House of Fraser, the UK and Ireland’s premium department store group, today announces the appointment of Jamie Peach as Head of Search Engine Optimisation ('SEO'). As part of the newly created role, Jamie Peach will lead a team of ...
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For merchants, search engine and B2B website there are similarities, both even can replace each other. But due to the mobile Internet and social networking & E commerce, search engine and B2B are under threat. Search engine faces the ...
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The new Tire Advisor mobile app from Bridgestone allows users to compare truck and bus tires, Bandag retreads and off-road mining and construction tires. Bridgestone Commercial Solutions has introduced a mobile app called Tire Advisor ...
Tags: Tire, Tyre, Auto Parts, Commercial Tires
Web surfing through the Internet's main gateway now looks slightly different on personal computers, thanks to a few cosmetic changes to Google's search engine this week. The tweaks to the way Google's search results appear on desktop and ...
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In a rare public speech, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought he was describing a futuristic fantasy, perhaps a ...
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Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil is, undoubtedly, one of the most accomplished men of our time. Since getting his start at MIT in the late 1960s, his inventions have included the flatbed scanner, optical character resolution and ...
In an effort to escape its pre-existing search agreement with Microsoft, Yahoo is fast-tracking an effort to develop search technology, according to a report from Recode.net. It said that that Yahoo has launched two projects, “Fast ...
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Bing has barely any market share in China, but Microsoft hopes to change that in the next year or two by investing more resources into the local version of the search engine. The U.S. software giant is bringing more brain power to Bing ...
Tags: Microsoft, Chinese Bing, Windows Azure
The habit of Googling for an online diagnosis before visiting a GP can provide early warning of an infectious disease epidemic. In a new study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, internet-based surveillance has been found to detect ...
IBM is spending $1 billion to give Watson its own New York City–based business division as it seeks commercial applications for its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer in healthcare and other fields. But will medical companies truly find a ...
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Google Australia has initiated its in-built car search system, but using US pricing and specifications. A quick Google search of terms like ‘Ford Focus Price’ will inform readers that a Focus is priced at 16,810 in USD. The ...
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Time travel has captured the public imagination for decades, not excluding screenwriters and creative writing instructors who encourage creative leaps about stepping back and beyond the present through time. What about evidence? Two ...
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Chic-Finder, an online fashion social search engine, has launched its similar named mobile application targeted towards fashion-conscious iOS users. Wang Gang, founder of Chic-Finder, created the fashion start-up to accommodate women ...
Tags: Mobile App, Social Search Engine
This may be remembered as the year smartphones became boring. Although high-definition displays on smartphones have gotten bigger and their cameras have gotten better, the pace of gee-whiz innovation has dawdled. Smartphone and software ...
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...