Business Week: In 2008, Jay LeBoeuf, 34, founded Imagine Research, a startup that on Nov. 9 unveiled its MediaMined software, which enables music and film producers to search, classify, and retrieve all manner of audio files. The software currently recognizes 400 distinct sounds, including instruments, voices, and noises like a dog’s bark and the crack […]
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While watching his father struggle to find affordable and effective advertising Clifton Cooper was inspired. He went to work and created a localized search engine called Coachella Valley Webpages. Now locals have a place to search when they want to find a new business to visit reports The Desert Sun. The new local search platform
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Search engine optimization can raise your website’s profile, delivering more traffic, more customers, and bigger revenues. Inc.com shows you how to make the most of this essential marketing tool. 1. Give stuff away. Does your company offer free samples of its product? Do you have any handy applications or an ebook you can let site
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Mashable: Even though Microsoft has blasted us with advertising for their new search engine Bing, we still use Google. Wednesday, we asked how often you used Google. Over half, 55 percent said they last used Google 5 minutes ago, 18 percent said 1 hour ago, 24 percent said 1 day ago and an unbelieveable 3
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Mashable: When you start a search at Google, the software tries to help by offering real-time suggestions to complete your search query as you type. One of the factors in the algorithm that determines the results is the overall popularity of searches by other users. 1. When will… 2. Why is my g… 3. Can
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photo credit: szlea When we think about Twitter we think about the tens of thousands of people currently using Twitter. This can give most business owners a headache when thinking about how they can get in touch with business professionals on Twitter that have similar interests. I recently read an article on Duct Tape Marketing
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Small Business Trends: To list your local business in Bing, head to the Bing Local Listing Center. From there, you’ll be able to check to see if you already have a local listing set up. If you do, you can modify it. If not, now’s the perfect time to create one. Once you start creating/modifying
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BusinessWeek: The new name for Microsoft’s search engine is meant to capture the sound effect of a lightbulb moment. But coming up with “Bing” was hardly spontaneous for the software giant. It took six months and dozens of experts to settle on the name. Brand naming is serious business in an age when goods must
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ZDNet: Wolfram/Alpha has launched, but after a few searches it’s an open question whether the search engine can break out of a narrow niche for select users. For many searches Wolfram/Alpha just “isn’t sure what to do with your input.” “Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge
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