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Will Google's Search Changes Affect Your Business? | Inc.com
Google's adding more semantic features to its search engine. Here's a reality check on what it might mean for your business.
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The Search for the Google of the Social Graph
Wired News (blog)
Google's search breakthrough ensured that the web would not be a victim of its own success. Now, the social web faces a similar problem. It is enormous, and growing, and central to our lives. There are many successful companies in the social space, ...

Wired News (blog)

Meet Google's search anthropologist
San Francisco Chronicle
On a hot August evening in late 2009, a Palo Alto entrepreneur working in her home office landed on Google's befuddling advanced search menu. "Oh, I hate this," she said, before immediately clicking away. It was far from a ringing endorsement of the ...

Facebook Is Going After Google In Search, But That Doesn't Mean What You Think ...
San Francisco Chronicle
The truth is that Facebook is fighting a massive war with Google and that search is a key battlefield. But this doesn't mean Facebook is betting any kind of resources on becoming your favorite Web search engine any time soon.

Facebook is upgrading its search engine to take on Google
Daily Mail
By Rob Waugh Facebook is quietly working on a technology that might makeGoogle nervous - a new, upgraded version of the site's search engine. The move could give web users a new way to find content - 'steered' by the huge amount of information ...

Daily Mail

Google Maps Directions Gets Real-Time Traffic
PC Magazine
Google Maps now includes the ability to see the estimated time of your trip, based on real-time traffic conditions. The data will show up when you search for directions, and Google Maps will show how long several different routes will take with no ...

Is the social web an asteroid for the Google dinosaur?
CNN International
(CNN) -- For all the creative destruction that the Internet has wrought over the last decade, there has been one constant: Google's remarkable dominance of the internet economy. In a "Web 2.0" world dominated by search and by the link, Google and its ...

Expedia files Google complaint to EU regulators
Reuters
The EU watchdog is now investigating the world's most popular search engine after rivals, including Microsoft, accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the market for Websearch engines. EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said ...

Expedia Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google With EU
BusinessWeek
By Aoife White on March 30, 2012 Expedia Inc. (EXPE) (EXPE) filed an antitrust complaint againstGoogle Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) with European Union regulators, adding to earlier grievances brought against the world's largest search-engine operator by ...

DuckDuckGo Aims To Beat Google With New Search Features
TPM
Google's core product — its web search engine — has been hit with a barrage of criticism for changes Google made in the way it displays search results, putting content from Google's social network, Google Plus, up front and center, even when it doesn ...

Google Heightens Rivalry With iPad
Wall Street Journal
By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc., undaunted by a short-lived attempt to market and sell smartphones on its own, is now trying the approach with tablet computers in a quest to capture market share from Apple Inc.'s iPad. The Internet search company will sell ...

Wall Street Journal

New Facebook Search Engine In The Works, Should Google Worry?
WebProNews
We've written about the major opportunities Facebook has to make a big play in the search engine market and go head-to-head with Google several times in the past, and this news does very little to convince us this is not a possibility.

Facebook Is Building a Search Engine [REPORT]
Mashable
Is Facebook building a Google rival — one that would use your location and your friends' tastes? A team of more than 20 Facebook engineers — led by a former Google programmer — is at work on a vastly improved search engine within the site, ...

10 Hilarious Google Autocompletes
PC Magazine
But now, Google puts it all out there for the world to see. That Googling you do day in and day out is feeding the beast known as Autocomplete. Google Autocomplete's algorithm takes what millions of users input into the search box every day and then ...

Google to take on Apple with its own online tablet store
TechSpot
By Lee Kaelin Internet search giant Google is set to turn up the pressure on Apple and Amazon by selling co-branded Android tablets directly to consumers, according to the usual 'people familiar with the matter' cited in a recent report by the Wall ...

Facebook Delves Deeper Into Search
BusinessWeek
About two dozen Facebook engineers, led by a former Google engineer named Lars Rasmussen, are working on an improved search engine, say two people familiar with the project who did not want to be named because the company is in a quiet period ahead of ...

Measuring Google's First Year With Page
Internet Evolution
As of next week, Larry Page will have been in the driver's seat as Google's CEO for a year. And as they almost say in the musical, Rent, "How do you measure a year in the life of a chief executive at Google?" Some (like me) might say Page's year can be ...

Is Google relevant?
Examiner.com
Google has drained billions on Android. Most mobile searches to Google come via iPhone. The Android tablet market is absolute . . . . Android developers continue to struggle, independently and as a group. The "free" model that Google preaches requires a ...

Peeking into the pipeline: Google tablet, Apple TV, Facebook search
Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
Take 2 for Google and hawking mobile? The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Mountain View company will soon sell co-branded tablets online. Android tablets have failed to make much of a dent in the lead of Apple's iPad, and the WSJ report ...

Google Spent $213 Million Advertising its Products in 2011
Search Engine Watch
by John Rampton, March 30, 2012 Comments As many of you have noticed over the past couple months Google has been expanding it's reach from the online marketing world to a much broader scope where it's competitors are thriving – the ad promo space.

Exclusive: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft Swarm China for Network Gear
Wired News
He's one of the Google engineers who secretly designed a new breed of networking switch for the company's data centers, the massive computing facilities that drive its search engine and the rest of its web services. Rivers joined Google in October 2005 ...

Larry Page Is Forcing Google To Be Much Less Stupid About Acquisitions (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
For a few years now, Google has acquired dozens of companies every year. That's not going to change any time soon. But last year, when cofounder Larry Page took over as CEO again, the type of acquisitions Google makes changed.

Google's New "Account Activity" Service Raises Privacy Concerns
The New American
A new service offered by Google is raising some eyebrows, as users now have access to monthly reports that reveal all their online activities using Google products (Gmail, YouTube, Google+ social network, online search, etc.). Called "Account Activity ...

Google's Secure Search Squeezes SEO Planning and Reporting
Practical Ecommerce
Google's secure SSL search protects users' search results and the keywords they searched on. Unfortunately, it also poses a growing threat to data-driven search engine optimization. Firefox recently joined Google Chrome — and Google.com, for logged-in ...

Practical Ecommerce

Can a Google Tablet Succeed Where Nexus Phones Didn't?
CIO
PC World — So Google may enter the tablet fray directly by marketing its own Android challenger to the iPad while also licensing the OS to hardware partners. What makes it likely to succeed, after its Nexus phones online experiment failed?

Facebook Is Reportedly Fixing Up Its Search Engine
AllFacebook
Former Google Engineer Lars Rasmussen brought his search expertise to Facebook in 2010, and he is now leading a team of about two-dozen engineers on a project aimed at improving the social network's search engine, according to a published report.

AllFacebook

Graphing on Google.com - Now in 3D - Inside Search
By Inside Search
A few months ago we launched a graphing functionality right in search to help students and math lovers plot functions in an easy, simple way. In addition to calculating something simple like dividing up a restaurant bill or graphing more difficult ...
Inside Search

Google Search Operators | Geek Beat Technology News
By Scott Ellis
Scott Ellis discusses how to use basic Google Search Operators to get better results faster when searching Google on GeekBeat TipADay.
Geek Beat Technology News

How To Search Google By Reading Level - eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
For instance, a middle school science teacher looking up earthquakes might want differentsearch results than a geologist that wants up-to-date research on a subject. To search Googleby reading level, Google has published the following ...
eBookNewser

Moving at the Speed of Creativity - A Heartwarming Google Search ...
By Wesley Fryer
Google Search Stories are some of the best examples of concise digital storytelling available. Please take two minutes and watch the latest Google Search Story published this month: “Cheryl and Morgan: Learning Independence.” This video ...
Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Google Drive spotted in a screenshot | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
We've heard rumors of Google Drive launching early next month, and now it looks like we've got some visual confirmation of the service. The folks over at Talkandroid.com managed to get their hands on some alleged screenshots of the ...
Ubergizmo

How to stay top on Google Search results ? - Webmaster Forum
By williamsam
Please guys can anyone tell me how to stay top on google search ? ... Forum, 4, 03-22-2011 12:05 AM. Search Engine Optimization Checklist:How to Get Top Rankings in Google SearchResults, dkgehl, SEO Forum, 12, 02-12-2008 06:33 AM ...
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Ex-Google Engineers Launch Dealupa: Search Engine-like Daily ...
By Preetam Kaushik - Daily Deal Media
Ex-Google Engineers Launch Dealupa: Search Engine-like Daily Deals Site. By Preetam Kaushik - Daily Deal Media March 30, 2012. The online retail niche dealupa is overwhelmed with daily deals sites. New entrants seem to be popping-up ...
Daily Deal Media

Update: Google Drive to Launch with 5 GB of Free Storage | Search ...
By David Angotti
As Search Engine Journal recently reported, the long-awaited Google Drive is expected to finally launch in the next several weeks. While our recent article suggested that the free storage was going to be limited to a measly 1 GB of free storage ...
Search Engine Journal

Meet Google's search anthropologist - Rosenfeld Media
By Steve Portigal
Meet Google's search anthropologist. Posted by Steve Portigal on March 30, 2012 | Comments (0). Some nice bits about the process (including a lovely mention of "listening") in this article today. But about four years after forming, Google came ...
Rosenfeld Media: All Books

Sq1 | Blog – Goodbye Keywords? Google Gets Semantic
By Karli
Google Gets Semantic. Search Engine Marketing - By Karli. In the next several years, it's quite possible that the way we think about keyword targeting within the SERP may undergo a significant, perhaps radical transformation; even to the point ... In the short term, Google is making sure users still feel that Google has the lead in providing the best results, because if users decide that Bing or Siri, for that matter, provide better results, Google loses its most valuable asset, the searcher.
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Google Paid Search Can Double Your Site Traffic, Even If You're #1 ...
Organic and paid search are an important part of any Internet marketing strategy, howeverGoogle's research on how the two work together has been ...
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Why does Google Search use redirects instead of direct links? - Web ...
All Google Search results are a redirect link like this: http://www.google.com/url? sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=19&ved=0CHUQFjAIOAo&url=http%3A ...
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Google Search results corrupting page - Opera browser - Opera ...
Google Search results corrupting page. Google generate corrupted page for some retrieval requests - too wide for my 1280px desktop that requires horisontal ...
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Android – How to Implement Google Search Inside Your App ...
Here is an easy solution to implement Google Searching in your Android App. In this example, we will accept input from the user and will search the same...
mobile.dzone.com/articles/android-–-how-implement-google

Google asked to disable autocomplete in search engine in Japan
A Japanese court has instructed Google to disable the auto-complete functionality on theirsearch engine in the country. This was in response to a la.
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Google's Future: What The Search Engine Will Look Like In Next 20 ...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt earlier hinted about Google's plans to develop products that could predict users' requirements based on their past searches.
www.techieapps.com/googles-future-what-the-search-engine-...

How to Stop Google From Showing Google+ results in Google ...
Google has now launched “Search, plus Your World”, which is a new option that shows results from your Google+ circles when you perform searches on ...
www.techow.net/how-to-stop-google-from-showing-google-re...

Google Semantic Search to revolutionize the traditional SEO - Digg
Semantic search is definitely the way to go in the future.. I would also expect from Google to lead the rest into some text summarization technology for websites, ...
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Google+ a definite plus

Google+ a definite plus
Chicago Tribune
Ever since Google merged search and Google+ into a social media powerhouse, having and growing a Google+ following is more important than ever for SEO.Google calls it "Search plus Your World," and it means your Google+ circles, posts, photos and other ...

Chicago Tribune

Google earns 80% of its mobile revenue from iOS, just 20% from Android
Apple Insider
Compared to the $2.5 billion it expected to earn on mobile devices this year, Google reported $38 billion in total revenues for 2011, most of which comes from paid search results presented to desktop PC users. In figures presented to the court ...

EU to decide on Google antitrust case after Easter
ZDNet (blog)
Europe certainly isn't +1′ing Google any time soon, amid a data protection law-breaking privacy policy, and a looming antitrust case which could fine the searchgiant billions. Europe's antitrust chief said he would not bow down to pressure over a ...

ZDNet (blog)

Does Google think you're boring?
Fox News
(Signing up doesn't authorize Google to collect any additional information about you.) So what have I been up to? Not much, according to the Account Activity report. Granted, I'm not a big Gmail user. But I search on Google constantly.

Save a step when googling with Search Highlighter
CNET (blog)
With Search Highlighter, you save another step between you and your Google results, needing only to highlight a word in Chrome and hit return. The extension adds a menu bar below your bookmarks bar with either a Google or Bing search bar (your choice).

Google Gives Users a Gander at the Trails They Leave
TechNewsWorld
Account Activity is a personalized, detailed monthly report on Web activity with Google search, Gmail accounts, YouTube and social network Google+. It also indicates location and device information, so a user could see he or she searched from an iPad ...

Google Account Activity is mirror of your email, Web tracks
msnbc.com
If you use Google products regularly and have not disabled your Web history, a new feature called Google Activity might be an eye opener. It's a monthly report from the search giant that shows just how many emails you send, your most frequent contacts, ...

Stories about Google revenue from Android miss the point: How much it saves Google
San Jose Mercury News
Here's why: Google pays to be the default search engine on Apple's Safari browser. Again, we don't know how much. But imagine for a moment, as I wrote a couple weeks ago, if Apple and iOS had the same marketshare as the iPad. How much more would Google ...

Google Eyes Account Activity
Fox Business
The service provides users with access to a monthly password-protected report with insights into how account holders used Google (GOOG) services, including search and email trends. For example, last month's report of Google product manager Andreas ...

Google Drive: A guide to the free storage service
MSN Money
The debut of the search giant's long-awaited challenger to Dropbox, the leading 'cloud' provider, may be just around the corner. But will people actually use it? By TheWeek.com 1 hour agoGoogle Drive, the search company's online storage service, ...

Google Launches Monthly User-Activity Feature
OzarksFirst.com
Weeks after a policy change that sparked privacy concerns, Google has rolled out a new feature that will give users a monthly update to help them keep track of their activity across Google'smultiple sites and tools. It's called Account Activity, ...

Google Account Activity Reports Enhance Security, Traffic Insights
eWeek
Every month the Account Activity Report will collect and summarize data across your account, like sent emails or top searches. Google users can sign up for its new Account Activity feature that sends them a link to a password-protected report with ...

Google gets into market research, turns online surveys into paywall replacements
VentureBeat
Brands interested in performing market research and publishers looking to monetize their content have a new friend in Google, as the search giant is acting as go-between with a new tool that gives both audiences exactly what they want.

VentureBeat

What do changes in the Google privacy policy mean for you?
ConnectTriStates.com powered by KHQA
Now, Google just has one for all of its services, and it is tracking what you do online. Some say that is a violation of your privacy. "One perspective, they are looking at everything you search the internet for, and you might be searching for things ...

Google Apps Vault Promises Easy E-Discovery
InformationWeek
Its goal is to provide Google Apps Business customers with insight into their Gmail messages and their on-the-record Google Talk chats. It's a natural fit for a search company. "Increasingly, litigation is about the documents you have and the documents ...

Vault Brings eDiscovery Tools to Google Apps
PCWorld
The process of discovery—or in this case e-discovery—requires that the business be able to preserve, search, find, and retrieve electronic communications such as email messages or instant messaging chats. Google Apps Vault makes data retention and ...

Google launches 'Account Activity'
IBNLive.com
PTI New Delhi: Search engine Google has launched 'Account Activity' -- a new service that collates activities of users on all Google-owned sites including the popular 'Gmail' and 'YouTube' offerings. The service would provide information to the users ...

IBNLive.com

Google Apps for the New iPad: 10 Everyone Needs
eWeek
With Apple's new high-resolution Retina display, office productivity applications have never looked sharper, and Google's policy of offering them for free should add an extra layer of crispness. Seven of these apps are from Google itself, ...

eWeek

Pressure Grows on European Union to Act Against Google
HispanicBusiness.com
Consumer group with representatives from 31 European countries is calling for a quick resolution of an inquiry into the company's search and advertising practices. As EU antitrust investigators prepare final recommendations in a case against Google, ...

Visualize Your Privacy: Google Adds Account Activity Reports
Examiner.com
The essence of the changes is that Google will now allow all of its products to share all of the data collected about you amongst each other. So your Gmail account will know what your Android phone is doing and your Google searches will be tied into ...

Report: Google Makes $10 Per Android User Per Year
Search Engine Land
An analysis performed by UK publication The Guardian on court documents filed in the patent litigation between Google and Oracle suggests that Google has made less on Android handsets than from the iPhone. The court documents are part of a settlement ...

Google lets users monitor their online activity
Mother Nature Network
A freshly-added feature keeps people posted on patterns at Gmail, YouTube, onlinesearch and other Google venues visited while signed into their user accounts with the California-based company. "Sometimes it's helpful to step back and take stock of ...

Mother Nature Network

Is Google Plus Progressing or Stagnating?
Business Insider
Since the inception of Google's social network, there has been debate about where it fits into the current social media landscape. Since the debut of “Search Plus Your World,” (and, quite honestly, before that), many of us have been aware that, ...

Google Account Activity Feature: Cool Analytics or Creepy Data Collection Exposed?
Search Engine Journal
The new service, which will only be available to users who opt in, will provide detailed metrics related to the following: Percentage and types of Google searches (ie Web vs. Images) “For example, my most recent Account Activity report told me that I ...

Google demos self-driving car with the help of a blind man
SlashGear
While we often think of Google as the search giant with a gigantic stake in in the mobile game, they sometimes remind us that they are working on potentially life-changing projects behind the scenes. They've posted a video demonstrating their ...

SlashGear

Forget Android, Google Makes More Money Through Apple Products
AppAdvice
However, the company made four times this amount with Apple products that useGoogle services like Search and Maps, according to The Guardian (via 9to5Mac). This news came to light as Oracle battles Google in court over what it believes are...

AppAdvice

Google "Recent" Makes Local Search More Convenient For Signed ...
By Ryan Buddenhagen
Local search increases in popularity and relevance each year and now Google's new Recent feature illustrates an innovation that supports this progress. ... Search Engine Optimization | WebiMax. Call Today for a FREE Consultation. +1 888-932 -4629 In ... The essential point on this if you are unfamiliar, is that SEO companies and marketers can assist businesses that cater to local audiences by increasing their presence on local-centered platforms and features. SEO for geo-targeted ...
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Should Google Block Autocomplete if Your Name is Dick Hurtz?
By Jon Mitchell
A Japanese man recently sought a court injunction against Google, alleging that its autocompletion of search queries got him fired. The man's lawyer, Hiroyuki Tomita, says that typing his client's name into Google produces thousands of automatic suggestions of "criminal acts," with which the man is not familiar, "defaming or disparaging him." It's unknown what the man's name is since the Japanese court withheld it. But imagine your name was "Jenny Kills," and when someone ...
ReadWriteWeb

iOS earns Google four times the revenue of Android
By Christian Zibreg
Though Google does not profit directly by giving away Android software to phone vendors, they do take 30 percent cut on app sales, just like Apple. This is. ... Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch all feature Google search and maps, though users can change their search provider in Settings to Yahoo! or Bing as well. Google injects ads in locations you browse in the Maps app, in searchresults reached via Safari and inside participating third-party apps that incorporate Google's ...
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Adding "Google-Like" Search to Free VM Health Assessment
Virtualization management software industry conversation focussing on Hyper-V and VMware capacity planning & mangement and VM performance monitoring.
Virtualization Management Blog | VKernel

Google Panda 3.4 – Content Is No Longer Important
By Pawel Reszka
Google, just rolled out their Panda 3.4 update. According to Google only 1.6% of search queries were affected. Matt Cutts tweeted it too: The new algo is supposed to target sites that over-optimize their pages. I am not sure if I understand it to ...
Affhelper.com

Will Google Plus Play a Big Role in Future Search Results? [VIDEO ...
By Arnie Kuenn
In fact, if you're signed in to your Google+ account, if you're signed in to Google, your searchresults are already being impacted. People in your circles, based on what they're voting up, what's being voted up by yourself and your close friends ...
Business 2 Community

DuckDuckGo Just Beat Google In A Search | Mike Cane's xBlog
By mikecane
DuckDuckGo Just Beat Google In A Search. I didn't expect this! Click = big. Click = big. Disgusted by how bad Google search has become, I've switched to DuckDuckGo for primary search. I still use Google as a last resort — but now I'm ...
Mike Cane's xBlog

Learning independence with Google Search features | Official ...
Learning independence with Google Search features. March 29, 2012 at 9:00 AM . Searches can become stories. Some are inspiring, some change the way we ...
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FUN. Conquers Google Search, More Important Than No. 1 Song
In an interview with Complex, the group reveals how the name came to be. They were also delighted to find out they'd won the race to the top of Google's search ...
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Change default browser for Google Search - Google Mobile Help
The browser doesn't have column view anymore and no way to change it. I have Opera mini install, which I prefer. Is there a way when I use the Google Search ...
www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google.../thread?tid...

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Confessions of a Google Pioneer [video]

Confessions of a Google Pioneer [video]

Google Account Activity offers more insight to email, search patterns
ZDNet (blog)
By Rachel King | March 28, 2012, 1:00pm PDT Summary: Google Account Activity offers users the chance to monitor their email statistics, search queries, and more on a monthly basis. Google is on a roll today with new releases and updates.

Google is Building a Third-Party Comments System
Tom's Guide
The move is seen to counter Facebook's similar commenting offering already distributed across the internet, but Google's version will be different in that comments will be indexed and integrated into search engine results. This could possibly be a huge ...

EU Consumer Group Calls for Sanctions Against Google
PC Magazine
"We are concerned that the dominant search engine, Google, may have abused its position in the search market to direct users to its own services and secondly to reduce the visibility of competing websites and services," wrote BEUC Director General ...

EU to release findings on Google search antitrust investigation soon
VentureBeat
If Google is found culpable, it could face a fine of up to 10 percent of its global financial turnover. “We are concerned that the dominant search engine, Google, may have abused its position in the search market to direct users to its own services and ...

Google Offers Users Monthly Reports on Account Activity
PCWorld (blog)
These reports cover signed-in activity on various Google services, including search, Gmail, andGoogle Latitude. They also indicate where users have signed in from, and which browsers or platforms they've been using to sign in.

Google proposes Android revenue for Oracle-filing
Reuters
* Oracle rebuffs offer as too low * Trial in patent case due to begin April 16 By Dan Levine March 28 (Reuters) - Google proposed to pay Oracle a percentage of Android revenue if Oracle could prove patent infringement of the mobile operating technology ...

Google's Future: Marissa Mayer Explains What The Search Engine Will Look Like ...
Huffington Post
Twenty years from now, Google won't just give you what you're looking for. It could know what you want before you know it yourself. "I think that there's a world that we can move into where can we do a different kind of search that's more ...

Did Google Abuse Its Dominant Position? EU Decision Expected Within Days
PCWorld
Google is accused of using its search service to direct users to its own services and to reduce the visibility of competing websites and services. The complaints were lodged by French search engine eJustice.fr and the UK-based Foundem in 2010.

Google Drive: A guide to the search giant's free storage service
The Week Magazine
Google is set to debut its own Dropbox-like online storage system called Google Drive, offering users 1 GB of free "cloud" space. Photo: Simon Chavez/dpa/Corbis SEE ALL 93 PHOTOSGoogle Drive, the search company's online storage service, is reportedly ...

Google Guns for Facebook With Third-Party Comment Platform
TechNewsWorld
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is reportedly planning to launch its own third-party commenting system soon. It will apparently be tied into its Google+ social platform, its Web services and the company's Web search products. Google, according to reports, ...

Google's Mayer Details Origin of E-Mail Advertising
Washington Post
28, 2012 - March 28 (Bloomberg) -- Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products for GoogleInc., talks about the origin of advertising in e-mail. Mayer spoke yesterday during a Bloomberg Businessweek Captains of Industry event at the 92nd Street Y ...

Google: Citi Ups Target to $750; Search Trends Hold Firm
Barron's (blog)
By Tiernan Ray Citigroup's Mark Mahaney late yesterday reiterated a Buy rating on Google(GOOG) while raising his price target to $750 from $680, writing that his “checks” of the paidsearch market and other inquiries give him confidence the quarter ...

Google Comment System Launch To Battle Facebook
Technorati
This begs the question then, back to the purpose of this news article, why wouldGoogle try to oust Facebook again after being so brutally defeated with Google+? For some reason, the folks at Mountain View in Google HQ seems to think that they have a ...

Technorati

EU's Almunia to decide on Google probe after Easter
Reuters
The European Commission opened an investigation into the world's most popular search engine in November 2010 after rivals, including Microsoft, accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the market for web search engines.

How Marissa Mayer Almost Stopped Google's Second-Biggest Business From Being ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Back in 2004, Google's Marissa Mayer almost blocked the idea that became AdSense, Google's second largest business, which now accounts for about $5 to $7 billion in annual revenue. In this video interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Mayer explains how ...

Google I/O 2012: 10 Things Developers Can Expect at the Show
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: When tickets for Google I/O went on sale March 27, they sold out within minutes. This shows that developers are extremely excited to find out what the future holds for Google's many platforms, including Android and Chrome.

Google proposes Android revenue for Oracle
msnbc.com
(Reuters) - Google is willing to pay Oracle a percentage of Android revenue on two patents if Oracle succeeds in proving patent infringement at an upcoming trial over the Java programming language, according to a court filing.

Ex-Googler Fears Google's Greed, So He Launched A Company To Protect People ...
San Francisco Chronicle
meBrian Kennish is a former Google engineer who never intended to found a startup, much less one that helps people protect their online privacy. He had been making his living writing apps that use people's online activities. But that's exactly what his ...

Google Drive, a Dropbox challenger, could launch soon
Los Angeles Times
By Salvador Rodriguez The long-rumored Google Drive may finally launch next month, putting thesearch giant toe to toe with Dropbox, the leader in the cloud storage market. The latest rumor concerning Google Drive came from GigaOM, which claims "well ...

Google must censor search results that breach privacy laws, say MPs
ComputerActive.co.uk
The search giant said, however, it was not its job to censor the internet and that it would not be desirable for Google to proactively monitor web content. The report said that the internet needed to be comparable to print media in cases involving ...

ComputerActive.co.uk

Google Account Activity Feature Lets You Monitor Your Usage
Huffington Post
Just several weeks after Google's controversial privacy policy changes went into effect on March 1, the company has announced the arrival of a new feature called Account Activity. According to a March 28 blog post by product manager Andreas Tuerk, ...

What Facebook? Google's a Buy to $750 a Share, Says Citi
Forbes
Influential Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney upped his 12-month price target on Google today from $680 to $750, maintaining a buy rating he restored last November. The new target didn't help thesearch giant's shares from posting a fractional decline, ...

Not Everyone Hates Google: Citi Just Raised Its Price Target To $750 (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
Finally, someone is sticking up for Google. Unfortunately, it's an investment bank. Google has been taking a beating for the tech press, as well as with the cool kids in Silicon Valley for losing its focus, stuffing Google+ down users' throats, ...

Keep Tabs on Your Google 'Account Activity' Via New Tool
PC Magazine
What were your most-searched terms on Google last month? Are you perhaps spending a bit too much time looking up cat videos on YouTube? Google today introduced a new service, dubbed Account Activity, that will keep your apprised of, well, your account ...

Mobile to Account for 25% of Paid Search Clicks on Google in 2012 [Study]
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, March 28, 2012 Comments Smart mobile devices will account for 25 percent of all paid search ad clicks in Google's network by December 2012, up significantly from 5 percent in January 2011. Click through rates (CTRs) on mobile phones ...

Google Takes Another Swipe At Site Search Facilities
Search Newz
I am used to seeing Google try to siphon off traffic that once went to site search engines. It makes sense, from Googles point of view, to grab as much search traffic as they can"the better to show their ads and put a few more pennies towards the ...

Too Much SEO? Google's Working On An “Over-Optimization ...
By SearchEngineLand
Google's Matt Cutts announced that Google is working on a search ranking penalty for sites that are “over-optimized” or “overly SEO'ed.” Matt announced this during a panel Search EngineLand's Editor-In-Chief, Danny Sullivan and Microsoft's ...
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How Does Google Panda Work? | Submitedge Blog - Search Engine ...
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If the latter is true, then you are probably familiar with the changes the algorithm updates have caused to search engine optimization (SEO). But what exactly is Google Panda and how does it work? And why should you care? Google Panda is ...
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Google Takes Another Swipe At Site Search Facilities | Cambridge ...
By erikwestlake
I am used to seeing Google try to siphon off traffic that once went to site search engines. It makes sense, from Googles point of view, to grab as much search traffic as they can”the better to show their ads and put a few more pennies towards the ...
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British MPs want Google to censor certain search results | Ubergizmo
By Tyler Lee
Google's search engine is a pretty popular search tool and is undoubtedly one of the most popular search engines around, but it seems that while you can pretty much search for anything on Google, a committee of MPs in the [...]
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Consumer Group Turns The Screws In Euro Google Antitrust ...
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“Google regularly places its own services at or near the top of Google's search results and diverts traffic from its competitors to its own services,” Goyens writes. Within search, BEUC points out that it provides specific results that also drive traffic ...
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Google Leverages Search to Push Play | Evolver.fm
By Connor McKnight
Google users may have noticed a new addition to the black navigation bar pictured above — you know, the one that was supposed to go away, but instead has become an omnipresent springboard for Google's growing list of non-search ...
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Consumer Group Turns The Screws In Euro Google Antitrust ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Within search, BEUC points out that it provides specific results that also drive traffic to its other services covering areas like maps, video and books (Google Maps, YouTube and Google Books, respectively). It doesn't mention advertising, although ultimately that is the glue that connects ...In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded byGoogle's highly ...
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Man Blames Google for Unsuccessful Job Search - The Salary ...
By Marissa Brassfield
Posted by Marissa Brassfield. By Marissa Brassfield, PayScale.com. We know that many employers research potential candidates online, but one job-seeker recently argued in court that Google's autocomplete feature has tarnished his ...
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Can Google Kill Search Spammers by the End of 2012? | Fast ...
By JD Rucker
Every few months, we hear about how Google or Bing have a new program or change in their search algorithm that will kill search spammers. These rumors and ... It isn't that they'll be able to track down and de-index everybody, but the sheer threat of losing everything will be enough to make search engine optimization companies switch gears towards more honorable methods.Google and ... Panda only affected the sources of content, not the SEO firms that sculpted the rankings.
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Google Cracking Down on “Unnatural” Links ... - Search Engine Watch
By Miranda Miller
It's unclear whether it's an algorithmic update or manual penalty, but it's likely not a coincidence that Google recently discussed the deindexing of web hosting services earlier this month. WherePanda set out to rid the web of mass-produced, ...
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New Panda Rollout 3/23/12 Google SEO News and Discussion forum at ...
One possibility - at least in some cases - is a shift in Google Suggestions. If your search term disappeared (or even dropped lower) in Suggestions, fewer people ...
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Google Panda Tip: rewrite your site in Chinglish
Because even if you're not interested in learning Chinese just try this search to see exactly how screwed up Google is. And then compare the results to ...
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Google Panda: How Our Managed Partners Fought Back | Expedia ...
If your site appears in the Google search listings and a significant amount of users select the option to block it, this could have a negative impact on the rankings.
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Google search to be overhauled - ComputerworldUK.com
Google is overhauling its search engine to provide a more direct answer to user queries, rather than just supplying web links.
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Google Search Traffic Switching To HTTP Referer For Some ...
Monday night Google posted an update on the Google Webmaster blog named Upcoming changes in Google's HTTP Referrer...
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Too Much SEO? Google Might Penalize Your Site, Mitt Cutts
Google's Mitt Cutts announced the introduction of new search result system. Google would penalize sites with low quality content and highly SEO (search engine ...
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My business won't show up on Google - Google Product Forums
My business won't show up on Google at all. I search "seafood to go minneapolis" and it comes up as no results on Google, just a big mess.
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The Anatomy of a Google Search Engine Results Page | Social ...
About Brent Carnduff: President. Echelon Business Solutions. Brent is the founder and president of Echelon Business Solutions. EBS is a boutique Inbound ...
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Mobile Search Face-Off: Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo

Mobile Search Face-Off: Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo
Computerworld
By Liane Cassavoy PC World - Desktop search? That's so last decade. Today, we've gone mobile--and so have search leaders Bing, Google, and Yahoo. In this active age, we're just as likely to turn to our smartphone to find what we want as we are to boot ...

Google I/O Tickets Sell Out in 20 Minutes
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Tickets for Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, sold out in just over 20 minutes today, the search giant announced. "Google I/O has officially sold out! It took just a bit over 20 minutes! (We were experiencing 6250 ...

Google, there's no good 'without doing evil'
BetaNews
That's how I feel about Google this fine Spring day. Yesterday, "Google Play", the renamed Android Market, popped up on the black bar adorning my Google searchpage, with a beaconing red -- or is it orange -- "New". The service is now front and center ...

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Google Reviews Japanese Court Order Demanding Removal of Autocomplete Terms
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, March 27, 2012 Comments An anonymous plaintiff claims to have lost his job and suffered great humiliation at the hands of Google, which displays more than 10000 searchresults “defaming or disparaging” him when a searcher selects one ...

Japanese court besmirches Google's autocomplete feature
CNET
After Google reportedly refused his request to delete some of these words, the man decided to seek a court injunction against the Web giant in Japan. The Tokyo District Court approved his petition last week, which demanded Google remove certain terms ...

Google Should Censor Its Results Says British Parliament
Forbes
A cross-party committee of MPs and peers has urged the government to consider introducing legislation that would force Google to censor its search results to block material that a court has found to be in breach of someone's privacy.

Google under fire in UK MPs report into privacy
BBC News
An influential group of UK lawmakers has called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy - or face legislation to force it to do so. It follows complaints from ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley about the ...

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Google “without evil” philosophy rebuked
SlashGear
This week the “NEW” identifier on Google's newly revamped digital content store Google Play, formerly known as the Android Market, has drawn fire from those that would call it Evil. As anyGoogle fan can tell you, one of the original sayings that made ...

Encrypted Google Search by Default Coming to Firefox
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, March 27, 2012 Comments Sometime in the next few months after a period of testing, Firefox will implement HTTPS encrypted search by default for all Google search users. Firefox, which enjoys about 25 percent browser market share, ...

Why each Google+ comment needs its own Web address
CNET
But Google's social search effort would be the real beneficiary of comment permalinks. by Stephen Shankland March 27, 2012 5:51 AM PDT Follow @stshank It's time for Google, as it works feverishly to improve the capabilities of Google+, ...

Consumer Lobby Bashes Google
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Frances Robinson If you're reading this in Europe, have a little think about what search engine you last used? Was it Google? Yes, it was, wasn't it (well, for at least 80% of you, according to the French online privacy watchdog CNIL).

Google Pushes Play Front and Center: Is Selling Content Now King?
Fox Business
Google is marching steadily towards Larry Page's reported goal of a “single, unified, 'beautiful' product, across everything.” It started last year, as redesigns came to all of Google's big products, Search, Maps, Translate, Reader, Gmail, YouTube, ...

Pressure Grows on Europe to Act Against Google
New York Times
The director general of the European Consumers' Organization, in a letter to Joaquín Almunia, the EU antitrust commissioner, said Google “may have abused its position in the search market to direct users to its own services and secondly to reduce the ...

Google Developing “Me Too” Commenting Platform?
Marketing Pilgrim
Remember the days when we looked to Google as a leading innovator in the online space? We still do to some degree but there is a crowded field of competitors that has been beating Google to the punch in many areas. As a result, the search giant is ...

Marketing Pilgrim

Google Targets Facebook with Its Own Third-Party Commenting Platform
DailyTech
Google is said to be ready to launch its own third-party commenting platform to rival Facebook's offering. The technology blogger named Saud Al-Hawawi with Tech-WD reported yesterday that the comment platform, which was previously unannounced, ...

DailyTech

Google Defies Japanese Court Order Demanding Removal of Autocomplete Terms
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, March 27, 2012 Comments Tokyo District Court granted an injunction againstGoogle on March 19, though the anonymous man behind the petition won't have his way quite yet. According to the Japan Times, Google has refused to comply with ...

Google, Facebook, Twitter warned in privacy report
ZDNet (blog)
By Zack Whittaker | March 27, 2012, 8:34am PDT Summary: A UK parliamentary report has booted Google for its attitude towards court-ordered privacy injunctions, noting that it must comply with UK law or face a legislative battle. A cross-bench committee ...

Google Analytics gets more social
MSN Money
By Trefis 6 hours ago While Google (GOOG) doesn't generate any significant revenue directly from Google Analytics, it uses it to provide better reporting features to search and display advertising partners, thus driving advertising revenues.

Once Shunning Ad Promos, Google Now Flaunts Itself
Wall Street Journal
By AMIR EFRATI After years of touting the superiority of online advertising, GoogleInc. is taking a decidedly different approach to promote itself in areas where its rivals dominate. After years of touting the superiority of online advertising, ...

Wall Street Journal

Submit My Press Release Says Recover from Google Panda 3.x With Press Release ...
MarketWatch (press release)
These press releases will secure a presence for companies in major search engines whileSEO experts work to optimize the company's website with search engine optimization and link building tactics helping companies to recover from Google Panda 3.x ...

Say what? Google planning to launch a third-party commenting system
VentureBeat
Google is getting ready to launch its own third-party commenting system that will tie into the company's other services, according to a report from The Next Web. I'm assuming that Google's new commenting system will be very similar to what's offered by ...

VentureBeat

Twitter and Google reject censorship calls
Financial Times
“Requiring search engines to screen the content of their web pages would be like asking phone companies to listen in on every call made across their networks for potentially suspicious activity,” Google said on Tuesday. “Google already remove specific ...

Google in Trouble Over Auto-Complete, Again
Minyanville.com
By Davis MacMillan March 27, 2012 02:55 PM For the uninitiated, Google's (GOOG) auto-complete function has spawned a number of games -- and at least one investigation into its racism as compared to Bing (MSFT). The games, which are about as amusing as ...

Google to Launch New Commenting System
Adweek
Google is on the move again. The Internet giant announced the launch of a commenting system, similar to what is available to Facebook users, last week at Google event G-Saudi Arabia, according to Tech-WD blogger Saud Al-Hawawi.

MPs call for Google to block privacy-breaching results
ZDNet UK
By Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK, 27 March, 2012 15:57 @tomespiner Google should censor its search results to block content covered by privacy injunctions, MPs and peers have said. Search engines should filter out private information protected by a court ...

ZDNet UK

Bat Blue Networks Offers New Search Engine Data Leakage Prevention Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
Continued Pasdar: "We've all seen a simple Google search translate into a deluge of targeted advertising from Google Ads. What happens when you search for a vulnerability that impacts your organization? Or research a new approach that is part of a ...

Google Digital Marketing Evangelist Avinash Kaushik to Keynote at SES Toronto 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
From now through May 11, marketers can register for SES Toronto to receive an early-bird savings of up to $300 to attend the Canadian-focused search and social marketing event. Incisive Media named Avinash Kaushik, Google Digital Marketing Evangelist, ...

Force Google to black out searches in new privacy law - MPs
Register
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author Google should be forced to block content via itssearch results where a court in Blighty has found that such material breaches an individual's privacy, MPs and peers cautioned in a lengthy report published ...

Google Panda 3.4 Rollout - Search Engine Roundtable
By barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Google announced the update on twitter saying: Panda refresh rolling out now. Only ~1.6% of queries ... Looking into the wording on this tweet, we can learn a few things: (1) 1.6% of thesearch queries were effected, which is small but large for those hit. (2) This is ... Previous story:Bing (Yahoo) Search Update - March 2012? ... SEO New York. 03/26/2012 02:51 pm. But according to the blog it says this was posted on 24th February 2011. (Please see the date of the post on the blog) ...

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Prison Planet.com » Google should be forced to censor search ...
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Josh Halliday London Guardian March 27, 2012. A cross-party committee of MPs and peers has urged the government to consider introducing legislation that would force Google to censor itssearch results to block material that a court has ...
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Censor talk: A call for Google to filter search results; Twitter racists ...
By Levi Sumagaysay
A committee of U.K. lawmakers is urging legislation to require Google to filter its search results to comply with British privacy laws. It is also urging tougher enforcement of privacy laws against users of social-media platforms Facebook, Twitter ...
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Six Useful Google Tools | Submitedge Blog - Search Engine ...
By sid.seo
Google Alerts offers an opportunity to stay current with your market sector's relevant news and advances, as well as a way to evaluate the success of business strategies like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by observing trends in Google's ...
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Search Suggestions: 3 Ways to Use Google's Autocomplete ...
By Elisa Gabbert
Internet Marketing Software for SEO and PPC from WordStream · Log Out · Login · Products · Learn SEM · Blog · Support · AdWords Grader · Accounts ... Sometimes the search suggestions are so ridiculous that it seems like they must have been handpicked by some Google employee with a bizarre sense of humor, but according to Google, the suggestions are determined algorithmically: As you type, Google's algorithm predicts and displays search queries based on other users' ...
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Ark Beats Facebook, Google at People Search
By Sarah Kessler
A startup search engine has redefined search to make finding people with specific qualities easy. ... Google returns an academic paper that highlights “demographics and challenges,” a flyer for a fundraiser and a profile of a tenth grader.
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Google Tip: Image Search - voluntaryXchange
By Dave
Wow … this is such a cool tool … but it's in need of a real use. Here's a (frivolous) example of what you can do with Google Image Search. Suppose you see a picture you want on the internet,...
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Submit My Press Release Says Recover from Google Panda 3.x ...
The new subscription package name "Google Panda Recovery Package" is just one more option that adds to Submit's already powerful SEO press release distribution offerings. The Google Panda ... These press releases will secure a presence for companies in major search engines while SEO experts work to optimize the company's website with search engine optimization and link building tactics helping companies to recover from Google Panda 3.x devaluation. Commenting on the ...
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FairSearch.org | Gizmodo blogger: “Has Google reached a point ...
By FairSearch
Late last week, Gizmodo wrote “The Case Against Google” which confirmed something that many are feeling, especially after Google changed its privacy policy: “People don't trust Googlewith their data. And that's new.” Author Mat Honan goes on to say that, “Google is a ... And when Google rolled out its newest iteration of search—Search Plus your World (SPYW)—people reacted to it like viewing an open grave. There's a good reason for that revulsion: SPYW is a mess. In trying to ...
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SEO News: Google De-Indexes Sites, Warning of 'Unnatural Links'
By Ash
SEO News: Panda Update Refresh: Joel brings you the news that Google's Panda update has been refreshed over the ... http://t.co/Gy2tMlNs · Home · SEO Services · SEO blog · Internet Marketing · PPC · Web Design · CRO · About Us ...
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Google Launching Competitor to Facebook Commenting Platform
By pacelattin
Google seems to be planning to release a commenting platform competing with Facebook. ...One of the huge problems with Facebook comments is that they are not index-able by searchengines, including Google. This means when someone writes a Facebook comment, it wont show up in results or help with keywords or links. What does ... Facebook's commenting platform at PMi for the above reason. Without having them indexed, it seems that we are missing out on valuable SEO.
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Google Play, Added to the Navigation Bar
By Alex Chitu
Ever since it was launched, Google+ became the first service from the navigation bar, even ifGoogle Search was the most popular service. Then Google added links to services like GoogleOffers, Google Wallet and a page that lists Google's ...
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The Growth of (Not Provided)
By Reid Bandremer
With Firefox poised to make HTTPS encrypted Google search its default search engine, the black hole of keyword referral data lumped into (not provided) in Google Analytics appears likely to experience another major growth spurt. After this ...
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Google search results showing my domain URL as my title Google SEO ...
google search results showing my domain url as my title.
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The Google search for president - Total Buzz - The Orange County ...
Tweet Google does some cool stuff on its Politics & Elections Blog, like this: Even though the Republican primary has remained contentious since Barack ...
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Coloring Google's Search Field
Sitepoint Members, The submit button below does have a blue background with white letters. I've been trying to get the field for the text blue and the text being ...
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