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Archive for August 19th, 2009

A few stories ClickZ's editors are reading: AOL Sues Advertise.com for Trademark Infringement Domain is called "confusingly similar" to Advertising.com. (Domain Name Wire) CBS, Pepsi Create Video Ad to Run in Print The ad world gets video-in-magazines. What's next, print-on-mobile? (AdAge) A Second Chance for Second Life Big companies like Northrop, IBM Use Virtual World are reported to use the site for training and client meetings.
by Claudine Zap No doubt about it. This story's got legs. The first lady took a look-see at the Grand Canyon with her family this weekend while the rest of the country got a good look at her gams. Michelle Obama braved the blistering Arizona sun with an even braver style of shorts. This winter we got a view of the fashionista-in-chief's powerful arms, and now there's proof that she's got stems to match. The bare legs set off a firestorm of buzz on the Web,
YouTube seems determined to not lose any more ground to Hulu, and that's good news for users. Google's video-sharing site has reached an agreement with Time Warner that'll have it gaining some very popular, professionally-produced content. An official statement explained, "Consumers will have easier access to a wide selection of existing and future clips, ranging from CNN news coverage to Cartoon Network and Adult Swim animated shows to TNT's hit dramas to Warner Bros.
A patent for "systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles" was granted to Google yesterday. It was originally filed in 2003. The patent appears to provide a look at some of the factors Google may take into consideration when ranking articles for Google News. As Bill Slawski of SEO By the SEA points out , it is most likely missing a significant amount of elements that Google takes into consideration today, and some of the ones mentioned may have changed.
Almost a week later, people are still talking about the Charlene Li keynote at SES San Jose 2009. It was entitled, " How to prepare for the future of search ." If you weren't there, it's difficult to give you a flavor of the discussions that were triggered by Li's comments. But we tried something different and interviewed some of the conference attendees immediately after the keynote - along with interviewing Li, the co-author of Groundswell,
The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, formerly known as Chad Johnson, has been tweeting for sometime now. With just over 110,000 followers on Twitter and his own show on USTREAM , Ocho is giving the everyday fan a chance to see the daily life of an NFL player... however wacky the life may be. Do you think the NFL will ban social media from its players? Tell us . Just today Ocho tweeted the following: Essentially,
comScore has released their search market share rankings for July 2009 and Bing continues to gain share. In June , they gained 0.4% share and last month, they gained 0.5% share. That's almost 1% since launch, which I personally find impressive. Google and Yahoo! are the losers, both losing 0.3% in share last month. Ask and AOL held steady with no gains or losses. Bing was also the only search to grow its total search queries in July 2009. This also happened in June,
Today Google announced two new tools for Enterprise Search - Side-By-Side search comparison and new connectors for the Google Search Appliance. Both of these features are available in Google Enterprise Labs. Side-By-Side Search Comparison This feature lets employees test and rate results from two different queries on the same topic, so they can determine which one delivered the better results. Google provides the following example,

Bing It On Contest Winner Announcement

Youve Tweeted, youve Facebooked and now its time for us to deliver on our promise from the Bing It On contest! Below are the names of the randomly selected lucky 15 who helped spread the Bing love far and wide (and sent us the screen.

Smartphone Sales Up 47% In Q2

In terms of sales of mobile phones in the U.S. feature phones still account for a considerable share of the market, even as smartphone sales continue to increase their share of overall handset sales, according to a new report from The NPD Group. Sales of new feature phones decreased 5 percent to 72 percent of new handset sales in the second quarter, while sales of new smartphones reached 28 percent of overall purchases, a 47 percent increase year-over-year.