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Apple, Google and mobile search

Apple, Google and mobile search
San Jose Mercury News
... between Apple and Android's parent, Google, for the hearts and minds of mobile users. Some observers are wondering if Apple, which is already dumping Google's maps and YouTube video service as default apps on the iPhone, may try to replace Google's ...

Google Search Upgrade Allows Nexus 7 to Find Movie Showtimes and More
Christian Post
The Google Search app for the Android 4.1, JellyBean platform received an upgrade this week that allows the service to perform new tasks. The service can now search for movie showtimes and can receive important emergency alerts for storms and other ...

Google Gets Some Rare Good News in China
Businessweek
Google has long dominated online advertising in much of the world by placing ads next to searchresults, and it was expected to do the same in China. But since the company's 2010 decision to stop self-censoring Web content on the mainland and move its ...

On Google Doodles' 14th Anniversary, A Look At How They're Made ...
Huffington Post
In place of the word "Google" on the search page, there's a grouping of lines and circles in the shape of it. They also mimic the strings and holes of an electric guitar. You slide your mouse across. Sound. You're creating it! All thoughts of bed bugs ...

Get birthday reminders in Google search
Hindustan Times
Google on Wednesday began letting members of its online social network get searchpage reminders about the birthdays of friends. "Everyone deserves a little love on their birthday," Google's Irene Chung said in an online message announcing the new ...

Hindustan Times

Google Adds Turn-by-Turn Bicycling Navigation to Maps Apps
PC Magazine
The search giant this week added GPS-enabled mobile biking directions and navigation for headphones connected to smartphones, and brought turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation to GoogleMaps Navigation beta. U.S. and Canadian users, who already ...

Credit Google for Taking Stand Against Online Piracy
Opposing Views
In other words, if a particular site becomes "known" to Google's algorithm as generating a high number of valid takedown requests, the site will be lowered in Google's search results. IPI commends Google for this announced change in policy. We hope it ...

Google News Inclusion Promotes Brand Awareness
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Demonstrating the power of content marketing to drive website traffic, brand awareness and engagement, Pluggedin.co.uk worked with specialist online content agency Search News Media to achieve inclusion in Google News and to target specific, relevant ...

Google gets tough on link sellers with PageRank penalty
VentureBeat
Google's head of search spam reiterated the consequences for webmasters should they choose to sell paid links. In response to baffled brands that have suffered seemingly unexplainable losses in PageRank, Cutts reminded webmasters that sites facing ...

VentureBeat

Google to Divest Motorola's Home Biz - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
It is now apparent that Apple is moving away from Google and could soon remove Google as the default search engine on its devices. This would be ... At the same time, Microsoft ( MSFT ) is spending billions on Bing and it makes sense for the two to ...

A Nexus 7 Ad? On Google's Home Page ... - Search Engine Watch
By Danny Goodwin
That ad for the Google Nexus 7 tablet. If you've visited Google's homepage in the past couple days, then no doubt you noticed an animated ad beneath Google's search box. The ad is accompanied by the tagline: “The playground is open.
Search Engine Watch - Latest

Google Search update brings movie listings, public alerts and more ...
By Jake Smith
Google Search update brings movie listings, public alerts and more to Google Now. In an update this evening for the Google Search for Android app, the folks in Mountain View included some goodies for the Jelly Bean-exclusive Google Now.
9to5Google

Google Search “Now” Updated – Movie Show Times, Manual Sports ...
By Tim-o-tato
Tweet · Tweet. Google pushed an update out to Google Search today, which includes new GoogleNow goodies for Jelly Bean users. The update adds an option to manually sticky your favorite sports team's card right to your feed for live ...
Droid Life

AWESOME: Mia Love tops Google search for today! - The Right Scoop
By The Right Scoop
Mia Love's speech isn't just my top post for the day, she tops Google searches for the day as well which is clearly a testament to how awesome her speech was last night. And it didn't even air during prime time. I screen captured Google's Hot ...
The Right Scoop

Google Search App Gets Updated To Include Even More ...
By Roy Alugbue
A major update has just launched for us Jelly Bean users who use Google's Search app, which helps users to keep track of our important information better than ever. The Search app has been updated to version 2.0.5.443668 and brings ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates

Google Now Displaying Birthday Reminders on Search Page

Google Now Displaying Birthday Reminders on Search Page
PC Magazine
As long as you're a member of Google+, you'll start seeing a reminder on the upper ride hand side of the main Google search page when someone you know is celebrating their birthday. "Everyone deserves a little love on their birthday, so we're making it ...

Mia Love tops Google searches following RNC speech
The Hill (blog)
Mia Love, a 36-year-old black Mormon congressional candidate, exploded onto the national stage with her speech at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night. By Wednesday, "Mia Love" had become the fastest rising search term on Google.

Google Gives Nexus 7 Prime Ad Spot
InformationWeek
If you came to Google to search for a tablet, your query has been answered before you've begun. Are you feeling lucky? Google began selling the Nexus 7 in late July, after introducing it at its developer conference a month earlier. The 7" tablet has ...

Google: Apollo's Giant Leap In Computer Power Is One Small Step For Searchkind
Search Engine Land
With the Apollo moon missions on many minds, after the death this weekend of the first moonwalker, Neil Armstrong, Google has an interesting post out about how a single search uses as much computing power as consumed by the entire Apollo program.

Search Engine Land

The EFF and Google: Too Close for Comfort?
PC Magazine
The EFF and Google: Too Close for Comfort? During Oracle's patent lawsuit against Google, it came out that the EFF receives funding from the search giant. Is there a conflict? Or is even the appearance of impropriety enough to damage the EFF's reputation?

Gmail Results in Google Search: Trick Or Treat?
Techtree.com
That might seem to come from a webpage with a black background, but it's actually quite a practical matter – dominating the search industry. Google Desktop Searchintegrated Web and computer search results. Then came the large set of Googlehelpers ...

Techtree.com

Google's state-of-the-art media center a major draw at Republican convention
Fox News
Google's space features product demos, like a Google elections page touch screen, a computerized economic impact report and a crisis center detailing the movement of Isaac, Smith said. The center also houses a Google+ powered livestreaming studio ...

Google Algorithm Update On August 28th?
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Update Brewing I am seeing some significant signs of a Google update in the WebmasterWorld forums. There is a large uptick in SEOs and webmasters talking about changing in the search rankings for their keywords. Some are citing huge drops in ...

Search Engine Roundtable

Why Google Will Bet the Farm on Fiber … to Sell More Ads
Search Engine Journal
“Note that Google likes to talk about its three main efforts: search, ads, and apps,” wrote Stephen Shankland for CNET, in one of the only pieces to highlight Google's true motivations to enter the browser market. “With Chrome, all three benefit.” Four ...

Wajam Hits iPhone, Adds Friends To Search On Google Maps, Safari
WebProNews
Social search provider Wajam has launched on the iPhone with a new feature, which adds recommendations from your friends directly in Google Maps and Safari on the iPhone. “The breakthrough is that we can insert social content in third-party apps ...

Do You Search Through the Google Homepage or the Address Bar?
By Brian Barrett
Do You Search Through the Google Homepage or the Address Bar? When I pointed out yesterday that people who use Google's homepage to search tend to be less technologically inclined, some people took it very personally. To be honest, I ...
Gizmodo

Why Google's homepage antics are more serious than they appear ...
By Mathew Ingram
In many ways, the arguments made by “search neutrality” advocates — that Google should remain completely neutral in how and where it places results — are somewhat absurd. The whole point of a search engine is that it provides the best ...
GigaOM

WisBlawg, UW Law LIbrary: Slim Down Bloated Links from Google ...
Slim Down Bloated Links from Google Search Results. Ever tried to copy a link from Google searchresults and ended up something messy looking like this: ...
WisBlawg, UW Law LIbrary

Birthdays at Google.com Shows Google's Continued Commitment to
By Thomas Hawk
Not only will you see a list of people when you go to Google.com, you will see a list of people whenever you do a basic search on Google in any way period. If you type a search query into the Chrome box, if you use Firefox and type a search ...
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection

The Google Alphabet: An Autocomplete Snapshot From A to Z
By Amy-Mae Elliott
Google Instant search results appear the moment you begin typing a search term. Here's how it ...Take a look through the current Google Instant search results for the U.S., which we have presented without comment in the gallery above.
Mashable!

Google features Nexus 7 Tablet in Rare Homepage Promo

Google Shills Nexus 7 Tablet in Rare Homepage Promo
PC Magazine
The search box on Google's usually bare landing page had company on Tuesday–peeking up from a virtual slit in the screen was the Nexus 7 tablet. The Nexus 7, built by Asus and co-branded withGoogle, appears under the tagline "The playground is open" ...

Google will now bug you with birthdays like Facebook does
Los Angeles Times
Users will see reminders when they use Google Search or go to the main Google.com page. Birthday reminders will not be visible on Google+ or any other service, according to a spokesman forGoogle. How birthday reminders will be shown for you will ...

Google: Nearly 6 Million Requests to Remove Search Results This Month
Search Engine Watch
Notable requests received by Google include those from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with 841,177; Microsoft, which submitted 681,227 requests, and NBCUniversal's 254,527 requests. The data doesn't include information on how ...

Wajam infiltrates Google Maps, Safari on iPhone to show friend recs
GigaOM
Launched last year, the startup has historically used a browser plug-in to let users see relevant activity from friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social channels as theysearch on Google, Bing and other sites from their desktops. This week, Wajam ...

GigaOM

Patent: How Google May Trick Search Spammers
Search Engine Land
The SEO community has been buzzing about a newly discovered Google Patent document named Ranking documents. The patent describes how Google may detect certain “rank modifying” techniques and then adjust the ranking of those documents using ...

Search Engine Land

Hisense taps Google TV set-top box market with $99 Pulse
CNET
Like other Google set-top boxes, the Pulse will offer access to content on YouTube, Netflix, and Pandora and come preloaded with Google TV apps like Chrome, Google Play, and Search. The Pulse will feature a double-sided remote control with a touchpad ...

Google Reminds Webmasters: Selling Links Can Lead To PageRank Penalty
Search Engine Land
In short, he said “PageRank drops by 30-50%” typically are due to “selling links that pass PageRank.” Matt went on to explain they detected, not sure if it was automatically or manually, links labeled “sponsored that passed PageRank.” Matt added that ...

How Google's New Updates Impact Your Business
Memphis Daily News
Sound SEO practices focus on ensuring your site offers content of genuine interest to visitors because search engines favorably rank sites that are well trafficked and generate high visitor engagement levels. Ensure that each Web page has a title and ...

Wajam Injects Its Social Search Results Into Google Maps And ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Wajam, the increasingly popular social search engine, uses a browser plugin to embed its ownsearch results on Google, Bing and numerous other search and shopping sites. For the most part, this limits Wajam to the desktop, but now, the ...
TechCrunch

Google Out-Computes NASA's Apollo Missions
By Drew Olanoff
According to Google, just one action taken on its search engine by a single user uses the computing power of the entire Apollo space missions. Since this is Google we're talking about, the company broke things down further on its blog today.
The Next Web

The power of the Apollo missions in a single Google search - Inside ...
By Inside Search
The power of the Apollo missions in a single Google search. 8/28/12 | 12:00:00 PM. The two of us are old enough to remember the thrill of seeing Neil Armstrong walk on the moon in the summer of 1969. Many things have changed since then, ...
Inside Search

Google Usage Rates Vary Across Browsers | Chitika Insights
By Chitika Insights
Despite Bing Search Default, Internet Explorer Users Still “Google” >50% of the Time –. The now ubiquitous phrase “Google it” certainly points to a clear king of the search engine marketplace, but many prefer to do their “Googling” in a variety ...
Chitika Insights

Google Puts Animated Banner Ad on Its Homepage
By Lauren Indvik
Google has put a banner ad for its Nexus 7 tablet on its front page -- an unprecedented move. ...Xezuka II Follow. It pains me when I ask family/friends to go search “so-and so” on Google only to see them type google.com into the address bar.
Mashable!

Five Reasons Apple May Not Dare To Sue Google

Five Reasons Apple May Not Dare To Sue Google
Forbes
Now that Apple has scored a decisive win over Samsung in its smartphone patent trial, the big question is whether the maker of the iPhone and the iPad will go after the real enemy: Google. Thesearch company is the maker of the Android software ...

Google Now Feeling More Than Just Lucky
eWeek
Since Google introduced "Google Instant" back in September 2010 to help Web searchers refine their searches and find relevant results more quickly, there's been less need for users to click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google's home page. With the ...

Google: Innovating Beyond Advertising And Search
Seeking Alpha
Google Inc. (GOOG) is primarily known as a leading advertising company based upon its proprietarysearch, which fits nicely with its goal of organizing the world's information. Google has further diversified into a range of products and services ...

Gmail Results in Search Reinforce Google's Dominance
iMedia Connection (blog)
On the surface, this appears to be a wise move by Google. As Bing makes greater inroads toward fully integrating social media and search, Google must be feeling the pressure to add more contextual value and relevance to users' searches. There is no ...

Hisense Pulse Google TV set-top box coming in November for $99
Engadget
The new Hisense Pulse with Google TV offers true plug-and-play versatility, with easy set up and connectivity right out of the box. Built on Android, Google TV brings TV-optimized versions of your favorite Google services: Chrome, Google Play, Search ...

How SEMs Can Recognize & Resist Google-Think
Search Engine Land
In exchange for a price tag of zero for most Google advertising products (prediction: DoubleclickSearch will someday be free to use), users are unduly influenced by online advertising's 800-pound gorilla. Indeed, a campaign in .... google-lightning ...

Exploring Google's SEO Toolset
Search Engine Watch
From gaining insight into how Google is crawling and indexing your site, to getting notified of an outdated WordPress installation, this article will highlight some of the more useful (and free) functionality Google has to offer after the domain ...

Google Says You've Gotta Ask Yourself a Question - Marketing Pilgrim
By Cynthia Boris
There's no denying that search giant Google has a whimsical side and they showing it off this week with new ... ... In addition to Lucky, the Google search box now offers several other choices: “I'm Feeling Puzzled” takes you to a feature I didn't ...
Marketing Pilgrim - Internet...

Hisense Pulse with Google TV out this November for $99 | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
Then when November rolls around shortly, you might want to consider an early Christmas present for yourself with the Hisense Pulse with Google TV. This purchase intends to deliver apps, web, searchand live TV to your doorstep in a flexible ...
Ubergizmo

Google TV-powered Hisense Pulse box coming mid-November for ...
By Jordan Kahn
Hisense Pulse with Google TV brings Apps, Web, Search and live TV in a flexible package, allowing consumers to upgrade any TV for enjoying a broad range of rich content. Suwanee, Georgia, August 27, 2012 – Offering the highest level of ...
9to5Google

Removal Requests Actually Down, Following Google Algorithm ...
By Chris Crum
Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable points out that from August 13 to August 20, the number of URLs requested to be removed from Google search per week, actually decreased, going from 1,496,220 to 1,427369. It's only a ... Last year , Google launched the Panda update, and wreaked havoc across the web on sites doing little to contribute to the quality of content appearing throughout Google's search engine. This year ... Bing Webmaster Tools Changes Some Calculations...
Top News - WebProNews

Did You Know?: Enabling Your Google Sitemap - Everything Typepad
By The Typepad Team
This submits all of your URLs to Google and other search engines and gives you a much better chance of your blog being found when someone does a search. To do this, you need to first make sure that your blog is publicized at Settings > SEO. Once you've selected this, the "Yes, generateGoogle Sitemap" option will then be able to be selected. Please note that if your blog is password protected, you will not be able to make it public nor generate a Google Sitemap. Seo You can read...

Google carves out niche in China

Google carves out niche in China
San Francisco Chronicle
Google's strength in mobile ads stands in contrast to its search-engine business in China. The global leader has failed to catch homegrown favorite Baidu in computer-based search, and two years ago Google moved its search servers out of the mainland in ...

San Francisco Chronicle 

Google privacy risks: New Red Team will search for privacy risks
By Brad Reed
Getting busted for allegedly violating your users' privacy is never fun for any company, but for Google(GOOG) it recently became costly to the tune of a.
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Inside Google, tough to search 'woman'
Deccan Herald
Google has generally been considered a place where women have thrived, but it wants to figure out how to compete even more vigorously for the relatively few women working in technology. Executives had been concerned that too many women dropped out ...

Google your feelings
The Droid Guy
The Doodles and games in the Google logo has long since attracted users and even on the Olympics the small games designed to play for web surfers provides great entertainment. Google is really trying to prove that it is more than a search engineand it ...

The Droid Guy

Google Uses AI To Find Good Tables
iProgrammer
This, plus the knowledge graph, produces better search results. For a while it has been obvious that the next step for search has to be the incorporation of AI methods that can weigh up the relevance of a web page to a particular request. Google ...

Bad Link Building Recovery After Google Penguin
Search Engine Watch
For reference, I have written about parts of the process in two recent articles here on Search EngineWatch: 2 Quick Ways to Perform Bad ... Most likely, you aren't going to sue Google, or participate in a mass outcry that forces Google to change what ...

Second quarter results of the Search Engine leader Google Inc. defies economic ...
Industry Leaders Magazine
The core internet business of Search Engine Leader Google Inc. has successfully increased its revenue by about 21% in the second quarter of the year. This report has eased the worries of the Wall Street that a slump in the global economy would also ...

Industry Leaders Magazine

Google: Profiting From New Local Search Enhancements
investmentunderground
(YELP) and TripAdvisor, owned by Expedia (EXPE), removed travel and location reviews from Google Places in 2011, Google decided to take matters into its own hands by creating a unique travel review website to post original content. Instead of building ...
 
investmentunderground

Could These Patented Smart Gloves Be a Google Glass Peripheral?
Gizmodo
Could These Patented Smart Gloves Be a Google Glass Peripheral? As if Google's cyber-glasses weren't sci-fi enough, the search giant is also apparently looking into cyber-gloves. The patent "Seeing with your hand" has been granted to Google, and could ...

5 Things Google Gives Away Free
Mashable
If you're a marketer, though – if you take and take and take, and then try to get out of all the paid services and whine at Google whenever it makes a tweak to its (free) organic search algorithm that slightly disadvantages your for-profit company ...
Change the languages Google searches results for « FAQforge
By CSch
Usually Google restricts its results to the language you have set for the page itself, which is the one spoken in the country it locates you in by default. You can easily change these settings by clicking on the cog wheel icon on the top right and ...
FAQforge

16 Google Searches That Led People to Gizmodo Tonight
16 Google Searches That Led People to Gizmodo Tonight Ya'll are a weird bunch. While the rest of the world happens upon our fine blog through, probably, the ...
gizmodo.com/.../16--google-searches-that-led-people-to-gizm...

Search Google Drive Via Chrome's Omnibox
ConceivablyTech
Some time ago, Google tricked me into using its CloudConnect app, (not that I regret it entirely) a handy solution that automatically stores Microsoft Office documents in Google Drive (previously simply in the Google Docs folder). Since I love to write ...

Google Changes 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Button

Google Changes 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Button
PCWorld (blog)
While its usefulness is debatable, Google's “I'm Feeling Lucky” button has been an iconic part ofGoogle's bare-bones search page for years. “I'm Feeling Lucky” was designed to take you directly to the top result for your search, skipping over an ...

Google Allows Saved Search Settings Across Computers & Browsers
Search Engine Watch
Now you can save your search settings, such as your language preference or having Google Instant on or off, to your Google Account, enabling you to search with your preferences wherever you're logged in, even if you're searching across different ...

Why Did Google Destroy Keyword Call Tracking?
Search Engine Journal
A couple of months back, Google's search update significantly changed the information they provide call-tracking solutions (and show within Google Analytics) putting a serious crimp in the fire hose of data marketers were collecting for their website ...

Now It's Even Harder To Get First-Page Google Rankings
WebProNews
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land shared a statement from Google about the matter, saying, “We're continuing to work out the best ways to show multiple results from a single site when it's clear users are interested in that site. Separately, we're ...

Google, Hisense Partner for Sub-$100 Google TV Set-top Box
PCWorld (blog)
Google TV is based on the Android OS and tries to solve the problem of blending classic TV and Internet functionality under a single interface, which has proven to be a challenge. Through GoogleTV users can search for movies on broadcast TV, DVR or ...

Google URL Takedown Requests Up 100% In a Month, Up 1137% On 2011
TorrentFreak
For a long time there was little that could be done to stop casual users from subsequently finding content on sites like TPB by using regular search engines such as Google. However, during the last couple of years a growing movement has sought to do ...

TorrentFreak

Why We're 'Only in the Early Days' of Social Search
Mashable
“Just as search engines try to improve algorithms, companies such as Bing and Google are really starting to understand how social search fits into results and the overall experience,” says Kath Skerry, client services director for SEO and social search ...

Is Baidu At Risk Of Being Dethroned?
Seeking Alpha
They could easily embed their newly launched search engine into their browser and attempt to dethrone Baidu, the way Microsoft (MSFT) dethroned Netscape. The key word to keep in mind is could or might as they is no guarantee that ... Since 2010, Google ...

Apple is putting Google's Voice search app through purgatory yet ...
By Jake Smith
Google unveiled a new feature within its iOS search app in August that reminds us a lot of Siri. Taking features from its Siri competitor Google Now, Google announced the search app would now allow folks to use natural voice commands to ...
9to5Mac

Inside Google Books: Google Books Search Blog joins the Inside ...
By Inside Google Book Search
Thanks to everyone who's been a loyal reader of the Google Books Search blog over the years. As part of an effort to simplify our communications channels, we're retiring this blog and moving on over to the official Google Inside Search Blog.
Inside Google Books

Google Job Listing Reveals Plan to Protect Users - Search Engine ...
By David Angotti
google launches red team Recently, a Google job posting was discovered that reveals the world's leading search engine is planning on creating a 'Red Team' to protect users' privacy. The posting, which was first discovered by Kaspersky Lab, ... During my time as a managing member of an educational startup I gained direct experience related to business development, search enginemarketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), conversion rate optimization (CRO), online ...
Search Engine Journal

Google Now Lets You Feel A Lot More Than Lucky | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
Google Now Lets You Feel A Lot More Than Lucky. Some people started noticing a change inGoogle's “I'm feeling lucky” button earlier this month, but it appears that the change has now been more widely released. The button now changes ...
WebProNews

Answer: What Am I Doing?
By Daniel M. Russell
Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Googlequery. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution—using ...
Lifehacker: Google

Apple stalls on approving Siri-like Google Search update
It's obvious that Apple has a my house, my rules kind of approach to managing its App Store ...
www.idownloadblog.com/2012/.../sour-apples-for-googles-siri...

Video: Google's Search Team Breakfast
This is the talk Google gave press a day or twos notice of some searchannouncements that ...
www.seroundtable.com/google-search-breakfast-15593.html

Changing SEO Strategies Post-Google Penguin

Changing SEO Strategies Post-Google Penguin
Huffington Post
The Google Penguin algorithm update is the latest spam-fighting wave to crash against the shore ofsearch and it has heralded something of a new dawn for SEO, especially in terms of offsite strategy. In 2011, Google ran an algorithm update, ... Whilst ...

How to Improve Your Site's Search Ranking Using SEO
PCWorld (blog)
Known by the cute code names of “Panda” and “Penguin,” these updates were designed to severely penalize websites with thin, weak, or duplicated content. The goal: To rid Google's search results of content farms and spam blogs by using quality metrics ...

Rising Chrome Use Means Search Advertising Growth for Google
Forbes
As with the Android platform, Chrome's success will give the company a large user base which can be used to drive search revenue growth going forward. In the browser space, Google's Chrome primarily competes with Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet ...

Bitter Apple? An update on Google's iOS Voice Search saga
Computerworld (blog)
Google iOS Voice Search Saga Here's a little riddle for you: What happens when you have a company notorious for controlling its app store in self-serving ways -- and then a competitor upon whom it's declared "thermonuclear war" submits an app into that ...

Computerworld (blog)

Google Adds Search To The Android Camera With Goggles Update
WebProNews
As far as the “Search From Camera” feature, Google Goggles now lets you turn on the app with one click from within your Android Camera app. You have to enable this feature from within the Goggles app. When the camera detects images with search results, ...

Google Beefing Up Privacy Swat Team
PCWorld (blog)
Google's Street View service became a source of privacy embarrassment for the search giant when it was discovered it was collecting data from individuals' Wi-Fi networks with its Street View vehicles. Investigations were opened up all over the world ...

Google and the Approach for Molecular Search
Business 2 Community
Google's search engine algorithm, known as PageRank, is being used to understand the natural world. Washington State University Associate Professor Aurora Clark used the PageRank algorithm as a model to map water molecules which she dubbed ...

Google Patents Search Tool: The Lunatics are Running the Asylum
Business 2 Community
Such was the case last week when I read a seemingly innocuous story in TechCrunch about Google adding new “prior art” query functionality to its Google Patents searchtool. On the same day came an announcement that Google was adding millions of ...

Business 2 Community

Travel search website Kayak faces competition from Google
Gant Daily
San Francisco, CA, United States (4E) – Kayak is one of the rare tech companies whose initial public offering hasn't struggled this year. Unlike Facebook, Kayak has exceeded Wall Street analysts' expectations. Kayak is a popular upstart travel website ...

Google's Knowledge Graph studies how we think
TODAYonline
SINGAPORE - There is no doubt Google's search engine is one of the most used. There is, after all, good reason that Google has become a verb for "search". But the technology giant is not resting on its laurels, in fact, it has updated its search ...

Google expands Gmail's autocomplete search to 47 new languages ...
By Harrison Weber
Following a handful of other updates across its properties, Google has just updated its recently released autocomplete search feature with support for 47 new languages. Keep in mind, this feature originally launched back in May with just ...
The Next Web

Diamond Rings Talks Personal Life, Google Search: Video ...
By Chris Spargo
Watch above as the singer discusses his personal style, going from a sports star to a sensitive singer and his fear of Google search. This is one talented young man who should get used to seeing his name online for years to come.
NewNowNext

How Google Went From Search Engine To Content Destination
By Danny Sullivan
Of things I imagined when I first started writing about Google as a hot new search engine in 1998, the idea that about 15 years later, Google would buy the.
Marketing Land - Internet Marketing...

New Google Ad Planner Will Exclude Domains Outside Google ...
By Miranda Miller
Horia Neagu, also known as SEOWolf, first shared the email with Search Engine Watch and panned the changes in a Facebook post. “Google's Ad Planner tool gets a facelift... and becomes useless,” he said. After recapping the letter, ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest

Better table search through Machine Learning and Knowledge ...
By Research @ Google
Posted By Johnny Chen, Product Manager, Google Research The Web offers a trove of structured data in the form of tables. Organizing this collection of information and helping users find the most useful tables is a key mission of Table Search ...
Research Blog

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic
A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I've got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after. Even when I'm not working, I'm as likely as not to ...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/.../306868/

Google Panda Refresh On August 19th - Search Engine Land
Google has confirmed they have pushed out a Panda refresh this past Monday. This updated affected less than 1% of search queries and is a "minor" Panda.
searchengineland.com/google-panda-refresh-on-august-19th-v...

A Glimpse Into Google's Search Engine of the Future | Jeffbullas's Blog
Google is constantly tweaking and evolving its search engine to continue to be relevant on a fast moving and evolving web. The search giant has realized that ...
www.jeffbullas.com/.../a-glimpse-into-googles-search-engine-...

Facebook goes the Google way, introduces search result ads

Facebook goes the Google way, introduces search result ads
Los Angeles Times
Facebook on Wednesday officially launched a new type of ad that shows up when you use the social network's search bar. The new ads, called "Sponsored Results," to a degree follow in the footsteps of one of Facebook's biggest rivals: Google. The ads ...

German Bill Seeks Licensing Fee from Google, Other Search Engines
PCWorld
In 2007, Google signed a licensing agreement with the French wire service Agence France-Presse, which allowed the search engine to use the French news service's material in Google News. Prior to this ... Google Search's Screenwise vs. Bing Rewards ...

Opera, Google extend search deal for two years
ZDNet
Web browser maker Opera said today it has extended a deal with Google to set the world's most popular search engine as its default search engine in its browser for another two years. The deal will see a bevy of Google's services promoted throughout ...

Google Search Results Show Some Facebook User Posts Leaking Out Of ...
Search Engine Land
Way back when Google offered real time search, Google was denied access to Facebook user posts, an advantage Bing had thanks to a special agreement certainly facilitated by Microsoft's investment in Facebook. Facebook user posts weren't ...google ...

Search Engine Land

Google Search Engine Placement – Going Higher for Better Results!
Business 2 Community
Search engine placement refers to the methods used to place your website at the top of the organic or natural search engine results pages of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.... Onsite SEO is where your individual website is ...

Google Account Based Google Search Preferences
Search Engine Roundtable
Since Google released the ability to customize the search preferences a hundred years ago, the only option was to save those preferences to the specific computer/browser you set the preference on. If you used multiple browsers, different computers or ...

Qihoo replacing Google search engine with its own
ZDNet
Summary: Maker of China's most popular Web browser in process of replacing Google with its own newly launched search engine as default choice, citing drop in Google's customer service declined since its exit from China in 2010. Ellyne Phneah. By Ellyne ...

Rising Chrome Use Means Search Advertising Growth for Google
Trefis
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), while generating most of its revenues through its search platform, has been attempting to diversify its business into many segments. Of these products, the Chrome browser, which was first released in 2008, is important in its ...

Eight Google Tips You'll Use Every Day
Patch.com
Pints to quarts? Cups to pounds? Google comes to the rescue to convert measurements. Type 2100 miles in kilometers into the search box. The answer is 3379.62. Wonders of wonders there's a drop down for alternatives to search. Just click on temperature, ...

Google Webmaster Tools Adds Search Query Alerts
Search Engine Watch
A new addition to Google Webmaster Tools now lets site administrators know when sudden changes occur in impressions and clicks for top pages. The search query alert notifies the webmaster when search results clicks change dramatically and ...

Google adds saved search settings, keeps them tied to your account ...
By Mat Smith
Google's enabled yet another new function for its linchpin search engine, which will now hold onto your preferences, assigning them to your Google account and activating across all your web-ready devices and browsers. Saved settings ...
Engadget

Google search data says people don't care about computers ...
By Ryan Whitwam
Some recent examination of Google's search trend data has resulted in a shocking discovery: people aren't searching for terms associated with computers and electronics nearly as much as they once did. In fact, the volume of these searches ...
Geek.com

Why 7 Search Results in Google Should be ... - Search Engine Watch
By Danny Goodwin
A big change seems to be underway on Google, most likely designed to give brands more control of the search results associated with their brand names. Google is now showing three less results onsearches for brand names (7, rather than ...
Search Engine Watch

Opera Extends Google Default Search Partnership Until 2014
By Matt Brian
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software announced this morning that it has signed an extension to its partnership with search giant and browser rival Google, where it will continue to set its search engine as default in its desktop and mobile ...
The Next Web

Google adds saved search settings feature for your account - Neowin
By Stefano Elia
In an unsurprising move, Google have enabled a a feature to their search engine, allowing users to save their search settings to their Google accounts. The end result being that settings such as results per page and Google's infamous ...
Neowin

Google - Google+ - You asked, we listened—having the ability to ...
Now you can save your search settings, such as your language preference or having Google Instant on or off, to your Google Account, enabling you to search ...
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SEO - Google search referrer url : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET ...
I am trying to access the search terms from Google when someone arrives at the website. ... I typed in a search term in google that I knew would come up.
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Google Adds Search Traffic Alerts to Its SEO Service

Google Adds Search Traffic Alerts to Its SEO Service
PCWorld
Google has added a feature to its Webmaster Tools search engine optimization (SEO) service that will alert publishers about sudden changes in their site's Google results and click-throughs. Similar Articles: Alternatives to Google Maps for Webmasters ...

8 Quick Tricks That You Should Be Using When You Search For Stuff On Google
Business Insider
Sure, you could just type in a few key words into Google and hope for the best. Or you could use some operators to help ensure that you get the best search results possible. Operators are commands you type in along with your search that tellGoogle how ...

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Qihoo Drops Google as Default Search Engine
Wall Street Journal
Qihoo's Mr. Xu said that Google's customer service had declined since it made its decision to leave China in 2010, and that Qihoo's aim was to provide a quality search engine for its users. "We believe there is room in China's search market for a ...

Bing Gains on Google in Search Market Share
Business Insider
Changes in Google search results may push even more queries toward the search engine's rivals and may also be a good reason for small online businesses to pay more attention to ranking better with Bing and Yahoo! Experts say Google is returning fewer ...

Google lashes out at German copyright 'threat'
GigaOM
Copyright stamp at laptop computer. Google has launched a broadside against a proposed law in Germany that would see search engines forced to pay license fees for linking people to news stories. Well, actually that's slightly inaccurate: the draft law ...

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Are Traffic Levels Holding Up During the Google Shopping Transition?
Multichannel Merchant
Following three quarters of decelerating revenue growth, Google has wasted little time in transitioning its previously free Google Product Search (GPS) listings to the new Product Listing Ads (PLAs) powered Google Shopping. Announced publicly at the ...

Multichannel Merchant

The Importance of International Mobile Search
Search Engine Journal
Just as businesses come to terms with SEO, localization, and a variety of inbound and outbound marketing techniques, the way people search for information online has started to take a seismic shift. According to Google, mobile searches quadrupled in ...

Google's Mind-Blowing Big-Data Tool Grows Open Source Twin
Wired News
Both outfits deal in Hadoop — a sweeping open source software platform based on data center technologies that underpinned the rise of Google's web-dominating search engine — but in building their particular businesses, the two startups approached ...

TEXT-S&P puts Google's 'AA-' rating on watch positive
Reuters
The ratings on search-based advertising service provider Google Inc. reflect its "minimal" financial risk profile, its "strong" business risk profile, and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services' belief that the company will maintain the technical ...

Change the Top Google Search Result For Your Name for Free
By Todd Wasserman
A new free tool from Norton lets you control the top search result for your name. ... Google ntroduced another free tool called “Me on the Web” last year that claims to do the same thing. What do you think? Are you eager to control the ... That said, you *can* greatly improve them, by proactively creating relevant content about yourself (facebook, LI, wordpress, etc, etc), making sure it's well structured so search engines can easily find and index it (basic SEO) and linking them all to each other.
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Bing Gains on Google in Search Market Share
By Small Business Editor
What the report also shows, however, are continued gains by Bing over the last two months whileGoogle remained flat. Additionally, the report shows that Yahoo!, the search giant's other rival, has halted its decline. Search Engine Watch ...
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Google: Star Trek Is The Destiny Of Search | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
Google has released a new video called “Breakfast with Google's Search Team,” in which VP,Search, Amit Singhal talks about the future of search. “The destiny of search is to become that Star Trek computer,” he says, bringing up a familiar ...
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php - Change site's title to match Google search - Stack Overflow
By ZoeStellan
I was developing a site for a parts distributor, when I ran into an SEO problem. Basically, the business distributes many different brands, so I want to make it that, when a certain brand is searched, the title of the google result changes to that ...
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Qihoo's New Search Engine Passes Google to Place Second in China
By Josh Ong
After Google bowed out of the Chinese search market in 2010, it left a ripe opportunity for another company to take the second place spot behind Baidu. Qihoo 360′s newly-launched search service has risen to the challenge, according to ...
The Next Web

Average American Viewer Watched Over 200 Videos in July

Average American Viewer Watched Over 200 Videos for Almost 22.3 ...
By Greg Jarboe
Google sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property in July 2012 with 157 million unique viewers, followed by Facebook with 53 million, Yahoo sites with 48.7 million, VEVO with 44.8 million , and Microsoft sites with 42.7 million. Nearly 36.9 billion video ... SEO Survey - Win an iPad! Complete this quick 16-question survey about SEO in your organization and be automatically entered to win an iPad! Limit one entry per person.
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Google Webmaster Tools Gets Alerts For Search Queries Data
WebProNews
Google announced today that it is adding alerts for Search Queries data to Webmaster Tools to complement its recently rolled out Crawl Errors alerts. You can get the alerts forwarded to your inbox if you sign up for email forwarding in Webmaster Tools.

16 Differences Between Google Mobile & Desktop Search Results In 2012
Search Engine Land
Google announces separate changes for mobile and desktop in their search quality updates, so the fact that there are some differences between mobile and desktop results that marketers should be aware of shouldn't be too controversial by now. ....seo ...

Search Engine Land

Judge: Google didn't comply with disclosure order in Oracle case
CNET
Judge: Google didn't comply with disclosure order in Oracle case. Federal judge overseeing the Oracle v. Google patent lawsuit says that search giant failed to comply with a request to document all payments to bloggers and writers covering the trial.

Google Updates Patent Search Tool
Inc.com
Google knows a thing or two about patents and has been the target of plenty of lawsuits involving them over the years. So it makes sense the company trying to "organize the world's information" would come up with a better way to search for patents. In ...

Inc.com

Hunger Games on DVD, Dallas Cowboys, Top Google Trends
Examiner.com
That's an amazing development because Google Trends takes into account not justsearch volume for a subject, but the number of content items written about that keyword. While The Hunger Games has generated over 200000 searches, there are ...

Examiner.com

Yandex's Search Share Gains in Russia, Google's Declines
Businessweek
19 while the portion of competitor Google Inc. fell and Mail.ru Group Ltd. (MAIL)'s was unchanged, according to Liveinternet.ru. The share for Yandex, the owner of Russia's most-used search engine, rose to 60.7 percent in the week to Aug. 19 from 60.4 ...

Avital Web, SEO Firm in Los Angeles, Advises about the Recent Google ...
Sacramento Bee
Google Panda, which was rolled out in early 2011, created massive waves all across the Internet. It was designed to weed out sites with lower quality content, or content farms, sites ... Avital Web,SEO company, offers various services, including ...

Patent: Google Faking Search Results To Trick SEOs?
Search Engine Roundtable
(6) by Barry Schwartz · twitter · Google+ | Filed Under Google Search Engine Optimization · Prev Story ... Bill Slawski, the SEO patent guru, wrote about it at his blog titled The Google Rank-Modifying Spammers Patent. Tedster also has a good summary ...

Search Engine Roundtable

Bing Grows Search Market Share, Google Repeats High, Yahoo Halts Slide
Search Engine Watch
Google Bing Yahoo logos For the second straight month Bing saw its U.S. search engine market share on the rise. Meanwhile, Google held steady, duplicating its record share of the searchmarket, while Yahoo held steady after 10 months of declines, ...

Google's Secret to Success: Hint, it's Not Search
Wall Street Daily
But while search engine technology (and the advertising revenue that it generates) drives the bulk ofGoogle's profits today, you'd be mistaken to think Google's future growth will come from search alone. Yes, 66% of search queries still filter through ...

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We also offer banner ad production and cd business card design, and our web marketing partner firm delivers best in class search engine optimization. Our breadth of interactive services and our 10 year record of success set us apart from ...
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Steven Yap of Google - Online Marketing Blog
By Ashley Zeckman
Steven Yap of Google: Adjust Your Search Engine Marketing Strategy to Meet Consumer Needs ... I recently attended a presentation from Steven Yap, Head of Emerging Products and Markets atGoogle where he covered that very topic.
Online Marketing Blog

Google launches Voice Search in Romanian for Android mobile ...
By Newsroom
Google, the world's biggest search engine recently launched its Voice Search application for all Android-based mobile phones in Romanian as well, allowing.
Daily news in English from Romania...

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