The idea was to augment its online local business search with printed book.
Yelp is one of the largest online recommendations site and features services such as business search, review and recommendation.
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According to the Small Business Search Marketing Survey by American Express OPEN, U.S. small businesses can still count on word-of-mouth as a top way for shoppers to find them.
And Google was in the search business and search was not attractive.
Google's search business is good, but search is just 5% of the activity on the Web.
Google has rapidly branched out from its previous core business of search in recent years.
Suppose you ran a hardware store, and you built a great website for your business with search and compare capability.
Google didn't explain why it missed fourth-quarter estimates, but analysts suggested the slowing economy may have impacted Google's core business: search advertising.
Still, Google's determination to keep innovating has served it well in its core business of search, where it commands nearly two-thirds of the market in America and an even higher share elsewhere (see chart).
While the most convincing testimonials are unsolicited, adding a tab to your web site reserved for nothing but testimonials and endorsements from ANY source not only makes your site user-friendlier, but can also result in more business through search engine placement.
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We recently updated our model for Google, dividing its search business into PC and mobile-driven search.
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Google has an enterprise search business that largely relies on its web search engine.
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Its consumer search business, tveyes.com, and podcast-search site podscope.com account for relatively little of the company's revenue.
Innovations here have already increased Microsoft's search business, leaving Google to scramble to improve its own search engine efforts.
Which gets me back to my original point: If you are doing a good job building and maintaining your following on Facebook, and you keep the interesting content flowing, the expansion of the Graph Search function should naturally start to present your business when the search keywords and phrases apply to what you sell.
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Moreover, Google will find it difficult to defend that it has not been deceptive with consumers in publicly representing Google as user-aligned, unconflicted and unbiased, when the facts powerfully show Google has an advertiser-aligned business model, has serious undisclosed conflicts and biases its dominant search business by self-dealing Google content top rankings while burying the rankings of some competitors.
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Aside from its core search business and the dozens or hundreds of private desires we type into its search box daily, its projects like Chrome OS and now Google Drive illustrate that Google wants private users and even businesses to someday store everything in the cloud.
's search business would be a more realistic way for Microsoft to catch up to Google in searches and search advertising.
's (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) search business would be a more realistic way for Microsoft to catch up to Google in searches and search advertising.
But it set off jitters among those in the search business who worry that it represents another step by Google to become a Web publisher as well as a search engine.
Google already is a dominant player in the online search business for desktops and notebooks.
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Since November 2010, Brussels has been looking into Google's search business following complaints from rivals.
Without its search business, it will not be possible for it to do this harm.
But with its new search business, Defense Distributed goes beyond provocation to seek profit, too.
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But Battle believes there's room for more than Google in the Web search business.
The mobile search market is increasingly becoming a key component of the search business.
This as Google's the competitive landscape in Google's internet search business looks like it is about to change.
YouTube's popularity provides Google with a lucrative channel through which to sell advertising, alongside its core search business.
Louis is the CEO of Coveo, an indexing technology and enterprise search business based in Quebec City, Canada.
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Google has proposed a package of concessions as it seeks to end a long-running investigation into its European search business.
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