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Google Commerce Search offered to Australian retailers
After being released and tested in the US for some time, Google has launched Google Commerce search to the Austrtalian market, giving online retailers a valuable site search functionality.
Google Sets Forum-Like Goals For Wave
After a lot of fanfare and then a rapid fade from the the spotlight,…
Taking off with ITA – New Google Acquisition
Google has acquired ITA, a software company that specializes in managing airline data to bolster its airline search offering.
Extra! Extra! Google News redesigned to be more customizable and shareable
Google news gets an official homepage overhaul designed to make the news that you see more relevant to…
After 12 months of testing and limited trials, Google has opened up Google Voice to everyone – providing centralized phone number management, cheap phone calls and other advanced telecom’s features.
Google Makes Sitelinks Available in All AdWords Campaigns
The sitelinks we’re all familiar with in Google’s organic results are now bing transitioned…
Google Prepping A Payment System For Newspapers: Report
With the demise of newspapers constantly in the headlines, Google is looking to help them leverage new business models with talk of a new micropayment system.
Edit video online with the YouTube Video Editor
A new video editor has been added to youtube so now you can give your…
Our new search index: Caffeine
Google formally announces the completion of the new web indexing system Caffeine which promise 50% fresher results, and the largest index to date.
Use Bing Social to search Facebook and Twitter
Bing announces the launch of Bing social bing.com/social – the first search experience that integrates Facebook fan page updates…
Facebook Sees 400% Rise In Advertisers Since Early ’09
The rise and rise of facebook continues with a new report highlighting a 400% year on year growth in Facebook advertisers.
Google Chrome OS Launching Fourth Quarter Of 2010
Daniel Crawrey reported that Google said their operating system, Chrome OS, will be launching officially…
Microsoft has announced a range of Bing enhancements coming this spring during a keynote at SES NY late last week. Many of these improvements are focused on UI and include a new “bing box”, navigation changes and foursquare integration.
The most notable change is the addition of a box at the top of the page which displays…
Google have started rolling out changes to Google Maps that will help to improve listings for home and service based businesses. ‘Service Areas’ are a new addition to Google’s local business listings that can be used to show the areas a business serves, rather than the actual address of the business.
The inability for service or home based businesses to…
The latest search engine market share report is out by Nielsen and the results will no doubt be pleasing for the execs at Microsoft.
In February 2010, Bing continued it improvements growing its market share to 12.5% of the total US search market. This represents a whopping 14% growth on it’s January result.
Yahoo! is…
Google’s Webmaster Tools team have again been busy working on new enhancements to the Webmaster Center – with 2 new additions to the Lab.
Today, the team announced the release of the following into the Webmaster Labs area:
The Webmaster Tools Lab is…