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EveryZing Rolls Up Ramp To Universal Search

The core EveryZing business of speech to text technology added a new component, called RAMP, to its search and optimization technologies for indexing multimedia content and making it available to search crawlers.

SES New York: Will Google Sell Itself Out?

John Battelle, who literally wrote the book on Search, believes Google's apparent media-company aspirations will one day come in conflict with its purist algorithmic history.Mike McDonald and the WebProNews Video crew are in New York for the Search Engine Strategies Conference. Stay tuned all week for the latest developments in online marketing. 

Blended or Universal Search?

Michael and I had the opportunity to attend the SMX (Search Marketing Expo) last week in sunny Santa Clara, CA.

SMX West: Tasty Blend Of Search, Retail

Universal search presents retailers an opportunity to reach searchers with more information than a few words of plain text.

SMX West: Universal Search Abides, Dude

The big thing in search brings more than text to searchers. Images and video figure in the universal search plans of the major engines.

Companies Using Universal Search Internally

If you use Google to search, then you have probably seen their universal search, which shows more than just html documents in the search results. Major companies are now seeing the benefits of using universal search to search their internal resources. Professional services firms, especially law firms, are using universal search tools to instantly locate content, wherever it’s located.

ZVents Announces Blended Results

Zvents announced their launch of a new, blended search results page for local content. Now, when you do searches on their site, they’ll bring back results for various businesses, events, performances, movies, store sales and more in your local area. Here’s a screengrab of the newly-blended results page:

SEO Tips for Harder Economic Times

In this month’s Target Marketing Magazine, a TopRank authored article on how small businesses can gain a competitive marketing advantage by leveraging content promotion, blogs, social media and universal search was featured.

3 Times as Much Google Maps Traffic Coming from Google

The New York Times today reported on a recent Hitwise post by Heather Hopkins highlighting that Google was now sending about three times as many of their users over to Google Maps comparing a week ending January 6th with a yea

Google Wants to Dominate Social Media Too

Google apparently wants to dominate the social media as well as search, ads, the airwaves and, well, the world as we know it.