Author: jgaynor

Now I know partly why I feel so exhausted. According to the Google Blog , the company introduced 77 new products in 2005. So there are 52 weeks in a year ... that makes approximately 1.4 product announcements per week.…

Last week my fellow analyst Mike Boland, author of our recent IPTV/video search report, blogged about hot video-community site YouTube . So did many people at MySpace, whose references to the site were apparently removed by Murdoch's organization. (The site…

have both Yahoo! e-mail and Gmail accounts and a Comcast personal e-mail account—all of which I use for slightly different purposes. But I've started to notice that in Gmails where addresses appear, "Map This" links are showing up in the…

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…

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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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

From the release: Insider Pages, the community-based local-search engine, and Interchange Corporation, owner of Local.com, a leading local-search engine, today announced an agreement for the distribution of Insider Pages Pay Per Phone Call advertisers and merchant reviews on Local.com. Insider…

In something of a surprise, Google is set to buy 5% of America Online from Time Warner for $1 billion. We had anticipated a Microsoft announcement. There's more on this story from The N.Y. Times. This is obviously a big…

"Alea iacta est"' (the die is cast) is what Julius Caesar is supposed to have said as he famously crossed the Rubicon river in Northern Italy, marking the beginning of events that would cause him to become "dictator for life."…

Amid a frenized and potentially boffo online shopping season (projected to reach $19.6b in the U.S.), U.K.-based GUS announced that it's buying California-based comparison shopping engine PriceGrabber. The online shopping site was No. 6 in terms of August U.S. traffic,…

Interchange's consumer destination site Local.com will be offering a del.icio.us-like tagging/bookmarking feature powered by LookSmart's Furl like The N.Y. Times). This is the latest in a series of moves (with more coming) to beef up the content and features of…