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Posted at January 11, 2012 by 0 Comment

Twitter dumps on Google’s new search revamp

On Tuesday, we reported on Google's major revamp of its search service. That revamp included adding information to search results generated from Google's own Google+ social network. Now AllThingsD.com reports that in a rather unusual and public move, one of Google's rivals, Twitter, is speaking out against these changes: Twitter is concerned that Google's changes would not allow "tweets" from its hundreds of millions of users to show up in Google's new search results. Its full statement is as follows: For years, people have relied on Google to deliver the most relevant results anytime they wanted to find something on the ...

Category : Google+,Staying Social,Twitter
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Google revamps search with new features

Google continues to change how its Search feature works and today the company announced a major revamp. It has added several new features to Search that Google collectively refers as Search plus Your World. It basically adds new search results from its growing Google + social network into its regular search results. One of the new features is called Personal Results. Basically when you search for a term on Google it will not only bring up a list of web sites and videos but will also bring up the term when it comes up on Google + from your ...

Posted at January 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
Category : Google+,Staying Social
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Warner Brothers launching photo sharing social network

Likely announced during CES week, Warner Bros Advanced Digital Services is prepping a photo sharing service called Out My Window according to a report from Fusible. Users can visit www.outmywindow.com and enter an email address to be notified when the photo sharing network launches. Using the tag line “Share your view at the speed of life,” the one-page site also tries to market the concept with “A perfect picture. The urge to share it. From my view to your view. From my phone to your TV. With Out My Window, our photographs will always weave the stories of ...

Posted at January 08, 2012 by 0 Comment
Category : Facebook,Google+,Staying Social,Technology News,Twitter
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Google Adds Friend Annotations to the +1 Button

Google is making the +1 button more social with the addition of friend annotations. “You may have already noticed faces and names when you hover over a +1 button,” Google Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan said in a post on the Google+ Platform preview. “This change rolled out late last week. Now, you can make these recommendations even more visible to your users. Simply update the +1 button code, and an inline annotation will show next to the button.” The new annotations appear when a user hovers over the +1 button. Hovering over it will display a list of friends and contacts ...

Posted at August 23, 2011 by 0 Comment
Category : Google+,Staying Social
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Google+ Posts Now Appear in Google Search Results

Google has begun integrating Google+ into search results with public Google+ posts now appearing in Social Search. Whenever a user publicly shares a link on Google+, an annotation will show up under that link when it appears in a friend’s search results. For example, if I share a article about Google+ eliminating pseudonyms publicly on my Google+ page, users who have added me to their circles will see a note that I shared that link if they stumble upon it in Google Search. Google+ now joins Flickr, Twitter, Quora and Google Buzz as other inputs for Google’s Social Search product. Social ...

Posted at August 15, 2011 by 0 Comment
Category : Google+,Staying Social
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