Monthly Archives: December 2005

. . . from all of us at The Kelsey Group.

Not for the "mainstream," but there will be growing momentum. Here are several mobile-related posts: SiliconBeat on mobile couponing from Cellfire John Battelle writes about mobile initiatives, specifically Medio, in a couple of recent posts Here's Search Engine Journal on…

While "intuitive" domains (direct navigation) can generate considerable traffic, Stephen Baker at BusinessWeek asks whether Marchex's previous acquisition of ZIP code-based domains will prove a meaningful local search strategy. The headline of the post is "Could zip codes burn Google…

Gary Price has a brief roundup of some recent Fast Search & Transfer enterprise search deals. FAST has become the de facto enterprise search platform for top-tier IYPs, verticals and newspaper sites. Of specific interest is the reported deal with…

When Yahoo! Answers launched in early December, I decided just for fun to ask the question "What is the meaning of life?" to see what I'd get back. Just in time for the new year, and provided by the community,…

Danny Sullivan over at SEW points to YouTube, an entrant in the red-hot video search space. Think of it as the Flickr of video. Users can upload video and search its library of user-generated content. And like Flickr, users can…

CNET and Search Engine Watch round up the top Web and search stories of 2005 in their respective editorial opinions. It's interesting stuff to reflect upon. In many ways, 2005 reestablished the "credibility" of the Internet and the efficacy of…

Politics don't usually appear on this blog because of a variety of differing views at The Kelsey Group (and in most cases it's not relevant to what we're writing about). But I must say the National Security Agency has given…

John Batelle chased down Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience, to ask her a bunch of questions about the deal and what it means. From the exchange it appears that Google thinks the deal will broaden its…

Hitwise recently published a rep report ort ("research note") that tracks holiday shopping trends and search market share, among several other things. The company found: In the category it calls "search engines & directories sites," Google, Yahoo! and MSN accounted…

Chris Sherman has a nice overview of new shopping engines and their differentiating features. Most noteworthy from my point of view is Become.com , which offers a "research" button and a "shop" button. (Click the links in the previous sentence…

Many have expected that the IPTV rollouts by major telecom companies, including Verizon and AT&T, would begin to harm cable companies in 2005. But that hasn't happened yet, according to this Red Herring article. Cable companies have in fact been…

I'm feeling very rusty after being off for a week—a veritable eternity in "Internet time." But I wanted to comment briefly on the new Google Base interface. When Google Base launched and people said it's the "Craigslist killer" or the…

Out of curiousity, I was wondering just how long has The Kelsey Group been writing about this topic, and a search of our archives shows the first artcle turned up in a Fax Bulletin (honk if you remember those) on…

PDC has grown rapidly the past few years. John Woodall, President of PDC, told me that overall the business was up 43% this year and that there were over a dozen companies interested in buying the Canadian business before they…

Here's a flash/video presentation about Google's AdSense that appeared on a blog I was reading. Check out the video. It's not specifically directed to SMEs. But imagine an online sales presentation that was; it would be much more effective than…

The debate over requiring users to register for access to news content rages on in the online news world. On the one hand, it can inhibit traffic by erecting a barrier for users to get content, and traffic is important…

Google is closing in on personalized search, a feature on the search horizon that will allow engines to better target users and optimize paid search. The carrot for users is a better way to organize their search history. It's been…

Om Malik takes an interesting look at the Google-AOL deal, including its implications for Video.Among other things, the deal will give a boost in the arm to Google's beleaguered content aggregation efforts for its video search. It has thus far…