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HP TouchPad review Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 6:04PMAs things get older they tend to get bigger. It's the same for people, corporations, models of cars, budget deficits... and so it is for webOS. As Palm was in the process of being subsumed its great mobile operating system was being eyed for much broader things, far bigger than the little phones it had previously been flashed on. Things like printers and desktops and laptops , but for its first ...
Google Earth and Maps to Receive Abbottabad Images Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 10:05AMOn May 1st of 2011, President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by U.S. troops in Abbottabad, Pakistan (although, of course, the news was all over Twitter long before Obama made his official statement). Alongside news sites, the search engines have made news information more accessible by moving data to prominent “spotlight” sections on [...] Check out the SEO Tools ...
Osama Bin Laden`s Death, Hideout Spur Web Media Frenzy Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 10:33PMAnyone left wondering about the true location of Osama Bin Laden’s "mansion" hideout can just plug in the query on Google Maps to find a multitude of maps, locations and comments.
HUFFPOST HILL - bin Laden Playing Checkers With Hitler Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 6:04PMAmericans continued to soak in this national period of GET SOME the day after Seal Team Six sent Osama bin Laden to a place where people use your fatwa tapes to record Rush Limbaugh's show. Countless numbers of teens formed bands called "Actionable Intelligence" in untold numbers of garages.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 22, 2011 Friday, April 22, 2011 @ 10:27AMThis week, I do a shorter recap of the news at the Search Engine Roundtable. I start off with Google's Webmaster Tools link reports being wrong. Bing changed how they link to their image results, leading to upset webmasters. Google Maps dropped the Tags advertisement feature. Google Video is removing all hosted video and being a search only service. If you search for yahoo search on Google, you ...
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 28, 2010 Tuesday, December 28, 2010 @ 3:59PMGoogle’s Matt Cutts tweeted that Google will be looking more at Cloaking in the first quarter of 2011. Cloaking, as defined by Google, “Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines.
Yahoo! stumbles and other search engine news Sunday, December 19, 2010 @ 10:08AMWe have found some interesting news articles regarding Yahoo! this week. Yahoo! (YHOO) is going to close down search engine old timers AltaVista and AlltheWeb. No, this does not really matter that much, as they now serve as experimental interfaces to the regular Yahoo! search results. The Yahoo! search results are, as most of you [...]
Marissa Mayer’s Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search Wednesday, December 8, 2010 @ 9:24AMToday at LeWeb '10 in Paris, France, our own Michael Arrington took the stage to talk with Google's Marissa Mayer . Mayer recently took a new job within Google. Technically, she's now the head of consumer products for the company. So what's she working on? Well, as we've all heard, location is a big part of it. But she's also thinking about a bigger picture item that Google is still working on ...
Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up Dec 5 Sunday, December 5, 2010 @ 8:23AMSorry for the absence. The Pandia editors have been out travelling (from experiencing the Korea conflict in Seoul to taking part in the Online Conference in London). Now we are back on track, however, with a new list of search engine relevant articles and post from around the Web.
Video: A Day in the Life of Mr. O Wednesday, December 1, 2010 @ 6:53AMA Day in the Life of Mr. O is a abstract short film that narrates the story of the ocean alongside a collection of understated motion graphics and a jazz score. Director Kristijan Kolak 's decision to personify the ocean by having him played by an actor is an effective way of illustrating how what we do the ocean eventually comes back to hurt us. Still, the video as a whole is more artful than ...
Yahoo!’s Year in Review Profiles a Year of Discovery and Disaster Tuesday, November 30, 2010 @ 11:00PMToday Yahoo! Inc. announced its 2010 Year in Review , the much-anticipated annual Yahoo! look back that identifies the top trends of the year from billions of consumer searches, and the top stories and topics of the year from the Yahoo! network.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 30, 2010 Tuesday, November 30, 2010 @ 4:15PMIf you take advantage of some of the relatively new AdWords features like click-to-call, Sitelinks, and Product Ads, there’s a new report in your AdWords account to show how each one is performing.
Google to Buy Groupon for $6 Billion? Tuesday, November 30, 2010 @ 11:01AMMy what a difference a day makes. Yesterday, the word on the street was that Google was getting close to buying local deals site Groupon for an estimated $3 billion. Today, that estimate has doubled to $6 billion. All Things D reports that unnamed sources are saying a deal could even close this week. The [...]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 29, 2010 Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 4:15PMThe New York Times has a great, detailed story out today about a merchant with an unusual marketing strategy: be mean to customers. Any publicity, even negative publicity, means a win with Google’s ranking algorithms. Is he right? Maybe.
Reportlinker Adds Global Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Industry Wednesday, November 17, 2010 @ 7:22AMReportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Google Shows Dates Of Map Imagery In Google Earth Tuesday, November 2, 2010 @ 6:53AMOne of the more popular questions I see in the Google Maps Help forum is, how do I find out the date the street views or satellite imagery were captured in Google Maps? The answer rarely comes from a Googler and when it does, the response is, they do not provide this information. Why? Well, it can cause major privacy complaints. But today I spotted a Google Maps Help thread where a Googler said ...
GeoEye: Insiders Prep for Mega-Growth Monday, October 18, 2010 @ 6:34AMBy Sean DalySometimes it helps to follow the smart money.On September 22, Stephen Feinberg's Cerberu...
AOL and Google Gobbling Israeli Startups Thursday, September 30, 2010 @ 2:21PMThe past few months have been fruitful for Israeli startups. Several U.S. and European tech giants have made high-profile acquisitions. Foreign VCs are making massive capital injections. Now local publications such as Calcalist and The Marker are filled with rumors of upcoming purchases. Israel has traditionally been a stomping ground for international heavy players thanks to a confluence of ...
Google Instant and other search engine news Saturday, September 18, 2010 @ 9:31AMThis last week the search engine buzz has been dominated by Google launching Google Instant. Google Instant Essentially when you start to type in your search terms Google instantly displays results based on what you’ve typed into the search box, it produces suggestions and tries to finish off your search for you with greyed out text. [...]
Google Earth takes UND 3D Friday, September 17, 2010 @ 9:21PMBy: Xavier pastranoArchitects have been geo-modeling the campus based off 1,000 photos. It may seem hard to believe, but there was once a time when people used to rely on maps for their travels. They would pop open the glove compartment, sort through the collection of road guides and find the one that was needed for that particular trip. ...
Why Apple Bought Poly9: And What Is Poly9? Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 5:23PMA report suggests that, with Poly9, Apple plans to develop its own in-house mapping software for its popular mobile devices. Apple - Google - Google Maps - Google Earth - Macintosh
Apple boosting mapping mashup skills with Poly9 acquisition Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 11:53AMApple is continuing its recent acquisition spree, this time buying Québec-based mapping mashup firm Poly9. According to Le Soleil, Apple quietly acquired the company in recent weeks, and most of its employees have already moved into offices at Apple's Cupertino headquarters. The acquisition brings additional depth to Apple's talent pool of mapping- and location-savvy programmers after last year ...
Apple acquires Poly9 online mapping firm Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 8:25AMApple has purchased a small high-tech company out of Quebec called Poly9...
BP vows $500 mln to study impact of oil spill Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 11:04AMOil giant BP pledged Monday up to 500 million dollars (405 million euros) to study the impact of the Deepwater Horizon rig spill on the Gulf of Mexico environment.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 2010 Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 3:46PMHere is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google Adds Earth View To Google Maps, Terrain View Moved Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 7:46AMYesterday, Google added an Earth View layer to Google Maps. That means you can interact with Google Maps as you would in Google Earth, the desktop application. It is actually pretty neat, here is Niagara Falls in Earth View (you may have to minimize the left side pane). In any event, it doesn't seem to work too well on a Mac, specifically Chrome for Mac - so this picture was taken using IE on a ...
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 22, 2010 Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 3:39PMHere is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT Monday, March 15, 2010 @ 5:00AMTechnology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day.
Bing gains US search market share for ninth straight month Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:40PMMicrosoft's new Internet search engine Bing slightly increased its share of the US search market in February, the ninth straight month of modest gains, online tracking firm comScore said Wednesday.
Option to bring premier USB modem to AT&T Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:23AMLEUVEN, BELGIUM--(Marketwire - March 5, 2010) -
Option to bring premier USB modem to AT&T Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:07AMLEUVEN, BELGIUM--(Marketwire - 03/05/10) - First GPS-enabled LaptopConnect device from AT&T LEUVEN, Belgium, March 5 2010 - Coinciding with AT&T's announcement of yesterday afternoon, Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it is shipping AT&T's first ever mobile broadband USB-modem with integrated GPS. The AT&T USBConnect Velocity is ...
Live blog: Ballmer on the cloud Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 12:09PMIn speech broadcast on the Web, Microsoft's CEO is outlining his vision of the future of computing and the cloud's role. CNET's Ina Fried has live coverage and analysis.
EPA tosses tainted soil plan for storage near middle school Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 12:02AMU.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials have ruled out using a vacant lot near Glenwood Middle School to store lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil from the Jacobsville neighborhood Superfund site. The EPA announced the decision to move the staging site during a meeting at the school Wednesday afternoon with the Glenwood Neighborhood Association, Evansville Vanderburgh County School Corp ...
Top 5 mobile search engines Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 10:01AMSearch is going mobile. The number of people accessing the web on their mobile phone is skyrocketing and searching on your mobile or cell phone is different than searching on your computer: The screen is smaller and typing can be a hassle. To make your mobile searching fun and easy we present five great tools for mobile web search. If you have an iPhone, you have probably already seen our Top 5 ...
Links on tsunami advisories, estimated arrival times (The Newsroom) Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 2:54PMThe Newsroom - Pacific locations are on the highest alert for the tsunami warnings generated by the powerful quake in Chile; President Obama earlier alerted those in Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam to follow advisories.
Improving search by voice, going personal Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 3:51AMWorld's four biggest search engines explain 2010 plans and initiatives to improve their platforms and discuss where industry is heading.
Reportlinker Adds 3D Web Tuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 11:55AMReportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Where 2.0 Mapping : Mobile : Local Tuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 11:30AMThe Where 2.0 conference program is almost complete. The three day conference runs March 30 - April 1 in San Jose. The focus is on the tech industry's advances in Mapping, Mobile and Local. Each of these areas are being treated equally and each will have its own afternoon track. Coming back this year we have great speakers such as John Hanke (Google), Jack Dangermond (ESRI), Ryan Sarver (Twitter ...
38.81pc of visits to the online travel industry went to top 10 sites Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 3:43AMHitwise US Travel Report for January 2010 has indicated that 38.81 percent of all visits to the online travel industry went to the top 10 websites for the month of January, 2010.
Lessons From Google’s Own Paid Search Campaigns: Forget The “Rules” Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 2:27PMOne should suspect that no company on Earth would be better at running a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign than Google itself. Astute observers may have noticed that Google runs ads for its services in its own results pages.
VGI Tidbits Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 8:58AMTwo "can't just sit around" sort of people were concerned about Queensland’s koala population. They've launched a grassroots organization, Koala Diaries , to keep an eye on the population.
Know Where You Are…To See Where You’re Going Friday, January 22, 2010 @ 7:02AMLogo #6 is more subtle and will probably look better in situ but in the final analysis it will also depend on the overall color scheme of the page.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2009 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 @ 3:25PMHere is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Meet the most powerful women in digital media Monday, December 14, 2009 @ 5:53AMThe digital media has received significant contributions from women.
Week in review: Old faces in new places Friday, December 4, 2009 @ 1:09PMA cable giant becomes an entertainment star, while a search giant gets into the DNS business and a software titan becomes map maker.
Bing's iPhone plans (and more) Thursday, December 3, 2009 @ 12:24PMBowing to reality, Microsoft is working on a Bing iPhone app, although it won't say when the software will be ready or just which features it will have.
Bing Introduces 3-D Photosynth Maps Wednesday, December 2, 2009 @ 1:29PMIn an effort to beat Google at mapping, Microsoft Bing will use crowd-sourced photos to create a 3-D virtual worlds in its Maps application, the company has told FastCompany.com. The 3-D models will eventually be knitted into Bing Maps' existing aerial and street-views and will allow users to explore and zoom at a level of detail that Google and Yahoo Maps can't presently match. An exclusive ...
In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader Monday, November 30, 2009 @ 5:09AMHIROKO TABUCHI After missteps in Japan, Google is striving to gain ground against Yahoo and make the most of a highly connected marketplace.
In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader Monday, November 30, 2009 @ 1:15AMTOKYO -- In 2001, a fledgling Internet company named Google opened its first overseas office in Japan, eager to tap a huge technology market.
Hackers create tools for disaster relief Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 5:09PMAt the first-ever Random Hacks of Kindness event, developers work on technology tools that emergency relief workers can use in disasters.