YP Makes a Big Push in Search
YP has made a major push in the past week to become a bigger player in search and to do more to monetize its own search traffic on YP.com, as well as its mobile apps. In the past week the…
Search, au Naturale: Conference Interview with Weotta
The holy grail of search -- and some say the web's next phase -- is natural language search. It was Siri's unfulfilled promise, Cortana's ongoing goal, and Google Now's (sort of) proposition. At its heart is a data science challenge,…
UBL, MomentFeed Partner to Leverage ‘National Local’
In the mobile era, listings are increasingly useless without context. Businesses need to be found via LAT/Long; and they need to shape their business identity using all the tools at their disposal. In recent years, it has gotten even more…
UBL, MomentFeed Partner to Leverage 'National Local'
In the mobile era, listings are increasingly useless without context. Businesses need to be found via LAT/Long; and they need to shape their business identity using all the tools at their disposal. In recent years, it has gotten even more…
Social and Mobile Search Increasingly Important to Canadian Users According to DAC Group
According to DAC Group and Kantar's latest consumer search behavior study, mobile and social search are showing a progressive increase in adoption. Mobile devices are becoming vital to Canadian consumers when they are searching for local businesses. Brick and mortar…
GetFugu Brings Eyes and Ears to Mobile Search
Today I had the chance to catch up with GetFugu, a mobile tool applying some of the voice and visual search technologies we've examined here over the past few months. The app, currently in beta for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android,…