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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A Makeover at Ask.com: A New Look and More — Jim Lanzone, the chief executive of Ask.com, the fourth-most-used Internet search engine in the United States, believes that it is time to move beyond the 10 blue links — the standard way to display Web search results.
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Ken Grobe / The Ask.com Blog:
Introducing Ask3D - A Truly New Way to Search — For the past several years, we have been innovating furiously to provide people with a faster, easier, and richer search experience. We've created products that go some way towards this - Smart Answers, Zoom related search, Binoculars, AskCity, and ExpertRank (aka Teoma) to name a few.
Search Engine Land:
Ask Relaunches: Now In '3D' — Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Major Relaunch For Ask: Ask3D — Forget the advertising campaign debacle: There is some real news about Ask.com tonight. — The search engine, which is currently the fourth most used search service, is publicly re-launching tonight around 9 PM PST. You won't see this when visiting the site …
ResourceShelf:
Ask.com Debuts Ask 3D: Say Hello to Morph Technology — Some major news from Ask.com today. Because Gary is a member of the Ask.com team, like we've done in previous situations our overview post is available by clicking the link below. — Ask.Com Launches Ask 3D: A Users Guide and a Few Thoughts
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
ASK MORPHS: A NEW APPROACH TO THE INTERFACE — Ask today launched Ask3D, which, according to documents sent to me by Ask, "synthesizes the best of our technologies across the three dimensions of search: Expression, Results and Content." — All this is based on a new algorithm called Morph …
Kate / Google LatLong:
Hop on the bus, Gus. Or the train. Or the subway. — For some time now we have been "painting" icons for transit stops into our maps. While it was helpful to be able to see where to catch a train or bus, it left a lot of people wishing they could click on the icon to get more information about a specific station.
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Jeremy Faludi / WorldChanging:Google Transit 2.0 — Google Transit was already the best thing …
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Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today — A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today — Your Click Charges to be Based on Quality of Traffic — Yahoo! Search Marketing is rolling out a new feature that we think will help enhance the quality, potentially reduce the cost and increase the value of traffic to you, our advertisers.
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Boston Globe:
Cellphone users try to wrest some of carriers' control — Behind rows of cellphone chargers and Bluetooth headsets at a kiosk in the Shops at the Prudential Center, Evan Silbert is quietly loosening the grip that major telecommunications companies have on the cellphone.
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Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro — Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line — Apple® today updated its MacBook® Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and high-speed graphics in a stunning …
Gizmodo:
Exclusive: iPhone Data to be Boosted by AT&T's Operation "Fine Edge" — An AT&T employee who works on Operations tells us that the carrier ordered a last-minute beefing up of its EDGE throughput, latency and coverage in anticipation of the iPhone. The operation, internally referenced as …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Kawasaki: How I wasted $12,107 on Truemors — I don't want to be mean, but I just can't help myself. I know Guy Kawasaki is a legend for his marketing work with Apple, and a lot of people find his blog to be very useful — despite what appears to be an addiction to the age-old cliche of the "Top 10 Reasons Why..." style of blog post.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Ex-Cisco Executive to Lead Joost, Internet TV Provider — Michelangelo Volpi spent 5 of his 13 years at Cisco Systems selling networking equipment to the companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable that bring television into living rooms. — Now he is trying to do an end run around those same companies.
Robbin / Increasing your Website's Conversion Rate:
Criticize Google Analytics. Win Prizes — It's a contest! With real prizes and great judges. — Background: Just about everyone knows that I am always complaining about how bad the GA documentation is. (No secrets there.) When I talked to Amy in GA Engineering at the Emetrics Summit, she said, "Make me a list."
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Movable Type 4.0 Announced - Becomes Social Media Platform — Six Apart is announcing today the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform that has two distinct user bases nowadays - consumer base (like R/WW, which uses MT) and Enterprise.
