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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Facebook may be used for professional networking (particularly in Silicon Valley), but it sure isn’t set up to be. People’s profiles are all about their dating status, pictures, videos and other very personal information. It’s perfect for college dorm networking, but not so much for job or business development hunting.
LinkedIn, by contrast, is set up [...]
Google hints at secret plan for search
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Most good Google stories come with an element of mystery. This one is no different. Speaking at the Zeitgeist conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt hinted to attendees that the company has big plans for using the social networking juggernaut to improve its search capabilities.
According to a New York Times report, Schmidt called social networking a “very [...]
Why MySpace just won’t cut it
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Social networking for companies means more than putting up a MySpace page. Learn from Neighborhood America’s exec VP how to drive engagement and profits.
Social networking is here to stay. With a reported 114 million people frequenting MySpace, and another 52 million connecting through Facebook (source: comScore, June 2007), consumers have grown to expect opportunities for [...]
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Microsoft Live Launches Online Event Management Service
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Microsoft Live adds an event management service to its suite of free web services. Though Live Events is not new on the web anymore, the service might actually get some attention and interest and generate a significant amount of usage. The key to the new events management service is that it is integrated within the [...]
Paid Links Simply Aren’t Going Anywhere?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007On every blog, discussion board and conference agenda there is a similar topic… Paid Links. Now, most of what I have written here on Search Engine Journal was done to provide support, to give advice or to serve as a guide. Today though I’m feeling feisty… and I just want to go off on a [...]
Google’s Global Reach is Ginormous
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007The latest research by comScore breaks out just how big search giant Google has become on a global basis, leaving would be competitors in the digital dust.
The results of the new search survey, released by tracking firm comScore this week, found that in August alone there were more than 61 billion individual searches worldwide.
The new [...]
The Other Half of the Search Equation
Sunday, October 14th, 2007A search company’s mandate is clear: help people find exactly what they’re looking for as quickly as possible. For well over a decade, search companies have taken the approach of focusing almost all of their efforts on making their engines smarter, with better indexes, better ranking and faster servers.
While these are all hugely important efforts, [...]
Can Wal-Mart Revolutionize CPG Once Again With Product Reviews?
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Consumer Packaged Goods giant Wal-Mart online. Although they’re clearly trying to beef up their own stockpile of (WMT) is once again changing the game when it comes to multi-channel e-commerce strategy. The big news this time is that they’re encouraging some 1.3 million employees to review productsonline reviews (after adding the feature in [...]
Watch YouTube Videos In Google Earth
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Google wants you to watch YouTube videos everywhere. Now you can watch geo-tagged videos inside Google Earth. Any video tagged with a latitude and longitude will show up when this new layer of Google Earth is turned on. So you can watch videos about the places you are exploring inside Google Earth.
It’s a good way [...]