| 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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Flickr App For Windows 7, Windows Phone 7 Goes Native
In an interesting turn of events here at CES, online photo sharing site Flickr has announced that Yahoo is rolling out a native Flickr app for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 later this month that adopts Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, which promises better navigation… |
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Google Docs Gets Playful — Unfurls Streaming Of Uploaded Videos
Ever since Google’s epic cloud based document and spreadsheet tool, Google Docs started allowing file uploads of any type, has added a new string to its bow: The search engine behemoth on Friday added another nifty cloud feature to Google Docs: a video player… |
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Facebook Makes Revamped Profiles Compulsory For All, Users Revolt
Whether you like it or not, for those who have been holding out on upgrading to the new Facebook profile design, which was unveiled in December, will lose that right to choose in a couple of days. Beginning today, the world’s stupendous online social network, which recently crossed the 600 million member mark, announced Monday that the new profile page… |
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Google Goggles Upgraded For Barcode Scanning, Sudoku Cheats
The days of Sudoku could be on the brink, thanks to Google. The puzzle that shook the world by storm with its simple grid of digits and empty boxes can now be solved instantly by any mobile phone — no matter what the level of difficulty. Google Goggles, the smartphone app designed by Google Inc., got a major upgrade on Monday, is apparently powerful enough to… |
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MySpace Slashing More Than Half Of Its Staff Ahead Of Possible Sale
MySpace, the pioneering social networking website owned by News Corp., reportedly plans to slash more than half of its workforce on Tuesday as the website scales back its social networking ambitions, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the business continues a major strategic overhaul aimed at buoying its dismal financial performance… |
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Google Releases “Goo.gl” API For Its URL Shortener
Back in the autumn of 2010, Google unveiled its free URL shortening service to the world, using the goo.gl domain address. But yesterday afternoon, the search engine behemoth took a somewhat arcane but important step — has finally fully released its URL shortening service, Goo.gl, for… |
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Google Changes Ad Display URLs For AdWords; Simplifies Negative Keywords Lists
Google has just announced that the new Google Adwords URLs are going to look different in the future. The domain component of your display URL for all ads appearing on Google’s search engine results pages will automatically begin appearing in lowercase letters within the next week when your ad is served (e.g., Subdomain.Example.com/Subdirectory will now appear as subdomain.example.com/Subdirectory)… |
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Google Launches First Global Google Science Fair For Students
For the first time ever, Google has launched a global online “Google Science Fair” for students aged 13 to 18 from around the globe, having an Internet connection and a Google account to take part in the competitive event. So all ye whizkid get ready for some serious global competition… |
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AOL Allied With Reality TV Powerhouse Endemol To Produce Slate Of Web Series
Relentlessly striving to make good on its effort to revive its brand and expand its video programming, AOL on Wednesday announced a Web programming deal with big TV network reality show producer Endemol USA, to develop a pair of original Web series aimed at women… |
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Yahoo Launches Online Sports Magazine “ThePostGame”
Sports fans have one more place to rant and rave about their favorite teams online. For years, Yahoo Sports has been outperforming sports giants ESPN and Sports Illustrated, has built an audience of more than 50 million visitors on news, commentary and fantasy games… |
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Google Places Rivals Yelp With Hotpot App Released For iPhone
Last year, search engine behemoth Google fruitlessly ventured to buy Yelp, the local business rating and review site, but since then continued its recent trend of iOS app releases on Wednesday by introducing Google Places and Hotpot for iPhone and iPod touch… |
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Microsoft Unfurls WebMatrix Web Publishing Tools With Built-In SEO
After three rounds of betas, software monopolist Microsoft has finally unfurled a new web development tool called WebMatrix, which the company says is designed to let developers of “all skill levels” create, customize, and publish websites to the Internet… |
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Google’s First Acquisition Of The Year: “eBook Technologies”
eBooks and e-readers are big business these days. The search engine giant Having acquired 25 companies in 2010, Google has kicked off 2011 with a new acquisition. The company, which opened an online digital bookstore last month, is accelerating its thrust in the e-book space by… |
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Google Converts Android Smartphones Into Interpreters, Adds “Conversation Mode”
If you are an Android users and a fan of Google services, chances are you have at least fiddled with Google Translate, now speakers of English and Spanish can now speak with each other through the engagement of Google Translate. The search engine giant Google on Wednesday began transforming Android-powered smartphones into interpreters with… |
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Google Faces Privacy Charges In South Korea Over Street View Photos, Wi-Fi Data Sniffing
After China, Now its South Korea’s turn to grumble about Google. In what may come as a rude shock to the cyber world, internet search engine giant Google has been alleged by South Korean Police, which reportedly mentioned that Google broke the country’s law when its Street View service captured personal information of around 60,000 users from unsecure Wi-Fi networks, thereby violating internet privacy policies… |
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Google Debuts Spell Checker To Gmail Search Box
Google Search has long offered suggestions when it thinks you may have entered a word (or words) incorrectly. Now, Gmail users with less than perfect spelling can now rejoice as the search engine giant’s email service now suggests correct spelling searches, when it comes time to perform a search of your email, kind of like its bigger search brother… |
Search Engine News Updates
Search Engine News Updates: January 10-15-2011
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