In an on-stage interview during the Inman Real Estate Connect conference this week in San Francisco Google’s Carter Maslan said that the company was not pushing into real estate specifically or going to build a direct national database of property listings and become a “universal MLS”: “What we are doing in real estate is *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Chris Beckmann, the Product Manager for Google News, posted ” Google News changes reflect your feedback ” on the Google News Blog. And it appears that the folks at the Googleplex have been watching and listening to your comments. Click to read the rest of this post…

In response to sometimes loud and angry user feedback, Google News has tweaked its home page tonight — and one of the new features is very reminiscent of the old version of Google News. Just announced tonight are several feature changes to how the Google News home page looks and works.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Expanding Its Hotel Prices Experiment In Google Maps You may remember, or maybe you’ve seen, the Google Maps test that involves showing room prices as part of a hotel’s local business listing. We *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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You may remember, or maybe you’ve seen, the Google Maps test that involves showing room prices as part of a hotel’s local business listing. We wrote about it in March when few users were opted in, but Google tells Search Engine Land today that the experiment is rolling out to more searchers over the next *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

The full length trailer for the social saga based on Facebook debuted on JT’s official blog and Yahoo Movies earlier today: The full length movie is scheduled to be released in early October, bringing the story of Facebook’s rise to fame to the big screen.

It was interesting to see this question (below) asked as a comment to a recent article on Foursquare that I was reading. “I need to know my ROI on implementing another piece of social media? (referring to Foursquare as “another piece of social media.” There are several things about it that I would like to rip apart, but the kinder, more gentle, side of me will just “address” them (and try to educate), because its obvious some educating needs to happen.

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