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Google Flu Trends Intense in Canada, High in United States
Okay, so Google Flu Trends has been around since November of 2008. But Google has found that certain search terms are good indicators of…
Anchor Intelligence Reports Decline in Click Fraud, Identifies New Hotspots
Anchor Intelligence has released its click fraud report for the third quarter of 2009. It paints a different picture than the Click Forensics report…
Local and Social: It’s all Coming Together
Google and Bing strike deals giving them access to real-time social feeds. What does it mean for the future of local search?
Philosophy and Search: The Big Three Founders and the Philosophers
Does the thinking of Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo, and Microsoft's Bill Gates mirror some of the…
Google Crawls RSS Feeds to Discover New Web Pages; AdSense for Feeds Now Available in Blogger
Google recently launched a new feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds to discover new web pages. This helps Google index new webpages faster…
Google Tests Mortgage Comparison Ads, Updates Real Estate Search in Maps
Google is vamping up its real estate search offerings with two new announcements. First up, AdWords is testing comparison ads in the mortgage/refinance vertical.…
Google Homepage Test Now Instructs Searchers to Press Enter
Google has added an element to their latest homepage test that instructs people what to do after they’ve entered a keyword. The sentence “Press…
Google Sends Another Letter to the FCC Explaining Voice
Google has provided additional information to the FCC’s regarding Google Voice. You might remember that Google already responded to FCC’s questions about Google Voice…
MapQuest Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint
Earlier this week, Google updated the look of its mapping service and now MapQuest has done the same. The goal is to improve readability…
Microsoft and Yahoo! Deal Implementation Delayed, But Progress Made
Yahoo! has filed a document with the SEC stating the obvious: that their search deal with Microsoft did not get finalized by October 27,…