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  1. Google Docs Adds Offline Support for Android Devices

    Google Docs now enabes users with Android smartphones and tablets to access their files offline. Google is adding the feature to help users access documents in their online Google Docs account at times when they may not have an Internet connection.

  2. Google, Microsoft, Facebook Teaming Up to Fight Phishing

    Google, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with banks and security vendors to create The Domain-based Authentication, Reporting and Conformance group (DMARC) group, which seeks to develop a platform that can weed out potential phishing messages.

  3. Steve Jobs Email to Google: Stop Recruiting Apple Employees

    Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs emailed Google to ask the firm to stop trying to recruit its staff, according to court documents made public in an investigation into the hiring policies in place at several major technology companies.

  4. Valentine’s Day 2012 Ideas for Marketers

    Valentines Day is less than two weeks away. For marketers looking to take advantage, Google and Microsoft adCenter have provided several ideas based on what users are already searching for. Top searches, products, and optimization tips.

  5. How Affiliate Sites Can Best Exploit SEO

    Affiliate marketing is now an industry worth billions, although it’s fiercely competitive. Close analysis of relevant keywords can help you discover lucrative niches that may be overlooked in the rush for the big-ticket high traffic keywords.

  6. Kick-Start Your PPC Campaign in 6 Easy Steps

    Now is the perfect time to make changes, giving you a good few months of “normal” search traffic to analyze before major events like Christmas begin to make their presence known. Here are some tips to make your PPC campaign stand out from the crowd.

  7. Trover: Local Search and Discovery Through Images

    Trover is a new mobile local discovery app built around geotagged images. Trover’s CEO discusses possible futures for crowdsourced location-based search directories and the potential these new platforms to deliver more relevant, personalized ads.

  8. Pot (Microsoft) Calls Kettle (Google) Black on Privacy

    Did you know Microsoft truly puts people first? Instead of having horrible, evil products like Gmail, Google’s search engine, Google Docs, or Google Chrome, Microsoft saves us with Hotmail, Bing, Microsoft Office 365, and Internet Explorer 9.

  9. Google Fined in France Because Google Maps is Free

    A Paris court has ordered Google France and parent company Google Inc. to pay €500,000 ($660,000) in damages, after a two year court battle with French mapping company Bottin Cartographes over their unfair competition complaint.

  10. How to Understand Your Google “Not Provided” Traffic

    By using the process outlined in this article, you can get a very good understanding of what the Google “not provided” data is in regards to what types of queries people are entering. Not exact, but good enough to make some solid extrapolations.

  11. Social TV Grows Up: Communities and Advertisers Flock

    Several applications have sprung up that tie real-world actions to online communities, and allow for an experience that goes beyond the TV screen and into the palm of viewers’ hands. Here are a few applications that we see as category leaders.

  12. Are You Competing with Your Own Business Identity?

    As the search for local information continues to rise, so does the need for a shared consistent identity across all platforms. These best practices will ensure a normalized version of your company’s anchor identity throughout search results.

  13. Google to Talk Privacy Policy in Private with Congress

    The great Google privacy policy change freak out continues. In the latest developments, Google has defended its changes in a letter to Congress, and will send two Google reps to Washington, D.C., to give a “closed-door briefing” on the new policy.