Digital News Roundup: End of Summer Edition
Summer has came and went but not without some big news items coming out of the digital space. Check out our rundown of the top 20 headlines of the summer (listed chronologically) in the post below. And, as always, stay tuned for more news and insights from the 360i team right here on the blog. ...
Apple Socializes Music Consumption with Ping
Today, Apple announced a new iTunes add-on, called Ping, which aims to make the process of listening to and purchasing music through iTunes a more social experience. Apple CEO Steve Jobs described Ping as “a social network all about music.” It’s like “Facebook and Twitter meets iTunes,” he said. This notion of a music-centric social ...
Google Search Algorithm Update: Your Domain to the Nth Power?
Google has rolled out a significant change in their natural search algorithm, announced last Friday. According to industry bloggers, the new change might be connected to a Google’s patent submitted last May: Query rewriting with entity detection (U.S. Patent 7,536,382). Historically, a Google keyword search (brand or non brand) would only result in a single ...
Impact of the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance on SEO, a Report from 360i
In late 2009, Yahoo! & Microsoft’s Bing announced a strategic partnership, better known as the Search Alliance, which would effectively consolidate the search landscape by allowing Bing to power both paid and natural search results across the Yahoo! network. Last week, Yahoo! officially announced that the transition to Bing-powered natural search results was complete for ...
Digital News Roundup: August 30, 2010
This week’s roundup has something for everyone – news from each of the Big 3 engines, a big announcement from SCVNGR (hint: it involves Facebook), Time’s list of 50 awesome websites and more. Catch up on all the top stories in our summary below. Google Expands Its ‘RealTime’ Search of Tweets, Buzzes On Thursday, search ...