| Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates — packed with announcement, alliance, disputes and axing down services or products, from Silicon Valley’s tech leaders like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Bing and others, as well as many more interesting Search Engine Optimization news from across the web… | |
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MapQuest Introduces User-Generated OpenStreet Mapping Service In The US
Found an error on MapQuest? Well, you now have the opportunity to fix it. The AOL subsidiary, making a rebirth tour last weekend harnessing the wealth of OpenStreetMap data, the innovator of online mapping from the 1990s launched a separate website that empowers users to… |
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Google Warns Searchers With Hacked Site Notifications In Search Results
For sites that are prone to vulnerabilities and cyber threats, and to help you keep tabs, global search engine leader Google over the weekend, expanded a program intended to prevent search engine users from visiting websites that could scam them or install malware on their computers with the following notification: “This site may be compromised,” the company said… |
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Google, MySpace Renew Search Deal, Expand Advertising Accord for Several Years
Google Inc. and Beverly Hills, California-based MySpace, the social-networking website owned by News Corp., over the weekend endorsed a new multi-year search and advertising relationship under a long-term deal that no longer assures the social network lucrative guaranteed payments, according to a person familiar with the matter… |
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AOL Scoops-Up Personal Profile Startup “About.me” Four Days After Launch
In a surprising turn or events, just four days after personal profile startup About.me, threw its doors open to the public, has been scooped up by web portal AOL on Monday for and undisclosed sum… |
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Google Expands Free Gmail Calling Through 2011
Inspired by the holiday spirit, and just when the year 2010 was coming to end, Google has decided to play Santa by extending its current phone calling offer for Gmail users in the US, permitting them to call landlines and mobiles in Canada and the US for free throughout 2011… |
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Microsoft Sneaks Out Free Windows Security Security Essentials 2.0
Software monopolist Microsoft without fanfare over the weekend has sneaked out the latest version of its Microsoft Security Essentials 2 (MSE) antivirus software… |
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Google’s Social Media Critic “Paul Adams” Set To Join Facebook In 2011
In an ironic twist it seems that another Googler has ditched Google for Facebook, but this one may hurt a little more than the others. Paul Adams, one of search engine giant’s experienced researcher who, over the summer excoriated aspects of social networks in a popular slide deck, said today he will be heading to Facebook in the new year… |
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Google Shutters Its Voice Search Services In India
India is one of the emerging country and so is the technology of the nation. It has established a substantial niche for itself on the global map for its advancement in information technology sector but that did not help it ward off Google’s closure of its voice search experiment in India… |
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Skype Apologizes For Massive Outage — Millions Affected Worldwide
Internet telephony giant Skype suffered an outage lasting several hours with millions of users around the globe have been hit by an outage Wednesday when the prominent internet telephony system was disrupted by a massive glitch… |
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Microsoft Launches Emerging HTML5 Labs Site For IE 9 Developers
Software monopolists Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is the most standards-compliant browser to date. Although, it still dawdles behind the rest of the pack when it comes to supporting the latest and greatest elements of HTML5 and CSS 3. To address that shortcoming, Microsoft has introduced a new HTML5 Labs site to give interested web developers a way to… |
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Twitter Acquires Engineering Talent From Q&A Site Fluther
Micro blogging site Twitter may have geared up to become a major player in the thriving social Q&A space on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Fluther, a small California-based startup, which describes itself as a “free Q&A collective that specializes in getting fast answers from the right people,” for its engineering talent… |
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Google Finalized Purchase Of New York Biggest Office Building For $1.9 Billion
Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, on Wednesday disclosed that it has finally concluded the biggest real estate purchase of New York’s 111 Eighth Avenue building as the company expands its presence in Manhattan, which will house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city, for a reported $1.9 billion… |
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Skyfire Web Browser For iPad App With Flash Added To App Store
Flash video on an iPad browser? You kidding? Skyfire, the alternative browser that uses some server-based trickery for iPhone and iPad that play back Flash video on the notoriously Flash-blocking devices, was added to the App Store Wednesday night for $4.99… |
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Search Engine News Updates: December 20-24-2010
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