Three ways local businesses can survive the on-demand threat
How worried should brick-and-mortar businesses be about companies like Amazon? Columnist Adam Dorfman weighs in with some thoughts on how local players can stay competitive.
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Amazon’s Echo Show is a ‘1.0’ device, both exciting and frustrating
The new device hasn’t yet found the right balance between voice and screen.
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Report: 43% of millennials have made a voice-device purchase in past year
Also, Kayak introduces ability to book a hotel room through Alexa devices.
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Study argues Google Home 6X ‘more effective’ than Alexa, but will consumers care?
Amazon’s assets, including distribution, brand loyalty, aggressive pricing and a more diverse product mix could trump Google Home’s better performance.
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WSJ: How Siri went from virtual assistant market leader to laggard
Internal cultural issues and employee departures have impacted Siri’s evolution.
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Voice search becomes voice action: A key talking point at SMX London
Columnist Andreas Reiffen recaps a session from SMX London that focused on the future of voice search — and what search marketers must do to prepare.
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Voice search: A digital space race
Voice search has been identified by the world’s leading technology providers as a huge opportunity to acquire market share over the next decade. It currently lacks mainstream adoption – but all that could change before long. So who is in the lead for the voice search “space race”?
Initial Interest Confusion rears its ugly head once more in trademark infringement case
Columnist Chris Silver Smith details recent trademark infringement cases in which site search results pages caused legal issues for retailer sites. E-commerce businesses should take notice!
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A visual guide to Pinterest advertising
Pinterest has slowly been building itself up as an advertising alternative to Google and Facebook over the past 12 months. As such, it seems timely to take a step back and assess what options are open to marketers, and what you need to know before getting started with Pinterest advertising.
Google announces Assistant app-discovery channels, broad ranking factors
It’s early, but Google will soon need to rank Assistant apps, too.
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Report: Google Assistant bests rivals for questions answered and overall accuracy
Cortana was second for questions answered, Alexa second-best for accuracy.
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Twiggle offers plug-and-play semantic search to online retailers
Company says its sophisticated search can be implemented without replacement of existing enterprise search.
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Chrome Extensions: A vehicle for Amazon and Pinterest to compete with Google?
As Google’s index goes mobile-first, consumers get to grips with voice search, and technology advances to avail of image identification in our predominantly visual culture, new opportunities are opening up for the competition.
WebMD’s new Alexa health skill should go to pharmacy school
The company’s Alexa skill didn’t understand drug names. Google Home performed much better.
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Google Assistant to roll out across newer smartphones
The virtual assistant capability will soon be available on smartphones running Android 6.0 and 7.0.
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Can Pinterest crack (and monetise) visual search?
Pinterest made a clear declaration of intent last week with the announcement that Li Fan, Google’s former head of image search, has joined the photo sharing site as Head of Engineering.
Survey: Alexa the most frequently used assistant, Cortana seen as most accurate
Nearly 60 percent used voice because it was faster or easier than typing.
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More than 30 million “voice-first” devices in US homes by year end — [report]
Amazon Echo and Google Home devices have significant implications for marketers.
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Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week
Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the world of search marketing and beyond.
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week
This week, Larry Kim peers into his crystal ball to make some outlandish predictions for SEO in 2017; Facebook is preparing to flip the switch on a mid-roll video ad offering; and AOL is offering up free wireless data as a reward for engaging with ads.