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Search Engine News Updates: October 25-29-2010

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…
Major Networks Blocked Web TV Shows From Google TV

Internet search and advertising leader Google is throwing a party, but three of the four major U.S. broadcast networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — enviously guarding their control of their television broadcasting, have blocked the search engine giant from streaming full-length video content and web shows through its Google TV service, the company’s new Web-based…

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Adobe Unveils Project Rome Publishing Tool

Adobe has unleashed a new multimedia authoring tool for education, dubbed Project Rome, a new all-in-one content creation and publishing application targeted to consumers, small businesses, and educators, the hosted service unveiled for public preview Sunday morning…

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Google Mortified By Street View Blunder, Faces Landmark Fine For Invasion Of Privacy

Google Inc acknowledged for the first time that its “Street View” cars, which drive down streets worldwide to accumulate photos for Google Maps, accidentally collected more personal data than previously unveiled — including complete emails and passwords — potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries…

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Google Introduces “Boost” For Local Businesses Advertising

Google with its vast conglomerate, earns most of its money through its cash cow, AdWords. But in several key markets, Google has not yet fully realized its potential. Now the search engine giant is putting all its efforts by just announcing a new online advertising solution that will help local businesses in expanding their reach, from launching mobile product search offerings, to overhauling their image search in part by adding…

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Adobe’s New AIR Release 2.5 Supports Applications Across Several Devices

Adobe, a provider of digital solutions for graphic and multimedia applications, and whose applications has been mocked at by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as a relic from a bygone PC age, is showing signs that it’s adapting to today’s computing realities, on Monday released Adobe Air 2.5, an…

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Google Finally Upgraded FeedBurner Service To Focus On Real Time Stats And Twitter

Believe it or not, Google has not forgotten about Feedburner. Around three and a half years ago, Google made what appears to be a pretty big $100 million acquisition: FeedBurner, the RSS analytics service just got its first big update since coming under the Google umbrella…

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Android Market Reaches 100,000 Apps Milestone

It is a significant moment for search engine leader’s mobile OS — Google has noiselessly confirmed that its application store, the Android Market The for smartphone and tablet applications has just crossed a major milestone, with more than 100,000 applications, and it is official…

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Yahoo Mail Gets A Face Lift With Social Sheen

Attempting to tempt people into spending more time on its website, on Tuesday, Yahoo Inc began to roll out a revamped version of its Web-based Yahoo mail product that boasts faster performance, new capabilities, and yes, a place you never want to–or more importantly–have to leave to get your social fix…

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Firefox Add-On “Firesheep” Brings Security Problem For Popular Websites Over Insecure Wireless Networks

Secure logins have become one of the most critical issues pertaining to web security today. Eric Butler, a Seattle-based freelance web application developer, the creator of a Firefox extension called Firesheep, has spurred anxiety with a new add-on program for the popular Web browser Firefox that allows virtually anyone to hijack other people’s accounts…

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Google Overhauls Smart Search For Places

In a bid to capture more advertising dollars from businesses located near people using its search engine, Google Inc., has refurbished the way it organizes and presents local search results, eliminating overlapping items, consolidating a variety of relevant information and packaging it within individual entries…

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Flickr Unveils Facebook-Like Integration That Helps You Find Friends

In what appears like a long overdue features, Flickr, at heart a social photo sharing service, on Thursday announced that it is finally rolling out a couple of features that should make finding friends easier based on your Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo email and Facebook account, or at least…

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Google Debuts A Completely Revamped Charts Editor For Google Docs

Just in time for Halloween, Internet search engine behemoth Google recently announced on the Official Google Docs Blog the introduction of another smart Chart Editor feature to its Docs office and collaboration suite which brings it even closer to being a complete alternative to more established desktop products…

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MySpace Seeks Mojo With Redesign, Focuses On Entertainment

Social network pioneer MySpace faces growing problem staying relevant as Facebook’s user base continues to explode. But on Wednesday, MySpace unleashed its latest redesigned site with a focus on entertainment and content rather than subscriber-driven profiles, pulling in social elements that are more akin to Twitter and Foursquare than rival Facebook…

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