At the time, Google had four people working on AdWords, a program for selling the small text ads that appear next to related search results.
Luxury industry market intelligence firm, Digital Luxury Group, recently released the results of the haute horlogerie category (18 brands) of the WorldWatchReport, based on an analysis of watch-related search queries typed into major global search engines.
Purveyors of highly sought after luxury fashion and jewelry products and even those in the travel and hospitality space have tweaked their search buys in recent months to make the most of the royal wedding related Internet search frenzy, Google says.
"We experiment with every kind of technology that is related to search, " Mr Kuo said.
Meltwater had argued that it provides a specialized news-related Internet search engine that allows its 4, 000 U.S. customers to search for and receive information about news items relevant to their businesses.
Bing search results may also include news articles related to a specific search that friends in a network liked or recommended.
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On the right hand side, you will see content from Facebook Pages and apps that are related to your search.
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The company on Friday said it is now receiving more than a million copyright notices related to its search engine per week.
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Mobile ads include search-related ones but also ads sent to people playing games, watching videos and using apps.
When a particular biotech claim hits Nolan's desk, his first search for related information on the subject brings up 500, 000 possible documents.
Its share of search-related online advertising is also waning.
Moreover, Facebook has nowhere near as robust an advertising model as, say, Google, whose search-related ads are served up to users when they are often on the point of making a purchase.
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As smartphones come down in price and achieve greater penetration among the masses, Google says its free Android operating system will allow it to take advantage of the open Web to generate more advertising and search-related revenue.
It said that when people used its new engine to search for a Baidu-related service, its rival re-directed them to its own search page.
Last month, Google began releasing copyright-related takedown statistics for its search engine.
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Today, Facebook announced Graph Search, the ability for users to more easily search for information related to their social graph.
Usually, you explore data in one system, analyze it in another, search for more related information in another, and then take action in still another.
Other iOS-related revenue, mostly from search-driven advertising, would not be affected.
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This traffic growth, however, requires a significant outlay in online brand marketing: Fees (principally through the purchase of travel-related keywords) to Internet search engines like Google ( GOOG) and Yahoo!
For example, a Bing image search app shows related images, a YouTube app shows trailers related to actors in an image, an Amazon app gives links to purchase MP3s related to a musician in an image, a Netflix app shows related movies that can be watched, Celebuzz includes news about celebrities and Wikipedia shows related entries from the online encyclopedia.
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The Google site solves this problem by tracking the number of times people search for flu-related terms online.
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Even for consumers, the characteristics that engage are software related: Facebook, Search, games, to name a few.
The U.S. company is already under investigation by Brussels for practices related to its dominance of online search and advertising markets.
Here's how the potential crime was supposed to work: Searches for business- and car-related words produced ads next to search results for legitimate pages like Cars.com and the Better Business Bureau's Web site.
He also used Twitter ads to promote a book by venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki called "Enchantment, " targeting users who expressed interest in the book's topic, persuasion tactics, by tweeting about it or searching for related information using Twitter's search feature.
Now the contents of the Windows-based drives on a Mac machine are visible to Mac-only applications, and applications like Sherlock--used for searching hard drives and increasingly for Internet-related searches--can now search the contents of Windows drives even when the virtual Windows machine isn't running.
The search giant also faces another related challenge - Amazon has opted to pre-load a Nokia-powered Maps app on its Android-based Kindle Fire tablets.
We will work closely with all employees affected by these changes to provide a range of assistance related to compensation, benefits and job search.
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Last year eBay released query suggestions, a feature that displays related searches and popular items below the search box as you type in your query.
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