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It’s been thirty years since John Naisbitt published his landmark book, Megatrends, exploring a number of major changes in society, ten to be exact, likely to impact the way we live, work and govern ourselves. Looking back across those three decades, it’s clear that Naisbitt got a lot right and a few things wrong about the information society whose arrival he recognized.

Bing Ads. That’s the new name for Microsoft’s adCenter, and it will be used to self-manage search ads on the new Yahoo! Bing Network.

Have you ever wondered if there was a correlation between where your brand appears in organic search results and its impact on brand awareness? Well, you’re in luck. Recently Conductor announced the results of a new research study examining this. What they found shows that not only is there a connection, but that a user’s intent to purchase is also tied to how prominently the brand is featured within search results.

 How many times have you typed a question into a search engine and received all kinds of inappropriate results? Microsoft's Bing might help answer your query faster by tying into the popular Q&A social site to provide more relevant answers and information. 

Google, when all is said and done, is a search provider. This week it has announced three enhancements to its search engine. The upgrades include voice search for iPad/iPhone, Gmail in search and improvements to Knowledge Graph, the database it introduced in May.

Microsoft is continuing to invest heavily in Bing. Today the company announced it has significantly updated the 18-month-old Spatial Data Services (SDS) in Bing Maps. The changes eliminate legacy tools, improve performance and maybe most importantly, improve the service for its enterprise customers.

I’ve been fortunate in my career to see a drastic change in how Enterprise content management systems have evolved from the early, siloed document and web content management systems to the mission critical application platforms of today that distribute content across social media channels, web sites, email and mobile.

Google has announced it still hasn't deleted intercepted Wi-Fi data from its UK Street View team, and the privacy snafu has taken another turn like so many camera cars driving around local streets.

Microsoft has added a new paid search ads format in Bing, and the new style looks quite similar to Google ads that run along the upper right hand side of search engine result pages.

It's not often that we use the letter "x" enclosed in brackets in our article titles. But we feel that this small little [x] will be relevant in improving customer experience, as Google has introduced a way for web readers to mute display advertisements with a few clicks.

Google records rising profits, but even that isn't enough to keep one of its highest profile employees. While, in the trenches, the Pages API is opened up, Android Jelly Bean goes to phone makers and Google's lawyers continue to bargain around the world. 

Semantic web technology provider Calais plans to commence beta testing for the next version of its OpenCalais Web Service in August 2012. New features will include behind-the-scenes improvements to the processing pipeline as well as end-user facing features that include new entities, facts and events, and enhanced social tagging.

Today we are witness to what seems like a routine changing of the guard at Yahoo!. This may be a regular occurrence for observers of the Sunnyvale, CA company that has changed chief executives seven times in the past seven years, but with Marissa Mayer taking the helm, things are going to be a bit more interesting.

comScore has released its latest search engine rankings, and Google has managed to increase its already significant share of the US market. Bing is the closest competitor, but it is not even close to Google’s numbers. 

Google's continuing “spring cleaning” effort, which actually began last fall and has closed or combined more than 30 products since, is eliminating several more products Google now considers obsolete or redundant. These include Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback, Google Video, iGoogle and the Symbian Search App.