Whenever you’re searching for something local in Maine, you’re sitting far off on the long tail of things. From pet stores to restaurants to barber shops, most times I’ve tried to find a local company on the web I find it nothing short of a miracle if I find anything at all, let alone the…
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Ask.com Morphs — But Does it Make a Difference?
We already know that Google dominates search, with a whopping 48.3% of market share that just continues growing, leaving competitors throwing caution to the wind in bold moves to differentiate themselves and cull in more traffic. Almost forgotten at the bottom of the pack is Ask.com, who today launches multiple paned aggregated search results pages…
Internet Shakeup, Learning Local Search
No shortage of Internet-related news this week: one of the top 10 spammers was arrested, meaning inboxes can rejoice, YouTube will be offering up music videos by EMI artists, and Google raises privacy advocate eyebrows again with street-level photographs that get too close for some to be comfortable. This week has also seen us spending…
Microsoft Jumps in the Ad Company Buyer’s Club
Things have been hot for online advertising companies. Google bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, followed by Yahoo’s $650 million purchase of Right Media. Now Microsoft jumps to prove they’re not out of the online advertising game with a whopping $6 billion purchase of aQuantive in a move to expand their breadth of paid opportunities on…