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Google Image Search Bests Others In Britain

In Britain, Google UK is king - no surprises there.  What’s interesting is that Google Image Search is also doing incredibly well, and a report from Hitwise (released earlier today) examines the relationship between the two.

B2B Social Media Marketing

We know that word of mouth is the best and most trusted form of marketing. Consumers love to hear from 'someone just like me.'

New Google Image Search Categories

Last week a Google engineer told us “The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it.” And now, Google Images allows you to restrict your search to a specific category – albeit in an “unofficial” mode only – and one of these categories may well be powered by actual image recognition (as opposed to textual keyword analysis). Right now, the available modes are (at least) the following:

Google Software Engineer on Google Images

I’ve asked Google some questions in regards to their image search engine. Here are the answers by Radhika Malpani, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google.

Integrating Flickr Into Yahoo Search

Yahoo! Search Blog: Famous Landmarks Get the Flickr Treatment in Yahoo! Search The Yahoo Search Blog is reporting that Flickr has recently added thumbnails of Flickr images for popular domestic and international landmark searches into Yahoo Search.

Social Search - The Future of Image Search

[Disclaimer: I'm CEO of Zooomr, we are building both a social based image search system as well as a stock photography platform]

GoFish Wants You To Seduce A Celeb

GoFish, a video site devoted for "made-for-Internet" (MFI) programming debuted a new interactive reality show yesterday called Seduce A Celeb. It's still unclear, though, when the celebrities will actually appear on the show.

The Best Search Engine According to PC World

PC World has recently released the results of their "Search Engine Shoot-Out"

YouTube Stops John McCain's Singing

A political video featuring John McCain has been removed from YouTube, and MoveOn.org is not happy about it.  You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the group is trying to preserve free speech or let an opponent embarrass himself, but the matter speaks to larger issues in either case.

Cutting MyBlogLog Spam

Social traffic is fantastic because: It’s highly targeted It’s immediate It’s low cost and often free The downside is because of it’s interactive nature (which contributes to it’s virality), spam marketers will always try to flood you, and drown out your message with their spam. This includes, but is not limited to: