Search Engine News Updates: October 18-23-2010

November 3, 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…
	Google Makes Alliance With Slooh To Deliver Live Images From Space Internet search engine behemoth Google over the weekend announced that it is forging an alliance with Slooh, in an attempt to offer live space exploration service to Google Earth by way of a new “map the universe” layer. As part of the association, many of the images captured with Slooh until now will be available in Google Earth as well as a dedicated layer in Sky… Read More

	Skype And KDDI Strike Up Partnership In Japan Skype, the prominent provider of Internet communications software and Japanese cellphone operator KDDI Corporation, on Sunday announced that they have entered in to an strategic alliance which will see the integration of Skype across KDDI’s services, and the first fruits of this partnership would begin with its mobile offerings — “au”… Read More

	Google Adds Phishing URL Alerts For Network Administrators In an attempt to keep its hands clean and browsing the web a safer place, search engine titan Google announces its innovative alarm system for Safe Browsing notifications about compromised websites sent to network administrators allows them to detect phishing URLs… Read More

	Google Unveils Visual In-Page Analytics Feature Google Analytics has become an indispensable service and is used by a significant number of online publishers and businesses for tracking how internet users are interacting with their websites. Now the life of the average Google Analytics user is about to witness a new innovation. Internet search engine behemoth Google is introducing a new tool that should allow people to stop juggling through pages upon pages of numbers, graphs and obscure terminology or dealing with older, less sophisticated tools… Read More

	Yahoo Set To Imitate Facebook With New Social Media Service, Y Connect If you cannot beat ’em; join ’em. That seems to be the reflection behind Yahoo’s latest strategy to drive traffic to its site. In a clear sign the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s reshuffled leadership team plans on making a big splash in the social media space by accelerating its efforts to join the social media revolution, launching a new service similar to Facebook Connect, where users can log into a variety of other websites with just one click of the mouse, according to the Wall Street Journal… Read More

	Spain Sues Google’s Street View For Violating Data Protection Laws Google’s fleet of Street View cars, the vehicles that are being employed to create its virtual mapping service, are being scrutinized by governments around the globe for violating privacy laws. The gigantic global search engine company has run afoul of the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, or AEPD, the Spanish government’s data protection authority on Monday said that it has filed a suit against Google for allegedly… Read More

	Bill Gates’ Successor At Microsoft “Ray Ozzie” Bids Adieu In a surprise move, Microsoft Corp.’s software chief “Ray Ozzie,” the technical visionary who was appointed to galvanize Microsoft’s attempt to overhaul its business for the Internet era, is to leave the company after a brief transition, it was announced unexpectedly on Monday… Read More

	Google Bundles Search Appliance To Cloud Google’s enterprise drive continues with plans to link two of its more business-oriented products: The search engine company’s enterprise search hardware can now combine internal and external search indexes. It appears simple–and long overdue–but Google plans to introduce a new version of its Search Appliance that allows business users to find… Read More

	Google Pumps Drag-And-Drop Support Into Google Docs A picture is worth a thousand words, and Google could not resist promoting a new, minor feature in its Docs product yesterday, making it a little bit easier to smarten up a document with the addition of a drag-and-drop option to Google Docs, which will allow users to pull an image directly… Read More

	Google Says Nearly 250,000 Germans Opt Out Of Street View Internet search engine giant Google’s most controversial application Street View, which has been scrutinized in many countries on Thur said that nearly a quarter of a million Germans out of the 8.4 million households snapped by its Street View cameras have have asked Google to block images of their houses, the US Internet giant said as it prepared to launch its Street View service in the country… Read More

	Facebook Files Three Lawsuits Against Spammers Social networking operation Facebook has gone on the offensive to protect users’ privacy, is cracking down on spammers plaguing the social network in recent months and has filed three lawsuits in San Jose federal court this week against several men who allegedly tricked users into signing up for mobile subscriptions and spammed their friends… Read More

	China Unveils Its Own Online Version Of Google Earth In an attempt to uproot global search engine leader Google, China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) rolled out its official online mapping service, simply call “Map World,” designed to compete with Google Earth’s popular satellite mapping service, that could spell more trouble for Google’s services in the mainland… Read More

	Google Voice Search Now Understands Russian, Polish, Czech And Turkish For those who have ever craved to ask see pictures of the Kremlin in Russian or find recipes for goulash in Czech, Google now has it covered. Google Voice Search, one of the best features built into every Android phone running version 2.0 or higher, has solely been the domain of English, French and Chinese speaking users for quite a while. But today, the Internet search engine giant has announced the addition of four new… Read More

	Microsoft To Launch Online Windows Gaming Marketplace On November 15 Software major Microsoft’s Games for Windows Live software, which offers digital game sales, friend lists and DRM to publishers, is geared up to launch an online gaming store. Starting November 15, Microsoft will begin selling about 100 Windows PC games directly online, the company announced Friday… Read More