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Think Small, Win Big: Social Media Marketing
Social media sites have opened membership profiles to the search engines. Has social media arrived? Or is it still middle school for…
Implications of Google Custom Search Blog Deletion
Boy this is frightening. Yesterday Google Blogoscoped reported about the Google Custom Search blog being hacked. After this was discovered, Google sent…
Spock Launches Today
The long awaited public unveiling of Spock, the people search engine, takes place today. According to company representatives, they already have 1.5…
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed Crawler
Wikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web…
Matt Cutts Seeking Search Bugs
Matt Cutts is asking for anyone that is aware of any search engine bugs to post them in comments on his blog.…
ToDou: China’s YouTube Adds Advertising, Gets Venture Capital
ToDou, the Chinese equivalent to YouTube, announced the launch of an ad serving platform, as well as the acquisition of $19 million…
FAST Acquires Personalization/Recommendation Technology
Norway- and Boston-based search company FAST Search & Transfer has acquired AgentArts, a San Francisco-based technology company with a personalization and recommendation…
Finding Success in Social Media
Profiles on social media sites can be used for reputation management, or the sites themselves can be used for general link-baiting.
Searching Through Widget Content
Widgets are a very convenient way to share your favorite photos these days. Just upload your media and integrate them on your…
RSS Mashups – Emerging Tools with Great Potential
Whenever I see the term “mashup,” I visualize cleverly altered, often funny video or audio clips, modern contributions to the art of…