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A Big Reason Foursquare's Data Is So Valuable

Foursquare would allow people to search for the types of place people are going to – and where is trending – not what.

 

Filed under  //   check-ins   geo-location   real-time   search  

Bing sees another increase

The Nielsen Co., one of the research groups that tracks the space, said Tuesday that Bing's share of U.S. searches crept up to 12.5 percent from 10.9 percent in January. Yahoo's share slipped to 14.1 percent from 14.5 percent, and Google's decreased to 65.2 from 66.3, Nielsen said.

Filed under  //   bing   google   search   yahoo  

"Real-time search startups blow away Google"

None of the major engines are focusing on how to monetize real-time search results, at least not yet. Casey mentioned that at Google there is a “solid separation between church and state,” i.e., product development and monetization.

Monetization is an angle that one real-time search startup, OneRiot, has tackled with some success. In the following conference session, Tobias Peggs, General Manager at OneRiot, explained how with RiotWise, OneRiot is showing ads from the Huffington Post for articles that match real-time search queries. OneRiot also has a wide distribution network, saying that 97% of search volume comes through partner sites via its API.

Filed under  //   collecta   crowdeye   google   one+riot   real-time   search   topsy  

Voice-powered Search For The iPhone

"Dragon Search allows iPhone users to search across Google, Yahoo!, Bing, iTunes, Twitter, Wiki, or YouTube by speaking their search terms." -- TechCrunch

Filed under  //   iphone   mobile   Nuance   search  

VentureBeat Has Details On Google's Mobile Search Upgrades

"For starters, the company said today that it began sending out two-dimensional barcodes to more than 100,000 local businesses in the U.S. This will enable mobile phone users to snap a picture of the barcode (known as a QR code and pictured to the right) and trigger a search for the local business. Right now, the capabilities for the program are fairly basic — you can find reviews of the place, get a coupon if the business is offering one or mark the business for remembering later." [Kim-Mai Cutler]

Filed under  //   augmented+reality   google   iphone   mobile   search  

TechCrunch On Feedly's Updates {They need an iPhone app}

Filed under  //   aggregators   blogs   feedly   feedreaders   newsreaders   RSS   search   techcrunch  

Your Google docs might be on the web soon [Webware]

"Google on Thursday wrote in a blog post that "in about two weeks, we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines...This is a very exciting change as your published docs linked to from public websites will reach a much wider audience of people."

Filed under  //   cloud+computing   google   google+docs   search   web+apps   web+office  

5 Apps Tap the Internet's Infinite Playlist

Songza is my favorite and there's a good chance I'll pay for Spotify when it hits the AppStore. :)

5 SITES THAT TAP THE MUSIC IN THE CLOUD
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Fizy

Muziic

Songza

Spotify

Twones

Filed under  //   music   search   streaming   wired  

Twitscoop Has An iPhone App That Renders Topics With Tag Clouds

I don't see much value in Twitscoop until hashtag abuse diminishes. It's gotten better over the last few months, but I still see too much crap trending to take all the topics too seriously.

Filed under  //   real-time   search   tag+clouds   trends   twitscoop   twitter