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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 Street View ads Photos (Video)

Google has just added photos to selected worldwide locations.  So now when you view a popular location, such as the Golden Gate Bride, you will be presented with a range of photos taken by users from around the world.  Here’s an official video which explains in more detail how the service works.

Offline Gmail for iPhone (Video)

A demo of the soon to be released update for the iPhone.  Which should include an offline mode, and the ability to tag emails in the same way you can via an internet browser.  Great news for everyone out there whose as boringly organized as me.

Google the next Antitrust target?

Christine A. Varney, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S.’s next antitrust chief, has described

Adding a Google Search Box to your Site (Video)

Google’s new Conversion Room blog has recently released a video to help explain how adding a search facility can help with analytics.  Adding that there are five questions that search data enables you to answer:

How frequently do visitors use my search box and what are they looking for?
Where do searches begin and end?
Are visitors [...]

Twitter the new king of Search?

Could twitter become the new king of search?  It seems as each day of 2009 goes by, my use of twitter is increasing.  Not only in terms of tweets, but in alternate uses for the service.  Most recently its Twitter Search that’s got my attention.  Although twitter does its best it seems to avoid you [...]

Google Testing SearchWiki On AdWords

I am shocked to see this! Google seems to be testing part of SearchWiki, Google’s way of promoting and removing results, to be spotted in the AdWords or sponsored ads section of the Google search results. Some people are noticing the X icon, which allows searchers to delete results from Google, in the sponsored [...]

Mining The Thought Stream

What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any [...]

Official Google Blog: Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye

Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose?

Where did your eyes go first when you saw the results page? Did they go directly to the title of the first [...]

Google Books Search Goes Mobile

The Google Books Blog announced they have now created a mobile version of Google Books. If you have an iPhone or Android phone just navigate your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m to start using Google Book search on your mobile device.
There are many differences between the mobile version and the regular version. The most [...]