Social Media and Search have had a intertwined relationship in their emerging development. Now with real-time search of social media streams, the two are more related and supportive than ever. Today’s panel of experts takes a look at what social search is and what it isn’t, who’s working on it and getting it right, and […]
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Accessibility for Everyone is Good Design
We often get caught up with coding to make our websites crawlable for search engines. This morning, Sharon Rush of Knowbility and Richard Schwertdfeger of IBM offer the current state of accessibility and where it is going. Making sites accessible for everyone, regardless of disability, is good design. If you create good design, then it […]
The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance
Well, it has finally happened. After coming to a basic agreement in July and finalizing the terms in December of last year, Yahoo! and Microsoft have received regualtory approval from the U.S. Government and the EU. The result is a search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo! in their combined battle for online advertising with Google. […]
iPad, iPed, iPid, iPod, iPud
Previously only one of those words was an Apple product. After January 26th, however, Apple now sells iPads along with iPods. What may be a silly name or a great name briefly caused a bit of confusion with the search engines. IPED and IPEDS are acronyms that have quite a few results in Google, Yahoo, […]