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Search Engine News Updates: November 22-30-2010

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…
Microsoft Debuts Redesigned Interface For Bing Maps

In an attempt to keep pace with its rivals, Bing continues to upgrade its numerous product offerings, and over the weekend announced a series of enhancements to the Bing Maps interface, which…

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Google Widely Unfolds Incoming Voice Call Recording Feature To Gmail

Google consolidated Gmail with Google Voice in late August, enabling people to make and receive calls from their computer with a Google Voice number. Earlier this month, there were some initial reports that Google has been working on improving this feature with a nifty addition: Now it appears that search engine titan Google has silently unfurled a novel feature…

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Google, Bing Gaining Search Ground, comScore Says

In a closely watched monthly ranking of search engine providers, indicates that October witnessed business as usual in the U.S. search engine market with Google and Bing both seizing slightly more share, but Yahoo, which partners with Microsoft on some technology, slipped a bit…

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Google Docs Gets Greater Mobile Support — Editing Comes To iOS, Android Devices

The power of Google Docs is flourishing everywhere, and now it is coming to your pocket thanks to support for mobile browsers. The search engine giant is extending full mobile support from one of the best online…

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Google Docs Gets Greater Mobile Support — Editing Comes To iOS, Android Devices

The power of Google Docs is flourishing everywhere, and now it is coming to your pocket thanks to support for mobile browsers. The search engine giant is extending full mobile support from one of the best online…

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Google Debuts Turn-By-Turn Maps Navigation In Australia, New Zealand

Global search engine leader Google, striving to promote one of its incredible  Google Maps Navigation Service in Australia and New Zealand, over the weekend launched turn-by-turn navigation capabilities for Australian Android users, with the company launching the product at its…

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Google’s DocVerse Now Infiltrates Microsoft Office

In the insect world, parasitic wasps inject larvae into certain caterpillars. The larvae feed on the caterpillars, turn them into zombies, and eventually devour them. A similar concept is adopted by the Internet search engine behemoth Google, Google is putting its DocVerse team to use…

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AOL Video To Unify Disparate Content Offerings Under One Roof

AOL Inc., the Internet portal site in the midst of transforming itself, on Tuesday announced that it is reorganizing its growing roster of video assets under one roof, dubbed as AOL Video…

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Twitter’s Promoted Tweets To Appear In Google’s Real-Time SERPs

In an attempt to scoop up more advertising dollars, this marks the first time the search engine giant has shown advertisements from any other network beside its own Adwords in its SERPs, Google has begun displaying Twitter’s Promoted Tweets in its real-time search…

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Microsoft Nabs Mapping Guru “Steve Coast” For Bing Mobile

As part of an initiative to bring innovation and improvements to its Bing Maps, Microsoft has hired “Steve Coast” the man who fostered a great reputation in the geospatial community by founding OpenStreetMap, “a free editable map of the whole world,”…

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Skyfire Unveils First Android Mobile Browser For Facebook Integration

Skyfire, creator of the award-winning browser for mobile devices, today unfurled the first mobile browser focused especially for “the social networking generation,” the company said…

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UberTwitter Now Available For iPhone — Hurts BlackBerry

After proving its popularity on the BlackBerry, UberTwitter, the longstanding mobile Twitter app is now trying to make a name for itself on the iPhone. The current version has been released as a beta, with the full 1.0 version being announced for December…

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Google Docs Refreshes; Now Supports Compact View, Drag And Drop File Uploading Features

Relentlessly attempting to keep its products and services alive, last month Google Docs unleashed drag and drop image insertion, and now the global search engine leader Google on Tuesday updated its cloud-based Office rival Docs by adding two new useful functions to Google Docs user…

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Google Proposes All Android Apps To Get Content Ratings

Attempting to avoid any unwanted controversy, Mountain View, Calif.-based, search engine titan Google had suggested that it will make it mandatory for developers to add content ratings for all apps in Android Market. The new rules, according to the company, aroused as a result of Android users asking for more information on apps…

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Sony Reader App For iOS, Android Coming In December

Following the footsteps of Amazon, Sony in a teaser has provided some of the initial details of its promised Android and iPhone apps. This mobile Reader app for Apple iOS and Google Android platform is due for release next month…

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Google Unveils New “Optional Attendees” Feature To Google Calendar

Scheduling and organizing meetings is a cumbersome task, but Google Calendar is quite a handy tool for managing such works, which is quickly catching up to Microsoft’s Outlook and Exchange calendaring system, the search engine titan Google Inc. announced today on The Official Gmail Blog that it has now added some new feature to Google Calendar…

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Google Earth 6 Unfurls Seamless Street View, 3D Trees

Relentless striving to bring up to the minute innovation to its products, global search engine leader Google on Monday released an updated version of Google Earth 6 into its interactive digital atlas, which integrates a more seamless Street View experience and includes 3D species-specific models of trees…

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