Google Pushes BlackBerry Apps as Blackberry Outsells iPhones

With the blackberry Curve outselling iPhones in the US, one might start to wonder why Google seems to be putting so much emphasis on the iPhone, and not developing an all out Google App for Blackberry Curves and other Blackberry devices. The Blackberry Curve was the best selling consumer smartphone in Q1 2009, and 3 of the top 5 smart phones sold in the US are Blackberries. Moreover, the … [Read more...]

With the blackberry Curve outselling iPhones in the US, one might start to wonder why Google seems to be putting so much emphasis on the iPhone, and not developing an all out Google App for Blackberry Curves and other Blackberry devices. The Blackberry Curve was the best selling consumer smartphone in Q1 2009, and 3 [...]

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WikiAlarm.com : Email Alerts When Wikipedia Page is Edited or Sabotaged

Want to keep tabs on when your (or a competitor’s) Wikipedia page’s accuracy is edited? WikiAlarm.com is a free new service to allow brands and people who have Wikipedia profiles to monitor changes to their Wikipedia pages via email. Users of WikiAlarm.com can monitor as many pages as they choose and also have the choice [...]

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5 Ways to Maximize PPC Impressions

It’s exciting to have a client with a virtually unlimited budget. But every effort has its unique obstacles, and limited impression share is a big one for aggressive advertisers. Usually in PPC, the goal is to get the best return from a limited budget. But when you get a client whose goal is to dominate [...]

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4 Tips to Make the Most of Google Talk

It’s been a pleasure to watch Google Talk enter the over-saturated niche of popular instant messages and then quickly dominate. I am Google Talk user myself. I can vaguely understand why I ultimately chose it over other IMs I would use; probably because most of my contacts have only one thing in common: Gtalk. So [...]

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Google Awarded Floating Data Center Patent

Google has been granted a US patent for its floating data center idea which the company originally filed with the patent office on February 26, 2007. The patent describes a fleet of ships which would use Mother Ocean to cool and power the Google Data Centers in an economical AND environmentally friendly way : Water [...]

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5+ Tools For Google Advanced Searching

I have posted many times on ways to use Google advanced search operators. This time I have compiled a list of tools that can make using Google advanced search an easier task and that will also offer you new operators and search queries to use. Some of these tools really add nothing new while there [...]

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Google Hires 200 Goats to Munch their Weeds

In kind of an offbeat story this weekend, Google announced on Friday that the company has contracted California Grazing, a goat herding company, in an effort to make their pastures … and their carbon emissions, a bit greener. Instead of using a lawnmower crew to take care of the brush and weeds growing outside of [...]

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Google Serving Forum Info in Serps : Threads & Authors

Google has been testing new search results which include specific details on forum threads including the number of posts in an indexed forum thread, the number of authors posting, and the date of the last post. This new Google enhancement shows that the company is actually identifying the technologies powering the forums, and with the [...]

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Why It’s a Terrible Idea to Unfollow Everyone on Twitter

Joel Drapper recently made a post which was titled “Why I Unfollowed Everyone on Twitter and Why You Should Too.” While I am friends with Joel and think he is a bright fifteen year old blogger and web designer, I strongly disagree with this post. After reading his post, I started thinking about this subject [...]

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There Is No Right Or Wrong Way To Market Your Business Online

As an Internet marketing consultant I get to work with a variety of individuals and businesses on all different levels when it comes to the Internet. Some have dabbled online but most are completely new to the Internet marketing world. A question that I get a lot is this: How can I get to the first page [...]

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