Pages and profiles on social network given undue prominence, claim detractors By Juan Carlos Perez | Article Courtesy of: TECHWORLD The longstanding and persistent accusation that Google unfairly uses its search engine to promote its other online services is once again in the spotlight, triggered by new social search functionality the company is rolling out this week that more tightly links its search engine with its Google+ social networking site. The complaints have come from different … [Read more...]
Google+ Lays the Groundwork for Business Profiles
September 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment
GM, Ford in Beta Testing Even as Unofficial Profiles and Squatters Spread Across Platform By: Rupal Parekh After three months of testing the social-network waters, Google+ is finally ready to make a big splash. In the past week, it ditched its invite-only program, began promoting registration from its seen-by-millions-daily homepage and declared the network ready for brands. But in some cases, squatters have already claimed some valuable brand names on the network. Burger King's … [Read more...]
Google+ to Lead to the Comeback of Google’s Realtime Search
August 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Real Thing is (almost) Back... Posted by Pamela Seiple If you've been missing the appearance of real-time results in your Google searches over the past month, relief is on the way. Realtime Search was Google's way of including relevant posts and data from sites like Facebook, Twitter, and other social media services in real time. During a recent search panel in California, Google Fellow Amit Singhal revealed that the Google Search team is actively working on bringing Google … [Read more...]
Google +1 The Rise of The Spammers!
July 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Response to Hubspot and more... 5 Ways Google + Will influence Search Results or...Here comes the next big Spam opportunity! Thank you Google Plus ! So how is Google planning to circumvent the affect of manually manipulating the SERP and SEO! The offers are already coming in...500 +1's for only $349! Here we go again! I may be wrong but it seems like Google is getting a little Microsoftish with its need to be entrenched in everything and anything all for the sake of milking … [Read more...]
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