GOOG-411 has been the leading way for users with feature phones (smartphones too) to look up and contact businesses for the past three and a half years. This service made it easy for users, as they just had to dial 1-800-GOOG-411, give a company’s name and city, and be connected. As of November 11th, users [...]
Yahoo is introducing a new search experience today with web searches made more streamlined and visual. Mobile searches have also been improved and a list of “hot search topics” has been added to Yahoo’s front page. When users search for news-related topics or entertainment, results are presented in a box with vertical tabs that [...]
Google News has been receiving the rankings of top news items from Newsknife for years. Since Google News started adding bylines to its search results, Newsknife has also started collecting informations regarding the journalists whose articles appears in these search results. These results are pulled from the 22 English Language Google News sites. Results were [...]
For those of you bloggers out there using WordPress, but dreaming of moving to a self-hosted WordPress installation; here’s some good news. WordPress is now offering a solution known as “Offsite Redirect.” The reasons for switching to a self-hosted site are obvious; the move gives you more freedom but with the potential damage done [...]
The buzz surrounding Twitter’s “Promoted Accounts” is finally reaching fruition, as the company just officially launched the new advertising format. The format helps brands gain more followers with displays in Twitter’s “Suggestions for You” feature. Equally important is the companies launch of testing syndication of “Promoted Tweets” and “Promoted Trends” to third-party applications. Promoted [...]
