NewsTrove - The Search Experience has a De Facto Standard (for Now)
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Weve recently done a lot of testing on how people interact with search results both on the general engines we all use and vertical search engines in a few industries We discovered a number of things but one finding in particular surprised us The user interaction with search results has been defined A standard has been established And until a discontinuous improvement in the search interface comes along we will expect all Search to be the same
Google The Users Definition of Search
Googles interface has become the de facto standard for search...
NewsTrove - Is SMS really going to die?
Basically the Mobile World thinks its going to move towards a totally Internetbased future where every phone is enabled and we all roam around using voice and data on the move A vast new world of video and music downloads will open up to us Oh yes
Of course its going to take time As Vodafone Aurin Sarin pointed out during the show the shift towards a world where we play a flat rate to access the mobile network as we do currently in broadband will not happen overnight...
NewsTrove - Excite Money & Investing
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Calif Dow Jones Google Inc argued against disclosing millions of search queries along with 1 million randomly selected Web page addresses to the Department of Justice in court papers filed Friday
The documents filed in San Jose federal District Court claim the release of the data would expose Google trade secrets without justification
The disclosure also would undermine the trust Google has built up with its users the legal documents state...
NewsTrove - Search: What Price Loyality When All Options are Free?
In what Yahoo is carefully characterizing as mere research the portal is asking some of its users whether they would be willing to perform all or at least most of their searches on Yahoo in exchange for discounted music downloads frequent flier miles video rental discounts and even charity donations
One of the Webs first search engines Yahoo has taken a distant number two position behind Google in search market share with not much further behind in third place
The marketing problem is substantial First all of the major search engines are completely free to users...