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Commerce Search: Google Attempts to Boost Online Stores With Boringness

Google's tentacles extend everywhere online, including e-commerce--thanks to Google Checkout, for one. But now it's got a new system, Commerce Search, which companies can use to inject smart search skills into their online stores. ...READ»

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HashCeratops Makes Twitter's Search Relevant for Local Biz

Twitter is great for tracking trending topics, but not so hot for trending places. A new service attempts to change all that by creating standardized #hashtags for businesses, bars, and restaurants. HashCeratops, as the service is ...READ»

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WTF, Google?

Processing billions of queries a day almost guarantees that Google will get some mutations now and then. Today, TechRadar discussed some of the quiddities of Google's Suggest function, but the "WTF, Google?" meme goes much deeper. ...READ»

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Google "Search Options" Let You Slice and Dice Results

In the hope of cutting down on those billions of search results, Google announced today nine new "Search Options" that let you filter links by time, type and other criteria. Google first launched Search Options back in May with only ...READ»

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Age Distribution of People on the Web

Despite Privacy Concerns, 74% of people openly show their age on the web! As a people search engine, Spock crawls and indexes millions of web documents and social network profiles everyday. As a ...READ»

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Yahoo's New Ad Blitz: It's All About "Y!ou"

Before getting into how we feel about Yahoo’s new marketing campaign, let’s get the news out of the way. The company's new slogan is “It Starts With Y!ou.” That’s their spelling (or misspelling), not ours. Yahoo is spending ...READ»

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Does Bing Visual Search Actually Work?

Microsoft dropped a major new Bing feature today: "visual search." It does what it sounds like, instead of giving you a list of links with thumbnails, Bing gives you a bunch of images you can sort through. But does this actually ...READ»

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Jawoco.Com 2010.

Jawoco.Com is going to do much more next year as this Year ends. Few days back, Xtravo Explorer 3 OS announced as update free for One Year is a Big/Major News in the Web browser industry and not to forget the Xtravo Explorer3 OS is ...READ»

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Jawoco.Com 2010.

Jawoco.Com is going to do much more next year as this Year ends. Few days back, Xtravo Explorer 3 OS announced as update free for One Year is a Big/Major News in the Web browser industry and not to forget the Xtravo Explorer3 OS is ...READ»

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Get Bullish With Google's New Investing Weapon

Google has created a service that tracks Americans' search queries as compared to market growth--and it works. The project, called Google Domestic Trends, is an outgrowth of the company's lead economist's research into whether Google ...READ»

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Is Google Getting Into Mortgages?

Google's got tentacles everywhere--and it just grows and grows and grows. But here's a head-scratcher: News has surfaced that suggests Google's getting into the mortgage business. Specifically, the loan aggregation business. What ...READ»

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Facebook Search Makeover Hints (Again) at Twitter-Like Future

The social-networking giant finally improves its search tool, letting you sift through a month of news feed data. It's also another sign that a collision with Google and Twitter may be imminent.READ»

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Twitter Hasn't Jumped the Shark (and probably never will)

Internet fads have proven to be short-lived, "jumping the shark" and falling from grace as swiftly as they rose. Twitter will prove to be the exception because of its one permanently-redeeming quality: simplicity.READ»

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Yahoo, Microsoft Deal Gives Bing a Google-Rivaling Turbo Boost

After years of foreplay, Microsoft and Yahoo have made it official: They're cozying up in bed together. The major beneficiary will be Bing--it'll usurp Yahoo search, boosting its Google rivalry power. We've been hearing dribs and ...READ»

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Microsoft Brings Bing Feature to Hotmail, Urges 350 Million Users to Forget Google

Just as Google levels its sights on Microsoft's OS dominance, Microsoft is quietly adding some Bing to email provider Hotmail, nudging hundreds of millions of users toward Microsoft's Bing decision engine. The primary change to ...READ»

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Hunch Doing "Pretty Good" After Two Weeks of Recommending

Just two weeks after launch, in measuring its success, Hunch has determined that its decision engine has had, well, measured success. According to a blog post by co-founder Chris Dixon, Hunch is doing "pretty well, although we ...READ»

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Michael Jackson Invented Pop, Beat the Rap, Crashed Google

The news of Michael Jackson's passing yesterday shocked the world, but perhaps none were as stunned as Google and Twitter. Upon rumors of the pop icon's death in Los Angeles, fans flocked to the Web for confirmation, resulting in an ...READ»

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Google Services Disrupted in China as The People's Republic Ratchets Up the Rhetoric

China issued a fresh round of criticism for Google today as the search giant scrambles to restore services that were unavailable to many users in China for part of the day yesterday. The mysterious disruptions of Google that began ...READ»

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Facebook Is Becoming More Like Twitter Every Day

Yesterday, Facebook launched a beta test among a small number of users allowing them to prescribe different privacy settings to individual updates made via Publisher, the main utility for sharing status updates and other content on ...READ»

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Google's News Site Will Flip to Make a Splash This Summer

Google is polishing its news site, with an updated offering known as "Flipper" set for release in the near future. The redesigned page offers a sharper visual interface that displays scaled down screenshots of search ...READ»

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Google Books Is Getting Social

Contentious though it may be, Google Books is an undeniably powerful tool. Now Google's given the service a shot in the arm and boosted its search functions. Best of all it now lets you embed previews of texts in your own Web ...READ»

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CrowdEye Twitter Search Dives Into Over-Crowded Social Search Pool

Developed by Microsoft's former search engineering team leader Ken Moss and his wife Becca, CrowdEye scans through tweets, retweets and twitter links in real time, aggregating posts based on a keyword search and allowing you to categorize, chart and analyze the data in ways that a standard Twitter search can't.READ»

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Bing Finds More Market Share in Second Week of Searching

Bing's second-week scores are in, and the bigwigs in Redmond must be smiling. Numbers released from ComScore today show that Bing gained nearly another full percentage point of market share in its second full week on the Web, ...READ»

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Facebook's New Search Feature Reminds Us of Twitter

Last night Facebook announced a new search feature that it's testing on "just a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook" that allows users to search their News Feeds for the most recent status updates, notes, links, videos, ...READ»

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How to Kill Your Addiction to Google Search and Get More Productive

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion about climate change where former Vice President Al Gore referred to the United States as an oil "junkie." At the time, it occurred to me that Americans have another ...READ»

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