I’ve written that Google has plenty of public data to allow parts its new Search Plus Your World feature to be inclusive of rival social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Now, those networks are proving that true, through a new “Don’t Be Evil” tool that lets anyone... ...
“Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
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How Google Made $37.9 Billion in 2011
How does Google make money? A new analysis by Wordstream looks at who contributed the most to Google’s 2011 revenues, based on keyword, search query, and CPC data, and reveals which industries and businesses spent the most on advertising. ...
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Google Search Showing Results For Punctuation Marks
Alex Chitu reports Google is now showing search results for punctuation marks and other types of symbols. In the past, Google ignored most punctuation marks and didn’t show any results for them that were useful. Now Google is. For example, a search for , returns pages on the topic of usage of... ...
Google Upgrades Punctuation Search Results
Google has updated its search results for queries involving punctuation marks and symbols. Though not perfect, searching for the symbol equivalent of a period, comma, carat, percent sign and more punctuation marks now will return search results. ...
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Can Facebook Save Digg From Being Buried Alive?
For all of Digg’s efforts, it has really had no luck in trying to get back to its glory days, when it dominated the social aggregation space completely. Starting years ago with changes to limit the power their top users had, it has been one failed release after another, with version 4’s release really marking [...]Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal ...
New “Likes” App Scans FB Likes to Generate Local Reco’s
I just heard from our friends at WillowTree Apps about their most recent iPhone app, “Likes”. Utilizing the growing number of Facebook Likes out there, it will look at your friends’ and friends of freinds’ activity and make local recommendations accordingly. It’s an interesting idea, and well within the growing trend of social sharing that we discussed in our 2012 predictions.
Google Plus Connections Are The New Link
A couple of weeks ago, Google caused a big hub-bub when it launched Search Plus Your World (“SPEW” for short), the catchy-titled deep integration of Google Plus and Google’s organic Web results. Naturally as soon as that happened, many of my clients, big and small, called to get... ...
Chinese New Year 2012: Google & Search Engines Welcome Year of the Dragon
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European Xtreme Shoppers Prefer Tech Over Deals
TLC has a TV show called “Extreme Couponing,” which demonstrates the lengths people will go to in order to save a buck. The saying “only in America” comes to mind and a new survey from GfK bears that out. The study took a look at the behaviors of “Xtreme Shoppers” around the globe. They don’t offer a clear definition of which shoppers fall into this category, but they’re definitely people you want on your side.