Tag Archives for Search Engines
[REPORT] Measuring the Impact of Google Secure Search
360i has released a new report that measures the impact of Google Secure Search following Google’s announcement last fall that it would make secure search the default setting for all logged-in users. With secure search, a person’s search terms cannot be tracked by the third-party technologies that marketers have come to rely on to determine ...
360i Report on the Schema.org Markup Initiative
Google, Bing and Yahoo! recently announced a new supported web initiative called schema.org, which provides some much needed momentum to the creation of the semantic web. The web standard provides a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages and serves as a resource for webmasters to improve their natural search results within the ...
How the Social Landscape Will Change Search – a Report from 360i
Yesterday, Bing and Facebook made a joint announcement regarding a significant milestone in their partnership. Moving forward, Bing will be integrating Facebook as a social layer within its search results – initially around people-based searches, but with upcoming extensions to Product, Local and Video searches as well. Example of Bing search results infused with social ...
Wake Up When Google Bores You
The world may not need a Google-branded social network along the lines of what Google is reportedly building. My fellow columnist Cathy Taylor made that perfectly clear last week. Yet I can offer a barometer to show whether Google will launch a great product: the more boring Google makes it, the better it will be. ...
360i Q&A with OneRiot’s Tobias Peggs
People have long been turning to the web to find information — and as social and mobile continue to gain momentum, this trend will only increase. More and more of today’s searchers want late-breaking information that answers their queries with the greatest relevancy. In other words, they want the engines to tell them what’s going ...