Foursquare looking to ink search partnership
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley did not mince words when speaking with the U.K. paper The Telegraph. Crowley said, “Our data generates hugely interesting trends which would enrich search,” and went on to note that they were in talks with all… [..]
9-Year-Old Girl Beats Foursquare CEO At... Foursquare At Austin's SXSW conference, Foursquare set up a foursquare court, and co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley lost -- to a 9-year-old girl.
The girl had never heard of Foursquare, the app, but enjoye [..]
Tutorial: Implementing Instant Search with YUI AutoComplete and the Yahoo Search API O’Reilly’s InsideRIA blog has a feature up that steps through the creation from scratch of a sample YUI implementation. The sample application implements an Instant Search feature using YUI AutoComplete backed by the Yahoo! Web Search API. This is the same treatment we use on the YUI web site to power the search box [...] [..]
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AdSense for Search now Powered by Custom Search AdSense today announced that their search feature is now featured by Google’s Custom Search.
This means that those using AdSense for Search get access to a few new features including:
Site Search
Improved indexing of your pages
Vertical search
Tuning search results and ads with keywords
Selecting ad location
Quick and easy updates
You can see a full explanation of each one at [...] [..]
Ask.com Isn't Search, It's Search Arbitrage (IACI) ComScore ranked IAC's Ask.com as the fourth most-queried search engine in October. But a new post from Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Land reveals that IAC's (IACI) "search engine" gets much of its traffic buying ads on Google that direct clickers to straight to Ask search results pages -- covered in more ads.
Concludes Danny, "It's just a further sign to me that the future of Ask isn't [..]
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Search Marketer: Search Spending Up 10% In Q2 SearchIgnite, a search engine marketing firm with $350 million in annual billings, says its clients are spending 10% more on search in Q2 than last quarter. On a conference call hosted by JP M [..]
How Foursquare Will Tell You Where To Eat Foursquare has a new algorithm called Explore which will recommend you new places to check out based on your history and the history of "people like you."
This is a big deal, because the promise [..]