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Klout Integration Pushes Human Powered ‘Expert’ Answers Atop Bing's Search Results
— From Yahoo! to Facebook to Quora, social sites have long been struggling to leverage the Q&A format successfully. Today Klout officially enters the ‘social answers’ space with a unique proposition …
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Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings
— Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. — There's no official announcement that I can find about the app …
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While “Facebook Home” Keeps Google, Search Is Harder To Reach
— Pick your survey, and one of the top activities on a smartphone is to use Facebook. That's what the new Facebook Home is all about, making it easier for Facebook users to get Facebook. But it also makes another top activity — search — harder to do.
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Google Upgrades Its Google Places Dashboard With Google+ Local Integration
— Google has begun a staged upgrade of its Google Places Dashboard — the backend tool that allows local businesses to manage their business information that appears in Google's search results.
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Yes, Google Says It's Having Problems Listing iTunes Preview Pages
— Yes, it is harder to find pages to iTunes apps in Google. But no, the company says, it's not part of some nefarious plot. Rather, Google's having technical problems gathering iTunes Preview pages, an issue it's working to solve.
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As News Publications Experiment With Sponsored Content, Google Says Keep It Out Of Google News
— News publications having “sponsored content “deals are on the rise, and Google's apparently concerned enough that it's issued a warning today that publishers should keep such content out of Google News.
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Is Bing Testing “Subjectship” Rather Than Authorship In Its Search Results?
— Some are spotting new author images appearing in Bing's search results today, similar to the way Google shows author images. Except, they're not really author images. They're what I'd call subject images …
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Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works”
— Every wondered how Google Search works, finds pages from across the web and decides how to list them in response to a search? If so, Google's got a new resource designed to answer questions. Called “How Search Works,” …
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Gmail Search Field Trial Adds Calendar Results To Google Search
— Google keeps increasing the amount of information it will show from your Gmail account within your Google searches, if you're part of the Gmail Search Field Trial. The latest addition? Your calendar results.
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Will Google Penalize Chromebooks, Google Analytics, AdWords & Google+ For Using Advertorials?
— A day after warning publishers against advertorials, will Google's search team now have to penalize parts of its own company for running advertorials? Perhaps, and if so, it wouldn't be the first time.
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).