In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source ...
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Google Chrome OS Webcast
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SitePoint
Google Launch Chrome OS
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The media has been wildly speculating about Google's Chrome OS launch this week. Craig takes a close look at what has actually been released. Related posts: Google Chrome Leaves Beta Just 100 days after launching their Chrome browser, Google has... Chrome Extensions Likely by May The number one most requested feature for Google's Chrome web... ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Was Chrome OS a Disappointment?
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It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the web, liveblogged by technology sites, and Twittered so much that it's still listed as a " ...
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Where Marketing Pilgrim Leads, Google News Follows!
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Google has just announced that Google News is now more mobile friendly–meaning it will recognize that you’re viewing the site from your iPhone, Droid, etc, and serve you a page optimized for your phone.
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Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO
Google Chrome OS screenshot
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Some screen shots of Google Chrome OS : The Google Chrome OS source code available for download.
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Download Chrome OS VMware Image
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Its only been a few hours since Google spilled the beans on their upcoming Chrome OS, and now we already have a fully working VMware image of Chrome OS ready for download. All you need is a system running Windows, Linux or OS X with VMware installed and you are good to go. For those of you who don’t know, Google in an event yesterday, ...
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This season, crazy monkey shoes are the new hotness at the Chrome OS event
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Velcome, darling! Look what we have for you! Sergey Brin wearing VFF KSOs, CrunchGear’s favorite, as Greg calls them, “crazy monkey shoes.” I’m personally a VFF convert and I’m very impressed that Sergey is willing to walk around in these.
Bill Slawski
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SEO
How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
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Usually, when you click on a link in a set of search results at Google, the search engine will deliver you to the top of a web page. But what if it didn’t? What if it brought you instead to the place on a page where your query terms appeared, or just above [...]
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URL: This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label 'Google Apps highlights' and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Over the last two weeks, we've made improvements across Google Apps, some ...
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Google Mobile Blog
New Google News for mobile
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At Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you've given us about Google News for mobile. Today we're excited to announce a completely new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. (We already offer a mobile-optimized version of Google ...
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The Official Google Blog
Google Apps highlights –
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This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Over the last two weeks, we've made improvements across Google Apps, some geared for individuals, others meant for business customers. Green Robot icon in Gmail Labs The green, ...
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Google Tackles Its “UI Jazz” Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options Feature
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From the article by Danny Sullivan - "Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google’s Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it’s all because Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer doesn’t ...
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Three Pages from the Same Domain in Google SERPs?
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Andy Beal tweeted yesterday how he saw an interesting find. Google displaying THREE subpages in the SERPs. For as long as I can recall, Google had a rule that they wouldn’t ever display more than two pages out of fairness.
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Google Shopping Results : User Experience Downfall
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Google’s been integrating its product feed into the main SERPs under the guise of universal search for a while now, with the aim of improving the user experience. Now don’t get me wrong I have nothing against the universal shopping results, but in the current format do they really improve the user experience?
Www.mikemoran.com
If It Ain't Broke, Google Breaks It
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Earlier this week Google announced that there would be a change in how many of the search engine results are presented to their customers. The traditional look of a result in the SERP's (search engine result pages) would have a clickable title tag at the top followed by the meta description and underneath the result would be a traditional URL in ...
Jeff Gillis
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Google Analytics Blog
Depth and Discovery: Powering Visualizations with the Google Analytics API
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We're always really excited to see what developers are building with Google Analytics. Here's an amazing visualization using the API from our friends at Juice Analytics . Now, this is what we're talking about when we say this stuff is "Off the charts!" (The API team t-shirt slogan). :-) At Juice, we work with web analytics APIs large and small, ...
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Google Tackles Its “UI Jazz” Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options Feature
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Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google’s Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it’s all because Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer doesn’t like jazz.
Www.webanalyticsworld.net
Free Google Analytics iPhone App
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Online optimization firm Mark Red has released Analyze This!, an iPhone application that makes it possible for stressed managers to monitor revenue and conversion on the go. Information about goal completions, ecommerce, and campaigns is fetched from Google Analytics and presented in a fast, simple way. It's possible to compare daily, weekly, and ...
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Making it easier to find the property you want on Google Maps
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Around half of the Googlers in our Sydney headquarters are software engineers, working on some really cool things - Google Wave, App Engine, Google Docs, and of course, Google Maps.
Search Engine Watch Blog
Google Tests Permanent Sidebar for Results, Blue Submit Buttons for Homepage
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Lately, Google is experimenting more than Sheldon Cooper on their homepage - and now, also on their search results. They're testing a permanent left sidebar in their search results, which would turn the results into three columns: new sidebar, organic results, search ads. Hmm, this reminds us of Bing. And Bing reminded us of Ask's 3D design ( ...
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Google Image Swirl Making Similar Images Exploration More Refined
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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our Full RSS feed to get a daily digest of news around search engine industry. Google has released Google Image Swirl, a similar images explorer that is using the wonder wheel flash visualization from web search results.
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Google's SERPS Now with New Site Hierarchies Display!
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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our Full RSS feed to get a daily digest of news around search engine industry. Google has rolled out an improvement that will replace the URL in some of the search results with a hierarchy that will show you the exact location of the page on the site. With the new display, searchers will be able to ...
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Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Google Deal, Sets Feb. 18 for Final Hearing
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Judge Denny Chin has given his preliminary approval to the Google Book Search settlement agreement and established a timeline to move the agreement toward a final resolution. A final settlement/fairness hearing has been set for February 18 at which Judge Chin will hear arguments to determine whether the agreement is “fair, reasonable, ...
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ResearchBuzz
Google Wants to Help You Find a Shot
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Google, continuing its wonderful obsession with maps, has a site where you can find venues offering either seasonal flu shots or H1N1 shots. (Or in some cases both. You can find it at . If you’ve ever used a Google Map you’ll be able to use this one. Enter in a zip code and Google [...]
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Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO
Ranking in Google.co.uk V Google.com
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This isn’t going to be a massive post ….. 1) Going out on a limb here IP address Not important ! 2) Tld is king 3) Google Webmastertools is your friend 4) Tld IBL’s will help thumbs up 5) Thats all folks ( but testing speed has I type : James will have a post on this later ) Dave Added :My [...]
Greg Sterling
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Search Engine Land
Google Appears To Be Testing New Local AdWords Presentation
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Mike Blumenthal received a screenshot that seems to show a test of a new presentation of Google local/geotargeted AdWords. Mike suggests this may be an expression of AdWords local extensions: This is AdWords and not Local Listing Ads, but the presentation (with the blue pushpin) is similar, signifying a local business or a physical location. Here [
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It seems that Twitter has come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and it’s coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp, Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the company’s upcoming advertising business. Costolo was vague on the details, but he did make some promises: “It will be ...
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Out of My Gord
One item in this morning's in box caused me to look twice - eMarketer, using numbers from Nielsen, stated that " Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up ." Turns out it caught the eye of Jim Jansen at Penn State as well. After a quick and flurried Twit-Talk with my friend Jim, we both agreed the title's misleading. If you continue to read down to the ...
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John Battelle
"WuzUp?"
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From Biz' post on Twitter's shift: Twitter helps you share and discover what's happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. "What are you doing?" isn't the right question anymore—starting today, we've shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, "What's happening?" Well, regardless of...
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Bleeper: Share Funny Bleeped Out iPhone Voice Recordings on Twitter & Facebook
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Last night, our latest crazy iPhone app was approved. It is named Bleeper and all it does is allow you to record yourself and click on the "bleep" icon to play that bleep sound. Yea, kind of funny and pointless - but perfect as an iPhone App, don't you think? The neat part is you can share you "bleeps" on Twitter, Facebook or via email. That is ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
Twitter Consults the Ghost of Fred Berry for New Status Prompt
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Twitter has announced that the question that appears in the status update box will no longer be "What are you doing?" Now, it will be "What's happening?" My immediate reaction was this ( and I wasn't the only one ):
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Out of My Gord
The Twitter Follower Personality Sorter
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I had a friend in college who said he could tell everything he needed to know about a person by asking them who their favorite Beatle was. The frustrating thing was, he was usually right. For the record, mine was John Lennon. His was George Harrison. I miss them both. I was just thinking that you can also get a great glimpse inside someone's ...
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Before Sarah Palin's book, "Going Rogue," was released to the public, the Associated Press published a much-heralded fact check that detailed where her claims didn't line up with reality. It was possible in part because the AP snagged a copy of Palin's book early.
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One of the companies I’ve been following for a long time is Esty.com. Esty.com is a website for folks selling craft items – or as they put it “Your place to buy & sell all things handmade.” More broadly, they are referred to in the startup world as P2P commerce (person-to-person) – similar to eBay or any other site that enables ...
I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. I now have several full time jobs, plus this blog, plus speaking around the world, plus a family, plus… so much more.
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From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues. The user experience field has its own version of "Powers of Ten" (the classic 1968 documentary by Ray and Charles Eames). For us, it's not so much that things get 10 times bigger or smaller; most user ...
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This is the first in a series of posts that showcase things I’ve learned during my recent honeymoon travels. My new wife and I decided to go on a Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon, and with the help of the most knowledgeable traveler I know, we booked an amazing week-long cruise.
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Live From The RealTime CrunchUp
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We’re here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where we’ll be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us. Kicking off the event is a conversation with Twitter COO Dick Costolo. And we’ll have much more real-time goodness coming your way throughout the day (see the ...
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We work hard to make sure that the videos on the GoogleDevelopers channel on Youtube are captioned, but when I/O added over a hundred hours of video content, we got a little behind. I'm happy to announce that we're finally caught up! Every English and Spanish video from I/O now has captions that you can turn on in YouTube.
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Automatic captions in YouTube
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Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. to announce ...
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Shoemoney
Its been a while since we did a Q&A. I asked Jamie to grab some random questions that were submitted to us from our contact form. In this q&a session we discuss a wide variety of topics everything from my recent scuffles to the state of the economy. This Post Is From ShoeMoney’s Internet [...] This Post Is From ShoeMoney's ...
 
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Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil' s mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The service offers features for collaboration, editing and design, as well as professional consulting services for authors. One ...
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Webmaster level: All One of the great things about working at Google is that we get to take advantage of an enormous amount of computing power to do some really cool things. One idea we tried out was to let webmasters know about their potentially hackable websites . The initial effort was successful enough that we thought we would take it one ...
Cyber Monday is one of the most important (if not the most important) day to paid search professionals in America, and I’ve got some great tips and tricks to share on how to make the most of it. But first, I thought I’d share some history of the term I found at Wikipedia: The term “Cyber Monday” [...] ....
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SEO for Flash: 5 Tips and Best Practices
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One of the most common issues for web sites with poor search visibility involves Google not being able to crawl and index a site’s content. Web sites made entirely with Flash are problematic because there are often no links for search engine crawlers to follow or HTML text to copy.
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