Last week we hosted a “Local is the New Global” event at the Hospital Club in London with leading industry experts in search and retail – Dave Coplin (Bing UK), Nick Strafford (Living Social), Gianfranco Ludovici (eBay) and Jonathan Raper (CEO, Placr Ltd) – to discuss the future of retail and whether location-based devices with search, such as smartphones, can help save the high street. The discussion unveiled the benefits...
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This week Dave Coplin, Bing’s Director of Search, joined The Guardian’s Charles Arthur and Aleks Krotoski on the acclaimed Tech Weekly podcast to thrash out the latest news and issues in the world of tech.   In the latest episode the panel explores the origins, impact and future of search engines which Aleks describes as “the killer app of the web”. Dave and Aleks discuss the importance of understanding human...
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Yesterday Dave Coplin opened the real time search session at the Search Engine Strategies conference at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.   Dave kicked off the aptly named “I want it now” session by asking the audience to step away from the idea of search as a revenue stream and focus on the consumer experience. Search engines acts as our window into the internet and it’s this relationship that makes the...
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