Week in Review
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 28, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we review the past week’s search and social media on Searchviews and elsewhere on the web. This week, we revived our 5-question interviews, and we saw some interesting developments in YouTube and in the ad network world.
On Searchviews:
- 5 Questions with Tony Pierce, LA Times Blog Editor: Tony Pierce shares insights on how newspapers should approach blogging.
- ESPN Dumps Ad Network: The sports publishing giant says goodbye to its ad network, perhaps signaling a trend in advertising.
- YouTube Adds More Analytics: YouTube Insight will show where in the world a video’s viewers are, and what happens to a video’s views as it gets more popular (the second one seems a little obvious…).
- Paid Search Spend Will Be Up 113% by 2012: A forecast predicts dramatic jumps in new media spend by advertisers over the next four years.
Elsewhere:
- Yahoo joins OpenSocial, the coalition to take out Facebook.
- Facebook just got fatter pockets.
- Paid click growth was flat at Google in February.
- Microsoft is anticipated to be upping its bid for Yahoo, to $34/share.
- Google has big plans for WiFi.
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 21, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we summarize the week in tech news, on Searchviews and elsewhere. Here are the big stories of this week. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- EBay continues making changes, this time with job cuts.
- Google’s search share continued to rise in February 2008, but search volume dropped.
- YouTube (and Google News) was blocked in China due to coverage of protests in Tibet.
- Yahoo released its financial plan that it presented to investors in December 2007.
Elsewhere:
- China is now shutting down other video sites.
- Google didn’t win in the 700 mHz auction, but Search Engine Land explains how it still got some of what it wanted as a result.
- Forrester expands its Groundswell site, adding some cool, free tools.
- LinkedIn has added company profiles, which will give business websites with similar databases of companies some competition.
- Google universal search blurs the lines between search engine and destination site.
- Facebook adds new privacy features, with IM coming soon.
- Google presents its myriad free services to nonprofits in a special portal.
- The big G also opens its maps for user edits.
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 14, 2008 | Share This
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This week in tech, social media, and search engine news…
On Searchviews:
- AOL buys 3rd-place social network Bebo.
- The EU signs off on the Google-DoubleClick deal, but the big G might need to spin off the SEO it got as part of the deal.
- Traditional web companies are lagging in web tracking.
- YouTube opens up APIs and becomes more like a white-label video service.
In other news:
- Facebook will launch an IM service soon.
- Apps go live on MySpace - not everyone who develops will get in, though.
- Hulu publicly launches, but the Silicon Alley Insider’s projected revenue numbers for the video site don’t look great.
- You may have noticed more spam in your Gmail inbox, but it’s not because of bots.
- Google just launched an ad manager that has important implications for publishers and ad networks, and Microsoft wants to do the same with an acquisition soon.
- Google launches Google Sky.
- Yahoo takes steps toward the semantic web.
- Barry Diller goes to court to defend his plan to break up IAC.
- In-flight broadband is coming!
- Will visual search this cool change your search habits?
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 7, 2008 | Share This
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This week, one of the most interesting bits came from Charlene Li’s Graphing Social Patterns talk. Here’s her follow-up blog post about the future of social media. And in other news:
- Google rolled out a secondary search box in organic search results and released an API for contacts.
- Ask.com will cut some employees, and initial reports (from reputable sources, like Reuters) said that the company would refocus their search engine to target married women/moms. But apparently early reports were a little off.
- Google Gears launched for mobile. Yahoo launched a private beta of a Twitter+location-based social network that relies on mobile users, Fire Eagle. But the biggest mobile news was Apple’s long-awaited iPhone SDK announcement.
- Market info firm TNS bought web analytics/traffic company Compete. Expect better integrated online-offline marketing data in the near future.
- Wal-Mart figures out that effective corporate blogging requires humans who are allowed to be human.
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | February 29, 2008 | Share This
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This week in search engines and social media: Yahoo launched a couple of new initiatives, Microsoft got a big fine from the EU, and fake Facebook profiles are proved more trouble than they’re worth, at least in some parts of the world. And in other news… (more…)