Beyond Google

The Perfect Storm: Google, social media, mobile devices, data, e-books, power browsing and disintermediationDavid Nicholas (CIBER Research): Nothing has changed in academic publishing, but all• Search shows, people spend only a few minutes, read only short article (or just the abstract) download (and forget) Online the read horizontal not vertical. It is about finding, not about reading.• People cut and past, everyone does it (only outside the...  

Google is adding a new health search results feature. Whenever you search for a symptom or multiple symptoms of an illness, Google will show you a list of possibly related health conditions related to your query to get you to answers more quickly.  

All the major search engines are celebrating Valentine’s Day this year with special logos or pictures on their home pages. In addition to Google’s Valentine’s Day Doodle featuring Tony Bennett, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu and others are sharing the love.  

Google is readying a Dropbox-like service and will soon enter the cloud computing storage market. The Google Drive is expected to allow users to store documents, photos and videos on the cloud and make them accessible from any connected device.  

Google’s 2012 Valentine’s Day Doodle is an animated love story, set to Tony Bennett’s “Cold, Cold Heart”. The video is embedded on the homepage, with a hand-sketched effect Google logo. Also, Google has a fun Easter Egg for you this Valentine’  

Google loves Wikipedia. Everyone knows it, and many aren’t that happy about it, especially when some of their poorly written content outranks actual websites. But did you know Wikipedia pages appear on Page 1 of Google for 99 percent of searches?  

The company said it has temporarily disabled the use of prepaid cards on its retail platform as it looks to remedy a security flaw which could allow an attacker to steal the PIN number on Google Wallet systems. Google says a fix is coming soon.  

A quick overview of sitemap guidelines and limitations on Google and Bing and some sitemap optimization tips. Also learn a technique that will help you identify crawling and indexation issues using multiple sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools.  

Small businesses are merely scratching the surface when it comes to penetrating the web for marketing needs. Are decades-old mom-and-pop businesses finally open to reaching a target audience through alternative means like Google and Yelp?  

In a pair of announcements made just hours apart, the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission each announced that the $12.5 billion acquisition had been cleared by their respective anti-trust authorities and could proceed.  

Working closely with Google, the Richard Petty Driving Experience team implemented a “hugely successful” YouTube TrueView in-stream ad promotion that raised viewership from just over 14,000 to more than 117,000 during a 30 day promotion.  

Iran’s government seems to be ramping up its censorship of popular websites, targeting Google’s encrypted search, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Videos, among others. The government began blocking these sites Feb. 10, the company confirmed.  

Google had avoided the inclusion of a previews tool in its homepage, although other search engines had suggested previews years before. Thus, there must be another reason for Google to add a column that occupies the same width as the ...  

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