It’s possible to make hundreds, thousands, or even millions of dollars in a few minutes. It’s also possible to lose tons of money in a short timespan, however, and this is even more likely to happen when someone’s dealing with outdated information. So from now on, news stories will be streamed on Google Finance as they’re published.
The Young Are More Likely To Respond To Mobile Advertising
It appears that it is finally safe to say that if mobile hasn’t completely arrived it is certainly in the room and recognized for its potential. Should we declare 2010 as the ‘Year of Mobile’? Sure, why not. There will be others and honestly it means nothing to hype it. Let’s look at what’s actually going on at street level.
Talks Surface of a Newspaper Industry Bailout
“You gotta be freakin’ kidding me!”
MySpace Upgrades Users’ Mobile Experience
MySpace has launched a new version of its mobile site at m.myspace.com for people who use iPhone, Android, and Palm WebOS. This version is optimized to take advantage of the browsers and screen sizes of these devices.
Reuters.com Rolls Out Redesign
Thomson Reuters has introduced a new redesign to Reuters.com in an effort to offer more intelligent content to business professionals.
The redesign has been in the works for the past year according to David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters.
Twitter Improves Mobile Site
Twitter intends to offer all of its users an improved mobile experience in the near future, and in the meantime, a preview of its next-generation mobile site has become available. mobile.twitter.com looks to be an upgrade in almost every way.
Google May Change Your Page Titles
In case you were not aware, Google "reserves the right" to change the titles of your pages in search results. Google’s Matt Cutts has released a video discussing why and how they go about doing this.
Cutts says Google wants to show the titles that it thinks are most useful. "For example, suppose the title of your page is ‘Untitled’ or if there is no title. If that’s the case, we try to show a relevant, useful title."
New Google Feature Could Steal Some of Bing’s Travel Thunder
Google has launched a new "Translated Search" tool as one of the search engines search options. Google’s search options can currently be accessed by clicking "show options" on any results page, once a search has been performed (although you may not even have to do that soon). The idea is that searchers can more easily find and read content written in other languages.
Google Earth Users Get a Way to Build Architecture
Update 2: Google has announced the addition of more cities:
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Nuremberg, Germany
• Hiroshima, Japan
• Saitama, Japan
• Miami Beach, FL USA
• Orlando, FL USA
Where Google Stands on the “Keywords” Meta Tag
Google does not use the "keywords" meta tag in its web search ranking. Google’s Matt Cutts explains this in a Webmaster Central video. This is not breaking news, by any means, but there are a lot of people out there that still put a lot of stock into this.