Android Suggests Search Results Near You

by: George Bounacos January 19, 2010

Welcome to Big Thinking for Small Business. This is the blog for Silver Beacon Marketing, an online marketing agency that generates new profit for small businesses and non-profits. Sopranos fans may remember Tony getting his hands on a new cell phone and having the GPS function ripped out. You’ll forgive Palm and Windows Mobile execs [...]

You’re A Very Funny Suburb, Mr. Chase

by: George Bounacos June 24, 2009

Did you mean Rice University or rice pilaf? Concepts can be a search engine’s worst nightmare.

Google’s New View On Search

by: George Bounacos May 16, 2009

Google starts fending off other search sites with its own gimmicks.

Google Vagaries

by: George Bounacos April 28, 2009

Search engine results get more local. But the data still is far from perfect.

The ABCs of Search – April 2009

by: George Bounacos April 5, 2009

As we do every month, we’ved used Google‘s Search Suggest feature to go through the alphabet and a series of men and women’s names to find trends.    When pressed for what exactly is meant by these suggestions, Google reps often reply that the data is best on commonly searched and clicked for terms.   What you [...]

Google Trends Tracks TV – Fast Friday Fact

by: George Bounacos March 5, 2009

American Idol rules Google search traffic whenever the show is broadcast.