Posts Tagged ‘Google’

 

Building Real Trust in a Virtual World

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

As of December 2009, Netcraft Web Server Survey purported that there are around 233,848,493 websites on the world wide web. With hundreds of thousands of new sites springing up each month, building trust in your website presents a complicated challenge. How does one create a website that instantly creates trust among today’s incredulous surfers? According [...]

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What the Yahoo & Microsoft Search Alliance Means For You

Friday, September 24th, 2010

It was in July 2009 that Microsoft and Yahoo announced their 10-year search alliance intended to inspire innovation in order to battle against search giant Google. A year and a half later, Microsoft’s Bing is now officially powering Yahoo’s search engine in the U.S. and Canada. Bing made the announcement on their Community Blog on [...]

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Follow the World Cup on Smartphones, Search Engines and Twitter!

Friday, June 11th, 2010

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is upon us, and you can enjoy the games while getting up-to-date information and interaction on social media networks! You can follow the World Cup on TV and on your Smartphone as well as on all the major search engines and Twitter. In search news, Yahoo has introduced search shortcuts [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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