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Search Trends Spell Bad News For GM
Search trends tend to indicate what people are interested in; we all know about the swine flu spikes from a few weeks…
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China Blocks Everything Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
The Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred on June 4th, 1989, and it appears that the Chinese government is going to mark the 20th anniversary in its own special way. Within the country, access to just about every major social media site has been blocked.
A Trending Topic on Twitter with No Results
Despite Twitter's rapidly growing popularity, the service is quite known for downtime, and random bugs. In fact, the Twitter Status Blog usually does its best to keep the public informed about known bugs, but I have not seen mention of this yet. While taking a look at the top trending topics on Twitter this morning, one of them (#inappropriatemovies)is giving me "no results" when I…
Search Google and Yahoo from Bing
There is still a lot to learn about Bing of course. Microsoft's new search engine hasn't been live that long. After reading the back and forth of Matt Cutts and Bing, I started wondering how Bing and Google were treating each other's results.
Google Takes Blog Search To Next Level
Blog posts that aren't less than two days old no longer have to be considered lost for all time. Google's made the Custom Search AJAX gadget available to all Blogger users, and as a result, it's become much easier to call up entries from the past along with other info.
Google To Throw Its Hat In The eBook Arena
Google’s been slowly edging its way into the book business for a good long while now. First Google Book Search, then a deal to show books still in copyright—and now they’re getting ready to take on Amazon in the eBook department.
