May 20, 2012

Are Forums and Q&A Sites More Important to Search Now?

Facebook and Twitter get a lot of the credit for all of the conversation that is going on around the web these days, and they certainly account for a great deal of it. Still there is public conversation happening in many other channels – blogs, Q&A sites, news sites, YouTube, other social networks, and forums.
Google’s [...]

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Integration Of All Google Services With Google Apps Planned

Google Apps customers may soon have a lot more options in terms of which of the company’s other products and services they’ll be able to access from their official accounts.  Google intends to let customers remove all restrictions sometime in the next six months.
If you’re unfamiliar with Google Apps, here’s what that boils down to: [...]

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This week in search 5/1/10

This week we announced a number of new search enhancements:
Brand refinements in search results
Sometimes when searching for product information on Google, you may not know some of the brand names relevant to your particular search. For example, if you’re taking on a new river-rafting hobby, it’s quite likely you don’t have a clue about kayak [...]

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Change your Default Facebook Profile Image with another Character!

If you would like to change the default profile picture of your Facebook page while retaining the default white silhouette look, just head over to picasa.com.

There you’ll find an interesting collection of character avatars from Einstein to Buddha to a Facebook man wearing iPod headphones all rendered using the default Facebook style. Enjoy your weekend!

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New Videos of Microsoft Office Running on Windows Phone 7

Microsoft has released two new videos that demonstrate the UI and features of Outlook, OneNote, Word and other Microsoft Office programs running on a Windows Phone 7 mobile device. They call it the “Office Hub.”
You can create documents directly on the mobile phone and then upload them to the web through Office Live SkyDrive or [...]

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Sequoia Backed Indian Start-Up is in Big Trouble

Guruji.com, which is a brainchild of two young IIT Delhi graduates, also has a unique distinction of being India’s first local search engine.
The start-up entered the “local search” market in 2006 way before Google, got funded by Sequoia Capital and, though Guruji.com was never a “Google Killer”, it did successfully manage to build a decent [...]

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