Kelsey Local Media Blog
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yahoo! has launched a new service called Open Shortcuts, according to SEW, that allows users to create custom search commands.According to Yahoo!, this will let users:- Instantly navigate to any URL on the Internet- Easily recall common searches on Yahoo!-…
I have trouble understanding how a top business publication like BusinessWeek can say, €œBelieve it or not, among the hottest media bets is the $15 billion a year U.S. Yellow Pages market.€ Why has it taken so long to recognize…
Web-delivered video is hot right now, with a number of video start-ups having launched or received funding and with the iPod video making it the newest sexy thing to cover in the media. The latest move comes from online video…
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…
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…
