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The Google Search Appliance - AKA those spotted, yellow boxes that act as an enterprise search solution - has gotten better. Today,…
Google is launching a new dashboard feature today that allows business owners to see how customers find their website. The new dashboard is called Local Business Center (LBC) and is a free tool that allows business owners to also control the content of their business listings as they appear in Google Search and Google Maps. Business owners can take advantage of the new tool by…
Research from Nielsen shows that time spent on Facebook is up 700% from a year ago (that's April '08 to April '09). Meanwhile, MySpace has experienced -31% year-over-year growth.
Search trends tend to indicate what people are interested in; we all know about the swine flu spikes from a few weeks ago, for example. Unfortunately for General Motors, search trends now show that consumers may be even more averse to buying its vehicles than to catching the bug.
Knowing where people are tweeting from can enrich the Twitter experience in many cases. It appears that Twitter agrees with this, and has some wheels in motion. Location can add context to a tweet, or to a conversation in general. More geo-information would serve only to make Twitter a more valuable tool. Dan Frommer says Twitter's next project is location. He writes:
Sometimes all it takes is precedent to fuel similar actions, so webmasters should be aware a Dutch court found a website operator liable for how a snippet appeared in Google’s search results, even if the appearance was the result of an algorithmic quirk.
