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Microsoft's Bing Growth Stops

Posted by ricardoamaro
07/03/2010 - 21:01
Despite the company's aggressive spending on a TV ad blitz, the latest figures suggest that Microsoft's Bing search engine has only scored marginal gains in market share. Sometimes, you just can't buy market share. Judging by the latest analysis from Net Applications, that seems to be the lesson Microsoft is learning with its search engine. Bing, debuted just over a year ago, has only marginally improved Microsoft's share of the search market over its previous iteration.

Google High-Speed Fiber!

Posted by ricardoamaro
03/29/2010 - 19:52
Even with numerous high-speed providers and the promise of billions of dollars for broadband from the U.S. government, Google's proposal to get into the high-speed Internet business has proven exceptionally popular. So how many cities and communities have asked for Google to hook them up to the Internet?

High performance queries on NoSQL / MySQL

Posted by ricardoamaro
03/17/2010 - 14:24
On a ideal world every search query should be blazing fast.

Google China - The beginning of the end?

Posted by ricardoamaro
01/13/2010 - 12:52

Google possibly pulling out of the Chinese market.

David Drummond (Google's Senior Vice President) explains more in detail: “we launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to informa

Top Google SEO Tips for 2010

Posted by ricardoamaro
01/06/2010 - 04:40

4 Important Tips About SEO For 2010

seo tips for 2010The term SEO (Search Engine Optimization and Optimization for Search Engines) is increasingly being researched and the SEO techniques are increasingly being used by a growing number of bloggers and webmaster

Google and SEOMOZ Discuss Search for 2010

Posted by ricardoamaro
01/01/2010 - 19:30
Rand Fishkin and Guillaume Bouchard Discuss Search in 2010

Google Real Time Search for 2010

Posted by ricardoamaro
01/01/2010 - 06:01

Google Real-time search is a fact!

The printing press changed the communication from one-to-one to one-to-many. The web brings it to many-to-many. Google has real-time search . We can make a strong point stating that Google has 11 years of experience with ranking based on relevance, not just based on sort-by-date. To get to real-time search, you’ll click the “Show options” link above the search results. Then you’ll see a “Latest” option.

Google Voice Competitor Ribbit Gets iPhone App Approval

Posted by ricardoamaro
12/23/2009 - 12:43

After rejecting Google Voice over the summer, Apple has approved an app for the competition. Ribbit's new iPhone app is now available for download in the App Store on iTunes. The app is free, but you'll need a Ribbit account to use the app.

Unlike Google Voice, Ribbit's service is not free. It will cost you $30 a month. Otherwise, the service offered is the same: call management and voice mail which can be transcribed and searched.

Ribbit's iPhone app directs users to the device's native phone and SMS applications. This is perhaps why it was approved while Google's was not. Apple contends that their reasoning for rejecting the Google Voice app was that it tried to replace functionality provided by native apps.

Tis the Season to Procrastinate: 38% of Christmas Shopping to Be Done This Week

Posted by ricardoamaro
12/23/2009 - 12:25

The Google Retail blog has been good at passing along juicy little nuggets of data regarding the holidays. The latest does not disappoint. And it explains why you can't find a parking space at the mall.

As of this past Sunday, the average shopper had 38% of their shopping left to complete. Perhaps, the East Coast snowstorm didn't help. Then again, you could have at least researched gift ideas while curled up on your couch and roasting chestnuts on an open fire.

But noOOooo. 14% of you haven't even started researching. 17% haven't even bought a single gift.

I have a feeling some last minute e-gift certificates will be purchased Thursday night, say, around midnight.

MapQuest for Enables Use of GPS Geolocation for Android Devices

Posted by ricardoamaro
12/23/2009 - 12:16

Visiting MapQuest.com will now mean automatic location detection for Android users with GPS-enabled devices. As long as GPS hasn't been disabled for m.mapquest.com, users will be prompted to use "Current Location" instead of needing to manually type in an address.

The update is for devices using Android 1.1 or higher. There is support for Google Gears, but it will still work on Android 2.0 or higher, which does not use Google Gears.

Lately, data has been showing that Android has been growing at a nice pace. It's smart for entities such as MapQuest to innovate for the increasingly popular mobile OS.

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