Report: Yahoo joins OneRiot for real-time search

Yahoo could be ready to add OneRiot’s real-time search results into its own search pages.
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Updated 2:40 p.m. PDT with responses from OneRiot and Yahoo.
Not to be outdone by the rest of the search market, Yahoo apparently has a plan for getting in on the real-time search game itself, according to a report.
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Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too

Updated 4:30 p.m. PDT with additional details from Google.

It was indeed a nonexclusive deal: Google is going to be indexing real-time Twitter messages in search results, in a deal announced just hours after Microsoft debuted integration of “tweets” into its own search engine, Bing.
A post on the official Google blog by Vice President of Search [...]

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Coming to Google Labs: Social search results

SAN FRANCISCO–Google Vice President Marissa Mayer made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday: “Social Search,” a new Google Labs experiment that will bring in search results from a member’s social-network contact circle.
It’ll be launching as an opt-in project in the next few weeks. Then, you’ll need to have [...]

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Google adds details to Book Search privacy policy

Google has released additional details about the privacy policy it plans to use if its settlement over Google Book Search is approved.
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Google has released a more detailed privacy policy for its Google Books product, a move demanded in recent weeks by several critics of its settlement with publishers and authors.
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The Secret to SEO Search Engine Optimization

That’s the word from veteran SEO expert Heather Lloyd-Martin
SEO is not about creating a website sausage overstuffed with key words and phrases. It’s all about creating relevant and compelling content that transforms you into a thought leader who can become a trusted provider. You can, then, readily convert visitors into buyers
Of course, this is gospel [...]

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Search Google images on your cell phone

Google image search is no longer restricted to iPhone and Android phones.
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Last March, Google’s mobile team made it possible to search for images on your iPhone and Android phone. On Thursday, they rolled out image search for feature phones; that is, for pretty much any cell phone make and model with [...]

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Bing strikes licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha

Bing will start using Wolfram Alpha’s data in search results following a licensing deal.
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Microsoft’s Bing search engine is getting a little help from a very smart friend.
Wolfram Alpha and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialized scientific and computational content that Wolfram Alpha [...]

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Yahoo tries bridging search, display with ‘rich ads’

Yahoo’s been arguing for years that its two main advertising businesses, search and display, are stronger together than separately, but a new development Wednesday could illustrate just how much truth there is to that statement.
Traditionally, search ads combine a short amount of text with a Web link, but Yahoo is testing the use of display [...]

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Could the Cloud Spawn a Multi-Trillion Dollar Company?

Paraphrasing Einstein, the future will not be created at the same level of thinking which created the past and the present. In Hugh Macleod’s ‘The Cloud’s Best-Kept Secret’ he writes: “…Nobody’s saying that one day a single company may possibly emerge to dominate The Cloud, the way Google came to dominate Search, the way Microsoft [...]

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Scanned documents found–by Google!

If you’ve ever had trouble finding scanned documents on Google, it’s probably because it was not indexing them. On Thursday, this all changed. Google has announced that it is now indexing scanned documents.
Google is now able to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on any scanned document it finds stored in the PDF format. OCR technology [...]

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