| 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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Facebook Surpasses Yahoo To Become Third-Largest Website
It was only a matter of time, social networking website Facebook glanced at Yahoo’s traffic, laughed and sped past topping off a fine year for the company and the website, as Santa bestowed the company the title of “third largest website ever”… |
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Microsoft Closing Windows 7 Family Pack Sales By December 31
Popular retailer site Amazon over the weekend said that sales of Microsoft’s three-license Windows 7 Family Pack will end next week, according to Amazon, or once they have run out of stock or on December 31st, whichever occurs soonest… |
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Skype Announced Video Calling Support For the iPhone 4 At CES
Popular internet telephony service Skype has not had a very good week, which has been dealing with some serious downtime issues, but it looks like there is good news on the horizon. Skype is all set to knock FaceTime off its high chair, Skype is finally going to enter the market of mobile… |
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Facebook Trounced Google In UK For First Time On Christmas Day Traffic
According to a report released by Experian Hitwise, indicates that for the first time ever Facebook trounced its biggest rival Google to become Britain’s most visited web page on Christmas Day, accounting for 10.50% of all UK Internet visits on that day… |
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Amazon Says: Wi-Fi Kindle Is Its Best-Selling Product Ever
Giant online retailer Amazon.com has never disclosed sales figures for its e-reader, the Kindle. It still has not, but the company on Monday trumpeted that the latest version of its popular Kindle e-reader, the Wi-Fi and third-generation Kindle, have surpassed its previous all-time bestseller, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the company said… |
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Google Perceives Future In Educational Apps — Promotes Through App Store
As the market for educational apps and software is rapidly escalating, search engine behemoth Google Inc. is reportedly in talks with educational software companies to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, and plans to sell their programs through its App Marketplace, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion this year… |
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Google Gobbles Travel Software To Fatten Its Travel Search Portal
It seems that the once innocent and well-meant start-up that is now known as Google is once again chomping its way through the internet is making waves as it pushes into new arenas. The Mountain-View, California-based search engine titan Google acquired the company that made it easy for travelers to compare airfares, ITA Software Inc., for $700 Mln… |
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Paul Allen Relaunches Tech Patent Suit, Targets Facebook, Google, Apple iTunes, Yahoo And Others
Billionaire, Microsoft Corp co-founder “Paul Allen” yesterday refiled a last-minute revision of a patent infringement lawsuit against 11 popular tech companies namely: Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Netflix, Yahoo and others, which includes specific allegations of patent violation… |
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Google Resists Order To Divulge Four Search Marketers’ Identities
In the latest turn of events in a long-running possible class-action lawsuit about Google’s parked domain program, a federal judge has ordained the search engine giant to reveal the identities of four AdWords advertisers who were clients of Internet marketing agency Wpromote… |
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Facebook Knocks Google Off As King Of The Web In 2010
The end-of-year backslapping continues today following latest statistics from Experian Hitwise which revealed that 2010 has witnessed social networking phenomenon Facebook officially usurp search engine behemoth Google as the most-visited Web site in the United States between… |
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Search Engine News Updates: December 27-31-2010
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