This is where the digital search ends and a cumbersome paper trail begins.
Other Chinese spin-off brands of popular American websites have faced success from going public in America, such as Youtube-esque Youku (NYSE: YOKU), shopping site Dangdang (NYSE: DANG), and digital search engine Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU).
But Google may be leaving out the privacy we have come to expect, with systems that monitor the digital books you search, the pages you read, how long you spend on various pages, and even what you write down in the margins.
Meanwhile longtime rival Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) hit a gold mine in digital music, and search engine Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) evolved into a new threat as it moved from upstart to online goliath.
When a customer calls in, the airline can search through the digital pictures.
My search for a digital camera.
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Or even more, a connected digital experience that spans everything from search to conversation.
Search now extends to digital videos, images, books, music and so on.
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Today, All Things Digital reporter Peter Kafka says the search giant is announcing the acquisition of Invite Media, a New York-based ad technology company (known also as a demand-side platform) that helps marketers buy and deliver, in real-time, advertising to audiences they want to target.
In her South By Southwest session, the Google VP talked about how search connects the physical and digital worlds.
He stressed that the results had implications beyond social media to all digital records - from browser histories to search queries.
Much of the talk in the digital marketing industry today is about how search engines like Google are continually updating their algorithms to provide the most relevant search results and content possible.
With more people having grown up in a digital age, with information just a Google search away, and the act of spending money or expressing an opinion an increasingly frictionless experience, voting would be a lot more prevalent if it was just easier.
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Bing has been slowly increasing its share of American searches and is working with Facebook on integrating social-networking data into its results in a bid to improve them. (This is another reason why Google wants its own source of social data.) People are also being offered more and more digital information via other sources, including specialised search engines and software applications on smartphones.
Thrown in almost free are Digital's speedy Alpha microprocessor and popular Alta Vista search engine.
Google says users will be able to buy digital copies of books they discover through its book-search service.
Smart Album automatically organizes the user's digital images and gives them the ability to narrow their search based on specific criteria.
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You can think then of Big Data as the extension of the Web and search into the rest of the non-digital world.
While Google provides their system software for free, the search giant keeps a cut of app and digital media sales made via its Google Play marketplace.
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Clickfree devices are designed to automatically start, search, organize and backup your computer's digital files.
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Now, though, thanks to a merging of the social and digital spaces, matchmaking sites are flourishing based on making the search for love more predictable.
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With a robust set of features, including intuitive route guidance, Wi-Fi positioning, as well as local and category search functionalities, ForeverMap 2 is the first-ever digital map app for NOOK, enabling users to experience and explore their surroundings like never before through their NOOK devices.
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For the past few election cycles, digital fundraising consultants have had an easy time demonstrating a positive ROI with search ads.
Digital spending includes e-mail, video advertising, display ads and search marketing.
It's been just under a week since Yahoo scored exclusive rights to stream Saturday Night Live clips, but the old guard of search has just divulged more of its video plans at its Digital Content NewFront event.
When the big search engines run across a photo, all they see is an undifferentiated clump of digital bits.
Nowhere else can you browse a selection of more than 82, 000 paper books, walk over to Area-e, our new digital hub, where you test drive a variety of e-Reading devices, and then search for your next favorite book in our e-Bookstore.
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Nick Denton shrewdly hired native digital reporters to break some news (he paid for scoops, too) so he could capture search and social traffic.
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Digital marketing firm IgnitionOne on June 6 also announced a Facebook ads management service that works alongside its search, display, and mobile ads services.
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