What's New with Yahoo! and Google
Some exciting things have been happening in the world of search. At SMX West last week, Yahoo! announced their Open Search Platform. This was the talk of the town at SMX, and a novel idea from Yahoo. Basically, instead of just being able to somewhat control your search engine snippet with your title tag and […]
The Google Buffet
I have been able to take some more time and mess around with Google’s Universal Search over the long holiday weekend, and I really like the direction. More simple search power to the masses is very cool, but I am most happy at the possible advantages of Universal Search to small business owners, and not […]
25% of Google Searches are Fresh
A couple of items caught my attention yesterday. Aaron Wall reported that Google is claiming up to 25% of search queries run any given day are queries they have never processed previously. I found that to be quite a shocker. Also, Andy reported that Google has included a “Hot Trends” feature to their Google Trends […]