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Twitter is becoming one of the most important platforms to share information quickly and easily over the web. Using the Twitter API, developers have found a lot of innovative ways to keep the users hooked on to the service by packing hundreds of  services.

Sometimes, less is more. Here, just 140 characters are more than enough [...]

Yahoo! Image Search is launching a Creative Commons license filter to find images that are available for reuse officially. When you use Yahoo! Image Search, you’ll now see a checkbox for Creative Commons allowing you to filter for images from Flickr that can be used commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image’s creator said Yahoo in their announcement yesterday.

I just spent the half hour that just went by wondering if this is an exclusive piece of news - but no luck. Anyway, the news itself is that Twitter now has a more powerful and better advanced search option, for even the regular search.twitter.com page looks different from last night. I checked up on some of the popular blogs and on Twitter’s official blog as well bu there is no update on this anywhere, so maybe I am just a tad late to notice.

In the meanwhile, another medium is slowly rising up the ranks as competent alternative to big G. Quite a few marketers are now looking at Twitter and its conversational mannerisms as the perfect evolution of search. WATblog had also covered an article chronicling twitter monetization’s possibility the same way as Google and how it is fundamentally placed to be Google’s successor in search. Twitter with its fellow apps is changing the way search happens on the web.

It’s been a while since big-wig search engines like Yahoo, Google and MSN Live had launched their local search engines but how many times have you ever used it to find a certain eatery joint or a movie multiplex nearby? It’s both an irony and heartening to know that OnYoMo manages to quench our thirst for local search much better than any other in the market.

Well, no more. Google has come up with a Mobile Search feature that allows you to search whatever you like that might make use of knowledge regarding your current geographical location.

It’s the turn of Wikia Search to try and take on the giant. Wikia is the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, the founder of, unarguably the largest collection of information in one place, Wikipedia. Wikia Search is a human powered search engine that was launched in Alpha back in January.

Google is, undoubtedly, the ‘Giant’ of the World Wide Web. What originally began as a research project back in 1996 by two Ph.D. students has now grown into a full-grown enterprise. Who’d have imagined that a research project in the Stanford University would actually go on to become on of the Internet’s most essential products?

If John Davies, the Head of Next Generation Web Research at BT, is to be believed, Semantic Web may be commercially viable sooner than you think. Does this mean that the days of Web 2.0 and the community gone by?

The term ‘Semantic Web’ was derived from W3C director, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange. Semantic Web is seen as the development of the World Wide Web where the content of information and services are defined to make web content more searchable and useful.

In an effort to consolidate their offerings of search engine marketing into a more robust company, the internet and affiliate marketing agency, PepperJam, and a full service mobile marketing agency, M3 Mobile, joined forces to form a very new entity, PepperJamMobile, powered by M3 Mobile, that’s intended to give advertisers a one-stop solution for internet and mobile marketing.

Let’s face it. No matter how hard Yahoo! tries, it is not surpassing Google anytime soon when it comes to search. Even though Yahoo still holds the number two position, just ahead of Microsoft, it is still years away from what Google has established itself as.
 
Now, in an effort to try and boost its search-ad [...]

Microsoft has now announced that it has bought the linguistic web search company Powerset for an undisclosed sum. Powerset is a web search company that is building a natural language search engine using semantic language software that reads and understands every sentence on the Web.

The US Department of Justice plans to launch a formal antitrust investigation on the Yahoo-Google advertising deal, which was signed last month. According to the deal, Google will have its advertising displayed on search queries on Yahoo’s sites, which would earn Yahoo upto $800 million a year for four years.

Search Marketing contributes to 8% of all ad spends in the UK. In the US, the number is at 2%.
 
 
In India, the figure for search engine marketing is Rs. 600 crores for Indian Company Spends + Spends Abroad + Abroad Companies Spend in India.
 
 
What is Search Engine Marketing?
 
Sponsored Links and Results come under [...]

Dan Neary, The VP for Emerging Markets, eBay and Shailesh Rao, MD of Google India spoke about the above mentioned topic.
 
 
 
This post will deal with Fundamental Trends on the Internet Today With Respect to:
 
 
-       Users
-       Touchpoints
-       Discovery
-       Activities
 
 
Users: Gen Y; users born between 1980 – 1995. A generation brought up on the Internet. Think about it, kids are getting [...]

ChaCha.com, a human-powered search engine recently extended it’s service to mobile phones, where you can type your questions and sms it to 242242 (spells chacha on mobile keypad) and one of the ChaCha’s paid human guide will respond to your query with relevant links and maps unlike an automated machine, computer or robot generated answer.
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