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Jobs Takes A Few Pot Shots At Google, Rubs Salt Into The Wound With ‘iAds’

Today during Apple’s iPhone 4.0 developer preview, Steve Jobs announced a number of new innovations for its mobile platform. OS 4 will bring multitasking and folders to the iPhone, iBooks will come to the device, and Apple officially announced its venture into mobile advertising iAds. Plus, the latest number of iPads sold and app [...]

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Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Sentiment Is Split On The iPad: People Either Love It, Or Hate Others For Not Shutting Up About It

Now that the iPad is here, and everyone who waited in line has one in their hands, the opinions are coming in from actual consumers and everyone else. All of this iPad mania is splitting people into two even camps: either you are one of the few who is lovingly stroking one in your [...]

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Sat, April 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google’s Need For Speed Is About Making You Search More

Google’s obsession with speed is well-documented. One of the primary design principles behind its search engine is to return results as fast as possible and strip away anything extra. But its need for speed goes well beyond search. All of Google’s apps are optimized for speed (well, except Gmail lately, but they [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Trada Raises $2.2 Million For Crowdsourced SEM Management Service

Stealth startup Trada launched to the public today as an online marketplace allowing small and medium businesses and agencies to essentially crowdsource search engine marketing services. The startup has raised $2.2 million from the Foundry Group and angel investors Alan Warms, Carlos Cashman, Dan Murray, James Crouthamel, Stuart Larkins and Robert Wolfe.
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Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google Real-Time Search Now Includes A Fraction Of Facebook Status Updates

Google has just announced via tweet that it’s integrating Facebook Page updates into its real-time search results. Google first revealed that this was coming back in December, when it first started including real-time data in its search results. Other data sources for Google’s real-time results include MySpace and Twitter.
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Thu, February 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google Mobile App Update Brings Voice Search Support For iPod Touch

Google has submitted a new version of its Google Mobile App for the iPhone platform (iTunes link), and the fresh app now finally boasts built-in support for Voice Search on iPod touch devices (2G or newer).
Version 0.4.5.3281 also brings improved stability when using Voice Search on ‘restrictive networks’ and is also said to make Search [...]

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Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments