| 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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Google Voice Enhanced For Faster Dialing On Android And BlackBerry Skype, the VoIP service provider, over the weekend announced that it has released a new update for multitasking and improved call quality on its iPhone application that enables users to receive calls while they are using other applications or when the phone is locked… |
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Skype For iPhone App Gets Multitasking Support, Promises Free 3G Calls
If you considered the Google Street View trike was weird, now get ready to take a run on the bobsleigh course, the official Street View snowmobile. Google’s new Street View micro-site for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver has taken to the slopes with the launch of Google Snow View… |
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Microsoft Signs Major Licensing Agreement With ARM Chip Technology
Redmond, software behemoth Microsoft is giving itself a major shot in the ARM, has updated its licensing agreement with chip design firm ARM Holdings PLC that enables the software giant to design chips based on ARM’s technology, a mainstay for cellphones that is also playing a role in new tablet-style computers… |
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Google Unveils Plans To Sell Applications To Federal Government
In an attempt to expand its presence in governmental places, search engine titan Google Inc., on Monday unveiled plans to sell special Internet-hosted Google Apps platform specifically for federal, state, and local governments, with beefed-up security for sensitive information, as the Internet search leader seeks to outmaneuver rivals in the race to provide… |
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Yahoo Japan Is Poised To Select Google’s Search Engine: Report
In what appears be a surprising blow to the massive search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo — Japan’s top Internet portal Yahoo Japan and search engine giant Google Inc., is working on a deal to grab the algorithmic search business for Yahoo Japan, the apparent deal that would… |
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Ask.com Reinvents Itself With User Base To Offer Better Q. & A. Service
Jeeves may have vanished into thin air, but according to Ask.com, he is anything but forgotten. Ask.com, which has experimented with minimal success to transform itself into a search engine on par with those of Google and Microsoft, is making a shift into new direction and… s |
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Google Maps Unleashed Version 4.4 For Android Targets “Nearby” Searches
Google on Monday unveiled its updated Maps for Android (version 4.4), an upgrade that includes easier access to places of attraction nearby for Android phones, making its Place Pages business listings more usable… |
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Google In Discussion To Develop Facebook Rival: Report
Facebook is the undisputed mogul of social networking at the moment, but search engine titan Google Inc. has held discussions with various online gaming companies as it attempts to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook… |
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Microsoft Previews “Street Silde” — Makes Street Navigation Faster With Slide Panoramas
Leaving privacy issues aside, it is hard to grumble too much about products like Bing Streetside and Google Street View, considering such products has long wowed users with its option to view the road inside a 360-degree panorama. But of late, the geniuses over at Microsoft Research have taken the street-view idea within Google and Bing Maps and… |
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Adobe, Microsoft Deepen Ties On Sharing Security Information
At the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, Adobe Systems Inc., announced that they will soon be adopting Microsoft Corp.’s pattern of sharing information about vulnerabilities in its software with security vendors before the companies release security updates, in order to better protect users against electronic threats… |
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YouTube Banned By Russian Court Over Racist Video
A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has blocked access to YouTube after the website was accused of hosting “Russia for Russians,” which was judged to be an extremist propaganda… |
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AdWords Announces Updates For Feedback To Partner Reporting Policy
Striving to keep its cash-cow in the limelight search and advertising titan Google has just disclosed some upcoming changes to its policies for its AdWords third party partners, making it a requirement for them to share certain basic information about their performance on campaigns with their clients… |
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Google Launches New Location-Based Display Ad Format For Mobile Devices
Google is finally stepping into location-based extensions ad format with the introduction of mobile banner add that show users nearby services with map attributes… |
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YouTube Boosts Maximum Video Upload Limit From 10 To 15 Minutes
For years, a lot of YouTube video creators were eclipsed by the 10 minutes of video upload that was just not enough can now rejoice, as Google owned video-sharing site YouTube is changing that: it is boosting the maximum upload length to fifteen minutes, giving the site’s millions of amateur directors a bit more leg room… |
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Google Agrees To Expunge WiFi Data Collected In Hong Kong Internet search leader Google on Friday has consented to expunge all personal WiFi data accumulated by its “Street View” mapping service in Hong Kong, which resulted in the city’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Roderick Woo said was a first and the regulating authority decided not to launch a formal investigation to the leading search engine… |
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Google Integrated Automatic Translation To Google Docs In 53 Languages With most things it is certainly the small things that matters. If you need to dispatch a document to your clients in Spain, but your Spanish is beyond wonky, you are going to need help. Google understands that, and to solve that problem, search engine colossus has just added a cool new native translations feature inside of Google Docs and the ability to… |
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Search Engine News Updates: July26-31-2010
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