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Yahoo Rushes To Market With Axis

Yahoo! announced its Axis browser yesterday, and promises a "new experience that re-imagines" the web browsing experience. At first glance, it appears to do that, and the company admits to putting the user experience ahead of ad revenue or the marketer experience.   [...]

The New Yellow Pages: "Local is Where We Play/Shop/Live"

The quaint old Yellow Pages have evolved into YP.com, and what may be North America’s largest local search, media and advertising company. YP Holdings LLC (“YP”) combines the assets of AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive. YP Holdings launched yesterday with the closing of a 53% controlling interest in the company by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus  [...]

Google, DudaMobile Offer A Five-Minute Web-To-Mobile Site Conversion

It has been a little over a month since Google partnered with DudaMobile, the do-it-yourself mobile website builder. The partners are offering a quick “test drive” to see what a converted website looks like in a mobile format, with a rating (1 to 5) of mobile friendliness. The companies on April 5th announced a joint effort to expand GoMo, a Google-led initiative to help businesses “Go Mobile.”   [...]

Experts, Public Split on Web 3.0

Technology experts and the general public are both split on the likelihood of the semantic web, or 'web 3.0,' becoming a reality by 2020, according to a study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. The semantic web is an internet concept that would allow software agents to carry out sophisticated tasks for users, making meaningful connection  [...]

DOOH Signs Get Smarter under Intel, Microsoft

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are envisioning a new generation of so-called smart signs that can recognize the age, gender and height of people in front of them. These digital signs could also serve as on-the-spot providers of raw analytics, conveying back to retailers what products and images have received the most attention on the store floor (via the Wall Street Journal).   [...]

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Retailers Invest in Search Tech

In growing numbers, retailers are upgrading their website's search functionality to make it easier for customers to find specific products or sizes. The enhancements are long in coming for the retail industry, which has treated search as a second tier function, providing only rudimentary functionality - a fact that Google highlighted when it rolled out Google Commerce Search, a $50,000 search engine for   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/30/09

Ad Industry: Ad industry produces ads and logos in response to pending privacy legislation. Holiday Shopping: Amazon tops Black Friday retail web traffic. After 'Black Friday,' industry   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/20/09

Ad Strategies: Marketers hop on augmented reality bandwagon to promote 'Avatar.' AT&T's anti-Verizon ad is a stinker. Social Media: Facebook Ads customer support   [...]

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comScore Puts Page-Load Time Under Microscope

Page load time, a do-or-die website-performance issue 10 years ago, is still enough of a concern today that Google is now under pressure to introduce a ranking factor into its algorithm to account for how fast a site or page loads, Search Engine Land reports. The issue particularly resonates with web publishers that hope to benchmark their site performance and measure how they stack up against their competi  [...]

Nintendo Courts Seniors with Supersize DSi

Nintendo is releasing a new model of its DSi portable game system with design features that will appeal to seniors – a rapidly growing gaming constituency. The screen size for the DSi XL will be twice the current iteration's, but at the same resolution. It'll also sport better viewing angles, bigger buttons and a larger stylus and come in more moderate shades of Natural White, Deep Brown and Wine Red. The device will launch in Japan on November 21 as DSi JJ, and in North America and Euro  [...]

Facebook Revamps Privacy Policy; Asks for Feedback

Facebook has tweaked its privacy policy and is asking its 300-million-plus user base for feedback by Nov. 5th. This outreach is, some say, a wise move for the site, which has been burned by user backlash before on privacy issues - most famously over its now retired Beacon platform, which initially   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/27/09

Search Technologies: Google Social Search to go live next week. Social web browser Flock is partnering with Spanish-language media company Univision Google Voice lets users keep their numbers.   [...]

Online Shoppers Still Want Warm Body

Despite the growing popularity of internet shopping, most online shoppers still want to reach a living and breathing person when they have a question, problem or issue. A recent study found that a live voice is still the most preferred form of customer service among online Americans, writes MarketingCharts. At the same time, the move to online also means that consumers are warming to the  [...]

Amazon Rolls Out Same-Day Service in 7 Cities

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MFST Shells Out Bucks for Bing Ad Campaign

Microsoft is planning the launch of an ad campaign consisting of print, radio, online and TV ads to promote its new search engine. The engine is code-named Kumo, but its formal moniker will likely be Bing. The campaign is led by ad firm   [...]

Google Goes Universal With Text Translator

Google announced the launch of its latest gadget - the Automatic Text Translator - on the company blog yesterday. To try it out, go to Settings, choose the Labs tab, and enable Message Translation.   Google promises  [...]

FriendFeed Gets a New Look

FriendFeed launched a beta version of its site yesterday with a redesign that is supposed to make it easier and faster to use. FriendFeed, originally launched in October 2007, is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media websites, blogs and micro-blog updates, and RSS/Atom feeds. The new site sports a totally new look: the left sidebar is gone, and key informatio  [...]

Google Search Serves De Facto Local Results

Google beefed up its search capabilities by introducing an international version of Google Suggest. Google Suggest, launched last August, simplifies searches by providing suggestions based on popular keywords after a few keystrokes are entered. It also auto-corrects spelling mistakes and remembers earlier searches  [...]

Firefox Launches Beta Version of Mobile Browser

Web browser Mozilla Firefox launched a beta version of its mobile browser Fennec, reports TechCrunch. The mobile browser works only on the Nokia N810, but developers can also download it onto their PCs. Designed to maximize use of the limited screen space available on mobile phones, the Fennec brows  [...]

Tweetdeck Incorporates Facebook Status Updates

Tweetdeck, a desktop client reportedly used by about 13% of Twitter users, launched an update that features Facebook integration, reports AllFacebook. Tweetdeck aggregates data streams from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, and Stocktwits. It allows users to split feeds, organize those they follow into groups (work, pers  [...]