For example, ask for a stock quote, the definition of a word, the square root of pi, who directed "Gone with the Wind" – and you'll get results served up neatly in card format. As of last count, there are 60+ known commands, which, when typed or...
Quality is your watch word AB: Much has been spoken about the relationship between search and social and influence on rank? This morning I caught up with Duane Forrester from Bing as he prepared to kick off the Reykjavik Internet Marketing...
Google has since become synonymous with the word "search" and as most of us know, is often used in place of the word. Over time, many search engines have come and gone, as users have spoken with their keyboards (and literally with their voices...
I was able to connect with influencers and decision makers, which helped with PR and word of mouth. Word of mouth is still the best source for recommendations. Four years ago, I joined a relatively new company called Commerce360 – then a digital...
No word yet as to how many of those applications are alarm clocks. Qwiki is a popular resource that gathers information for a search term and assembles it into a multimedia presentation accompanied by a spoken narrative.
The social media landscape is, in 2011, the truest manifestation of online word-of-mouth behavior -- and in a ROPO context, this brings tremendous value to the search marketer's table. These too are indexed by search engines (for the most part...
Microsoft thought that putting a Tupperware-style twist on its Windows 7 rollout -- launching an initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners, and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes and communities -- would help...
There are roughly 4 billion searches a month in Germany: percent of the searches are one-word queries percent are two words percent are three to four words German search optimizer Michael Pauls of SEOMaxx provides some interesting statistics on...
That's still better than referencing "poutine" on your French site, though -- people will likely think you've misspelled a curse word, which is embarrassing on more than one level. Optimizing Your Search Engine Results
Igniting Viral Campaigns: Leveraging Consumer-Generated Content -- How can businesses leverage social platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and more to break through and create buzz, encourage word of mouth, and establish relationships...
SocialTwist's Tell-A-Friend Button Enables Word-of-Mouth and Social Media Marketing Posted by Nathania Johnson Dec 18, 2008 If you want to enable word-of-mouth marketing and social media marketing in the form of bookmarking, then adding...
Cultivating positive relations with clients is the key to getting them to help with link development and word-of-mouth marketing. Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Getting Vertical Search Right: A Sneak Preview VERTICAL SEARCH At SES San Jose...
A sophisticated algorithm doesn't try to match one word -- thesaurus-like -- with another. The Internet Marketers of New York invited me to a dinner recently, hosted by Search Engine Watch Forums leader and SEW blogger, Frank Watson, head of SEM...
Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google, CNET News Our previous articles covered the opportunities, challenges, and essential planning strategies for the US Hispanic and Latin American search markets.
It was surprising the movie ad didn't lead to a link, especially since a search this morning of Google Movies and a variety of news searches couldn't find a movie with the word “Drive” in it. There have been some good reviews of this year's always...
Users can search to find the exact point in a track where a word or phrase can be found. Nexidia offers a tool to index spoken-word content, using technology developed at Georgia Tech University. I stopped by the AlwaysOn Media conference in New...
But if you've found the references to the single word golf, it's pretty likely you've hit the conceptually related terms, as well. The "heat map" display above did a nice job of showing me where in the file that word plus words related to golf...
In particular, methods to assign a global ranking value to a data object based on a combination of that object's link-based (e.g.vector-space cluster analysis) and text-based (e.g.word frequency) ranks are described.
The usage of the word "fraud" in this context has caused a great deal of confusion, as it's practically impossible to "prove" that an impression or click was caused by deliberate deception. Google has rarely spoken publicly about click fraud issues...
Podscope is the first podcast search engine that actually looks for and listens to every spoken word in a podcast," said David Ives, President and CEO of TVEyes. Podcasting is comparatively new, though there are already numerous podcast search...
