LIVE Inside Google Search Event: Search by Image and Voice, and Faster Too

Google will shortly provide an “under the hood look at Google Search” for a group of reporters and bloggers in San Francisco. According to the invitation, Google Fellow Amit Singhal, who for a decade has headed the core search ranking team, and others will “share our vision and demo some of our newest technology and features.” [...]

Do@ Aims to Disrupt Mobile Search–Including Google

It’s ironic, or maybe apropos, that you can’t find anything about the new mobile search application Do@ by Googling it. Google doesn’t track the @ symbol at all. But the Israeli company (pronounced “do-at”), which launched its free iPhone app today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, is looking to do a number on Google. [...]

Bing-Yahoo May Challenge Google. Just Not Yet.

Two days ahead of reporting its third-quarter earnings, Google continues to gain on the combined search engines of Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing–at least in the amount advertisers are spending on search ads. That’s the conclusion of the latest surveys from two search marketing companies, Efficient Frontier and SearchIgnite. According to Efficient Frontier, Google’s share of [...]

LIVE at Yahoo’s Product Runway

Yahoo’s set to announce a new product strategy shortly at what it’s calling Yahoo Product Runway. I’ll blog the highlights as they come from Blake Irving, EVP and chief products officer ad Raymie Stata, VP and chief technology officer. And we’re underway, with some observations on Yahoo on Irving’s hundredth day here. Things are great, [...]

LIVE at Google’s Search On Event: Google Instant Debuts

Google‘s much-anticipated event promising to chart out the future of search is about to start, and the auditorium at SF MOMA is packed with press. You can view the event on YouTube. Assuming the wireless network holds up, I’ll liveblog the highlights here. And the anticipation is indeed thick. Google Fellow and search honcho Amit [...]

Search Ads Continue to Surge; Good News for Google?

Given the even sorrier state of the economy a year ago, it’s not hard for any industry to show an improvement. But even though search ads didn’t slump nearly as much as every other kind of advertising, it’s continuing to show strong improvement, according to a new report from search marketing firm Efficient Frontier. That’s [...]

LIVE: Display Ad Rebound Powers Yahoo Profit, But Investors Unimpressed

After five straight quarters of declining year-over-year revenues, Yahoo managed to return to growth in its first quarter, even if it was only 1%, to $1.6 billion. But the real upside for the tarnished Internet icon was in profits, which jumped 162%, to $310 million, or 22 cents a share–way ahead of analysts’ 9-cent estimate. [...]

Google: Don’t Even Think About Beating Us in Search

For months, many people have been saying that Google wouldn’t be able to compete with the rising pack of startups (and behemoths like Microsoft’s Bing) providing results that include tweets from Twitter, status updates from Facebook, and other real-time information. Today, Google essentially quashed those claims. The search giant said it will be providing real-time [...]

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