Search Engines

Bidding On Trademarks in Search Advertising Continues to Heat Up

by Jeff Weisbein December 28, 2011

Here’s a hot topic: competitors or scammers bidding on your company’s trademark in search results to be at the top of the results in the sponsored links section. Is this illegal? The answer may surprise you: it’s not.

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Should Google Remove the “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button?

by Jeff Weisbein May 2, 2011

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past ten years chances are you have seen the iconic I’m Feeling Lucky button sitting on the front of Google’s home page. If you haven’t actually ever clicked the I’m Feeling Lucky button, it does actually have a function.

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How Google’s Search Cleanup Will Affect You

by Mike Mansell February 28, 2011

As companies, organizations, and entities grow in size they tend to have a much higher visibility in the eye of the general public. Sure, being in the spotlight can ultimately be greatly beneficial to a company and can help them grow significantly more than they would if they were unknown, but the fact of the matter is that public [...]

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4 Ways Microsoft Could Improve Bing

by Mike Mansell February 2, 2011

When it was first launched in June of 2009, some proclaimed that Bing – a search engine owned, operated, and maintained by software giant Microsoft – would be the future of how we search the web. And while Bing did have a handful of shiny bells and whistles (for the time), the search engine has [...]

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The Best Realtime Search Engines

by Jeff Weisbein June 13, 2010

It’s no secret that in the past I’ve been disappointed with realtime search, however, recently my feelings have changed as I discovered two great realtime search engines. The first is OneRiot and the second is Wowd. While both of them are considered realtime search services, their approaches to solve the same problem are different. OneRiot [...]

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Bing Retires Its Cashback Program

by Jeff Weisbein June 4, 2010

Microsoft has just announced via the Bing search engine blog that it will be retiring the Bing Cashback program as of July 30th, 2010. Don’t worry though, you will have a year to be able to redeem any cashback awards you may have earned. Additionally, Microsoft plans to offer 12 months of customer support to [...]

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Wowd: A New Approach to Search

by Jeff Weisbein May 28, 2010

Wowd is perhaps one of the most interesting search company’s that you have never heard of, at least, yet. Wowd is a search company but without the giant datacenters. Intrigued? Me too. The way Wowd was describe to me by their CEO, Mark Drummond, is Skype for search. How does it work? Wowd offers a [...]

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OneRiot Solves The Realtime Search Problem

by Jeff Weisbein May 7, 2010

Last October I wrote an article entitled “The Real Problem With Realtime Search” in which I explained one of the major problems of realtime search revolved around the lack of relevancy. In addition to the lack of relevance within results, we were inundated with unfiltered streams of the same data and most of the time [...]

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How To: Get Better Search Engine Rankings

by Mike Mansell March 31, 2010

As we’ve previously discussed, having a website (and vanity email accounts) plays a key role in your businesses’ professional appearance, and ultimately the number of leads you get and sales you make. But, having a website is no good unless people can find it. This is where search engines, Google being the largest and most [...]

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