Luminaries To Discuss The Future Of Search
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Home Members Only News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here MEMBER LOGIN BECOME A MEMBER Luminaries To Discuss The Future Of Search Jan 31, 2011 at 12:38pm ET by Chris Sherman Tomorrow in San Francisco Bing and Big Think are hosting a gathering of high profile industry leaders , thinkers , academics , investors and executives to talk about the future of search . Farsight 2011 : Beyond the Search Box seeks to answer the question of whether the search industry locked in a race to the bottom or whether conditions ripe for a breakthrough . The event will stream live tomorrow from Big . Think It’s an impressive lineup , with opening remarks from Harvard professor and Business week columnist Vivek Wadhwa who will also emcee the rest of the day’s events .
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: Home Members Only News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here MEMBER LOGIN BECOME A MEMBER Google’s Android Now The World’s Leading Smartphone Platform” : Report Jan 31, 2011 at 8:43am ET by Greg Sterling According to new data released by Canalys , Android shipments in Q4 passed Nokia to put it in the top spot among smartphone operating systems . This does not mean that Android currently has the greatest smartphone market share globally or in the US . What it means is that more Android handsets were shipped in Q4 than other platforms . Many firms have predicted that Android would become the number two mobile OS after Nokia’s by 2012. Android’s gains are likely to continue as Nokia and even RIM contemplate using the OS in some fashion . Android is
, Home Members Only News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here MEMBER LOGIN BECOME A MEMBER Blekko Launches Mobile Apps For iPhone , Android Jan 31, 2011 at 6:57am ET by Greg Sterling I’ll expose my bias up front : I’m a fan of Blekko and its audacious project to make search better . Now the site that bought you the spam clock has launched mobile apps for the iPhone and Android . It’s a logical and even necessary step for Blekko , given the strategic importance of . mobile Registered users can manage slashtags directly from the app , adding new sites for example . Users can also view seo info” for sites as they can within Blekko on the web . I only played with it for a short while but quickly came to the conclusion that this is version 1.” It’s not
Home Members Only News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here MEMBER LOGIN BECOME A MEMBER Google Adds Snow Conditions Interaction Mobile Weather Results Jan 30, 2011 at 8:27pm ET by Barry Schwartz Google announced two winter features for the Google search results . The first one is a live snapshot of the snow conditions in a particular area . The second is a special new mobile version of weather , which is . interaction Live Snow Conditions Google now shows you live snow results on the search results for your favorite ski resorts . Google said they partnered with OnTheSnow.com and SkiReport.com to enable special search snippets for those two sites . Here is a picture of the special snippets , I should note , I personally do not see them live . yet
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Big search engine news this week: Google founder Larry Page takes over as CEO after Erik Schmidt.