Oren Etzioni, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, has made a call for deeper investment in actively providing answers in a natural language formats. This, claims Etzioni, is the future of search. The "Natural Language Q&A" .

A recent study from Jumptap gives insights into how the users of different smartphones interact with advertisements. iOS devices have a strong lead in ad click-through rate )CTR(, while Android places fourth. The Jumptap Statistics Jumptap rel.

Deal du Jour, a French daily deal company, has filed an antitrust complaint to the European Commission. This is the 10th complaint of its kind, all of which are currently under review by the Commission. Deal du Jour's Complaint According to De.

More than 1 billion video views have been delivered to advertisers via the YouTube Promoted Videos program. In addition to sharing news that the video-sharing site recently hit the billion-views milestone, YouTube today announc.

One of the first steps of a successful SEO campaign is to make sure you aren't accidently withholding site content from search engines, as discussed in "Don't Let Small Disconnects Lead to SEO Disaster." Once you have a goo.

With Foursquare topping headlines in the past year, many businesses are hopping on the location-based marketing )LBM( bandwagon. While many merchants hope check-ins will immediately generate sales, most are finding that to be far from the case. .

Several Internet service providers )ISPs( are intentionally hijacking search queries to gain affiliate dollars, according to Reese Richman LLP, a New York Law Firm. Reese Richman filed a lawsuit Aug. 4 against one of the ISPs and the group behind .

I said a few weeks ago that Linden Lab had been doing a bunch of cool stuff lately. The speed at which changes and new concepts were being pushed out had increased, and it seemed like the Lab itself was experiencing a cultural shift towards someth.

Bing has expanded their mobile search experience with the addition of mall maps and map search. Initially launched last December, Bing Mall Maps allows you to see the mall directory, including stores, kiosks, ATMs, and even restrooms. Bi.

Recently, Google announced that it will close Google Health to new consumers on January 1, 2012 and that the service will be retired a year later. Google Health was much different than Google as a search engine; it required that consumers use thei.

Adult website and magazine Perfect 10 has failed to prove to a federal appeals court that Google nearly drove it to bankruptcy by indexing and showing thumbnail images of Perfect 10's nude female models in Google Image search results for fre.

Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of Lucille Ball today with a special "I Love Lucy" themed Google Doodle. The font used for Google's logo, which appears on a vintage television set complete with wooden console, is in black and .

When thinking about SEO, many website owners put undue attention onto the site itself, worrying about things such as meta tags, keyword density )actually a myth (, headings, and titles. While on-site factors do play a part in SEO )especially when .

Facebook may be toying with a remake of their News Feed that exposes users to a dramatically higher level of content while bringing new user interactions to posts, comments, images, and other content. An Unfiltered Feed As reported by the Wall.

Google's current "standard" SERP model mixes links, images, news stories, videos, and more. But what appears most often? And who gets the most out of it? A recent SearchMetrics study has the answers. How Mixed Results Have Changed Google la.

When thinking about SEO, many website owners put undue attention onto the site itself, worrying about things such as meta tags, keyword density )actually a myth (, headings, and titles. While on-site factors do play a part in SEO )especially when .

After you've acquired demographic information from your remarketing campaign, it's time to lay out a plan to find and add targeted websites to your AdWords Display Network campaign using your remarketing performance information. T.

Back to school shopping represents the second biggest consumer spending event outside of the holidays. In addition, parents who shop online will spend an average of $266 more than who only shop in stores, according to the National Retail Federatio.

Google brazenly released a blog post condemning the patent strategies of Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. Unfortunately for them, Microsoft quickly rebutted by showing that they'd attempted to work jointly with Google. Google's Anti-Microsoft )and .

In early July, Google discontinued its Realtime search feature. The company recently confirmed, however, that they will be using Google+ data to bring the feature back - along with an internal search for Google+. Realtime Search and Google.