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Google+ Adds Community Guides for Organizations
Google is pushing to get more celebrities, politicians, non-profits, and other organizations onto Plus by providing "community guides." These free guides showcase successful profiles,…
Volunia Search Engine: A ‘Radical New View’ of Search
Volunia, an Italy-based search engine, is preparing for its early beta stages. It promises to be a "radical new view" of search, and is…
New Google Map Ads Stir Controversy
Google recently added bubble ads to select Google Maps locations. The choice to create new ad space has caused controversy, with some business owners…
Google’s Battle for the Mobile Web
Google and optimized mobile websites win by way of more traffic and searches. The latter slowly happens with the reinforcement of the quality of…
Transitioning Away From Affiliate Marketing
Pick one thing and stick to it. You can never successfully create a sustainable business by slamming out hundreds of mini-sites and doing a…
Irish Hotel Drops Autocomplete Defamation Case Against Google
The Ballymascanlon Hotel in Ireland was suing Google for an autocomplete suggestion that implied the hotel was in financial trouble. That case has now…
Tasty Thanksgiving 2011 Searches: Deep Fried Turkey, Turducken & Pumpkin Pie
Thanksgiving recipe searches peak prior to Thanksgiving each year. “Thanksgiving turkey recipes” skyrocketed on Google (950 percent in the past 30 days) and Yahoo…
Google Thanksgiving Doodle History: From 1998 to 2011
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! As has been Thanksgiving tradition, Google posted a special Google Doodle to mark the holiday in the U.S., with this year’s…
adCenter Introduces Multi-Metric Trend Graphs
Over the past years adCenter performance history has been a bit hard to understand, let alone access. This has now changed with the new…
Google Shutting Down Knol & 6 More Failed Products
In what is the third installment of Google's "off-season spring cleaning series", more products are being terminated or integrated into other products. Aside from…