3 posts and columns on contextual search

Qwhisper Is Looking to Solve Social Search With a Dose of Uber-Geek

in News on September 16, 2011 at 11:01 am PT

Ever tried to search Twitter for something relatively simple? Not good? The high-octane brains behind start-up Qwhisper agree.
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May Search Metrics: Google Losing Share or Gaining It? All Depends on How You Look at the Data

in News on June 11, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Getting an accurate read on the tides of search market share these days is no easy feat given the interface changes being rolled out by the major players. Consider comScore’s May search market report, which shows Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing gaining share, ostensibly at Google’s expense.

Social Networking More Popular Than Email, More Profitable Than…Er…Um

in News on March 9, 2009 at 8:55 am PT

Hard to believe, but social networking has eclipsed email in popularity. The latest Nielsen survey found that 66.8 percent of the global online population spends time at “Member Communities”–a category that includes both blogs and social networks. That makes social networking about two percent more popular than email.
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