ComScore has just released its February search engine rankings data. And while there’s nothing new in terms of who is on top, who gained and who lost, what’s surprising about it is that among all the online properties where searches are conducted other than the five major search engines, Facebook gained a significant amount of searches in February.
Yes, it seems…
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Facebook Searches Grow by 10% in February
With the ever growing site traffic of of YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements. In 2009, YouTube mobile’s site traffic increased by 160%. You can just imagine how good this site traffic will be in terms of potential for more ad clicks and brand campaign awareness.So, YouTube has started…
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YouTube Mobile Now Serving Banner Ads
While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement, here’s a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider – biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps.Google has been gathering these bike trail…
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Google Adds Biking Directions to Maps
I pretty much remember when talks about Google launching its own store for web apps started circulating before. But Google remained mum about it until now. The Google Apps Marketplace has been launched and is now open for business.So what’s this all about really? According to the Official Google Blog, the Google Apps Marketplace is a new online store for…
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Google Opens Apps Marketplace for Business
Welcome to another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social’ – so, how are we now? Last week was a pretty busy one out in the trenches, especially considering that SMX was on (generally slows the blogging world). I do suggest looking into today’s top story as it’s one that seems to have slipped by the radar… interesting stuff.…
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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/09/2010
How does searching on your TV using Google sounds like to you? Isn’t it enough that Google has conquered the web and the mobile devices and now it wants to try its luck on TV sets as well? According to a WSJ report, Google has been testing out a new TV search service in cooperation with the second satellite provider…
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Google Search on Android Set-Top Boxes?
The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google’s dominance in the UK search market. According to the report, the series of Bing promotional TV ads is set to begin airing this week and will be promoting Bing as a “decision engine.”
Microsoft has contracted the services of ad…
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Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK
It’s that time of the year again folks, with the 82nd Academy Awards happens tonight in LA. According to reports, this year’s Oscar academy awards will be much more exciting than last year, with a record 10 nominations for Best Picture and a hosting lineup of Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
But if you live in New York, you may…
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Watch the 2010 Oscars : Academy Awards Online
Google seems to be prepping up its online collaboration and cloud computing tools – Google Docs for the big league. Just recently, Google Docs supported uploading fo files from your computer and sharing that files with people you collaborate with via Google Docs. Now, something good is about to happen with Google’s cloud computing service – that is interoperability with…
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Google Buys Online Collaboration Operator DocVerse
Google announced a pretty cool feature that most of us Android phone users would surely find useful and innovative – gesture search. Basically, what this does is to free you of the task of typing your search terms. With gesture search, all you have to do is to draw alphabet gestures on your Android phones homescreen. Gesture search will then…
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Google Launches Gesture Search for Android 2.0 Phones
Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results with cutesy, yellow star icons.
Actually, Stars are replacing the SearchWiki, which according to the Official Google blog didn’t get to be appreciated by users especially since it changes the order of Google’s organic search results.…
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Google Search Results Get the Star Treatment
Welcome to another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social’ – Hey gang… I am going to keep this short and sweet today as it’s me B-day and I am trying to keep a low profile. Of note, it was on my birthday last year when I started this newsletter…So a happy anniversary to all those great writers out…
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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/02/2010
Google has just released a new beta feature for Chrome browser – a translation prompt that automatically appears whenever you are visiting a site which is in a language different from your preferred language setting. This is an instant feature that don’t require you to download any plug-ins or extensions.
Previously, you need to go to translate.google.com and then paste the…
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Google Chrome Rolls Out Translate Feature
The Bing Search Blog has just announced that starting today, your query history will now be part of its search autosuggest feature. Meaning, Bing does not only analyze your usual search behavior based on previous searches but now will use your actual previous searches to suggest search terms for your current search.
This could be a helpful search feature if you…
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Bing Adds Search History to Search Autosuggest
Google has just acquired another company as announced by the company’s official blog. It’s Picnik, a fun, online image editor that was founded in 2005 and since then become one of the most feature-rich online image editor partnering with various photo uploading sites including Flickr.Picnik offers some easy-to-use tool that you can use to enhance, modify, and add more excitement…
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Google Buys Online Image Editor Picnik
