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Live Search's New Design Goes Live
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Barry Schwartz on May 06, 2008
After weeks of Microsoft testing a new home page design for Live.com, the new design seems to be live now.When I visit Live.com, I see:Click to continue reading...
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Google A "Mystery Buyer" In Colorado?
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Chris Sherman on January 28, 2008
Denver area residents were treated to some fun over the weekend with reports of the purchase of a 432-acre former campus of Storage Technology by a "mystery buyer," for as much as much as $60 million. The buyer insisted on absolute secrecy from everyone involved in the deal, including Sun Microsystems, which owned the campus. "It's like dealing with the CIA," said one broker associated with...
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Google Ocean To Complement Google Earth, Maps & Sky Soon
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Barry Schwartz on April 30, 2008
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans from News.com reports Google is working on a new mapping system to map the Earth's oceans. The tool might be named Google Ocean and will compliment Google Earth and Google Sky.News.com says Google Ocean will contain 3D oceanographic maps with underwater topography, search features for spots and attractions, and also have zooming and panning features. ...
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Google Incorporates Geodata In API, Partners With ESRI
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Greg Sterling on May 13, 2008
Google's John Hanke keynoted the Where 2.0 conference this morning and discussed the development and evolution of the "geoweb." But he also announced that KML files (now a public standard) and GeoRSS data (I believe) being indexed by Google is now going to be available to third parties via the Google API. That means things like Panaramio and geotagged YouTube videos, among other datasets,...
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Conjunction Junction, Google No Longer Displays Stop Words Malfunction
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Barry Schwartz on January 18, 2008
In the past, a searches involving for "stop words" -- prepositions, pronouns, articles and other small words like "be" or "to" -- would return a warning saying that these words were "a very common word and was not included in your search." Now, searches involving stop words no longer do this.Here is a before and after picture showing this. The before picture was taken from
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FeedBurner Numbers Spike -- Blame FeedBlitz!
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Danny Sullivan on January 18, 2008
Nice -- I picked up 5,000 new feed subscribers today, while Barry Schwartz saw
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Google Health Close to Launching?
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Vanessa Fox on January 24, 2008
... (and www.google.com/health currently redirects to the Google Coop page about health).Gabriel Stricker, Google spokesperson, told us:"We're very interested in working on products in the area of health, and we've been blogging and speaking publicly about this for some time. While we have no additional information to share right now, we hope to in the future." Click to continue reading...
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New: Real-Time Google Maps Edits In New Edits Viewer
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Barry Schwartz on January 25, 2008
The Google LatLong blog announced a neat new feature that let's you sit back and watch the edits made to Google Maps in a live viewer.To view recent edits made to Google Maps, just go here and watch it go. I made a quick video of me watching the page, and as you can see, it showed three edits over the course of 15 seconds. Here is the video:Click to continue reading...
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Will Google Suffer In A Recession?
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Greg Sterling on January 25, 2008
According to statements made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland yesterday the answer to that question appears to be "no." The Financial Times reports the view of several tier-two Google execs who expressed confidence in the continuing growth of the company's revenues and the success of its model. Many people have openly wondered whether Google will be able continue to sustain...
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