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Google has launched Custom Search for smartphones. This means that if you own a site and add a Google Custom Search box…
Machines with Microsoft's Windows 7 went on sale today. Unsurprisingly, it is one of the hottest topics on the web. Everybody's talking about it on Twitter. Everybody's searching for it. Microsoft and Windows queries are all over Google's Hot Trends list. Everybody wants to know more about Windows 7. Well, let's look at what people are saying about it. Here's a sample from the Twitterverse:
I heard a story on NPR yesterday where they talked to kids about social networks. The popular opinion (at least among the kids talked to for the piece) was that Facebook was "in" and Twitter was for old people.
Google puts out a lot of useful videos through its Webmaster Central YouTube channel. If you are a regular reader of Webproworld, you have probably seen some of them covered here. They generally offer helpful advice for webmasters that have questions about ranking in Google's search results.
Something about celebrities combined with Twitter is just a magnet for headlines and mass media attention. Perhaps it is because our society has an unhealthy obsession with celebrities, and Twitter (and really just social media in general) is turning the web as we know it into a never-ending "stream" of information.
Let's admit it: Flickr, which should have beaten Facebook to the punch, fell way behind in terms of letting its users tag people in their photos. However, Yahoo's photo-sharing site has now caught up, and in a couple of respects, outdone what many regard as its chief rival.
