Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has "improved driving, transit and walking directions, as well as up-to-the minute traffic incidents notifications...
Google 'removes word favela' from Rio maps – The TelegraphPressure from city hall and tourist boards, and not everyone is happy about the change. Pegman: Google's Weird Art Project Hidden In Plain Sight – BuzzFeed The history of Google Maps' Pegman...
We’re extending [Google+] across all that we do—search, ads, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube—so that each of those services contributes to our understanding of who you are. Why are we only looking at what’s going on in the front-end, specifically...
Leverage the diversity of Google universal search results mixed with videos, images, shopping, books, maps (local), and news. The embedded video indexing option allows you to potentially drive traffic and clicks to your site instead of YouTube.
Google announced it is dropping the Tags feature for its Places product - a feature they were selling to small businesses to promote their location and products or services through Google Maps. The popularity of Google Doodles has not been...
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Bing has teamed up with Rovario, makers of the popular game "Angry Birds," to push its search engine through four animated videos featuring Bing image search, maps, and shopping. Case Study: Impact of Code Cleanup on Site Traffic by Eric Enge
Google Maps has angered officials and residents of Emden, Germany, by placing their port in the Netherlands. Google Recording 50% Annual Growth in African Search Requests - Bloomberg
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If Google Instant results are cached to save bandwidth, then it's possible we may not seeing some of the same local (maps, business listings, etc.results that we were seeing before because of those cached pages.
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Google Maps and Images Get the (Unofficial) Instant Treatment - Mashable A tech guru has made unofficial instant versions of Google Maps and Google Images, riffing off of Google's official Google Instant app and a YouTube Instant spinoff.
It's called Google Services for Websites and they've added a few new tools to the mix: Web Elements allows customers cut-and-paste maps, real-time news, calendars, presentations, spreadsheets, YouTube videos, conversations and .
Google Maps for Android Gets Voice Search, Transit Directions, and Latitude Update Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 18, 2009 Google is releasing an update to their Maps product for Android phones. Facebook Overtakes MySpace in US Visits Posted by...
First up, the widget has the following updates: The Maps and Driving Directions experienceMapQuest Search functionality has been addedAdded Traffic informationPerformance and functionality improvements In the local content update, MapQuest has...
Google Maps Adds Richer Data to SearchPosted by Nathania JohnsonGoogle Maps is adding richer data to its search results, including photos, reviews and a "more info" link that opens an "info window" that features more data.
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