Interview with Microsoft’s Mike Nichols
This week my interview is with Mike Nichols of Microsoft. We spoke about image search, video search, and celebrity search. With Microsoft’s recent set of releases, their new video search engine was unveiled for the first time. One of the more interesting aspects of Microsoft’s video search engine is the smart preview feature. Mike showed [...]
Search Headlines & Links: November 16, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: Microsoft Exec Claims They Will Have 30% Search Market ShareKevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, said he [...]
Thanksgiving Turkey, Image Search, and Missed Opportunities
Thanksgiving is a major holiday for my family. With the first changes of color in the foliage, I begin the counting the weeks until the family gathers at my cousin’s for this event. So, with Thanksgiving less than a week away, I decided to share my mounting enthusiasm with one of my siblings by sending [...]
Keep an Eye on Image Search
Image search is playing an increasingly important role in search engine optimization, and SEOs should develop strategies for optimizing a web site to receive this type of traffic. In today’s SearchDay, “Image Search in the SEO Picture,” Eric Enge looks at some of the trends and tips on image search optimization that he picked up [...]
Some tidbits from SES San Jose
SES San Jose is now into it’s third day. As always, it’s a great show. There is lots of stuff happening with search and web marketing, which is the juice that drives thsee events. One of the most notable things is the fact that the show has evidently set an attendance record. At least that’s [...]
ClickSurge’s New Content Widget To Monetize Traffic Adds Pixsy Image Search
MediaRiver’s ClickSurge, a relatively new entry into the content monetization industry, has partnered with Pixsy to help add image search to publishing sites, the two companies announced in a joint press release. “MediaRiver recently launched ClickSurge as an innovative tool for web publishers to lead Internet users to online content in a discovery-based contextual model. [...]
Hotlinking Images Can Help SEO
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting article about using hotlinked images to gain high organic rankings. Michel Telendro told Phillip Lenssen, ““I do one of this hotlinking with one flickr image in a new domain (3 weeks, no backlinks) and in one week I was ranking #3 for that keyword in [Google Images].â€Case in point – [...]
Interview of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella at SMX Advanced
Monday night at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Danny Sullivan sat down with Satya Nadella, who is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s newly-created Search & Advertising Platform Group. In this role, he leads the engineering team for Microsoft’s Search, Advertising, and Commerce platforms. The first impression I got from the conversation is just how extremely [...]
Interview of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella at SMX Advanced
Monday night at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Danny Sullivan sat down with Satya Nadella, who is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s newly-created Search & Advertising Platform Group. In this role, he leads the engineering team for Microsoft’s Search, Advertising, and Commerce platforms. The first impression I got from the conversation is just how extremely [...]
Microsoft Planning Next Search Engine?
According to TechCrunch, Microsoft has “gathered a team of twenty or more “rock star†developers” to build its “next-generation” search engine. The team will be based in Microsoft’s Silicon Valley headquarters, and will be led by Live.com developer Sanaz Ahari. Arrington’s source didn’t share any details, other than to say it would not be a [...]
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