Posts Tagged ‘Google’

 

Google Social Search & The Value of Brand Consistency in Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Monday, February 1st, 2010

At the end of last week, Google Social Search broke out of its experimental phase, making itself available in beta for all users to create a more personally-tailored search experience. 
Outside of Facebook (which has a strong privacy setting against being indexed by search engines), various blogs, social networks and collaboration sites a user is connected to will appear in SERPs when [...]

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Social Media and Google Collaborate for Real-Time Search Results

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Google has acquired deals with MySpace and Facebook allowing real-time updates posted by publicly-posting users to be part of a real-time index on Google.
Recently Twitter signed a similar deal with the search giant, and the two new partnerships are reported to be going live on Google throughout all English language domains starting this week.
What is a [...]

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Google News Now Trawling Wikipedia

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

To acknowledge the popularity and large fan-base enjoyed by online user-derived dictionary/encyclopedia Wikipedia, Google News is now including it among the stable of publications its bots crawl to generate the site. While Wikipedia’s articles have long appeared among Google search results, now when you perform a search specific to Google News, some of the returned [...]

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Bing off to a Respectable Start

Friday, June 12th, 2009

While it remains premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine.
According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from [...]

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Google faces class action suit regarding trademark infringement accusations

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Google has found itself in murky waters over its online advertising practices. There are companies who are livid about the methods Google allows paid ad placements to operate. Google defends its practices, citing the effectiveness of competitive trademark usage.

Geico, American Airlines and other large corporate entities have filed suit against Google regarding the competitive uses [...]

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