There are few things more frustrating, from a user’s perspective, than searching and finding what looks like the desired result only to click and meet a log-in page. Give us your money or all your information or go away! Personally, I usually go away, fairly confident I can find the same information elsewhere.
Google Offers Inbound Link Advice
Google’s Maile Ohye concluded Link Week with a tutorial on inbound links. It says basically what SEO experts have been saying for years: content and inbound links are most important, and in that order.
Google Offers Gmail Access Tips
Not being able to access an email account is a serious problem for most users and on the Official Google Blog the company offers advice on what to do if users can’t access their Gmail accounts.Google says most of the issues with Gmail are account related but some interruptions are caused by technical issues. Account issues that can lead to interruptions include a lost password, unusual account activity or the theft of login information.
LG Blu-ray Player Offers Netflix
LG Electronics has announced it will start selling a new Blu-ray DVD player that will allow Netflix customers to watch movies and TV shows streamed directly from the Internet to their TV sets.
Digg Offers Little To Rumored Buyer Google
Eric Schmidt and company could have a $200 million check waiting for social media site Digg. Google shareholders may be wondering why.
Google Maps For Mobile Offers Bus, Train Directions
The addition of transit info to Google Maps might have seemed handy when, in the comfort of your home or office, you were trying to establish plans. It’s now handy in a more literal sense, too, since transit data has become available through the new version of Google Maps for mobile.
Google Maps Offers Real Estate Listings
Realtors have had a hard time these past six or so months; as the housing market crashed, the competition for buyers grew fierce. Now Google’s making things even more interesting by introducing a real estate search option on the main page of Google Maps.
Facebook Offers To Share Info From Flickr, del.icio.us
Think your friends don’t know enough about you already? Facebook’s got a fix; the social network now allows users to import stories from other sites.
Google Offers Tools To Fight Child Pornography
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is using technology developed by Google to fight online child pornography.The video fingerprinting technology provided by Google will allow analysts at NCMEC to conduct faster searches of video and images in its database to flag files with child pornography. Other tools will allow analysts to quickly review video clips.
Legg Mason Offers Yahoo Some Support
Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller is kind-of-sort-of on Yahoo’s side as it deals with Microsoft, judging from a new interview. Since Legg Mason holds about seven percent of Yahoo’s shares, this is important.