Comments on: Google’s Purchase of ITA: New Focus on Vertical Metasearch? http://localonliner.com/2010/07/02/google%e2%80%99s-purchase-of-ita-new-focus-on-vertical-metasearch/ Peter Krasilovsky's Fri, 18 May 2012 14:01:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Peter http://localonliner.com/2010/07/02/google%e2%80%99s-purchase-of-ita-new-focus-on-vertical-metasearch/comment-page-1/#comment-202760 Peter Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:35:04 +0000 http://localonliner.com/?p=3465#comment-202760 Following up on our vertical metasearch theme, Paid Content notes that Google's Marissa Mayer confirms that the company will dive deeper. While Google has a preference for “general tools for search,” there were “times where (to) really provide the best user experience, the most relevant results, we do need to have both a special set of data and/or a vertical interface that allows people to really express what they are looking for,” she says. Paid Content suggests that other verticals that may get a metasearch approach include shopping, travel, health, local, and entertainment. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-what-search-verticals-will-google-target-next/#keep_reading Following up on our vertical metasearch theme, Paid Content notes that Google’s Marissa Mayer confirms that the company will dive deeper. While Google has a preference for “general tools for search,” there were “times where (to) really provide the best user experience, the most relevant results, we do need to have both a special set of data and/or a vertical interface that allows people to really express what they are looking for,” she says. Paid Content suggests that other verticals that may get a metasearch approach include shopping, travel, health, local, and entertainment.

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