Google Betters its US Search Share in October
According to Hitwise, the popular market analysis company, Google Inc. continued to boost its share in the US Web search market with 71.7 percent in October. This is quite an impressive increase compared to September this year, where it had 71.16% of the search share. Moreover, the current year’s economic slump does not seem to have much affected the giant either as it performed much better than the last year (64.49 percent).
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Microsoft Partners with Sun for Web Search
Enough is enough! That’s what Microsoft’s latest move seems to suggest in reply to Google’s dominance over the search industry since several years. The software giant has struck a Web search deal with Sun Microsystems Inc. in an attempt to thump Google in the online search competition.
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Tips for Quality Web Pages
An easy-to-use website along with good copy encourages frequent visitors to stick to for a longer period of time who then stop to read your content. For websites with long pages of non-generic or domain-specific content this is a very crucial aspect.
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Proper mix of reader-friendly content ensures a blog’s success
It’s no more unusual and unreasonable for bloggers to expect decent monetary returns if they manage to attract just about couple thousand readers on daily basis.
Helping these savvy bloggers to fill their pockets are tools such as Google’s AdSense and similar such online avenues that allow individuals and not just leading publications earn lucrative advertising money with just a click of the mouse.
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Does SEO For Offline Businesses Make Sense?
As the term ‘SEO’ becomes a cliché in the Web world, you will come across several SEO experts keen to offer you solutions for your online business. By now, we all know how relevant SEO is in today’s context, though its popularity has been snatched away by social media optimization to some extent since the last one year. As a result, the task for SEO providers has become even more challenging, considering the huge number of competitors already existing in this potential market.
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Linkool Launches Firefox Sidebar, Juice
Linkool International recently launched a Firefox browser sidebar called ‘Juice.’ This is a powerful plug-in that amasses all the information from the web about a highlighted term or what is being searched for. This is a very handy reference tool that a user can get used to very swiftly.
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AOL.com Provides Gateway to Social Networks
Popular search engine AOL.com has rolled out a refurbished homepage, hoping that it will become a hub of sorts for Web users by letting them access multiple social network services from its main site directly. This move has made AOL the first major portal to provide straight access to information from leading social networking sites, email accounts, etc. without having to switch from one site to another.
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Now Enjoy Searching PDF Files on Google!
Finding scanned documents in Google search results was rare as determining the nature of the content was a problem for the search engine. But things have finally changed. With optical character recognition (OCR) software, Google has made it possible for users to search any Web-hosted document embedded in the Adobe Systems developed ‘PDF file format’.
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Yahoo Video and YouTube Scale Up in Social Media
The social media industry got a tremendous boost from video communities as Yahoo Video and YouTube recorded a healthy growth in the video streams this September. Yahoo Video grew by a massive 56% to 265 million in September, compared to 169 million in August. This growth pushed it above Fox Interactive, which previously occupied the second spot after YouTube.
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Google Enhances Gmail with New Features
In an effort to enhance the experience of Gmail users, search leader Google recently announced the release of several experiments for Gmail. Now, Gmail users can get access to additional sidebar options from Gmail Labs that allows them to add and look at the gadgets Google Docs and Google Calendar, without opening the hosted applications.
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