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Google Base Joins the Online Market

Monday, March 8, 2010

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With its advent of a free content submission program, Google has joined Craig’s List and eBay in the competitive online marketplace. Google Base and Google Merchant Center, released respectively in November 2006 and September 2009, allow individuals to post online and offline content for Google to make searchable. How does it work? Through Google Base and [...]

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Google and China Engage in Online Battle

Monday, February 1, 2010

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In a country driven by the internet, where a good book or a delicious pizza are just a click away, it is hard not to take our freedom to search the web for granted. However, some countries do not allow their citizens the same liberties we cherish when it comes to online searching. On January [...]

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Google hopping on the QR Code bandwagon

Monday, December 14, 2009

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A QR (Quick Reference) code is a variation of a barcode, having a pixilated rectangular image rather than a series of stripes, and can store pretty much any information you want. QR codes have been widely used in Asia for some times, and Japan is going nuts over them! QR codes can appear on items [...]

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Everyone’s buzzing about Windows 7

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Windows 7 has been a long time coming, but finally went on sale today. Windows 7 is now available on new PCs as well as available as an upgrade on some old ones. No shock to anyone, it is rapidly becoming one the most talked about topics on the web. Everyone is talking about it on [...]

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Google Insights for Search Blog Series: Part 4

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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This is the final installment of the Insights for Search blog. The first section covered how Insights operates, the second concentrated on the pros of the site and the third section addressed some concerns about Insights for Search. This last section will help the bewildered user master Insights and reap all of its benefits. Let’s [...]

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Google Insights for Search Blog Series: Part 3

Monday, September 28, 2009

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This is blog entry three of four. Previous sections included Part 1:  how Insights works and Part 2:  positive aspects of the site. Get more Insightful! There’s no doubt that Insights is helpful, useful and interesting. It’s fascinating to look at the trends, see what people are interested in and where certain items create the most buzz. [...]

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Google Insights for Search Blog Series: Part 2

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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This is part two of the four part blog series. You can find part one here, which covers how Insights for Search works and what it provides for users. This next entry focuses on the positive aspects and benefits of Google’s Insights for Search. What is Great about Insights? Precision It seems that Insights wants the [...]

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Google Insights for Search Blog Series: Part 1

Monday, September 21, 2009

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This four part blog series will explain the in’s and out’s of Google’s Insights for Search web site. The entries are broken down into the following: Google Insights: How Insightful it Truly is What is Great about Insights? Get more Insightful The Mindset of Insights Users: A ‘How to’ of Google Insights for Search The first entry will concentrate [...]

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Google Makes Video Indexing Easier

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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To improve video indexing, Google Webmaster has now added support for Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa markup format to let you specify information like a video’s title and description, within the HTML of a video page. As Video search is becoming more and more popular, Google wants webmasters who offer video content to be able to get their videos [...]

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Why Gmail went down yesterday : the verdict

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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When users yesterday were unable to connect to the popular Google email service and were receiving errors for at least 15-20 minutes, they rushed to express their panic on Twitter, with thousands of tweets from frustrated users being posted. But what exactly happened over there at Google HQ? Gmail has thousands and thousands of overlapping [...]

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