November 29, 2004

Coming Soon: Audio/Visual Search

CNET reports that the top 3 search giants, Google, Yahoo! and MSN are all developing various types of audio visual search features for their users. While the Google project seems to focus more on broadcast television clips, the Yahoo! plan is to implement something more akin to their existing Yahoo! images search. MSN also has in the works something aimed to integrate into the interactive television market, so we should expect to see several new offerings from the "top 3" on the online digital video front in the near future.

November 15, 2004

Google Doubles Index to More than 8 Million Pages

According to the official Google Blog the index size of the search giant nearly doubled recently, bringing the total page count of their index to more than 8 billion pages. Check out the number at the bottom of the Google homepage and see for yourself.

November 11, 2004

Google Advertising Professionals

Google seems to be hard at work bringing their advertising branch up to speed with the rest of the paid media world. The recently opened Google Advertising Professionals program is an effort to help the growing group of advertisers and campaign management providers who use Google AdWords en masse to conduct online marketing campaigns. The reported features include an advanced AdWords account to help juggle multiple accounts, free training and resources and even a Qualified Google Advertising Professionsal Logo.

November 02, 2004

New Google AdWords Features

A couple new features of the Google AdWords PPC system cropped up recently to help advertisers get the most out of their campaigns. Accroding to Google: The Ads Diagnostic Tool "can report the ad position for active ads, and identify why a particular ad or group of ads may not be showing. In those cases where an ad is not shown, this tool provides recommended steps to help you get your ads up and running." Also new are some changes to the AdWords reports area, which now has a number of features including graphs using your data, saved reports, and even automation and scheduling of when to run your reports and notify you via email of the updates. It's good to see the AdWords reports area get an overhaul, as the previous incarnation did seem a bit rough and unfinished compared to top competitor Overture.

Yahoo! Images Search

Looking more and more like Google everyday, Yahoo! recently announced Yahoo! Images Search which works just like the tried and true Google Images Search, and at first glance appears to be just as effective. The only difference I immediately see is that Yahoo boasts over 1 billion images to search from while Google weighs in at a mere 880,000,000. Yahoo! is also promoting the use of this same service via your web enabled phone.

November 01, 2004

Google Plans Desktop Search Tool for Mac

Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt announced Goolge's plans to create a Mac version of their new Desktop Search Tool at a University of California-Los Angeles conference commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Internet. This is not suprising given the integration of Google Web Search into the Safari browser that comes with the latest Mac operating systems. Full story can be found at CNET News.com