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How to set up Search Filters on FriendFeed

I’ve been playing with the new friendfeed beta for a few days now and I thought it might be useful to share some of what I’ve learned.  One of the best new features are the search filters.  These filters allow you to effectively create channels on any topic of interest.  Below is a walk through [...]

Is Twitter trying to Create a Class System?

Yesterday techcrunch broke some news which I found interesting, in respect of twitters long term business strategy.  Apparently twitter began issuing warning notices to members who are utilising the autofollow function within their account settings. (Link)
The reasoning it appears has to to with the usability of their system as a whole.  They go on to [...]

Two new improvements to Google results pages - Official Google Blog

Today we’re rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
More and better search refinements
Starting today, we’re deploying a new [...]

New Google Insights for Search Features (Video)

Google Insights for search (launched last summer) has just released several new features to help online marketeers.  The key changes are as follows.
Insights for Search now incorporates data from Google News, Image and Product search. This provides users with a much greater insight into what people are searching for beyond just basic web searches
The second [...]

Google Voice Features - Video

The new google voice service appears to have some very interesting features.  Anyone who thinks the iPhones visual voicemail is useful will love this “Listen in” option.

SEOmoz | The 6 Goals of SEO: Choosing the Right Ones for Your Business

Virtually everyone who’s engaged seriously in the practice of search engine optimization has found it to have surprisingly versatile results. Site owners will often start out optimizing in order to rank for a particular term/phrase that’s relevant to getting customers, only to find that secondary and tertiary benefits from branding to reputation management to raw [...]