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Google+ Solves the Social Privacy Problem by Making Friending Very Complicated (AllThingsD/WSJ) Not a review but a basic summary of the Google+ sharing/friending model. “Google’s Google+, Social Strategy Includes 100 Launches” (via PCMag) “Sex Problems at Google+” (via Forbes) The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear (via All Facebook) “Mark Zuckerberg Is On Google+ […]
The Official Google Blog has a new post titled, “Evolving the Google Design and Experience” that formally introduces the new look that’s now visible for many of you on the Google homepage and on results pages for a few core services. It will be rolled out to other Google sites and services in the coming […]
Will this service be the Facebook killer or at least a Facebook equalizer? Stay tuned. The new social networking service is named Google+ (Google Plus) and like always Danny Sullivan as an in-depth multimedia look on Search Engine Land. Cool! A lot of screen caps and video. Direct to SEL Overview Post: “Google’s Facebook Competitor, […]
Technology working properly all of the time is one thing but communicating with users and fixing tech problems is another. Here’s the story. Barry Schwartz thanks us (you’re welcome) for alerting him to a problem with Google Docs Lists (that we think is now solved). You can read about it on Barry’s Search Engine Roundtable […]
Title: Indexing the World Wide Web: The Journey So Far (PDF; Full Text) Authors: Abhishek Das, Ankit Jain This Chapter is Scheduled To Appear In: Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval, 2011 In this chapter, we describe the key indexing components of today’s web search engines. As the World Wide Web has […]
From the BL (Includes Screenshots and Video): The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library’s collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library’s commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone […]
From The Guardian: They may not know it, but web users who type “unemployment”, “estate agents” or “VAT” into Google are helping the Bank of England to gather information on the state of the British economy. The central bank is turning to internet search data as it seeks to widen its understanding of unemployment, consumer […]
As we first mentioned on Monday, Google’s specialty search tools including two that focused on government material, Uncle Sam and USGov.Google.com, are no longer available. We have now CONFIRMED that both of these specialty search tools (aka limited, focused or vertical search) along with four others are NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Their URLs now redirect users […]
15 articles online today with more to come in the coming weeks. A lot to read but a must review/read. Btw, access to all of the articles and web exclusives is free. Complete List of Articles Here are A Few of the Articles We’re Going To Look at First: 1. “5 Technologies That Will Shape […]
Pamela Parker and Danny Sullivan have details about new buttons from Twitter and Google in two separate Search Engine Land reports. 1. “Twitter Intros Instant Follow Button” by Pamela Parker In a bid to increase its presence across the Web, Twitter today announced the “follow button,” a snippet of code that can be placed on […]