With the American economy (and many others in the world) potentially on the verge of collapse we are all subject to being out of a job any minute. One day we’re working, paying the bills and enjoying happy hour. The next day we are unemployed and panic is starting to set in. Don’t worry! Here is my Top 10 List of Things You Should Do When You Are Suddenly Unemployed. If you have extra tips for people who have lost their job or are going to lose their job, please add them in the comments. 10 Apply for Un-Employment Insurance...
Free alert service Exactfactor tracks search engine results by key words, and can email anyone interested in how any web site is doing in the battle for the top Google, Yahoo, or Live.com spot. After signing up for an account, you enter one or two web sites and key words to track them by. You'll see an instant report on the site's ranking on each search site, and can hit "Get alerts" to be e-mailed when that site improves, declines, or hits the front page of the search results. If you're looking for ways to juice your standing in...
For listening to conversations on Twitter about your brand, your client’s brand or anything else you need to be paying attention to online, you are literally spoiled for choice. I think one of the simplest yet more effective tools available is Twitter search (known as Summize before Twitter acquired it), shown in the screenshot above (click for larger image). As its name indicates, it searches tweets on the keywords you enter. Once you do that on the website, the results page tells you when new content appears on Twitter that matches your search term(s). You then manually refresh the...
Google says it has only benefited from the economic downturn. Bargain-hunting Americans are using the search engine to scout out deals, according to chief economist Hal Varian. "One thing that we think at Google is that when there is a recessionary environment, people are counting their pennies, are going to be researching their purchases, looking for bargains, and this potentially has something of an upside for Google, where we referred to this last time I called it the Wal-Mart effect," said Varian, in a conference call last month. It's a fine argument, but it can't hold for long -- as...
Studio Jo Meesters creates concepts and products based on the key words of matter and traditional craftsmanship.During Dutch Design Week 2008, their TESTLAB project kicked off with the collection “Odds and Ends, Bits and Pieces”, consisting out of four furniture pieces....
A research-focused search engine founded by Human Genome Project scientists is claiming to go where even Google doesn't tread: the deep web. DeepDyve is designed to search the 99 percent (they say, citing a study from UC Berkeley) of hits not picked up by other search engines, which return pages based largely on interpretations of popularity and work only if a page is findable. Content hidden behind paywalls or that is not linked to enough sites to gain page rank remains obscure, but often contains the source material required for serious research. It's the classic "needle in a haystack"...
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also writes a PR and social media blog. On an average business day, more than 2,000 press releases are distributed by the five leading wire services in the United States – Business Wire, Marketwire, PrimeNewswire, PR Newswire, and PRWeb. What can you do to set your press release apart from the pack and allow your target audience to find you? Implement the use of search engine optimization, or SEO. To put it simply, when someone Googles you or your company, where do you show...
by Brian Solis BackType, a social search, bookmarking, and network around comments, is now available within FriendFeed. Now you can easily add all of the comments you write directly to your FriendFeed account. The team also rolled out several new features. Alerts: BackType Alerts delivers an e-mail update, in real time, daily, or weekly, whenever a subscribed search term is mentioned in a comment. You can also monitor your alerts via RSS or through the alerts tab in your BackType Dashboard. Twitter: Users can setup auto or manual posting of comments to your Twitter stream. Widgets: If you’d like to...
Just when we thought search couldn’t get any better, Evin Levey product manager at Google has blogged about a new feature that could have a dramatic impact on your search results. Scanned documents have been appearing in Google’s search results for quite some time now, but for the most part they were usually weren’t at the top your list regardless of how relevant they may have been. The reason for this is simple; when the search engine runs into an Adobe PDF file that was scanned as an image; it wasn’t able to read the contents other then what...
At this point, it just seems mean spirited to start attacking Google and Yahoo's beleagured search deal, but a top congressman on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and a consumer advocacy group have come out against the deal. Yesterday, Texas Republican Joe Barton expressed frustration at Google and Yahoo's responses to questions about their potential search deal in a letter that recommended the Justice Department "thoroughly investigate" their search partnership. Also, a consumer group called U.S. Public Interest Group sent a letter last week to the U.S. Attorney General saying that the partnership would negatively effect consumer privacy....
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game. We provide you with some details and pictures from an apartment listing, and you take a crack at the price in the comments. Wednesday reveal. And hey, cheaters never win, and winners never cheat! This week's Pricespotter is 1240 5th Avenue, a new-construction "Edwardian style" two-building compound. The deets: · 4 beds/4.5 baths in the front, and a 2 bed/2 bath "au-pair" unit round back · 4,300 square feet total · Key words: granite, marble, mahogany, wine cooler, 4 car parking Wild guesses, educated...
If the Google/Yahoo search partnership passes Justice Department scrutiny, it is looking increasingly as though there will be caveats, addendums, and monitoring of the relationship going forward. In efforts to ensure the deal passes antitrust scrutiny, both Google and Yahoo are negotiating concessions to deflate monopoly concerns, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google and Yahoo insist that their June partnership, which will allow Google to serve ads to underperforming key words on Yahoo's search engine, does not violate antitrust laws, but the DoJ's ongoing investigation has been picking up steam. Spurred on by Microsoft's lobbying efforts, worries that...
I wrote about the beta of the MySpace's self-service ad platform that shows potential for local and touring musicians a few weeks ago. But now it's officially here along with an important improvement. MySpaceMyAds is a do-it-yourself ad platform that enables bands, promoters and other small businesses to create customized banners, target them to specific audiences and analyze campaign performance. Advertising starts at $25 and can be targeted by a combination of sex, age, location and interest. Unlike Facebook, however, you are not able to target ads via key words (for example Pink Floyd if you thought your band...
Yahoo's plan to serve Google ads to its underperforming key words has led to monopoly allegations against Google and a delay in implementing their June partnership. The plan was supposed to bolster Yahoo's ailing search business, but now it looks like the company's cash cow — display — is about to suffer as well. Amid the flailing economy, Yahoo's paused search deal with Google, and its middling plans to acquire AOL, Yahoo's stock plummeted to $13.76 a share yesterday. And analysts are predicting that display will be in free fall this year. Bank of America's senior analyst Brian Pitz...
French designer Sonia Rykiel debuted her spring/summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection yesterday in Paris. Key words = ready-to-wear. Don't change a thing. Just give me two of each and my wardrobe will be set for the year. Does the label specify which type of shampoo and conditioner I should use? Make your dress while you wear it! Ooops...make sure you make a back. It might be cheaper for me just to grow my hair out and get a krimping iron. Heart Robot, is that you? Animal? Cher? Why is the crotch missing?...
TECH BUZZ –The new social networking website, Ziggs.com, apparently allows users to get instant emails every time someone Googles them and checks out their profile.Sign up and you’ll find out where the searcher is located, what time the search occurred and what key words were used in the search to find you on Google. Damn, there goes anonymously stalking someone on the internet. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: Ziggs.com Be Prepared To Be Creeped Out: Ziggs.com Lets You Know Who’s Googling You Ziggs - Taken For A Test Drive Know When Someone...
