February 6, 2012

Yahoo CEO: "Google Is Going To Have A Problem"

It’s no secret that Google has, on a very steady basis, dominated its competition and managed to return big profits.  And Carol Bartz may be in no position to question the company’s methods.  But Yahoo’s CEO nonetheless chose to point out a potential weakness today, and she may be on the right track.
Bartz told Jonathan [...]

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Google Making More Changes to the SERPs

Google has a couple new elements going on in its results pages. The first one is the addition of brand links for some queries. For example, if you search for “watches” you might get links for Citizen, Nixon, Rolex, Omega, and Fossil. Or if you search for “footballs” you might get links for Wilson, Nike, [...]

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Google Making More Changes to the SERPs

Google Improves Picasa Sharing Options

Google’s photo-sharing site got a fair degree more social this afternoon.  Now, users should find the process of sharing their pictures to be simpler, although Google’s choice of products to feature is perhaps a little on the odd side.
Easy-share buttons for Blogger, Google Buzz, and Twitter have been introduced, and as Ping Chen, a software [...]

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Hulu Users Watched 1 Billion Videos In March

More than 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video in March, according to the latest research from comScore.
YouTube delivered video to more than 135 million viewers during the month, reaching 3out of every 4 online video viewers at an average of 96 videos per viewer.
Internet users watched a total of 31.2 billion videos in [...]

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Hulu Users Watched 1 Billion Videos In March

Integrating virtual keyboards in Google search

You’ve spilled coffee on your keyboard. The a, e, i, o, u, and r keys have stopped working. Now try to search Google for the nearest computer repair shop. The pain of typing on this broken keyboard is similar to what many people searching in non-English languages feel when trying to type today. Typing searches [...]

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Conduit: Google’s Labpixies Acquisition Validates App Marketing Opportunities

Apps are big business. From big brands to small ones, businesses are finding creative and interesting ways to harness apps to get customers engaged, to market their products, to drive traffic, and to drive sales.
This week, Google acquired app developer Labpixies. App platform provider Conduit (full disclosure: they do advertise with us), who is a [...]

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This week in search 4/16/10

Rich Snippets for recipes
Rich Snippets are the brief annotations you see beneath search results that summarize what’s on a webpage. In addition to Rich Snippets for reviews, people, video and events, this week we unveiled a new Rich Snippets format for recipes. This means that when your search results include sites with recipe content, you [...]

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Google Apps highlights – 4/16/2010

Google Docs reloaded
On Monday we released a preview of the new Google Docs, which brings added features, higher fidelity for imported documents, more speed and faster collaboration to our browser-based productivity tools. Documents sport features that weren’t feasible with older browser technology, like a new ruler for margins and tab stops, better bullets and numbered [...]

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U.K. Leads Europe In Mobile Mapping Usage

The use of mobile mapping and direction services in Europe in the past year has jumped 68 percent, according to a new analysis from comScore.
In February, more than 21 million mobile users in the EU5 countries (U.K., France, Germany, Spain and Italy) used their mobile handsets for navigation.
The highest growth among EU5 countries was in [...]

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Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key Free

If you have come looking for free Microsoft Office 2007 product key, you have come to the right place to get all the information.
Office Professional 2007, Office Home & Student 2007, Office Standard 2007, Office Small Business 2007 are all available for free download from Microsoft. It also comes with a 60 [...]

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Search with fewer keystrokes and better spelling

We spend a lot of time thinking about search results, but we also spend a lot of time thinking about search queries. Today we’re announcing three enhancements to help you input your searches more quickly and easily: more localized Google Suggest, improved spell correction for names and auto-correction for 31 languages.
Feel at home with Google [...]

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Walmart And ASPCA Launch Facebook Campaign For Animals

Walmart has teamed up with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) for a Facebook campaign aimed at saving and improving the lives of animals.
The campaign encourages Facebook users to visit www.facebook.com/lendapaw to support the ASPCA. Facebook users can click on the “Create a ‘Lend A Paw’ post button, and Walmart’s [...]

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Google Introduces iPad Targeting

AdWords users who feel an urge to target iPad owners can now do so without reaching out to people carrying Android devices and iPhones, as well.  Google’s added an option to its “networks and devices” screen that’ll allow advertisers to adopt a narrow focus.
A post on the Inside AdWords blog announced late yesterday, “[W]e feel [...]

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Google Cloud Print in the Works for Printing from Chrome OS

If computing is going to the cloud, does that include printing? It does in Google’s plan. The company has introduced preliminary designs for a project called Google Cloud Print, a service that would allow any desktop, web, or mobile app on any device to print to any printer that the user sets up.
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Brits search for a leader

Today, leaders of the three largest British parties took part in the U.K’s first live televised debate in the run up to the May 6 general election. Alastair Stewart of ITN hosted Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party, Conservative Party leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as they discussed [...]

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