SEO is really not such a dark art. Although it has to be said not all companies who offer enhanced search engine results are fully articulate about what they are doing, many of them have grasped the basic truths of living in a search-engine optimized world where the verb “to search” has been supplanted by [...]
Category Archives: SEARCH
5 reasons why Cuil is the future of search
July 31, 2008 – 5:10 pm
Cuil’s arrival on the search engine scene is has been a modest one, (Techcrunch defined their modesty as ’stealth mode’). It’s a brave step to venture into a world that giants like Microsoft haven’t yet been able to become category leaders in, and under scrutiny which seems to expect them to be as good or [...]
Searching Rich Media
July 29, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Google has been indexing Flash since 2004 but the underlying technology that powers millions of front pages and zillions of banner ads has defied the kind of interrogation that makes it truly searchable, until very recently. At the beginning of July, Adobe released what it calls Searchable SWF technology but although this is a step [...]
Microsoft Launches Charity Search Engine
June 24, 2008 – 9:45 am
Microsoft has entered the charity space with a new US search engine called Search and Give. www.searchandgive.com. The premise is simple, sign up to the service [using your MSN/Live account details], nominate your chosen charity and start searching. Microsoft tracks the searches for the year and then delivers a cheque to the nomiated charity at [...]
Recommendations as Search Results
December 28, 2007 – 12:58 pm
Recommendations have always been an important part of any decision making process when seeking out what you need. And the art of recommending is officially as old as the hills, so it comes as no surprise that in this modern age, a recommendation still holds a lot of weight.
After posting my last article about the [...]
The Rise (again?) of ‘Human Edited’ Search Results
December 28, 2007 – 11:42 am
2008 is going to be an interesting year in many arenas but I think one of the noticeable trends in 2008 will be the rise of human edited search results. My title reads ‘Rise (again?)’ as we need only look back to the last doctom boom when human edited search results (or editorially reviewed search [...]
Nintendo Wii retains crown as ‘most wanted’ Gadget
December 20, 2007 – 6:55 pm
Nintendo’s Wii console has been the most searched-for product in the UK during the run-up to Christmas. New figures released by Hitwise reveal that Nintendo has outpaced nearest rival Apple to be the most searched for technology brand in the shopping category during November.
Searches for Nintendo Wii were roughly 13 times more numerous than those [...]
