British Airways to Search Google for Passenger Photos

British Airways to Search Google for Passenger Photos
TIME
Listen, we've all Googled other people and have ourselves been Googled. When it's done by a major corporation, however, it just seems a little more creepy. Introducing British Airways' “Know Me” program. Apparently the airline isn't happy just knowing ...

Google Panda Update Tips and Timeline [Inforgraphic]
Search Engine Journal
The following infographic from SEO.com provides a detailed timeline of Google's Panda update to the search algorithm. Additionally the infographic offers some advice on how to help your site stay inGoogle's good graces with specific actions you can ...

Who Will Win the Social Search Engine War? Facebook, Google, Or Someone ...
WebProNews
The influx of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and now players such as Pinterest has all dramatically impacted how users search. With Google as the dominant search engine, it has obviously pushed its social endeavors aggressively to become the leader in ...

Hooray! Google Now Gets Ported From Jelly Bean To Ice Cream Sandwich
TechCrunch
In case you're wondering what the big fuss is about, Google Now is only the most innovative, futuristic, and even downright creepy updates to Google's search service ever to come. Instead of presenting a blank box where you type in text and hit enter ...

British Airways Faces Privacy Backlash for Googling Passengers
PCWorld
We've all Googled ourselves from time to time, but British Airways has crossed the creepy line for looking up its own passengers on Google Image Search. The airline is rolling out a new program, called “Know Me,” that tries to improve passenger ...

Google summer cleaning ends iGoogle, Google Video and others
TechSpot
On Google's kill list this summer is iGoogle, a customizable web page which provides quick accesssearch, chosen RSS feeds and a variety of HTML gadgets which perform unique functions (e.g. local weather, calendar and so on). Users will get 16 months ...

Where in the World is Google Building Servers?
Wired News
Since 2000, the company has designed the computer servers that underpin its empire of online services, including Google Search, Gmail, and Google Docs, and since 2005, according to one former employee, it has also designed the networking equipment ...

Wired News

New Hack Allows Installation Of Google Now On Rooted ICS Devices
Mobile Magazine
For those who haven't been following the news about Jelly Bean, one of its most interesting changes is the addition of a new Google Search service which will actually gather information based on your normal patterns and trends, way before you ask it to.

Google Axes iGoogle, Google Mini, Others as House Cleaning Continues
Datamation
Products and services on the chopping block include the Google Mini enterprise search appliance, the iGoogle personalized home page, the Google Talk Chatback webpage widget, Google Video and the Google Symbian search app. Some of the phased out ...

British Airways will Google passengers before boarding
Fox News
The airline says its new "Know Me" program will give BA staff members iPads to search GoogleImages to find future fliers before the "customer sets foot in the airport," The Telegraph reports. Results of the searches will be forwarded to other staff ...

Google to phase out its iGoogle site
NewsOK.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is phasing out a service that allows millions of people to personalize its home page with applications such as weather updates and stock quotes.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 6, 2012
Search Engine Roundtable
I talked about the monthly Google Webmaster report. There are fake Google support calls going out... ... Google Search By Image added some features. SEOs are liking the new ... That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable. Make sure to ...

Google cleans house, dumps Google Video
FierceOnlineVideo
The death of Google Video is only one of about 30 products co-founder and CEO Larry Page has pruned lately as he focuses the company on search, advertising, video, social networking and mobile devices. Note, for those interested, that focus apparently ...

British Airways Will Google Passengers 'To Put A Face To The Name'
Huffington Post
Some privacy advocates are up in arms about the pre-check-in data mining, but at least one industry-watching site points out that Google searches are likely less invasive than airport security procedures these days. BA says they hope to send out about ...

iGoogle Users iMad About Planned Closure
ReadWriteWeb
Just before the July 4 U.S. holiday, Google announced a new round of seasonal “spring cleanings,” closing Web-based services the search-engine giant no longer deems necessary to support. Among the list of products to be shuttered was the collaborative ...

Bing Search Struggles to Lead Microsoft Online Services to Success
eWeek
Quarter-by-quarter Bing may gain a little while Google loses a little, but Bing's market share remains stuck in the mid-teens percentagewise while Google remains safely in the mid-60s range. Still, Bing works as a search engine. And despite snarky ...

'Spider-Man' Spins Web of Sony Products
Bloomberg (blog)
Throughout the film, which takes place in current day Manhattan, the protagonist uses a Sony Xperia smartphone, which runs Google Android, to make calls to his girlfriend, check voicemail, listen to a police-radio scanner and play a game shooting ...

Bloomberg (blog)

Google: We Know It Won't Be Easy Without iGoogle But Too Bad
Search Engine Roundtable
As you know, Google is killing off iGoogle and iGoogle users are not happy about it. The number of complaints is outrageous. So Google's Conrad L. posted a message to iGoogle users last night. ...Conrad wrote in the Google Web Search Help forums: ...

Google said Nexus 7 tablet adding more content "to as many places"
PopHerald.com
July 6, 2012, 11:55 A.M. EDT — Google said it will still launch the Nexus 7 Android Jelly Bean tablet computer in the many countries despite limited content. The good news, the search giant will add different types of content to its international ...

PopHerald.com

A Reminder: Google's Economic Impact in Massachusetts
Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog)
Google has been feeling the heat lately. The company is tangled in snarl of antitrust and privacy concerns and was targeted last week in an investigation by the FTC. So the timing was juuuuust perfect for the kingfish of search engines to toot, blow ...

Google Throwing Away Old Toys; Plans to Remove iGoogle and Video Service
PT News
While the desired plan might have inadequate affect on promoters' attempts, as Gmail, Google search and other services would all still be available, users would have to start their web experience on an additional page. The dependence on iGoogle is such ...

Google adds Gmail log search for apps administrators
FierceCIO
Google is rolling out a tool that will allow administrators to search through Gmail logs, a feature thatGoogle says has been requested by domain administrators. The announcement was made by Priya Mathew, a Google Apps senior strategist, in a blog post ...

Wolverton: Google Nexus 7 nice, but content lacking
San Jose Mercury News
The Google Nexus 7 has a beautiful screen, a refined interface and, at $200, a compelling price. But when it comes to games, movies and TV shows — some of the things you're most likely to want on a tablet — the Nexus 7 comes up short, not only to the ...

British Airways plans to Google-stalk customers for a more personalized service
The Verge
British Airways is rolling out a new customer service program that will see its employees searchingGoogle for photos of customers. BA hopes the initiative, called "Know Me," will help it provide a higher level of individual service to its clients ...

A Google Panda Recovery Story That Rocks - Search Engine ...
By barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
We have covered several Panda recovery stories here but a WebmasterWorld thread links to (which is not often) a story on Search Engine Journal named The Holy Grail of Panda Recovery – A 1-Year Case Study. This may be one of the most ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Face-off: S Voice vs Google Voice Search (Video) | Android Headlines
By Bams Sadewo - androidauthority.com
A little bit of sibling rivalry is never a bad thing if it fosters innovation and improvement. What we have here is a video posted by Android Authority's Clayton Ljungberg , who put to the test two high-profile voice assistants — Samsung's S Voice ...
Android Headlines

Is Google's new “Voice Assistant” Siri Smart?
By aditi
With some radical changes to the Google search experiences in a mobile device, it came up with a distinctly designed search experience that may bury old mobile SERP. The following are some of the introductions that were announced by ...
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Tim O'Reilly: Google's got problems — Tech News and Analysis
By Om Malik
There's a real danger here that Google will fall into the Yahoo! trap, forgetting who they are by pursuing the competition. Yahoo! was a terrific content destination, and lost its way trying to be a search engine. Might Google be doing the same in ...
GigaOM

Google Panda Update Up Close |
By admin
Each of the 14 Panda Updates is an attempt to refine Google's search engine results for the better.Google has around 46 Billion pages currently indexed and more than 80% of penalized websites are still struggling to recover from the update ...

Search Engine Guru, Matt Cutts on Google's Updates | Domain ...
By dvescuso
Search Engine Guru, Matt Cutts on Google's Updates. When it comes to the Google updates, Panda and Penguin are just that, updates. In a recent interview during the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Matt Cutts, Google's web spam chief, ...
Domain Information from Buydomains

Top 10 Takedowns in Google's Copyright Transparency Report ...
By Kurt Opsahl and Parker Higgins
Google said in the report that it refuses to comply with requests that are obviously inaccurate or intentionally abusive, which accounts for about 3% of the total. While Google deserves to be commended for that example of good citizenship, they can't catch ... HBO asked to take down the search result for the Spanish version of the Wikipedia Game of Thrones page, saying it infringes the TV show. The Wikipedia article as it appeared at the time is still available, and we can't see anything...
Deeplinks

Google earns U.S. patent protection for search page design | CIO ...
By admin
As search engine industry has flourished, a number of lawsuits and legal issues have arisen in relation to them. Google holds patent for almost every claw related to the website and this week it earned another one that extends a narrow ...
CIO Central

BREAKING: Twitter to Change “Search and Discovery” Forever ...
By David
BREAKING: Twitter to Change “Search and Discovery” Forever, Declares War on Google. Big changes are happening at the Twitter HQ! Thursday night, Twitter engineering manager, Pankaj Gupta, tweeted that Twitter will “forever change ...
Lujure

Airlines start to Google passengers | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
Google is not just any search engine, you can more or less say that this is THE search engine of the world. There are many ways of using Google, and one of the more interesting methods which we have chanced across recently would be this ...
Ubergizmo

How to Run Foreign Language PPC Campaigns - Search Engine ...
By Christian Arno
Although SEO should be an important part of any online marketing strategy, it can take time to yield conversions. A pay-per-click (PPC) campaign can help speed the process ... Go Beyond Google.Google is by far the most popular search engine worldwide and it should play a crucial role in most PPC campaigns. As of June 2012, Karmasnack reported the search engine giant had a whopping 87.6 percent market share worldwide. But this doesn't tell the whole story. In certain markets ...
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Google retiring iGoogle, Google Mini, others for 'spring cleaning ...
Because heck, even a company as big as Google has to pick its battles. On the chopping block this time out are the Google Mini enterprise search system, the ...
www.engadget.com/.../google-retiring-igoogle-google-mini-ot...