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5 ways Marissa Mayer plans to change Yahoo
During an investor call following Yahoo’s Q3 earnings report Monday afternoon, Marissa Mayer, the company’s new CEO and a former Google exec, outlined her vision for the company going forward. “We’ll...
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Google muscles in on Siri with voice-enabled iOS Search app
Siri is finally getting some big-time competition on iOS devices. Google’s updated search app has finally made it through the App Store review process and is now ready to deliver Siri-like voice...
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Priceline acquires Kayak for $1.8 billion five months after IPO
Priceline announced today that it has agree to acquire Kayak for $40 a share, valuing the online travel booking site at $1.8 billion. Priceline will pay approximately $500 million in cash and $1.3...
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Why App Store search (still) needs to be fixed
When news hit that Tweetie creator Loren Brichter’s new iOS game Letterpress was available for download I did what many of you probably did: picked up my iPhone and searched the App Store. But...
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How search can unlock the power of big data
Big data tools such as Cassandra and Hadoop are transforming how data is stored and are creating a wide range of possibilities for new ways in which it can be exploited at scale. But without similarly...
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With new CTO, online learning site lynda.com looks to up its game
In the last year, a new crop of online learning upstarts, such as Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy and Codecademy, has attracted plenty of media attention and investor dollars for bringing quality...
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Facebook launches personalized version of search with Graph Search
Facebook debuted its own, brand-new version of search today at the press event held in Menlo Park, calling its new product “Graph Search,” and explaining that it aims to let Facebook users search...
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Facebook’s graph search and the end of privacy by obscurity
It often seems as though Facebook’s main purpose is to continually remind us of how much we have chosen to share with the world about our online behavior — whether we realize it or not. The latest...
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Twitter tweaks its mobile search product, hopes more actually use it
Twitter announced a few minor updates to its search product on mobile Wednesday, highlighting a few changes intended to get users taking greater advantage of search and using the different tabs to find...
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Google has a problem with “long-tail” searches, and it needs Quora to help...
The queries we type into Google can be broadly classified into two groups: head queries, or general keyword searches of less than three words; and long tail queries, or specific searches using a phrase...
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Yummly opens up its recipe API to food app developers
Yummly is releasing its semantic food search technology into the wild, announcing on Wednesday that it is selling developers access to its database of more than 1 million web-sourced recipes as well as...
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How search can solve big data problems
There are many solutions for figuring out how to parse large amounts of data, but LucidWorks CTO Grant Ingersoll has a suggestion: use search. At GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City...
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Google’s search concessions to the EU are now out and up for comment
The European Commission formally announced the measures that Google has offered to take in order to settle a major antitrust investigation into its practices. It now wants “interested parties” to have...
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The Google Now dilemma: Yes, it’s kind of creepy — but it’s also incredibly...
One of the reasons I decided to make the switch from using an iPhone to an Android phone — in addition to the freedom it allowed me from Apple’s walled garden — was that I was interested in trying out...
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How Google is setting the new search standard with voice and knowledge graph
Google’s search capabilities are king, and they’re getting richer now with features including the use of more powerful voice recognition on mobile devices and desktops, At its Google I/O conference...
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Marissa Mayer: Some Tumblr users “may never come to Yahoo,” and that’s OK
Yahoo may have acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stressed in an investor call Monday morning that Tumblr will continue to operate as a separate business — aided by Yahoo...
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Content monetization: News licensing and syndication still need marketplaces...
Publishers’ lack of strategic focus on licensing and syndication today is matched by nearly equal indifference from software developers, entrepreneurs, and investors. Millions of investment dollars and...
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Connected consumer first-quarter 2013: Analysis and outlook
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount and...
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Cloudera adds search to Hadoop distro and says it’s just getting started
According to Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, his company has “decades” in front of it in which to enhance its Hadoop platform to become the go-to place for data storage and analysis. At a Tuesday event in San...
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Think Google’s rich snippets are useful? Russia’s Yandex goes one better
Despite the utter dominance of one company in much of the world, online search continues to be a field that throws up lots of interesting developments. Sure, many of those are coming out of Google...
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