Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority

... an elaborate classification scheme based on ten types that fit into three broad categories: Elite users (31 percent) Middle of the road users (20 percent) Those with few "tech assets" and limited use of technology (a whopping 49 percent) Below are the verbatim descriptions of the various sub ...

May. 7, 2007 at 9:52am Eastern by Greg Sterling

The Search Engine Unfriendliness Of Web 2.0

Wouldn't it be great if all those whiz-bang Web 2.0 interactive elements based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Flash—such as widgets and gadgets and Google Maps mashups— were search engine optimal? Unfortunately, that's not the case. In fact, these technologies are ...
Related Searches: Flash | Search Engine

Oct. 18, 2007 at 7:46am Eastern by Stephan Spencer

Q&A With Rob Crigler, Director Of Interactive Marketing For Orkin

Rob Crigler is the Director of Interactive Marketing for Orkin (NYSE: ROL), overseeing online media, DRTV, web dev, Internet yellow pages, SEO, and SEM. Rob has over 20 years of marketing experience, and he has been working in the interactive space for so long that he can actually remember days of ...

Aug. 6, 2008 at 8:25am Eastern by Duane Forrester

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 21, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Icahn Settles With Yahoo, Joins Board As Greg noted earlier, Ichan was seeking control of Yahoo's board. Instead, Yahoo and Ichan came up with a compromise, giving Ichan 3 of the 11 seats ...

Jul. 21, 2008 at 4:17pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search

... I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be used to refine search results. The Search Evolution ...
Related Searches: Social Search | Search 4.0 | Wikia

May. 28, 2008 at 1:18pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Top 25 Web 2.0 Start Ups To Watch

The Next Net 25 by Business 2.0 ranks the top 25 up and coming Web 2.0 for this year. Here is the ordered list: StumbleUpon Slide.com Bebo.com Meebo Wikia Joost Dabble MetaCafe Revision 3 Blip.tv Fon.com Loopt Mobio Tinypictures.us SoonR Turn.com Adify AdMob SpotRunner ViTrue SuccessFactors JanRain ...

Feb. 23, 2007 at 9:40am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Why Many Web 2.0 Developers Are Search Morons

Web 2.0 sites have caught on because they offer slick user interfaces, with cool AJAX effects and lots of user-friendly controls and really useful mashups of content. But many Web 2.0 developers are apparently clueless when it comes to search engine optimization—often to the point where they ...
Related Searches: Java

Nov. 5, 2007 at 12:55pm Eastern by Chris Silver Smith

The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines

... Robert's trying to make, of course -- that search engines typically don't analyze all the words within a video in the way they read the words in a web page. Want to understand more about that? My Video Search Challenge Isn't Speech Recognition, It's Content Owner Management post from February explains ...
Related Searches: Social Graph | Social Search

Aug. 27, 2007 at 12:18pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution

... , a better term for what's going on finally clicked: Search 3.0. In this article, I'll cover the why and what of Search 3.0, taking in Search 1.0 and 2.0 along the way and touch on how Search 4.0 -- personal and social refinement -- is on the way. Search 1.0: Location, Frequency, & On-The-Page Ranking ...
Related Searches: Blended Search | Universal Search | Search 4.0 | Search Trend

Nov. 27, 2007 at 9:11am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

UK Yellow Pages Publisher Yell Adds "Web 2.0" Look And Features

... several redesigns over the course of the past year in an effort to improve usability and stay current with user expectations. The latest is a "Web 2.0" redesign that employs the proverbial tag cloud and personalization elements. Here are the new and improved features, as Yell has explained ...

Dec. 4, 2007 at 2:58pm Eastern by Greg Sterling