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Google Removes Offensive Obama Image; Was It Justified?

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From MATT MCGEE, Voices | All Things Digital,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Google Inc.,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Google Builds Out A National Real Estate Search Engine

While the National Association of REALTORS® is planning to launch its own national property database sometime next year, Google seems to have just stolen the NAR’s thunder. How? By rolling out individual “place pages” for every property that’s listed ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

NAR Changes Its Mind: Google Is Not A Scraper Site

Backtracking on a controversial decision earlier this year, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has adopted a new policy that allows real estate professionals to have their sites — including home listings that belong to others — indexed by ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Google Showing Breadcrumb Navigation In Search Results

Google says it may show these site heirarchies “for a small percentage of search results” when it improves the search snippet with more context about the link being pointed to. What’s pretty cool is that each link in the green breadcrumb is clickable, ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Google Earth iPhone App 2.0 Available Soon

A new version of Google Earth for the iPhone is due soon, and among its new features is one with a personal touch: the ability to see maps you’ve created and/or saved in Google Maps. To make this happen, the new Google Earth iPhone app will add the ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Wikipedia

Switzerland Suing Google Over Street View

Switzerland is taking Google to court over privacy concerns related to Google’s Street View service. The BBC reports that Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer is leading the country’s case. Mr Thuer is especially concerned about people shown in ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  BBC

Google Upgrades Keywords Report In Webmaster Tools

Google has announced an upgrade to the Keywords report that’s available in Webmaster Tools. The report now features a daily update of the most common keywords that Google found while crawling a web site. And each keyword is linked to another report ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Bing Gains Search Share In October: Experian Hitwise

Google is still light years ahead of Yahoo, Bing, and Ask … but Experian Hitwise shows Bing with a 7% increase during October, while both Google and Yahoo saw small drops in search share. Experian Hitwise also updates some stats related to search ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Experian,  Google Inc.,  Yahoo!

Bing Launches Wolfram Alpha Collaboration & Several New Search Features

There’s a lot of news today coming out of Bing headquarters, perhaps most notably that the long-rumored partnership with Wolfram Alpha is finally coming to fruition. Bing’s announcement today explains that the collaboration will cover two specific ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Wolfram,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Google Adds SafeSearch Locking

With parents and teachers in mind, Google has announced a new feature that lets users lock SafeSearch on the most strict setting. Using the new feature requires users to enter a Google account password, and when the feature is in effect, Google-colored ...

From MATT MCGEE, Search Engine Land,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

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