Archive for April, 2011

Chrome OS Coming to Tablets – Someday

2011/04/09

Those who have been paying close attention to the development of Google’s tablet interface and the development of the Chrome OS have probably heard plenty on the “Chrome OS for tablets” topic. After all, Google released mock-ups demonstrating the OS in a tablet environment back in 2010, and numerous Google critics have stated that Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) should be rolled into the Chrome OS concept (or vice versa)

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Google Rolls Out “Small Tweaks” in Gmail

2011/04/09

Right now I have eight tabs open on Google Chrome. Four of these pages are for the content I’m writing now. One page is my Google Calendar, where I track and color-code the various tasks I have to do.

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Google Buys 49% of a German Solar Power Plant

2011/04/09

Google has long been committed to renewable energy resources – though how much of that is for environmental as opposed to monetary reasons is difficult to say. However, their green initiative investments have remained almost entirely in the United States

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How Does Google Instant Suggest Results?

2011/04/09

Danny Sullivan has written the ultimate guide to how Google Instant autocomplete suggestions work. He put a lot of time, research and work into this piece, getting facts and confirmation from Google on all of it. Any SEO should really read it..

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Search News & Headlines Around the Web – April 8, 2011

2011/04/08

Here’s a roundup of today’s other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category. Click to read the rest of this post..

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YouTube Goes Live! Live streaming starts 7pm

2011/04/08

Did you know that YouTube generates over 2 billion views per day? That means that the video sharing site, that started life as a home for videos of sneezing pandas, piano playing cats and “lonely people talking to themselves”, is reaching the tipping point where the “network is the content”.

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Google’s Travel Opponents Hoping Bigger Antitrust Case Will Soon Follow

2011/04/08

One area that the Justice Department’s Google-ITA settlement didn’t cover was so-called “search neutrality.” In a nutshell, this is the misguided notion that Google shouldn’t be permitted to send traffic to its own properties. In the extreme it argues that the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Google Cleared to Buy ITA

2011/04/08

Seems today’s Department of Justice proposed settlement has appeased all sides of the Google-ITA acquisition debate. The deal, 9 months in the making, will see Google develop and license travel software that would be available to rivals to avoid falling into the realm of anti-competitive

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Google Hotpot Going Away, But In Name Only

2011/04/08

You won’t hear us (or Google) talking about Google Hotpot anymore. The company has announced that the Hotpot name is a thing of the past, and the ratings and review experience is being formally added into Google Places. While you can still access Hotpot right now at www.google.com/hotpot,..

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 8, 2011

2011/04/08

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…

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