By: Bill Hartzer

Source: magazine.websiteservices.com

If you run an ecommerce site, then you know that it’s important to make sure that your products show up in the organic search results ahead of your competitors—especially if your competitor is selling the same products. Optimizing your ecommerce web site for the search engines can be tricky at times, so we’ll examine what’s really required in order for your products to rank better than your competitor’s products in the organic search results.

Optimizing an ecommerce site isn’t that different than optimizing any other type of web site. In order for a page to rank well in the organic search results, the page needs a few things: a good title tag that includes the keywords you’re targeting (typically the product name), good content on the page that includes the appropriate keywords, and links from other web pages to that web page. And in order for the page to remain in the search engines’ indexes, the page cannot be a duplicate of any other page on the internet.

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By: Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

Google today acquired a key player in face and image recognition biometrics, Neven Vision. The benefits and new features which Google can roll out with Neven Vision under its belt are seemingly endless and if I were to compare the opportunity of Google’s new buy with any other recent acquisition in Google history, it would be that of Keyhole (ie. Google Earth & Google Maps).

Adrian Graham, Picasa Product Manager, made the Neven Vision acquisition announcement on the Google Blog : Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects. This technology just may make it a lot easier for you to organize and find the photos you care about. We don’t have any specific features to show off today, but we’re looking forward to having more to share with you soon.

Image-based search engine for mobile phones with camera

Invented by Hartmut Neven, Sr. and Hartmut Neven

An image-based information retrieval system is disclosed that includes a mobile telephone and a remote server. The mobile telephone has a built-in camera and a communication link for transmitting an image from the built-in camera to the remote server. The remote server has an optical character recognition engine for generating a first confidence value based on an image from the mobile telephone, an object recognition engine for generating a second confidence value based on an image from the mobile telephone, a face recognition engine for generating a third confidence value based on an image from the mobile telephone, and an integrator module for receiving the first, second, and third confidence values and generating a recognition output.

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By: Om Malik | Source: featured.gigaom.com

Less than a year after the search engine giant said that it would unwire its hometown of Mountain View, California, GoogleFi is now open for packets.

The Mountain View network that cost nearly a million dollars to build went live at 9pm PST today. In order to use the network, the users will need a Google login, and those who don’t have Google ID, will be given a chance to sign up for the service, company officials said in an interview.

Chris Sacca, Head of Special Initiatives at Google says that at present the company is offering a one-megabit per second connection for everyone, and will tweak the capacity depending on how people use the network. For instance if a lot of people are watching online videos, then the capacity might get a booster shot.

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