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Following a significant period of inactivity (brought on by outright hostility), Google Books has made a breakthrough. France's largest publisher has agreed to an arrangem...

Google Docs Delves Into Mobile Editing

Perhaps 99 percent of the time, a person's cell phone is within five feet of him (or her). Desktops and even laptops are often much more remote. So businesspeople, s...

Is Ranking Number One in Google Losing Its Significance?

As you may have noticed, Google has been putting a great deal more emphasis on local these days than in years past. That includes everything from the introduction of Google Plac...

Google Maps Directions Get Facelift

A service that has helped millions of people reach their destinations - and inspired at least one misguided (and lawsuit-happy) woman to take a stroll alongside a highway lackin...

Google Establishes New Call Center In Hyderabad

India's the second-most populous country in the world, and it looks like Google's getting increasingly serious about acquiring customers there. Today, Google opened a call...

Chrome Tops New List Of Vulnerable Applications

Generally speaking, Google does well when it comes to lists. It's often labeled a favorite employer, most trusted brand, or dominant competitor. Unfortunately for th...

Google Brings New Level of Relevancy to Local

Google has combined local search with personalized search, and social search to make a potentially powerful new kind of Google result that should benefit both users and business...

Major Advertisers Sign On For Google Goggles Test

Google's augmented reality tech might soon make the shift from interesting plaything to revenue-generating tool. A Google Goggles marketing experiment has begun, at least,...

Is a Shake-Up Brewing in the Search Market?

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Borders.com Rolls Out New Website

Borders.com has launched a new website featuring discounts on 100,000 bestselling titles, free shipping offers and new product lines. To promote the new website,...

Google Site Search Pricing Changes

A complicated pricing structure does few people any favors. Businesses just risk annoying or alienating potential customers who don't feel like pulling out three spreadshe...

Google Vulnerability Program Meets With Early Success

Perhaps the best possible thing, from Google's point of view, would have been if it had announced its vulnerability reward program and then heard nothing at all. But a sho...

Tips For Increasing the Chances of Customers Buying From You Online

In the fast-paced digital age where everyone wants a piece of that sweet Internet money, competition for small businesses is greater than ever. Fortunately there are more...

Significant Yahoo Layoffs Rumored

At a time when people should be decorating their offices in a festive manner, it seems that a large number of Yahoo employees will instead have to carry away their belongings in...

Reducing the Yahoo-to-adCenter Campaign Friction

As you may know, the Yahoo and Microsoft advertising transition is complete. Yahoo and Microsoft paid search advertisers must use adCenter to manage their campaigns. But how smo...

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