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Google Launches It’s Gmail prio...
Written by firstrank on September 01, 2010
Google this evening has launched what it calls “priority inbox” for Gmail. It uses a variety of algorithmic and machine learning techniques to automatically capture and organize “important” emails and de-emphasize other email. It’s like a spam filter in reverse:
Gmail’s servers look at several types of information to identify the email that’s important to you, including who you email and chat with most, how often you email with these people, and which keywords appear frequently in the emails you read.
If Priority Inbox makes a mistake, you can use the Mark important Mark not important buttons to correctly mark a conversation ...
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Paul Allen Sues Google, Yahoo, Facebo...
Written by firstrank on August 30, 2010
Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest men on earth, has filed a patent infringement suit today against several Internet titans, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The lawsuit centers on technology developed a decade ago by Interval Research Corp., a technology lab that Allen owned between 1992 and 2000. Eleven companies are named in the lawsuit: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, eBay, YouTube, NetFlix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples. The lawsuit claims four patent violations of technologies that are widely used by search engines and e-commerce sites, according to the WSJ:
The technology behind one patent allows a site to ...
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Official: Yahoo’s Results Now Come ...
Written by firstrank on August 25, 2010
Yahoo just announced the transition from Yahoo Search powered results to Bing powered organic Yahoo search results is now complete. The search ads are still from Yahoo but the free, organic results are now powered by Bing in the U.S. and Canada.
Shashi Seth, Senior Vice President of Yahoo! Search Products, said ” I am proud to announce that the transition of organic search between Yahoo! and Microsoft is complete.” He then told everyone to check out the Bing blog to see what they had to say.
Bing said:
Today I am happy to share that Bing is powering Yahoo!’s search results in ...
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Official: Google Now Lets One Domain ...
Written by firstrank on August 21, 2010
Prior to this week, Google would only show up to two results from the same domain on a single search result page. Now, Google has confirmed what many are seeing, where a single brand dominates a single page of Google’s search results.
This is not a bug, this is not an anomaly, it is an intentional change to Google’s ranking algorithm. Google said:
Today we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that indicate a strong user interest in a particular ...
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Verify Your Site in Webmaster Tools w...
Written by firstrank on August 21, 2010
Google announced that you can now verify your site in Webmaster Tools with a Google Analytics JavaScript snippet.
"Nobody likes to duplicate effort," said Google software engineer Sean Harding. "Unfortunately, sometimes it's a fact of life. If you want to use Google Analytics, you need to add a JavaScript tracking code to your pages. When you're ready to verify ownership of your site in other Google products (such as Webmaster Tools), you have to add a meta tag, HTML file or DNS record to your site. They're very similar tasks, but also completely independent. Until today."
"If you already have Google Analytics ...
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New Dictionary OneBox Results from Go...
Written by firstrank on August 19, 2010
Google launches it’s new Dictionary OneBox Results. It shows the pronunciation, short definition of English word only and it links to other references websites like Answers.com & Dictionary.com
Check out the following example: ...
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Facebook Driving Social Media Ad Spen...
Written by firstrank on August 16, 2010
U.S. advertisers will spend $1.68 billion on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter in 2010, according to a new report from eMarketer.
The $1.68 billion figure represents a 20 percent increase over 2009 on social network advertising spending and is set to climb to more than $2 billion in 2011.
In December 2009, eMarketer estimated $1.3 billion in social network ad spending in 2010. Healthy online ad spending in general, and Facebook in particular, has resulted in the increased forecast.
Facebook will pull in half of all social network ad spending in the U.S. while "MySpace continues to diminish in ...
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Google Analytics Intelligence Gets Ne...
Written by firstrank on August 16, 2010
Google has announced the launch of new AdWords Alerts and more options in Custom Alerts in Google Analytics Intelligence.
If a user has their Analytics and AdWords accounts linked, Intelligence will provide important changes in AdWords campaigns performance within Analytics.
"So, in addition to the alerts you are used to getting, such as time on site and revenue, you’ll now receive alerts about your AdWords campaigns and the traffic they are bringing to your website,” Google explains. "You might already be familiar with custom alerts in Google AdWords, which alert you when important changes you specify happen in your account. With AdWords alerts ...
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Estimate: Google Mobile Search Market...
Written by firstrank on July 29, 2010
Let’s be cautious about running too far with these numbers, but Royal Pingdom (using data from StatCounter) has reported/estimated Google’s global mobile search market share to be almost 100%
Google is clearly dominant in mobile search across smartphones (and feature phones). However these numbers may not be completely accurate. For example, the chart above shows PC and mobile search market share according to StatCounter. But while the general PC search share numbers may reflect selected markets (e.g., UK) they’re not accurate for the US and a number of other places around the world.
I’ve conducted mobile user surveys and seen plenty of ...
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Yahoo Answers Gets Major Search Upgra...
Written by firstrank on July 17, 2010
Yahoo Answers, the number one Answers/Q&A search engine on the web, has announced a series of improvements to the search experience on the site. The new search options are a welcome addition to what was long one of the site’s Achilles heels. Here’s an overview of some the new tools:
Search results can now be sorted by relevance, time (newest/oldest), and number of answers (most/least).
These sorting options have been available when browsing categories, but I believe they’re new to Yahoo Answers’ search results pages. The sorting options appear at the top of the search results.
On the left side of the search ...
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