Startups search and find ways to boost profiles
Hub startup Ziggs Inc offers real estate agents lawyers and professionals a way to market and manage their online bios without having to become a web site developer
It runs a professional people search web site that allows you to create an online profile or use the one your company might have created for you on its corporate web page
For about 50 a year the company runs a search engine placement service designed to allow a designated name to rise to the top of sponsored advertising links on Google Inc Microsoft Corps Yahoo Inc Inc and Ask Jeeves Inc...
Google, others still get stumped
By Michael Liedtke
The Associated Press
Even as they become more savvy the Internets leading search engines still sometimes bog down in befuddlement when a specific kernel of knowledge is sought
Hoping to fill the gap Answerscom from GuruNet Corp and Askcom from Ask Jeeves Inc have pledged to provide more adept responses to vexing but straightforward questions about history science geography pop culture and sports
Both search engines aim to provide a correct answer explicitly at the top of a searchs first results page or with a highly placed link to a Web page that contains the information...
Review Smart Search Engines
To find out I staged a very unscientific test consisting of questions culled from a recent edition of Trivial Pursuit
My mock game pitted the avowed prowess of Answerscom and Askcom against the Internets most widely used search engines Google Yahoo and Microsoft Corps
The findings Answerscom and Askcom appear to be a small step ahead of Google and noticeably smarter than Yahoo and when dealing with such esoteric questions as What glass beads are created when a meteorite strikes the Earths surface
Both Answerscom and Ask...
56% Search Users Unaware of Ads
56 Search Users Unaware of Ads
June 21
By Brian Morrissey
More than half of Internet users surveyed in a poll did not know the difference between natural search engine results and advertising listings
The Harris Interactive survey of Internet users was commissioned by New York search engine marketing agency iCrossing It found that 56 percent of Internet users said they did not know the difference between sponsored paid and natural nonsponsored search engine result listings
Younger Internet users were more likely to know which listings were ads...