- Author: admin
- Filed under: Web News
- Date: Oct 12,2010
Google is apparently testing a feature in its search results pages, users see full-page previews of sites before they click this permit.
Patrick Altoft in blog storm saw the test and offers the screenshot below, and said. “One of the fascinating things about this is that they have highlighted certain areas of the site in orange and the extension of the text in a brief information This shows that they have the technology, know exactly where a piece of text on each individual website. The snippets are highlighted not always the same as the snippet in the search results. “
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Web News
- Date: Oct 12,2010
The U.S. paid search market saw increased spending by 5.8 percent year on year in the third quarter, compared with July to grow by 4.9 percent, August and September by 5.8 percent 6.7 percent, according to a new report by SearchIgnite.
Bing saw the most growth in spending by 21 percent over the previous year, with market share gains of 6.4 percent in 3rd Quarter (from 6.2% in Q2). Yahoo saw a 10 percent decline in spending on search advertising Q3, with a market share fell to 13.4 percent from 15.4 percent in the second Quarter. The report says the drop along with earnings from Bing is, in part to test occurring on the combined Yahoo / Bing search Alliance.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Web News
- Date: Sep 5,2010
Google is testing a feature that Twitter brings on Google News. It is not only the addition of tweets in the news mix, but a way for users to share their experiences with the people they follow on Twitter personalize. It makes sense that Twitter is integrated with Google News, and I would not be surprised to see this emerge as a real function, after the test.
The function consists of a box that you connect to your Twitter account name to see if people follow the news are talking about asks. According to Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land, which provides the following screenshot, it only displays tweets from people who share content that are actually indexed by Google News. This makes sense, too.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Web News
- Date: Aug 17,2010
At the SMX East in New York, Bing announced new webmaster tools, including a link to report. Google also has percentage change data to its own Webmaster Tools Query reports. More about this here.
Search Engine Land Matt McGee liveblogged a keynote speech with Yelp COO Geoff Donaker, which shared some interesting statistics on Yelp. He says they have about 38 million visitors last month to the site, they have about 13 million reviews and they have about three million users per month using Yelp apps. He also commented on Yelp algorithm, said on a Web page is one of the most important factors in flight experience. To Matt’s website notes, “They want the most recent, appearing Trusted Reviews tip.”
As you may know a fair amount of WebProNews industry events visited in two videos and articles to cover format. While we do not manage them all (we were not able at this time SMX), does not mean we ignore all the ones we do not.
We have a new side events can be found here (you can also see a tab at the top of the WPN events that goes). This page lists upcoming events in the industry, that we keep our eye on, and what we actually visit.
WebProNews Reporter Abby Johnson also keeps a blog on the site. Over time, it is an insight about their video interviews, as she visits various events.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Web News
- Date: Jul 12,2010
ABC Nightline ran a story yesterday morning about Google’s plans to take over the living room TV with Google. As you may know, Sony is one of the launch partners and high-definition televisions and Blu-ray player supports to start the service.
While the story that has been made available by Hulu, a new Sony commercial for a Google TV HD-TV is shown, along with a remote for the TV that comes with a keyboard and directional pad (hat tip to Engadget) .
It is important to remember that the remote is only for Google TV. Google TV is connected to various devices, will come to their own controls. You’ll also be able to take your iPhone or Android phone as a remote control.
A feature of Google TV, the type has been overlooked, that you can use voice search to get it to navigate through the phone. Much is the fact that you control it with your phone has, but what Google product manager Rishi Chandra TV demonstrated in the video, you can just speak for it, see what you want to search. Just in case we were not lazy enough, sitting on the couch watching TV, we can somehow less movement during this time.
The video claims that Google unveiled the Google TV this year, they offer little more than a cartoon-like display had experience, but that’s not quite right. They had a demo video cartoon, but the company demonstrated a lot of Google TV functionality live at Google I / O. It was very impressive.
Read here for our thoughts on why Google TV has the option of a large impact on the Web to make, and why that means great things for your business.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Web News
- Date: Jun 1,2010
Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving is currently a talk about Yahoo’s product strategy forward. He is talking about the company’s plans in case.
According to Irving Yahoo has 600 million users worldwide, all about the brand. This is really bringing Facebook-over 500 million in perspective, considering how much younger, that undertaking.
So what is on the way of Yahoo? A new experience mail more focused on performance and speed, for a start. Over the next few weeks, users will have access to the new beta. Yahoo promises to be a “cleaner, leaner” interface, a faster experience, better anti – spam features, the ability to review and update Facebook and Twitter pages from the Inbox, and improvements to features such as video, photo-sharing tools and a new version of Yahoo Messenger.
Irving says the experience was last mail “from the ground up.”
