Twitter is integrating search into its homepage. “Search” and “Trends” can be found on the home page of a limited number of accounts for beta testing.
Archive for February, 2009
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Twitter to Add Homepage Search
Kyle Lewis
23Feb
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Google Latitude Update: A Million Strong
Quinn Sheek
The new Google product called Google Latitude launched on February 4th, 2009. If you aren’t familiar with the service yet, it allows you to communicate with your Google contacts to find out their exact location at any given time, as well as allow them to see your physical location.
20Feb
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Yahoo Search Turns Five!
Terri Greene
Yahoo’s stand-alone search product is celebrating its 5th birthday today. It was February 18th, 2004 when Yahoo started serving up their own search results, no longer using Google’s. With the back and forth talks about a possible merger with Microsoft, we were unsure if Yahoo would see its 5th birthday, but it looks as though Yahoo made it. Happy Birthday Yahoo and hopefully, many more to come!
18Feb
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New Canonical Tag Helps Ease Duplicate Content Fears
Scott Phillips
Duplicate content got you down? Well the major search engines of the world have come together to help alleviate these fears with a new canonical tag. If your site has the same content on multiple URLs, by simply adding this new tag in the head section of the duplicate pages, a webmaster is now able to tell the engine which page should be considered the authority and not run the risk of the dreaded duplicate content filter. All three major engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) came together to recognize this tag in an attempt to serve better search results. It should be noted that “link juice” is not passed with this method.
18Feb
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SuperGuarantee – Too Good to be True?
Nicholas Grohne
Superpages is about to unveil a new program called SuperGuarantee. Around 3,000 headings will be backed by this program. Users must register to partake. Companies who are backed by this program will have a distinguishing emblem indicating their participation. If there’s a problem between the consumer and the vendor, SuperPages.com will come in and attempt to mediate. If the problem still cannot be solved to the satisfaction of both parties, Idearc has agreed to pay up to a $500 settlement. I think it will be interesting to see how much this increases SuperPages.com market share. You would have to think that any consumer is willing to switch whichever IYP they are loyal to for a sure thing. I think something like this could turn the IYP business upside down and if other IYPs don’t conform, they may risk obsoleteness… But first IYP users must buy into this new “too good to be true” offer from Idearc.
17Feb
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Could Your Right to Link be Threatened?
Terri Greene
Imagine living in a world where you couldn’t freely link to certain websites, news articles, blogs, etc. I know this may sound a little far-fetched because, after all, anyone can link to whomever they want – right? Wrong. In a recent article, I was surprised to hear that a company’s right to link had been stifled.
17Feb
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Google Android Offering Paid Applications
Quinn Sheek
Several months after the launch of the Google Android phone, Android has announced the availability of paid phone applications to US and UK markets. This means that similarly to the iPhone, the Google Android now offers users the ability to buy and sell extra applications. This feature is only being launched in the United States and the United Kingdom, but Google expects to continue to launch the application in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, and Spain by the end of the first quarter.
13Feb
