i-level Search News - July 2007
Safaris and heists
Anyone own an iPhone yet? Owen Jones thinks it might be the shot in the arm that mobile search needs. While mobile search has been touted as the "next big thing" for a couple of years now, it hasn't really taken off due to the poor browsing capability of the handsets and slow connection speeds.
Image Search Optimisation
Over the past month, we've seen a lot of updates about image search.
Tell the engines what you really think
While it does require a download, Tazti (http://tazti.com/) is a voice command search engine.
Google Alumni: Where are they now?
Google is, by internet standards, a martyr company and as the corporation loses its kooky 'dot-com beanbags and diet coke' image, it also seems to have lost some of it's most talented workers who have gone in search of start-ups in order to exercise their entrepreneurial muscles. Since Google's share price reached a record high at the end of June, it suggests that the stock simply does not offer the same potential gain as perhaps a strong internet start-up offering riches from a stock offering or a buy-out.
The human touch
More rumours abound about how Google has started to bring in manual search result checkers to make sure they can devalue any spam in the natural search algorithm.
MSN gains market share!
True story, according to Compete.com's US market share report last month, and an article at http://searchengineland.com/070710- | 105603.php- showing MSN taking a piece of Google's traffic.
Stats - Social Networking
While 20% of regular Internet users worldwide had visited a social networking site in the previous 30 days, the figure was highest in South Korea - 55%, followed by Brazil, China and then the US with 24%, according to Ipsos Insight's annual study "The Face of the Web". The Ipsos study also claims that 34% of worldwide Internet users have watched a TV show or other video stream online, up from 31% a year earlier. However, this same growth was not seen in online music.