| 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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Microsoft Beefs Up Hotmail Security And Social Network Measures
Security is something that is necessarily essential for internet companies that provide email and social networking services. Taking this in to account, software monopolist Microsoft earlier this week has released raft of new Hotmail security features aimed at blocking email hijackers and helping users reclaim compromised accounts… |
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Facebook Enables High-Resolution Photo Uploads, Sharing
Social networking colossus Facebook, on Thursday announced some significant upgrades to its photo-sharing product: the ability to share high-resolution photos, “tag” people in bulk, and browse photos in a more streamlined fashion that does not load individual pages each time a new photo is viewed… |
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Google’s “Goo.gl” URL Shortener Goes Public
In an age of compactness with 140-character communication and mobile devices, URL shorteners are a godsend gift. Search engine leader Google’s URL shortener, which, until now, has been closely tied to its existing products, is now debuting as a stand-alone service. The company’s Goo.gl URL shortening service is now open to the world through a new Web site… |
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Yahoo Confirms Departure Of Three Top Executive, Bartz Urges Calm
Web portal Yahoo, which recently lost some of its key officials, and CEO Carol Bartz is encountering what may be the toughest challenge during her tenure since she took charge of Yahoo almost two years ago. The struggling search engine company late last week confirmed the departure of three senior-most executives, including U.S. head Hilary Schneider, the latest in a string of high-level departures at the Web portal… |
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Google’s Debuts “WebP” New Format To Revolutionize Web Image Quality
Internet search engine giant Google in its relentless efforts to make the Web faster, the company over the weekend announced that it is trimming down the size of image files, which make up about 65% of the bytes on the Web, and released a developer preview of a new open-source image format dubbed as WebP that reduces image file sizes by an average of a third more than what JPEG compression can accomplish… |
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Google Snaps Up BlindType, A Magical Typing Tech For Android
Google Inc., committed to keeping its promise of buying one company a month and now having more than 20 acquisitions this year, has once again in a low-profile move acquired a new startup. This time, the lucky company is San Francisco, California-based BlindType — the creators of an application based around touchscreen input… |
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Microsoft Confirms Windows Phone 7 Launch Event Scheduled For October 11
Microsoft is heading for a mobile race. Barely a week from today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets CEO Ralph de la Vega will be appearing at a New York City press conference on October 11, to unveil the widely anticipated “Windows Phone 7” smartphones, where the companies are expected to announce the release dates for the new mobile operating system… |
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Google TV Announces Programming Deals With HBO, NBA And Others
Reinventing the way people watch TV and browse the Web has never been this exciting — at least for now. Search engine giant Google on Monday announced a passel of partnerships for its Google TV service with outfits involved in video, music, and other more: CNBC, HBO, Turner, the NBA, Pandora, Napster, Twitter and more aimed at combining the comforts of TV viewing and the Internet browsing in one… |
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Microsoft Snaps-Up Cloud Applications Monitor AVIcode To Boost .NET Management
US software monopolist Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has acquired AVIcode, Inc., a Maryland-based private firm that delivers performance monitoring for applications and services on Microsoft’s .NET Framework, the companies announced Wednesday… |
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Yahoo Nabs Dynamic Display Ads Startup Dapper To Rival Google
Just at the start of this week made headlines for its executive exodus, Yahoo seeking to maintain its hold and capitalize on the display advertising market, Tuesday disclosed on its corporate blog that it has acquired the San Francisco-based Dapper, a startup that focuses on fancy contextual display ads, i.e. ads that take what is happening on a content producer’s website as a cue for what to serve up to a viewer… |
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Google Experimenting With Full Page Previews In Search Results
Google is currently testing a revolutionary redesign feature in its search results pages that enables users to view full-page previews of the pages generated by its algorithms., a very interesting addition to its search page that slots in nicely with Google Instant, Blogstorm reports… |
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Twitter Unfurls Massive Overhaul To Its Search To Handle 1B Queries Per Day
Are your Twitter searches humming a bit faster these days? The micro-blogging site, Twitter in an attempt to deliver users faster and more comprehensive search functionality, said Wednesday that it has changed its entire search architecture, and nobody noticed for weeks until they pointed it out… |
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Yahoo Revamps Search For Entertainment, Sports, News
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, fulfilling its promise to innovate in search, on Thursday began rolling out several major changes to its search engine that focus on more broader selection of results when queries are related to entertainment, news or sports. The new features aim to deliver news and entertainment content to searchers across multiple devices… |
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Google News Experiments With Twitter Integration
Google News is currently experimenting with a new element that allows users to incorporate their Twitter accounts with the news aggregator, according to a report from Search Engine Land, which was discovered by a reader who apparently saw the experiment in action and posted a snapshot of what it looked like on Twitter… |
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Google Rolls Out Instant Search In India
From now on every keystroke that a user in India enters in Google Search Box will display dynamic search results while they are typed, as search engine behemoth on Thursday unleashed “Google Instant,” a new and revolutionary feature of Google, is now available on google.co.in… |
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New Yahoo Mobile Apps To Incorporate Video Chat Into Its Messenger For Android and iPhone
Apple has targeted a great deal of its iPhone 4 marketing blitz around its so-called FaceTime video calling technology. But Sunnyvale, California-based internet pioneer Yahoo is about to challenge Apple for the mobile video calling crown, with plans to incorporate a video-calling feature into its popular Yahoo Messenger application for both the iPhone and Android mobile platforms… |
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Google Unveils Dedicated Latitude Website For Desktops
Earlier, Google Latitude has been available for mobile devices only via an iGoogle widget or smartphone devices, Latitude now more prominent. Earlier this week search engine titan Google on the Official Google Mobile Blog announced the introduction of a dedicated Google Latitude website that now enables users to find/track their friends and share their location from the comfort of a computer… |
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Search Engine News Updates: October 01-09-2010
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