January 26, 2012
Farhad Manjoo has done it again. Manjoo, the resident tech writer at Slate who writes with a unique clarity and seems to grok the way consumers think and how companies should market to them to achieve mainstream success, recently wrote an article on the changes in Google's SERPs following the arrival of Google Search Plus Your World. While Manjoo makes a number of cogent points about Google's melding of social results in the search results, I want to focus on a few specifics, with the goal of calling out a broader point.
Category: In the News
January 20, 2012
More than 300 Billion searches were made in the US in 2011, according to ComScore. In December each year, the Big Three search engines publish the most popular searches of the year.
Category: In the News
January 18, 2012
Google Inc.'s introduction of its Search Plus Your World feature this month, providing extra visibility for Google+ social activity, can either be seen as an expansion of universal search (more social results=good) or a severe restriction of it (balance tipped toward Google=bad).
Category: In the News
January 13, 2012
Google’s new personalized search has segments of the tech world in an uproar. Twitter is ticked and released a statement that said, in part:
Category: In the News
January 13, 2012
It’s January, and all the industry pundits are buzzing with their biggest and boldest predictions of what’s in store for the year. But let’s talk about what we’re not going to see in 2012: the return of user search query data from individuals signed into Google accounts.
Category: In the News
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