Have you ever thought Google was too slow? Yeah, me neither. Yet, Google apparently wants to make things faster. So welcome to the next evolution in search – Google Instant. Start typing a result and Google not only suggests what you’re searching for, but also provides results – as if you hit search – while […]
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Don’t like those new options down the left side of your Google search results? There’s an app for that. Sorry – I got carried away. There’s a plug-in for that. If you use Firefox or Chrome and you don’t want to see those new search refinement options on the Google search results pages, Bruce Clay’s
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Google has changed their look and given a Web 2.0 face lift to the search interface. With it comes a plethora of tools and filters to let searchers control the search results and better decide what they want to see. A how-to guide on the new Google.
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The Google Analytics team announced new changes to what they’re calling the Google Analytics Ecosystem. Several announcements were made today at EMetrics. Specifically, the team announced Analytics Apps, new reports for tracking AdWords campaigns, includnig AdWords Search Funnels now available in all AdWords accounts and asynchronous tracking is now officially out of beta. If you hadn’t
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The joy and pain of Google Apps and other services is the single sign-on system. While it’s great to be able to access online your email, document repository, analytics and other services by only logging on once, it can also open yourself up to a world of information theft if your password is compromised. Combine
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Apple has their panties in a wad about Adobe for a while now. Specifically they don’t like Adobe’s shortcomings with Flash. Fine, so the iPhone and iPad will never have Flash and will keep showing the blue box. HTML 5 isn’t official yet. But Apple is behind it because it reduces the need for third-party
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And so it begins. Creativity at its best as Google unrolls their various silly services. As April Fool’s Day is my second favorite holiday of the year and I look forward to the Internet follies every year. Google was a little lighter than usual last year, with their CADIE service. It wasn’t as funny as
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Some Bay Area residents woke up yesterday to a 4.1 magnitude earthquake. According to various reports, Google had integrated that news in its search results somewhere between two minutes to 10 minutes afterward. Although Google said their Bay Area data centers had the feed from the US Geological Survey Feed in less than two minutes,
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The Official Google Blog reports today new types of search ads. Citing that they are committed to “giving you the information you want,” Google is unrolling sponsored links that include many different “extras.” The blog shows details on ads with extra links to the site advertising, maps and videos embedded within the ad space, and
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Well, two weeks in, I still can’t say enough about it and I still keep finding new features. Is it as good as an iPhone? I don’t know, I don’t care. Does it make calls, keep my schedules in sync, organize all my emails, appointments and tasks? Yes. Is it easy to type on? Yes.
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