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Google has certainly been catching a good dose of hell lately for the perceived decline in the quality of their search results however a closer look at some of the actual criticism raises some questions. Earlier this month, TechCrunch published an article from Vivek Wadhwa entitled, “Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google,” […]

There has been a lot of recent discussion around Facebook’s traction with respect to Google.  Back in September, comScore announced that according to their panel-driven data, total time spent on Facebook properties actually surpassed the total time spent across Google properties (including YouTube, Gmail and Google search).  Stan Schroeder from Mashable speculated that”it’s a worrying […]

Let me preface this by saying up until last month, I had been an Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) customer for the past three years.  They had won me over with what I felt to be a better on-site experience than the other major players in the space and consistently lower rates.  In the past, I had typically […]

Of the panels I sat through at the recent Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose, the most relevant to the space in which I work was the panel on News Search.  Although the panel is a consistent presence at the SES events, this particular panel had a Google representative, Maile Ohye, talk about […]

Twitter has obviously been a hot topic of conversation over the past year or so and seems to be steadily growing in prominence.  In fact, we even rolled out a feature in January called TweetIt that makes it easier for our customers to blog about their news.  My own personal indicator is that many of […]