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Newspaper “Long-Tail” Content? Google Has It. Better.

In addition to all the news that is on our website, we like to think we provide some “long-tail” information: weather, movie show times, movie reviews, etc.Meh.Google has it - and it’s better.

  • Weather? Just type in the search box weather (city name) 
  • Movie show times? Horton Hears a Who (your zip code)
  • Movie review? Not just one, but dozens, for the same flick? movie: Horton Hears a Who
  • Flight status? Airline and Flight number
  • Math? Calculations? Need to know 546 times 9? 546*9. How many kilos in a ton? How many kilos in a ton?

    • h/t

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 9:46 am and is filed under Future of Newspapers, Marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Newspaper “Long-Tail” Content? Google Has It. Better.”

  1. Chris Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    And quite a few more nifty things as well - http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html

    My favorite calculator search is: http://www.google.com/search?q=the+answer+to+life%2C+the+universe%2C+and+everything

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