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Google Beat Premieres (Spoiler: Lots of Searches for "Egg Recall" This Week)

in News on August 27, 2010 at 12:32 pm PT

Perhaps you reach some Fridays thinking, “Gee, I wonder what the hottest search topics on Google were this week. I suppose I could dig through Google Trends, but wouldn’t it be nice to have some pleasant Google staffer pop on to my screen and breeze through the highlights.” Okay, perhaps not. Nonetheless, the search giant has launched Google Beat as a regular series on YouTube.

Liveblogging the Google Search Event: Gutenberg, Goggles and Scrolling Real-Time Search!

in News on December 7, 2009 at 10:08 am PT

Right now, BoomTown is sitting right behind the very affable Jason Hirschhorn, chief product officer of MySpace, who is here to make one of the many partner announcements with Google at its “search event” in Silicon Valley today. I also ran right into Twitter’s Biz Stone at the coffee stand. He is also here to talk about the new features Google is adding to its search repertoire, although he is remaining mum until the program starts in five minutes. Obviously, it is mostly about Google launching real-time search. Here’s what happened at the event via liveblogging.
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Perhaps It's Time for Another One of Those "Your iPhone Contract Is Up" Ads?

in News on July 17, 2009 at 11:05 am PT

Palm’s Pre may compete with Apple’s iPhone on a feature-to-feature basis, but judging from the latest search stats from comScore, the Pre has some way to go before it matches the iPhone in mindshare. According to the research house, Palm Pre search activity, which more than doubled in late May thanks to Sprint’s “Now Network” advertising campaign, suffered a significant decline in mid-June, right around the debut of the new iPhone.
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Perhaps It’s Time for Another One of Those “Your iPhone Contract Is Up” Ads?

in News on July 17, 2009 at 11:05 am PT

Palm’s Pre may compete with Apple’s iPhone on a feature-to-feature basis, but judging from the latest search stats from comScore, the Pre has some way to go before it matches the iPhone in mindshare. According to the research house, Palm Pre search activity, which more than doubled in late May thanks to Sprint’s “Now Network” advertising campaign, suffered a significant decline in mid-June, right around the debut of the new iPhone.
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Buyer Beware: Twitter Search Is Powerful–And Limited

in Media on April 13, 2009 at 8:49 am PT

Twitter’s real-time search capability is a powerful tool–if you want to know what people are talking about on Twitter. If you want to know what people are interested in on the Web, though, it’s a different story. It’s a difference worth thinking about if you’re an Internet company thinking about shelling out a lot of money for the start-up.
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