Matt Cutts Videos on Search Snippets
Matt Cutts did a video about search snippets during his recent visit to the Google Kirkland office. In it Matt takes a detailed look at how Google constructs a search snippet. Matt uses the example of a search on “Starbucks”, which results in the following search result: Here is a summary of the observations by [...]
Bonnie Brown On Massaging Google Geeks
Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation [...]
Yahoo Tips Turkey Day With Shortcuts
Yahoo Search followed its release of NBA and NHL Shortcuts with ones oriented toward holiday recipes.In 24 hours, thousands of households will pull their carefully defrosted turkeys out of the refrigerator, set their ovens to the proper temperature, season and possibly stuff the bird, and then overcook it to the point of sub-Saharan dryness. Such [...]
Tasty Advertising Key For Food Retailers
Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve make for a time of increased consumption, one that online retailers with a savory bent should consider with their ad campaigns.Turkey Day arrives in a couple of days, soon to be followed by plenty of holiday cheer through the end of 2007. Like other businesses, those who focus on food [...]
Twitter Updates for 2007-10-29
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Twitter and Search
In my recent inverview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey we talked for a while about the integration of search into Twitter. The obvious notion is to integrate some type of people search functionality. Twitter has already launched funtionality that allows you to search profiles and find people of related interests, or whom are near you. But [...]
links for 2007-10-16
Wine Food Pairing – the Cows go up and the Cows come down! Wine Food Pairing in the Alps ? what, could be more of an adventure? Every autumn, usually in September or October the cows in the Alpine regions of Europe make the annual trek down the mountainside after a summer of feasting on [...]
For Teens, Mobile Search Doesn’t Register Yet
We have all observed teens in their native habitats — one hand glued to junk food while the other is attached to a mobile phone. Mobile phones have become their lifelines, by helping them to stay connected, providing a source of entertainment and enabling them to multitask. One activity they aren’t using their phones for [...]
PeopleJam Improves Through Content Deals
If you want to lead a better life, PeopleJam is a social network that’s gung-ho about helping you achieve that goal. And Stream4 Media and Nightingale-Conant are presumably interested, as well, since they’ve just signed content deals with PeopleJam. Stream4 Media, a video company, is stepping forward “with more than 500 episodes of programming that [...]
A Recession Would Do Google Good?
I think most of us can agree that an economic recession would be bad. But not everyone – and everything – would be affected in the same way, and at least one expert onlooker thinks Google would benefit. An argument against this: strictly speaking, Google’s not a “necessary” company – it doesn’t provide food, water, [...]
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