Google Launches Audio Search
Google Labs has launched an experimental audio search which allows one to search text within YouTube videos. “Google Audio Indexing“, it’s called.
On the backend, Google has taken the audio tracks of YouTube videos of politicians, and automatically converted it to text for search capability.
How will this impact the overall internet? (more…)
Popularity: 6% [?]
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 09/17/2008 | Permalink | 
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Filed under: Googleblended search, Google Audio, video search, YouTube
Flickr As New YouTube Killer?
Michael Arrington at Techcrunch reports that video is coming soon to Flickr.
This is great news, and I think it could become an overnight major competitor to YouTube — having both types of media available via one site/service makes for a lot of convenience.
Though, people may not realize that it’s already been possible to a small degree, if you upload an animated GIF to Flickr (see this example where I uploaded an animated sequence of a glider’s movement from Conway’s Game of Life).
Popularity: 21% [?]
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 03/17/2008 | Permalink | Email
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Google’s Ranking Advice in Blended Search at SMX West
Just a quick post here on some simple tips that David Bailey of Google advised in this morning’s session on “The Blended Search Revolution” at the SMX West conference in Santa Clara:
- Publish high-quality, well-captioned images;
- Have pages which already have good PageRank (use traditional SEO to achieve);
- Create a Google Video Sitemap;
- Update business listings in Local Business Center;
- Submit your feed to Google Product Search;
- Create a high-quality company blog;
Popularity: 66% [?]
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 02/26/2008 | Permalink | Email
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Filed under: Conferences, Content Optimization, Google, HTML Optimization, Image Optimization, Local Search Optimization, PageRank, SEO, Search Engine Optimizationblended search, David-Bailey, Google, SEO, SMXWest08, Universal-Search
Upcoming Appearances
I’ll be speaking on the “Local Search, and Blended Results” and “Online Retail and Blended Results” panels at the SMX West conference in Santa Clara, California, February 26 - 28, 2008.
Quite a few sessions at this conference are focusing on “blended results” — the new paradigm that has been affecting search results pages layouts and listing rankings. Each of the search engines have been looking into folding their various specialized, vertical search contents into the main keyword search results pages in order to better expose that content and facilitate usage of those features.
Google’s introduction of Universal Search during 2007 was probably the most attention-getting paradigm shift in terms of bringing search marketers to realize that they frequently need to achieve good placement in each of the specialized vertical searches like Images, Local/Maps, Video, News, and etc. to help guarantee rankings and ongoing market-share.
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 01/04/2008 | Permalink | Email
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Filed under: Conferencesblended search, internet retail, Local Search, online retail, SERPs, Universal-Search
