Posts Tagged ‘Google’
[Crowd Leader] Kyle Hawke: Google and Etsy Crowdsourcing Market Research
Crowdsourcing goes beyond just asking questions or doing work. When you are starting a new business you can use aggregated crowd behaviors through the Google Keyword tool and quickly observe crowd (customer) demand through online marketplaces like Etsy or Ebay….
May 11th Google Map Maker Crowdsources US Regions
Since 2008, Google Map Maker has widened the scope of the services offered by Google Maps. Google has recently announced that it has opened the map of the US in Map Maker. Google is anticipating contributions from its users to add some new features…
Making Crowdsourced Pay-Per-Click Accessible for Lawyers
Trada, the world’s first and, to date, only crowdsourced paid search services marketplace has provided a service that will enable the legal industry to run pay-per-click marketing campaigns. Law firms and sole practitioners will be able to launch these campaigns…
Google Crowdsources Content Quality Control
Search engine giant Google has often expressed disapproval at sites and users geared towards bombarding the web with spam content, and have applied great effort to clean up the web of junk sites. In their latest efforts, Google has once…
Funding from Google drives crowdsource research
The Google Research Awards, which identifies and supports a multitude of faculty-presented research projects, recently awarded another 112 awards in 20 different verticals for more than $6 million dollars. One of the recipients of funding from this award is a…
New Search Engine Uses Crowdsourcing and New Partnership to Drive Out Spam Searches
DuckDuckGo, a newer “Google-esque” search engine that has led the industry in removing spam, protecting privacy, and using crowdsourced information to improve search results, has recently announced a partnership with “Web of Trust” (WOT). WOT, along with a company called…
New Search Engine Uses Crowdsourcing to Drive Searches
In a sea of new search engines, a new one has recently emerged that will rely completely on crowdsourcing to provide data to its users. “Blekko,” modeled after Wikipedia, launched November 1st, and will utilize input from people to create…
Google Demo Slam puts tutorials in a deathmatch
Google’s new Demo Slam competition creates awareness of Google’s wide range of products as crowdsourcers submit videos detailing helpful insights into the benefits of Google products in a new crowdsourcing competition. Google demo slam invites participants to create fun and…
World Bank Crowdsources New Technology Initiatives
A new global contest was announced recently by World Bank Group, in which President Robert B. Zoellick is using crowdsourcing to ask software developers and other international experts to help find solutions to some of today’s key development challenges. Using…
How Will Crowdsourcing Revolutionize Academic Peer Reviews?
For years academic authors have relied on anonymous peer reviews to critique their print media, better their craft, and meet professional print media publishing standards. The reviews, conducted by individuals who were sought out for their subject matter expertise, often…
Put your own celestial images in Google Sky
In a collaboration announced on October 15, Google and SLOOH will work together to use SLOOH images in the Google Sky layer of Google Earth. This will add images of tens of thousands of celestial objects into Google Sky, and…
Trada raises $5.75 million for its crowdsourced SEM platform
Trada, a crowdsourced SEM (search engine marketing) platform led by Google Ventures and early investor Foundry Group, recently raised $5.75 million. With this platform, freelance search marketers and advertisers find one another to work on advertising campaigns. Trada announced few weeks…
Is There A Doctor in The House? Ardvark Has the Answer
While many crowdsourcing platforms are target and goal specific, Google’s latest acquisition, Aardvark boasts it can find the perfect answer to your question on any topic. It was initially designed as a social search engine, the social networks’ equivalent to…
Princeton Professor Develops Ultimate Crowdsourcing Tool
Sociology Professor Matthew Salgnik of the presitgious Princeton University in New Jersey, has developed the ultimate crowdsourcing interactive database, inspired by the site Kitten Wars where feline enthusiats view two pictures of kittens and vote for the one they feel…
Crowdsource Your Questions with Aardvark
We all have simple questions that we need a quick answer to but do not know who to ask. You can type your question into a search engine and hope to find an answer. However, that might require reading web…
Google crowdsources VC recipient search to employees
Google has turned to crowdsourcing to find tips and ideas for Google Ventures, its investment capital arm, from Google employees. Google employees have been asked to recommend startups that the company might want to consider investing in. The tipsters will…
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