It was also reported today that Google has also inked a deal with Twitter.
Google plans to offer a dedicated service to search Twitter and to blend Twitter posts into its main search results.
Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search and user experience, said that access to Twitter’s trove of real-time data would “improve our relevance, our comprehensiveness and our quality.”
Does this mean Twitter found a way to monetize? Finally!
Let the Real-Time Search Engine War Games begin!
Here is an article from PCWorld.com that highlights Microsoft intentions to step up promotion of Bing in China. China might be the only market where Google doesn’t reign supreme on top of the search engine (SE) market. In China the SE crown is worn, for now, by Baidu.com. Baidu has a majority of the SE market share and this post from an MSN blog does a great job explaining why.
If Bing can capitalize in international markets it is certainly a start. Regardless the little (really big) “decision engine” that could has gotten Google’s attention before. It remains to be seen if they can creep past 15% market share, at least.
I was about to write about an article I read on PCWorld.com today, but stopped to read an email. The email mentioned a company so of course I went to their site and ended up reading their blog and had a thought. Having your own blog is great, reading other blogs is great, but reading a blog and realizing the topic is a regurgitated story without giving any credit really feels like online plagiarism.
The topic was “Bing in Chinese“, a topic that blew up on Twitter and the blogosphere in late May. It was on TechCrunch and BrandInfection, so I will share the links here for those that didn’t see it back then.
Enjoy!
Do you love cool Flash tools, then check out the color wizard.
“The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.
It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you, based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations. The color wizard also has a randomize function that lets you generate color schemes you might not have thought of on your own.”
Back in the day, using Flash on websites was the “it” and “now” thing to have. It was kind of like this thing called “social networking”, which everyone needs to have yesterday.
Now all of a sudden people are saying things like, “I don’t want Flash” or “Just don’t use Flash”. So what changed?
From our perspective, there are a few common complaints with Flash, here are a few in no particular order along with the associated truth:
There are many reasons companies hire us to redesign and redevelop their websites. For example, some companies are focused on looking more professional, contemporary, slick, etc. Others want to be more user-friendly or functional. Some have just outgrown their current layout or identity. All of these are good reasons to redesign your website but there are many more.
In no particular order here are a few more:
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The scary thing about the Internet, especially with social networking catching on like wildfire, is not being able to remove content that is posted on websites that you do not manage. If someone publishes something about you it is there for good unless you have a legal foot to stand on. Most people are concerned about their Google search results and the associated links. If you were wondering what Google has to say about it, check this out.
Here are some other helpful links:
If you are all about brainstorming, planning, and sharing your ideas visually then you need a mind map. If this sounds appealing then check out mindmeister.com for some great options.
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