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Forrester: Interactive To Grow To 21 Percent Of All Ad Spend By 2014

Jul 8, 2009 6:25 PM

And now for a not-so-negative online advertising forecast: Forrester Research is pegging the U.S. interactive ad market to reach $55 billion over the next five years—meaning marketers will go from spending just 12 percent of their total ad budgets online this year, to 21 percent by 2014. Search and display…

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Posted In: Advertising, Search, Mobile, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, forrester

Technorati Seeks Some Twitter Juice, Launching Twittorati

Jul 8, 2009 4:22 AM

Apparently, Technorati is still going. The seven-year-old blog index site once threatened to be to the web’s nascent conversational search paradigm what Twitter Search is now, but has limped along for the last couple of years - plagued by server downtime, broken links, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Blog Search’s rise and…

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Posted In: Search, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Weblogs, layoffs

Analyst: Google Bests Bing For Relevance

Jul 7, 2009 6:59 PM

Citigroup tested 200 of the most common queries to determine which major search engine delivers what it considers to be the most relevant results and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) won by a wide margin. From the report released Tuesday: 71 percent of the time a Google search brought up the most…

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Posted In: Search, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Google, Microsoft

Yahoo To Launch New Search Note Feature

Jul 6, 2009 7:37 PM

For a change, Yahoo’s search business is grabbing some headlines this evening with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Search Pad, a tool it initially introduced in February, and is now slated to go live tomorrow. Search Pad lets Yahoo searchers take and save notes as they visit various websites (It automatically asks…

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Posted In: Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Yahoo

Google Expands Real Estate Search On Maps

Jul 6, 2009 4:40 PM

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expanding its real estate listings on Google Maps in a move that could pit it against existing listing sites and could also create additional tension with listing services. Starting Monday, users in Australia and New Zealand can search for available properties on Google Maps, according to…

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Posted In: Search, Companies, Google, Orkut, Countries, Australia & New Zealand

Google Expected To Post Second-Quarter Gains In China

Jul 5, 2009 10:24 PM

Recent high-profile disputes with the Chinese government don’t seem to be cutting into Google’s revenue there. The company’s second-quarter ad revenue in China is expected to increase by 25 percent, compared to the first quarter according to BrandRepublic, which cites domestic reports (via Marketing Pilgrim). Operating revenue is also expected…

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Posted In: Advertising, Search, Companies, Google, Countries, Asia, China

Microsoft’s Bing Starts Indexing Some Tweets In Real-Time

Jul 1, 2009 6:43 PM

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Wednesday that its relaunched Bing search engine would begin to index some Tweets in real-time—becoming the first major search engine to do so. In a post on the Bing community blog, Microsoft’s Sean Suchter said that starting later today the company would highlight new Tweets from…

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Posted In: Search, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Google, Microsoft

Newspaper Publisher AH Belo Invests In Online Real Estate Brokerage Sawbuck

Jul 1, 2009 3:30 PM

Moving to boost its online real estate listings, newspaper publisher AH Belo (NYSE: AHC) (NYSE: BLC) has led a $2 million investment in online real estate brokerage Sawbuck Realty. Sawbuck’s service lets people search for listings and then connects them with real estate agents. It takes a cut of any…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Search, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital

Microsoft’s Search Share Up, Google Down In June

Jul 1, 2009 1:32 PM

The latest evidence that Microsoft’s Bing is off to a successful start: Web analytics firm StatCounter says Microsoft’s share of the search market was up 0.5 percentage points to 8.23 percent last month. Google’s meanwhile actually dropped slightly from 79.07 percent to 78.48 percent. “Steady if not spectacular might be…

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Posted In: Search, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Companies, Google, Microsoft

MojoPages Raises $5 Million In First Round, As Rival Local.com Goes Shopping

Jun 30, 2009 2:35 PM

A battle is intensifying in the white-label local search market. MojoPages said Tuesday it had raised $5 million in a first round of funding—money it said it would use to boost its core private-label search offering, which lets media companies put local directories on their sites under their own brands.…

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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Search, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital

Ask.com Credits Nascar For Uptick In Search Share

Jun 29, 2009 6:03 PM

In January, Ask.com gained some market share, ending six straight months of falling share, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR). Who gets the credit? Nascar, according to Ask.com’s new president Scott Garell. Since the start of the year the company has shifted almost all of its marketing efforts to the racing…

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Posted In: Search, Companies, IAC

The Inside Word: Why Real-Time Search Is Overrated

Jun 26, 2009 2:10 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Poster: Daniel Tunkelang Blog name: The Noisy Channel Company/Title: Chief scientist of enterprise search firm Endeca Backstory: Tunkelang was taken aback by the extensive coverage in the…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Search, Technologies / Formats

Monster Vets Raise $2.5 Million For Search Marketing Firm, ClickFuel

Jun 26, 2009 11:09 AM

Search marketing tech and services firm ClickFuel has raised $2.5 million in its first round of funding. Baird Venture Partners led the investment; Baird Principal Jim Pavlik, and Partner Bill Filip are joining the startup’s board. Founded in 2008 by AuctionPal co-founder Colby West, it’s now helmed by Steve Pogorzelski,…

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Posted In: Advertising, Search, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, baird venture partners, clickfuel, monster worldwide

Twitter Search Fails Under Thursday’s Celebrity News Rush

Jun 25, 2009 7:08 PM

The sudden interest in the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett was apparently too much for Twitter’s search engine, which quickly got overloaded and returned results that were increasingly delayed—when it returned them at all. Later Thursday evening, Twitter said it had disabled the search field on users’ home…

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Posted In: Search, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Technologies / Formats

Yahoo Annual Meeting: Company Is Trying To Cut Its ‘Space Debris’

Jun 25, 2009 1:04 PM

At the company’s annual meeting Thursday, CEO Carol Bartz began her presentation by saying that one reason she had been intrigued to join Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) earlier this year was because, “It had more than lost its speed—speed of decisions, ability to attract new people to the site.” Bartz outlined…

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Industry Moves: EBay Hires Microsoft Search Exec As Search VP

Jun 25, 2009 11:10 AM

A seemingly rare departure from Microsoft’s search team, which has stepped up its efforts to recruit top engineers from rivals: Hugh Williams, a Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) search development manager, is heading to eBay (NSDQ: EBAY). Williams tells us via e-mail that he will be leading the e-commerce company’s search development…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Microsoft

Kayak: Microsoft’s Bing Travel Search Is Too Similar

Jun 25, 2009 3:30 AM

Travel search engine Kayak is accusing Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) of basically ripping off some of its features in its revamped search engine, which puts a heavy emphasis on travel search. And, indeed a quick look at Kayak and the Microsoft travel search offering—dubbed Bing Travel—shows that the two sites look…

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Posted In: Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Microsoft

Yahoo Plans To Redefine Its Brand

Jun 25, 2009 1:41 AM

In a Q & A with readers on Yahoo’s corporate blog last month, new Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz was asked what the “one thing’ was that she would like consumers to instantly associate with the Yahoo brand. She took 187 words to say that Yahoo “means a lot…

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Posted In: Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Yahoo

AOL Video Search Site Truveo Relaunches In 17 Nations; Lands Deal With Univision

Jun 25, 2009 12:01 AM

AOL’s video search engine Truveo is launching a global revamp tonight—across 17 of its country-specific sites, including in the U.S, where it is aiming for a less-cluttered, almost Google-like home page. Truveo is the second-largest video search engine worldwide, behind Google (NSDQ: GOOG), with 25.6 million unique visitors, according to…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Search, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Time Warner, AOL

Total Search Queries Are Up For Facebook And Down For Google

Jun 24, 2009 6:45 PM

The number of search queries that users made on Facebook increased last month—not so surprising until you consider that it was one of only four sites that comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) tracked that showed gains in queries month to month. The others included YouTube and Craigslist. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and all…

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Posted In: Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Facebook

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