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Julie McCormick

Google vs. Apple : Epic Battle of Droids, Tunes & Systems

For several years now, Google and Apple have been complimentary partners. Google was expertly integrated with the Apple iPhone, and the company's engineers work tirelessly to bring many of their services to the Apple platform in addition to the PC and Linux platforms. They've been pals for much of the search engine's lifespan. Google's chief financial officer, Eric Schmidt, was even a member of Apple's board of directors since August 2006. And immediately after Schmidt left...

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The End is Here: Yahoo Closes Geocities

This past summer I wrote about how Yahoo was going to finally shut down Geocities this fall.  That day is finally here, and the internet will never be the same.  Life will go on, of course, but early web adopters will no longer be able to amuse themselves by looking back at their earliest web creations. After 15 years (it was launched in 1994), GeoCities had long been irrelevant and outdated.  Had it been in...

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The Data Liberation Front Frees Your Google Content

Has Google taken over your life?  Have you eagerly signed up for every new Google service as they've been announced and now have tons of online data just "stuck" on their servers?  Would you like to ditch Blogger for Wordpress, but think it's impossible to move all your content?  If giving up Google, either entirely or in part, is something you're ready to do, they've now made it a million times easier than it was...

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Gazopa Similar Image Search Enters Open Beta

Imagine conducting an image search whereby the search engine uses features from an image to retrieve similar images. If you thought to yourself "That's already something Google offers", you'd be right. However, they aren't the only ones tinkering with similar image search technology. Last year during TechCrunch 50, Gazopa launched in private beta, meaning 99% percent of us couldn't get in. Now, the rest of us peons finally have...

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4 Reasons Why Including Social Networking Results is Smart

Just when you think that everything that could be done to ramp up a search engine's search capabilities has already been done, they come up with another idea.  Let's face it, in some cases the innovations are dumb and do nothing more for the company than get them another press release and a few hundred posts about it on SEO blogs such as this one that track their every move.  In other instances we're left...

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Mary Kay Sues Yahoo for Trademark Infringement

Here's a new twist on the oft repeated whine of many businesses regarding the use of brand names to trigger online ads. Cosmetics company Mary Kay filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! this week in federal court alleging trademark infringement after they discovered Yahoo was inserting links to unauthorized retailers in personal messages that its sellers send to their consumers.

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Yahoo to Shut Down GeoCities This Fall

GeoCities web hosting has been around since the very early days of the internet and while it's not widely used anymore, it's name still arouses a fond memory in the minds of early adopters.  Every once in awhile, a long-dead GeoCities site will even crop up in search results.  Yahoo, the current owner of GeoCities, has decided to finally put the sites and the entire service to rest, announcing that GeoCities will cease to...

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Tumblr Launches “Submissions” for Community-Driven Blogs

Tumblr, another one of the many free hosted blogging platforms available on the web, announced this week the addition of a fun new feature to their blogs that will certainly interest anyone running a community-driven blog.  The new feature, called "Submissions",  will allow your readers to submit posts to the blog.

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Google Launches My Location for Google Maps

If you've ever used Google Maps on your iPhone or other mobile device, you're probably familiar with My Location already.  For those that aren't, when you click a button your exact location is shown on the map denoted by a blue circle.  Now, that nifty little feature is coming to your desktop and laptop computers. Google announced Thursday the laucnh of My Location for Google Maps, which means that when you visit Google Maps now...

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Women & Our Online Behavior and Social Media Habits

SheSpeaks.com conducted a great survey of women's online and computer habits, and published the results in a comprehensive 65-page document.  It's a fascinating study that looks mainly at women's social habits online, and most definitely has implications for online marketing.  Looking at the results of this study can help you tailor your marketing campaigns to effectively, rather than ineffectively, reach out to women. Shopping & Social Not surprisingly, the top activity for women online is shopping.  The...

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