sidebar. Leverage responsive web design (RWD) to include mobile-specific CSS styles that optimize...
Right now, the web is still a reflection of “links and people” but Google is gearing up towards personalizing the entire web around people and relationships, "most retailers still think of personalization in the way that Amazon does it with the...
We’re in an exciting space and I’m expecting many more discussions around ethics, responsibility, and transparency to be much higher on the agenda as social and connected networks evolve with the social web.
Spy On Web: Check for suspect sites on your server. Content: Spam/keyword stuffing, hidden text, duplication/scraping. Cloaking: Serving different content to users and Google. Many instances Google will just re-crawl the site and place back if the...
We know that Google’s strategy has been to always put users first, and this move toward encryption of search query data should be considered a long-term investment in the loyalty of Google’s user base (or, as Allen says, “an attempt by Google to...
With web copy, commissioning content when you know the layout of your page is a custom service, and you can expect a higher standard of product as a result. Now, more sophisticated algorithms and the rise of social media mean the web is a far more...
Noise control" will soon be added to the social site, and "we have a team figuring out how to do it right now," Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said at the Le Web conference in Paris. Also at Le Web, Schmidt argued that Silicon Valley needs...
However, as noted by The Next Web, many users are "asking for Google+ to add the Trends results to the main page. You can easily narrow both the content type and the content source; a new filter lets you search through all results, results from...
Slashtags let users specify what they want to search for (/liberal, /vegan, /movies, etc.but they also allow Blekko users to organize the information of the web themselves by contributing to or even creating entirely new slashtags.
