Kardashian, Limbaugh and you: how they rate on Google

Kardashian, Limbaugh and you: how they rate on Google
The Seattle Times
The website BrandYourself.com offers a free grade on how good you look on your first page of aGoogle search. Something like 96 percent of people never look past that first page, so it is a good indication of how they perceive you. Of course, BrandYourself ...

Google's 'Handwrite' Lets You Search by Scribbling
CIO (blog)
Google has just added a feature called “Handwrite” to its mobile search. Handwrite allows you to write on the screen of your iOS or Android smartphone or tablet when you're on the Google search page. Unlike the old Graffiti language for Palm devices, you do ...

CIO (blog)

Search Engine Marketing And SEO Via Google Now - Plus Ten Web-Based Tools
Forbes
But I'm consistently shocked that business owners don't understand all the powerful tools thatGoogle has for understanding them and their customer. Google Now is one of those new tools.Search engine optimization and search engine marketing is ...

Google's Penguin Update: What You Need To Know To Ensure Your Website ...
Business Insider
Being the biggest and the most popular search engine, Google often releases updates to itssearch algorithms. The purpose of these updates are to keep up with many black-hat methods in SEO (search engine optimization) where people would fill their sites ...

Google Can't Read My Handwriting
TechNewsDaily
Last week Google added handwriting as a way to search on touchscreen mobile devices, adding to traditional typing a search term and speaking into your phone or tablet to search. Writing "Olympics" across an iPad resulted in ampico, dumpiest and ohms.

Yandex's Search Share Falls in Russia, Google's Advances
Businessweek
Russian searches using Google, the world's largest Web- search provider, rose to 26.8 percent from 26.6 percent, for a four-week average of 26.7 percent, the data show. The share of Mail.ru Group Ltd., the largest Russian- language Internet company, was ...

Broken Promise: Google Retained Street View Data
Search Engine Journal
The data, which included information related to users' private email addresses, passwords, and web/picture search history, was illegally collected by the Google Street View vehicles from unprotected wireless networks. ... During my time as a managing member of an educational startup I gained direct experience related to business development, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), conversion rate optimization (CRO), online marketing, mergers and acquisition, product development, ...

Google Touts Their Olympics Results
Search Engine Roundtable
Google's head of search, Amit Singhal also posted on Google+ about the olympics results. He wrote: Check out the wealth of ... Danny Sullivan spent the time comparing Google to Bing to Yahoo and gave Yahoo the gold. Dan Barker dug a bit deeper into the ...

What Google Now Can Teach You About Reaching Your Customers
WebProNews
One of the most interesting things about it is that it really speeds up search by eliminating the need for it. It's going to be a long time before you no longer need a search engine at all, but Google's goal with Google Now is to get you the information you need ...

Google Fiber: Can the search giant conquer the cable TV business?
The Week Magazine
Add in the fact that the search giant is willing to waive the $300 installation fee for new customers, and competitors should be "scared" enough to "put out bounties for on-the-ground information about Google Fiber." "Google's crazy 100Mbs fiber internet ...

Google Explains New Link Warnings, Says Don't Panic But Don't Ignore
Search Engine Land
Confused by the latest link warnings that Google has been sending out? As we covered before, it's all been pretty confusing. That's why Google has posted more information meant to calm some worries, though it's still likely that even after this, some are going ...

Search Engine Land

16GB Google Nexus 7 Tablet Back in Stock
PC Magazine
A week ago, The Guardian reported that Google initially thought users would gravitate towards the $199, 8GB version of the Nexus 7 rather than the more expensive 16GB option. But thesearch giant underestimated customers' desire to store things on their ...

For Olympic Medal Count Info, Yahoo Gets Gold, Google Silver & Bing Bronze
Search Engine Land
... various countries are doing in the London 2012 Olympics? For finding out using a major search engine, I give the gold to Yahoo, with Google narrowly missing to earn silver and Bing getting bronze mainly by virtue of being third in a three contestant race.
 
Search Engine Land

Mayer Brings Some Google to Yahoo, Including Free Lunch
PC Magazine
The former Google boss is pushing innovation among all of Yahoo's products – email, Flickr,search, ad serving, according to ATD's Kara Swisher, who quoted an unidentified source who called the changes "the sound of Yahoo becoming a technology ...

Google Algorithm Changes For June: What's On The List?
WebProNews
In what Google called an effort to be more transparent, the company began posting monthly lists of algorithm changes, highlighting some of the things it has done to improve the quality ofsearch results and/or the user experience. There are typically a slew of ...

What To Do About Google's Confusing Link Warnings
WebProNews
If you read Chris Crum's post last Monday, you may be one of the thousands of webmasters who received Google's indistinguishable link notifications in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) last week. As Chris' article mentioned, Google's “head of the webspam ...

Google Fiber: Will Google's Quest for Greatness Ever End?
Kapitall Blog (blog)
So the way I see it, Google is going to give the internet to people at a loss and then capitalize on the increase in users on their search engine. This will not be the top speed internet. Check out the video below, let us know what you think. This could change the ...

Kapitall Blog (blog)

Google features lets mobile users 'handwrite' their search queries
Brafton
Ultimately, the addition of this tool will have little impact on SEO, but it demonstrates Google'sdesire to develop tools and solutions that make it easier for all users to access its services. It may also encourage longer searches or more search refinement among ...

Developing Better Search A Key To Facebook's Future
Search Engine Land
Right now Facebook doesn't truly compete for ad dollars in the “demand fulfillment” category. As Sandberg implies this is where Google reigns. But Facebook doesn't need to directly compete with Google in web search to participate in search revenue or bring ...

Google, Christie's, Apple, Samsung: Intellectual Property
Businessweek
Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit by authors over the digitizing of books, saying that the company's book-scanning program is a fair use of copyrighted material and a benefit to the public and authors. The lawsuit by the Authors Guild, as well as one filed by the American Society of Media Photographers, stems from Google's plan announced in 2004 to scan millions of books from public and university libraries to provide snippets of text to people who use its Internet search engine.

London 2012 Fencing Google Search Results and Google Doodle
3D Car Shows
If the Google Doodle is clicked visitors of the search engine were provided with official results from the event. In the top right corner there is also a link to the official London 2012 website, taking you to the results and schedule of events. London 2012 Fencing ...

3D Car Shows

Google Still Hasn't Cleaned Out Its Private WiFi Data Closet
TechNewsWorld
Google has not deleted the sensitive data it collected from private wireless networks in 2010, according to a report from The Telegraph. Earlier, the company had promised regulators it would dispose of the information. The search engine giant originally ...

Marissa Mayer Injects Fresh Hope in Yahoo by Bringing Google Culture (and ...
Mobile & Apps
Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user experience for Google Inc, unveils "Google Instant" during a news conference in San Francisco, California September 8, 2010.(Photo: Reuters). Print: Email. Tweet. Who says there are no free lunches in the world ... Yahoo's key products like Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Answers, and of course its search engine, also make the company a force to reckon with in the search sector. According to an unnamed source "This is the sound of Yahoo becoming a ...

Mobile & Apps

Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search
RushPRnews.com (press release)
So we strive to give you a variety of ways to interact with Google, be it by speaking your queries, getting results before you finish typing, or searching by image. Now there's a new way for you to interact with Google: Handwrite for web search on mobile phones ...

RushPRnews.com (press release)

Don't Forget The Other Type Of Enterprise Search
Search Engine Land
We don't invest a lot of effort at helping internal customers: Colleagues at our own company who need help finding critical information, but end up grinding their teeth after 10 minutes lost in the company's 'search' tool. .... SearchCap: The Day InSearch, July 27, 2012; Google Updates Earth For iOS With More 3D, Adds Default City Location To PC Maps; Here Come The London Olympics Logos From Google& Others; SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 26, 2012; Take our Search EngineLand survey: 2 questions, ...

Search Engine Land

Google Adds Handwrite To Mobile Search [VIDEO]
Social Barrel
Google has created a new mobile search input feature that allows users to perform handwriting operations on touchscreen devices. The well-designed new feature, creatively termed as GoogleHandwrite, lets users manually handwrite search inquiries on ...

With Fiber, Google is back to 'don't be evil'
Macleans.ca
There was a time, not so long ago, when Google was the internet activist's best friend. Through much of its first decade of existence, the search engine company presented itself as a different kind of company, one that cared about changing the world for the ...

Content marketing recap: July 2012
Brafton (blog)
The latest Google Panda iteration impacts 1 percent of search queries. What does ... In its announcements of Panda, Google even shared its longstanding “quality standards” blog post, which Brafton has reported covers quality content marketing tips for SEO.

Avoid Search Engine Penalties: How to Use Keywords the Right Way
Business 2 Community
Google started by releasing the Panda update, which took away many of the content farms and websites with poor content. They moved from the Panda update to the more recent Penguin update, which targeted over-optimization of content. This caused many ...

Paid Google Ads Punch Organic Search in the Face [Infographic ...
By Oli Gardner
Google is clearly making a big attempt to differentiate the two and the infographic below shows some really interesting numbers on the amount of screen real-estate being taken over by PPC for the commercial intent searches. Note: Don't ...
Unbounce

Testing Google's Semantic Search [Case Study]
By Manisha Kumar
Google's new Knowledge Graph, also called “semantic search” takes search beyond keywords optimization. In other words, it tries to understand the intent and meaning behind the searchphrase and then provide a more relevant and ...
Milestone Internet Marketing

Search-Friendly Images, Google, and the Wonderful Wizard of Oz ...
By Chris Bolton
Though sometimes Google is not as all-powerful and all-seeing as we might assume. Like the old man behind the curtain, Google doesn't always have all the answers. Luckily, with a littleSearch Engine Optimization magic, we can help ...
The HostBaby Blog

Google Search Results Now Include Actively Discussed On Google+ ...
By erikwestlake
The integration of Google+ and Google search results has taken a step further with andquot;Actively Discussed On Google+andquot; now being shown in results. If you are logged in to Google+ and search, then you may see a new link under ...
ErikWestlake.com

Google Panda or Google Penguin
By sameerseo
What is the difference between Google Panda or Google Penguin? ... Search Engines & SEOGeneral search engines and search engine optimization discussion. ... Both are two different algorithms used in Google search engine. That affected ...
AffiliateSeeking Forum

The Evolution of Guest Posting - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
By Eric Enge
Google's Penguin update, and Panda a year earlier, marked the advent of a whole new approach to spam fighting. Google's Distinguished ... My view is that Google now can identify types of spammy practices offline from the main algo, either manually or algorithmically, do some analysis on them without having to wrap it into the main algo, and then use it as a factor in the results. With Penguin, it is ... Imagine the impact on the SEO community if they chose to do this. How many sites do ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest

Fair Use a la Google | Walt's View From the Woods
By Walt Shiel
Google persists in trying to gloss over the key difference between their egregious book scanning effort and programs like their own Partner program and Amazon's Search Inside the Book program — both of those programs require that the ...
Walt's View From the Woods

Google adds handwriting feature to mobile search - Digital Intelligence
Google has added a handwriting feature for its mobile search, offering an alternative to typing keyphrases into the search box.
Digital Intelligence

How To Rank On Google To Increase Your Google Places Rankings
By James Dreesen
rank on google Did you know that Google currently accounts for about 66%, a whopping two thirds, of all the search traffic on the web, with Yahoo and Bing combined holding a mere 30%? It's true! That means that it is vitally important that any ...
GP Pros - Google Places Optimization...

5 Rock Star Google Internet Sourcing Tricks HR, Recruiting, Social ...
By Jonah Manning
However, unless you are a sourcer, rocking searches on a “by the minute” basis, you are likely using Google in its face value form. If your current use of the world's favorite search engine is typing a few words and then adjusting your search ...
Blogging4Jobs

Bit.ly's new Realtime search engine digs up viral news on the fly ...
By Francis Bea
You can think of Realtime as a hybrid between Google's search engine and Twitter's trending topics. It's a consumer-focused search engine that follows its “reputation monitoring” tool, which was launched to Bit.ly Enterprise subscribers in ...

Cooliris Brings Instagram, Facebook, and Google Images to iOS ...
By Carter Dotson
Cooliris makes photo viewing and discovery easier by integrating Facebook, Instagram, andGoogle Image Search. Cooliris is an app for sharing and discovering photos on social networks, and it just got more social with Facebook and ...
148Apps - iPhone App Reviews,...

Google search for human traffickers, drug cartels - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Forget videos of cute kittens or good deals on iPads. For the past few months, Google has been quietly turning its search capabilities to ...
news.yahoo.com/google-search-human-traffickers-drug-cartel...

Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet ...
So we strive to give you a variety of ways to interact with Google, be it by speaking your queries, getting results before you finish typing, or searching by image.
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Google Now app has plenty of great features

Google Now app has plenty of great features
Technology Bloom News
Google Now, which is the company's answer to the virtual assistant on the iPhone, gives users all of the important information they are looking for each day, without them having to ask for it. The weather, sports scores, stock quotes, recently used apps and much more are all provided to the user so they do not have to go searching for them each time they want the information. Google Now is also takingGoogle Search one step further by allowing users to search just by recognizing the users handwriting. The new ...

Technology Bloom News 

Modders rejoice: Google posts Jelly Bean factory images
BetaNews
Google states that if you have used the AOSP project, the Android Open Source Project and you had a custom build installed on your device these factory images will be the key to returning to the way Google wanted the software to be aka default; the Jelly Bean binaries have been available ... Google hasn't yet posted a changelog for Android 4.1.1, but the first iteration of Jelly Bean brought a number of important changes, among which Project Butter, Google Chrome and Google voicesearch are the most notable.

BetaNews

Kill Zombies, Win $10000 And Maybe A Job At Google (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
Although winning this contest didn't guarantee a job, contestants appreciated the experience. "It's like any competitive sport," Bartholomew Furrow, now a software engineer at Google'sheadquarters said. "If you don't stay fit and practice, you lose your edge." ...

VisibilityMAXIntroduces Penguin and Panda Friendly SEO Program
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
East Meadow, NY, July 29, 2012 --(PR.com)-- VisibilityMAX, a full service search engine optimization company, focused on natural and paid placement, launches a new program based on the Penguin and Panda filter signals. The Google Panda filter, released February 24, ... The follow-up to Panda, the Google Penguin filter, was released April 24, 2012 and it focused on devaluing websites that Google believed participated in link schemes or black-hat SEOtechniques. The latest Google update seems to be directed ...

Google v. oogle: Search Engine Loses UDRP Proceeding
American University Intellectual Property Brief
Google filed its UDRP complaint on June 5, 2012 alleging that Christopher Neuman of Blue Arctic Hosting registered the domain name oogle.com in a bad faith attempt to profit off ofGoogle's trademark and reputation. As part of the UDRP proceeding, Google ...

Google's Death Valley drive with the click of a mouse
msnbc.com
Google's Death Valley drive with the click of a mouse. Search giant turns its 360-degree cameras on road trips through five national parks ... The Google Street View service that has brought us Earth as we might not be able to afford to see it — as well criticism that some scenes along its 5 million miles of the globe's roadways invade privacy — this month has turned its 360-degree cameras on road trips through five national parks in California."Everyone likes to take a road trip through a national park," said Evan ...

msnbc.com

Let's Not Get Too Excited About Google Fiber… Yet
TechCrunch
Let's put it this way: Google estimates that it will be able to reach about 50 percent of fiberhoods by mid-2013, with its full rollout in Kansas City completed by the end of next year. That means residents who register today could wait as long as 18 months before they ... In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company's extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google's highly ...

Write and Google it
Deccan Chronicle
Well, now if you have a mobile device with a touch screen, you can simply scribble search terms on the screen, and Google's trusty search engine will look it up. Called Handwrite, the interface takes the letters you draw on the screen and puts it into the search ...

Google marks 2nd day of London Games with diving doodle
GMA News
Google marks 2nd day of London Games with diving doodle. July 29, 2012 8:32am. Search giantGoogle on Sunday marked the second day of the 2012 Olympic Games in London with a doodle on diving. Visitors to Google's home page (www.google.com) ...

Govt plans integrated map project
Livemint
Enthused by the panoramic information accessible via software applications such as GoogleMaps, where a search and a few clicks could throw up detailed maps of neighbourhoods, the government is set to approve a similar project. Called the National Geographical ... Government departments involved with mapping use satellite images from firms such as Microsoft (Bing) orGoogle (Earth), who in turn buy it from agencies that carry out satellite imagery, according to the second official. “There are different kinds of ...

Smartphone Battle: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft
DailyFinance
Google has more of its own apps and services like Google Wallet, Gmail, Calendar, G+, Maps,Search, and so on, but Apple has made it easy to sync photos and songs to our phones along with calendars, notes, and the like. These two keep going back and ...

Google introduces handwritten search on tablets and smartphones
Canadian Reviewer
Sometimes tablet and smartphone keyboards aren't ideal for quick search so Google has enabled a beta feature called Handwrite. Users can use their fingers to write search terms. A simple and smart idea actually rests on a a numner of technologies like ...

Tech round-up: Google Doodles Olympics, mobile apps of London 2012, the ...
The Philippine Online Chronicles
Google is continuing its tradition of Olympics doodles. For 16 days, search giant Google will feature on its homepage doodles dedicated to the 30 Olympic Games. Last week, Googletweeted, "Hooray for sports! Stay tuned over the next 16 days for all the ...

At Google, interns are 'superstars'
Boston Globe
A few days before Google launched a major update of its mobile book application, engineer Eryn Maynard was handed a key piece of the upgrades — so important that if she failed to deliver it on time, the entire release would be canceled. Many companies ...

Boston Globe

Google+: People Related To In Search Results
Search Engine Roundtable
... Google+ in your face feature to the Google search results. Search for a topic, such as [seo], [running], [apple], [social media] and so on, Google will show "people related to" that topic on the right hand side of the page but only if they are on Google+ I believe.

For a different look at Cleveland-area housing activity, dig into online traffic ...
Plain Dealer
Online search data from sites including Google and Realtor.com adds some color to the numbers. On Google, local search volume for "houses for sale" is at its peak. On Realtor.com, the Cleveland metropolitan area ranks 39th in the country, based on user ...

Plain Dealer

Celebrate Diving at the London 2012 Summer Olympics With Google Doodle
Shockya.com
The London 2012 Diving Doodle features a female diver in a position on a diving board over a pool that features the search engine's name on the bottom. The Diving Doodle comes after the London 2012 Opening Ceremony Doodle and the Archery Doodle.

Shockya.com

Power-packed Nexus
Business Standard
Being a vanilla Google device, the Nexus 7 is deeply integrated with Google's ecosystem of books, music, movies, magazines and apps. You can't miss the addition of Google's naturalsearch engine, Google Now where one can ask questions (as with Apple's ...

74 New APIs: Google BigQuery, Mozilla, Referly and Webshell
ProgrammableWeb (blog)
74 New APIs: Google BigQuery, Mozilla, Referly and Webshell ... The Address Web Service allows developers to search, validate and geocode against the Johnson County master address database. If a user finds an address, they can also lookup the tax property ID and its tax unit. Methods are including to ..... The Regator API is a semantic web tool that can aid in areas such as: publishing, ad targeting, social media analytics, data enrichment trends analysis and SEO. It has the ability to categorize text in over 500 ...

Google enables Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search .. but not ...
By Saijo George
Now I know there will be a few of you who could care less and tell me Bing is better than Google, I just don't buy that. Right now Google is clearly the leader in Search and bing results ain't all that great. Bing has improved a lot from where it ...
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Handwrite: A New Way To Search On Google « Bits and Pieces
By Jonco
Handwrite is an easy new way to search Google from your smartphone or tablet. To enable Handwrite, visit Google on your smartphone or tablet, click 'Settings,' found at the bottom of the page, and then enable Handwrite. This feature is ...
Bits and Pieces

The Presurfer: Handwrite, A New Way To Search On Google
By Gerard
Handwrite, A New Way To Search On Google. Handwrite is an easy new way to search Googlefrom your smartphone or tablet. To enable Handwrite, visit Google on your smartphone or tablet, click 'Settings,' found at the bottom of the page, ...
The Presurfer

5 Top Tips For Optimizing Images For Google Search | Spice Up ...
By Paul Crowe
The Best Tips, Gadgets, Design And SEO For Bloggers. Home · Contact · About · Write For Us · Write About Us · Blogger ... Besides Pinterest, though, even images found in the classic GoogleImage search provide great potential for increased site traffic. But, similar to ranking well inGoogle's traditional search, your ... Currently, there is no evidence that the image caption has any effect on image search engine rankings. However, captions of images are some of the most read text on a ...
Spice Up Your Blog

Google Panda 3.9
By Paul Sussex
Just thought I would mention that Google rolled out Panda 3.9 update earlier this week (Was announced on the official Google Twitter). Seems like it was a minor update and I haven't noticed any.
Graphic Design Forum and Web...

Google Authorship - Do You Have Yours?
By Herbert
Google Authorship is very beneficial not only for the author but also for the readers. The author would be protected and it could increase the rank of the author's blog on search enginerankings. The Google Authorship would strengthen the ...
Two-Sided Perspective

HelloGiggles – Google is My BFF
By Hesley Harps
I think Google is my BFF. I ask Google everything from how to build a website to relationship advice and it tells me what I need to know without judgement. Google always picks up when I call and helps me out when I'm sick. It recommends a ...
HelloGiggles

echovar » Blog Archive » Google Contra Mundum
By cgerrish
To some extent, Google accomplished this with its search engine product. The product has entered the common parlance, and now we talk of 'Googling' something. Google means search, and search is its big driver of revenues and profits.
echovar

Coyle's InFormation: Fair Use Dejà Vu
By Karen Coyle
In its July 27 court filing,[1] Google has made the case for its fair use defense for the digitization of books in its Google Book Search (GBS) project. [2] As many of us have hoped, the case it makes appears strong. That it was necessary to throw ...
Coyle's InFormation

Google Tests Explore More Option in Knowledge Graph Search ...
By engorlis
Google is reportedly testing a new feature in the Knowledge Graph sidebar the ability for users to find out more about the topic and suggested results. An Explore More option has appeared to some users, allowing for an expanded set of ...
My Blog by engorlis | English,...

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Google Fiber Is The Most Disruptive Thing The Company's Done Since Gmail

Google Fiber Is The Most Disruptive Thing The Company's Done Since Gmail
Business Insider
It's been a long time since we saw anything like this from the search and advertising giant. Back when Gmail launched, the other free email providers like Hotmail and Yahoo Mail were offering less than 5MB of storage -- that's five megabytes. Google trumped ...

Business Insider 

Google Mobile Search Adds Handwriting for Easy Text Input
PCWorld (blog)
Google now lets you input a Google search query on your smartphone or tablet by writing it out with your finger, instead of making you tap it out on a keyboard or via voice command. Called “Handwrite,” the timing is good for Google, considering when ...

You can now 'handwrite' your Google searches
msnbc.com
As Google software engineer Rui Ueyama explains on the official Google blog, Handwrite is simply another way to conduct Web searches from your smartphone or tablet. It means that you can now write out search terms with your finger instead of tapping ...

Google launches searching by ink ahead of Windows 8
ZDNet (blog)
Google Handwrite is pretty accurate in testing, although anything longer than simple searchterms is not practical. Search by handwriting must be enabled in the Google search settings by visiting google.com, and then enabled on a case-by-case basis by ...

Google introduces Handwrite as mobile search tool
Los Angeles Times
Not content with voice, image or text searching, Google has now introduced Handwrite, a new tool that lets you search on your phone by handwriting out your query. "Say you're standing on a busy street corner, in a bumpy taxi ride, talking with a friend, ...

Handwrite your Google searches on phones and tablets
CNET
Have trouble pecking out your Google search queries with the onscreen keyboard on your handset or tablet? Our usual suggestion would be to try out some third-party keyboard apps, but Google may have a better solution. The latest feature onGoogle's Web ...

CNET

Google adds Handwrite to its mobile search input options
ZDNet
Google has added a new input mechanism to the mobile versions of its search page: users can now write search terms by hand, rather than typing them in. The Handwrite feature rolled out on Thursday, with Google suggesting in a blog post that it might come ...

Google Search Now Lets Users Handwrite Terms
ValueWalk
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has introduced a feature that lets users search terms using their fingers. The new feature has been labeled “Google handwrite”. Users are accustomed to the commonly used methods of searching terms on Google search, which ...

ValueWalk

Google Handwrite Pits Mobile Search Against Your Withered Penmanship
TIME
Google says, “We designed Handwrite to complement rather than replace typing: with the feature enabled, you can still use the keyboard at any time by tapping on the search box” and points out that handwriting recognition joins voice search and visual ...

TIME

Google Debuts Handwrite Search
Twice
Palo Alto, Calif. - Google has introduced a new feature for web search on mobile phones and tablets called Handwrite. Handwrite enables a user to launch a search on a device by writing letters with their finger almost anywhere on the device's screen.

Google Eyes: Search Giant Didn't Delete All Private Street View Data
DailyFinance
The failure to comply with a promise to delete all the data was notified to Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which said the fact that the data still existed appeared to breach an undertaking signed by Google (GOOG) in November 2010. "The ICO ...

How to get started with Google Now
CNET (blog)
Often mislabeled as a Siri competitor, Google Now is not an intelligent voice recognition service. Instead, it's a built-in assistant that serves up Google search-based answers to voiced questions. Google Now also tries to give you those answers before you ...

Google unveils ultrafast Internet/TV in Kansas City
Reuters
Google Fiber's ultra high-speed connections and television offerings are aimed at surpassing those of current providers, allowing users to search live channels, Netflix, YouTube, recorded shows and tens of thousands of hours of on-demand programming.

Bogus Google Files site earns revenue through premium rate SMS micro payments
ZDNet
Summary: Security researchers from AegisLab have stumbled upon a bogus Google Searchthemed web site, offering downloads of multiple files in exchange for a SMS sent to a premium rate number. Dancho Danchev. By Dancho Danchev for Zero Day ...

Scribble searches on your phone or tablet with Google Handwrite
CNET (blog)
Google today introduced a new way to search on your phone or tablet. Dubbed GoogleHandwrite, it lets you write letters on your touch-screen mobile device instead of tapping away on the keyboard. Whether you'll find writing out search terms faster than ...

Google Failed to Delete All Unauthorized Street View Data
PC Magazine
Google Street View Switzerland. The saga over Google's collection of unencrypted data with its Street View cars continued today, with the search giant admitting to U.K. officials that it failed to delete all collected information. "Google has recently confirmed that ...

You can now hand write Google searches instead of typing them
DVICE
With typing and voice search already under its belt, Google's aiming its search sights on another target: handwriting. With a simple setting activation, you can now hand write yoursearches on your iOS or Android smartphones and tablets, and like magic, it'll ...

Google adds handwritten text input to mobile search on Android, iOS
Fiercemobilecontent
Optimized for smartphones running Google Android version 2.3 and up, tablets running Android 4.0 and higher and products powered by Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS 5, Handwrite allows users to input searches almost anywhere on the device touchscreen, ...

Handwrite your searches with Google's new feature
Liliputing
Google Handwrite is a new search tool for smartphone and tablet users. Instead of using the keyboard, users can now write out their searches on the screen. Handwrite translates your chicken scratch to text and inserts it in the search box. The tool is available ...

Google Introduces Handwrite For Web Search
Hot Hardware
Google is hoping to make it even easier to search the web from your smartphone or tablet with a new feature called Handwrite. Now, in addition to being able to speak your queries, search by image, and view results before you finish typing, you can also write ...

Hot Hardware

Google Fiber Launches; Twitter Outage; Valve Talks Windows 8 'Catastrophe'
PC Magazine
Topping tech headlines Thursday was the unveiling of Google Fiber, which official turned thesearch engine giant into a TV and Internet service provider. Google Fiber's 1 gigabit speeds will initially be available in Kansas City – Kansas and Missouri – but only ...

Is Google's Handwrite A Step Backwards?
Search Engine Roundtable
Other Google searches are useful such as plain typing, voice search, search by image but handwriting your search? It seems like a step ... and WebmasterWorld. Previous story: Google, Bing, Ask & Other Logos For London 2012 Olympics Open Ceremony ...

Search Engine Roundtable

New Google 'Handwrite' beta lets you scribble searches with your finger
ITProPortal
Not content with announcing an ultra-high speed broadband service, Google has also introduced a nifty new beta feature to its mobile search page called 'Handwrite' that lets you write down search queries with your finger (video below). The feature is ...
 
ITProPortal

Google introduce Handwrite to search via your scrawl
HEXUS
Google have announced a new search feature for smartphones and tablets. The new feature is called Handwrite; it allows you to make searches from the Google search page simply by scrawling the word(s) on your touchscreen with your finger or stylus.

HEXUS

Don't Let Your Website Get Marked For Malware on Google!
Business Insider
Have you ever been to a Google search result page, looked through the results, and seen “This site may harm your computer” written underneath the title of one of them? This is Google's way of warning you that you might get unexpected results when entering ...

Google Search: left sidebar moves to the top
By Martin Brinkmann
Google according to several sources in the US is currently rolling out a layout change for Google Search that is moving the left sidebar to the top of the. ... Google Adds Translated Search To Its Search Engine · Google Rolls Out New Search ...
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Google Handwrite Brings Handwriting Recognition To Search | Tornell
By Sunny
It is good to see that at least someone is looking beyond voice recognition and virtual assistants.Google has decided to go back to basics with the new Google Handwrite feature for Google search. Google Handwrite brings handwriting ...
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Google Introduces Handwrite For Mobile Search – Cool New Way ...
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Google Adds Handwrite To Mobile Search - Cool New Way To Google On The iPhone And iPad.
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Insight into Google Search Queries and What It Means to SEOs
By Matt Beswick
Insights into the true meaning of Google Search Queries and the numbers behind it. ... In 1998, when Google's search engine first debuted, it indexed just 25 million web pages and processed a mere 10000 searches per day. ... But what about Panda? Since it rolled out in February last year, there have been a total of 17 iterations each affecting a different percentage of searchqueries. I know there's going to be overlap, but if we go for a big number that's potentially 186150000000 ...
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Handwriting Recognition Comes To Google Mobile Search For ...
By Paul Paliath
Seeing that we've been able to gather a few years of experience with touchscreen keyboards, they've become relatively easy to use for most, especially for simple and short search queries. However, if you want to add a more creative and ...
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Google with Handwrite for Mobile Allows Search by Writing with your ...
By Gary Ng
Google has announced a new way to search the web on your iPhone or iPad called Handwrite for Mobile. Once enabled in settings, you will now be able to perform.
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Search Google by Handwriting on the Screen :: Google handwriting ...
By Toronto Web Designers
Google recently released a new feature for mobile browsers, which let's you write on the screen to search for something, instead of typing! if you use a smartphone to search Google, you'll understand the frustrations of sometimes mistyping ...
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Google Introduces "Handwrite" Search for Android and iOS ...
By Mark Hearn
Google is going back to its roots of making searching the web easy. Taking to its official blog on Thursday, the Internet search guru announced the availability of Handwrite. Targeting mobile device users, this web-based feature allows users to ...
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Handwriting Recognition in Google Mobile Search
By Alex Chitu
Handwrite enables you to search by just writing letters with your finger most anywhere on your device's screen — there's no keyboard that covers half of the screen and no need for hunt-and-peck typing," suggests Google. While this feature ...
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Handwrite for Google brings tactile search to mobile and tablets ...
By Daniel Bader
This is pretty interesting, though I question its long-term usefulness. Google has launched a feature called Handwrite for Google search that allows you to actually enter your search term using a finger or stylus. While Google is right that it is ...
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Google Handwrite Lets You Scribble Searches With Your Finger
PC Magazine
Need to Google something on the go, but find your mobile keyboard too inconvenient? Don't fret.Google on Thursday introduced a nifty new beta feature to its mobile search page called "Handwrite" that lets you write down search queries with your finger.

Google brings faster Internet to Kansas City
CNN
It looks like Google is in Kansas. And Missouri too. Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) launched its long-awaited Google Fiber, the search giant's ultra high-speed network, Thursday in Kansas City, Kansas while also making a surprise announcement: the ...

Google Adds Handwriting Recognition to Search
Marketing Pilgrim
It's called Handwrite, and it's the ability to search Google simply by writing on your mobile phone or tablet screen. When I saw this, my first thought was, 'wow, we're moving backwards.' Think about it. We developed voice recognition to get the hands out of the ...

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Google introduces Handwrite search for smartphones and tablets
Android Community
If you're like me and you have fat fingers that don't do well when presented with a tiny touchscreen keyboard, then Google's new Handwrite search might just be what you're looking for. Google has officially rolled out the beta for its new Handwritesearch ...

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Google Fiber: Fast, Free Internet for Kansas...
ABC News
Google Fiber, Google's high speed broadband Internet network, is launching first in the Kansas City area. (Google). It almost sounds like a new cereal, but Google'sFiber is the search giant's fast new Internet and TV service. The company has been working on it for the last year and a half. The service was ... "Google Fiber starts at a speed 100 times faster than most Americans have today," Milo Medin, vice president of access services at Google, said at the Fiber event today in Kansas City. According to Google, the ...

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Google Attacks Cable and Telcos With New TV Service
Wired News
Google is offering Kansas City residents a set-top box for their TVs (above) that allows the search giant to compete directly with cable companies over its own 1 Gbps fiber network. Photo: Google. After months of mystery, Kansas City residents learned today ...

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Google Adds Handwriting Recognition To Search In Your Mobile Browser ...
Android Police
In its endless attempts to make searching easier for everyone, Google has introduced yet another way to search via its mobile site at google.com: handwriting recognition. If you go toGoogle's search page from your phone or tablet's mobile browser and ...

Google launches Kansas City fiber net, intros Google Fiber TV
CNET (blog)
Google Fiber TV is a service that provides interactive search for TV that lets you search your DVR as well as content you have on services like Netflix. It will include a DVR with up to 500 hours of storage of shows and movies all in 1080p High Definition.

Google announces search by handwriting on iOS and Android
Geek
When it comes to smartphones and tablets, there's a fairly constant argument in regards to whether or not we need a stylus in our day-to-day lives anymore. Inevitably, the conversation shifts to handwriting recognition software. Back in the days of the Palm ...

Google to Launch High-Speed Service in Kansas City in the Fall
Wall Street Journal
For the new service, which Google may eventually expand to other geographies, the Web-searchgiant said it would provide Internet speeds around 100 times faster than those found at most U.S. homes and a TV package that lets people record 500 hours of ...

Google Handwrite: awesome, cool, but it's not for you
VentureBeat
Simply enable the handwriting setting in your Google preferences by scrolling to the bottom of any Google search page on your mobile device and tapping Settings. The next time you do a search in your mobile browser, a small Handwrite icon will appear on ...

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34-button Google calculator now appears in search results
Geek
Google search has had a calculator (of sorts) built in for years now, but things just reached a new level of nerdiness over in Mountain View. When you Google any mathematical operation,Google will give you the results along with a big 34-button calculator.

Google Loses Oogle.com Domain Name Dispute
PC Magazine
Google and oogle.com will continue to perplex Web users for years to come, following a decision by the National Arbitration Forum to deny the search giant's quest for the rights to the similar domain name. In its final decision, the Forum alleged that the .com ...

Need a scientific calculator? Type 'calculator' into Google
Los Angeles Times
Need to do some complicated calculations? Google has you covered. As of Wednesday, if you type any equation into the Google search bar and hit "return," Google will give you the answer and present you with a full fledged, 34-button scientific calculator.

Buy Google Before Other Investors Realize Their Mistake
DailyFinance
I heard something very interesting when listening to Google's (NAS: GOOG) conference call, and I heard it again on Baidu's (NAS: BIDU) earnings call. It's that mobile search is mostly incremental to desktop search. This is a key insight because many investors ...

Google Wants You To Draw Search Words On An iPhone Instead Of Typing Them
Cult of Mac
The way it works is that instead of pulling up the Google homepage on your iPhone and typing in your search query, you just draw the words instead. It's suppose to be a “fun and easy new way to search,” but it's probably one of Google's worst concepts and ...

Galaxy S3 update accidentally removed universal Google search, says Samsung
Know Your Mobile (blog)
Speaking to TechRadar, Samsung revealed the XXBLG6 updated was never intended to remove features from Android's Google search function and that the company would rollout a second patch to correct the mistake shortly. The update meant you could no ...

Google Lets iPhone & Android Users Search With Handwriting
Gotta Be Mobile
Users don't need the Google Search app for the new handwriting recognition, they simply need to enable to feature on Google.com. Users need to go to settings which is below the search bar on smartphones and in the top bar on tablets like the iPad. Google ...
 
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SearchCatalyst Can Help SMEs Make the Most of Google's New Matching ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SearchCatalyst, an SEO and PPC agency from Greenlight - Europe's fastest growing searchmarketing agency - is on hand to offer guidance and assistance to SMEs looking to make the most of Google's latest round of AdWords search changes. Aside from ...

Google Will Now Take Your Searches in Writing
All Things Digital
Google today announced a nifty feature for users to handwrite search queries from their phones and tablets. Keyboard apps like Swype and SwiftKey are popular on Android, but Google'sversion allows for handwriting in 27 languages, is also available on ...

You Can Search Google by Hand-Writing Words on Your Phone or Tablet Now
Gizmodo
You Can Search Google by Hand-Writing Words on Your Phone or Tablet Now Google is now letting you perform searches by just scribbling a few letters on the face of your phone or tablet. Handwrite is a new function on iOS and Android that should help you ...

Will Google's Panda 3.9 Update Impact Your Business?
BusinessNewsDaily
"Google has said before that search engine optimization, or SEO, can be positive and constructive — and we're not the only ones," Matt Cutts, a Google distinguished engineer, wrote on the site's webmasters blog. "Effective search engine optimization can ...

Hand-Written Search Now on Google
NBC Bay Area (blog)
Users can add handwriting to spoken search, predictive search and searching by image to theGoogle mobile device experience, according to their official blog. So if tapping out your keyword is problematic on your mobile device (thunderstorm? crowded ...

Google Fiber, Company's New Super Fast Internet Service, Launches In Kansas ...
Huffington Post
The search giant's new Internet service, known as "Google Fiber," is currently available only to residents of Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City, Kan., which beat more than 1100 cities in a competition to be the first to receive Google's new broadband network. ... Google ISP? GoogleFiber Network To Bring Ultra-Fast Internet. First Google was a search engine, then a social network--now how about a Google ISP? Google plans to experiment with building ultra-fast fiber networks that... Loading... TOP LINKS ON THIS ...

Google Tests 'Explore More' Option in Knowledge Graph Search Results
Search Engine Watch
An “Explore More” option has appeared to some users, allowing for an expanded set of results below the search box. Google Operating System posted the above screenshot of the test in action. Google is constantly performing tests in search results, so this ...

Search In Cursive: Google Now Lets You Hand-Write Search Queries On ...
TechCrunch
To enable this feature on your phone, just head for the settings menu at the bottom of Google'smobile search screen (or on the top right if you are on a tablet) and look for the new “Handwrite” option. Once enabled, a new icon will appear in the bottom right corner of the ... In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company's extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google's ...

Google Fiber Introduced In Kansas City
FOX2now.com
Google launched its long-awaited Google Fiber, the search giant's ultra high-speed network, Thursday in Kansas City, Kansas while also making a surprise announcement: the introduction of Google Fiber TV. The two services will be available to Kansas City, ...

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Now You Can Google By Handwriting
WebProNews
Google announced a new feature for mobile search, called Handwrite, which lets you search Google from your smartphone or tablet by simply writing your query with your finger, rather than having to type it out with the keyboard (or use voice search). Check it ...

Google Introduces “Handwrite” for Mobile Searches – Droid Life
By Kellex
This isn't meant to replace traditional typing or voice search, but it could prove to be very useful should you be in a situation where typing is not optimal nor is speaking aloud to your phone. Just draw out some words, and let Google do the rest ...
Droid Life

Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet ...
By A Googler
Unlike searching on a desktop or laptop computer, when you're searching on a touch-screen mobile device it's often inconvenient to type. So we strive to give you a variety of ways to interact with Google, be it by speaking your queries, getting ...
Inside Search

Google Handwrite lets you perform mobile searches using natural ...
By Quentyn Kennemer
Google has announced Google Handwrite, a nice new tool for those who have something against the keyboard when they perform mobile searches. Google Handwrite will allow users to input search terms using penmanship instead of typing ...
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Google Handwrite For Mobile Search Offers Cross-Platform ...
By Stephen Schenck
Google continues to work on improving its mobile search offerings, even in the wake of injunctions that seek to limit the scope of certain types of searches. The latest enhancement the company's churned-out seeks to make entering-in search ...
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Google Adds Handwriting Recognition To Search In Your Mobile ...
By Eric Ravenscraft - rss.feedsportal
In its endless attempts to make searching easier for everyone, Google has introduced yet another way to search via its mobile site at google.com:
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Google Handwriting Search - Business Insider
By Kevin Smith
Head to: google.com/preferences from your tablet or smartphone. Once there, you will see the "Handwrite" section. Select "enable" and remember to save. You can then search for whatever you want by writing with your finger or stylus.
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What Can Google Scholar Do For You?
By IHSAcademic
Utilizing the richness of Google's search, publicly searchable academic publications, and Google Books, Google Scholar is often more helpful, easier, and more accessible thansearches on library websites. It does have its limitations, ...
Kosmos

Facebook: Why Do Web Search? Google Does It So Well ...
By Chris Crum
It wouldn't do any of us any good to speculate too much about what Facebook's search offering might entail, but the point is that it doesn't have to be an all out web search engine in the image of Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. It can be ...
WebProNews

Search the Web Through Handwriting with Google Handwrite
By admin
This afternoon Google released a new way to search on your Android tablet and Android phone. Now instead of typing your query into the Google Search box, you can just handwrite a word or phrase to search. See it in action in the video ...
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Google Will Now Take Your Searches in Writing - Liz Gannes ...
By Liz Gannes
Google today announced a nifty feature for users to handwrite search queries from their phones and tablets. Keyboard apps like Swype and SwiftKey are popular on Android, but Google'sversion allows for handwriting in 27 languages, is also ...
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Samsung disables Galaxy S3 Google local search function ...
By agyateng
Once the software is installed the phones no longer search contacts, apps and other on-device material using software developed by Google. Android Central, which revealed the news, noted that users were not told the update would disable ...
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Introduction to Google App Engine Search - YouTube
By GoogleDevelopers
In this webinar, Christina Ilvento, a Product Manager on the Google App Engine team, provides an introduction to using the App Engine Search API.
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5 Ways to Stand Out in Google Search | Inc.com
Getty. Tweet. Does your brand stand out in search results? These five reasons may account for why your brand is not showing up at the top of search queries.
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Google search now features handwriting recognition on mobile ...
This is pretty cool. Hot on the heels of today's Google Earth 3D app update, the company has ...
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Handwrite – Inside Search – Google
Try a fun and easy new way to search. Handwrite lets you write your search right on the Googlehomepage. It's available on Google.com from your smartphone ...
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get number of google search results using JAVA - Stack Overflow
By using the Custom Search API, you're on the right way. There's a totalResults key in the response JSON that you get from your query. Just grab it's ...
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