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Google’s new Search plus Your World product, announced yesterday, is making a lot of waves. The new search puts content shared by your friends in the Google+ social network higher up in search results than other content — a move …
Updated at at 7:38pm with comments from Google representative.
Twitter is not happy with Google‘s new social search features. So unhappy, in fact, that the company is calling it a “bad day for the Internet” and media overall.
“We’re concerned …
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Do you hate change? Loathe disruption of your normal routines? Are you mad as a wet hen over the new Google+ results showing up when you try to do a simple Google search?
Then this post is for you. We’re …
Well, it’s finally happened. Google web search has been Google-Plus-ified.
Today, Google is bringing some specific new features to Google web search, its flagship and most widely used product. In addition to the usual assortment of links, pictures, news items …
Fledgling social network Google+ had its best traffic month ever in December, with more than 49 million U.S. visits, a sign that the company’s bet on social is slowing paying off.
Several pundits previously wondered if Google+ would become a …
Google+ has seen a steady surge of new signups and user activity over the final quarter of 2011.
While more than a few doubters have wondered whether, after several failures, Google can succeed in the fickle world of social networks, …
In our many trips to the Google campus during 2011, we heard and saw a lot of what the company got up to in 2011.
As one of the foremost Google+ skeptics, I personally got called in not once but …
Google+ will add a few major improvements to its service over the next few days, including new activity stream controls, welcome changes to business Pages, better notifications and a dramatically better photo experience, the company announced today.
Despite contrary claims …
Google recently revealed its social network Google+ will support check-ins for businesses providing discounts through their Google Places page. Today, the capability was launched, but only through the Google+ Android application.
The social network is purposefully getting outfitted with as …
Quick, name one thing that Google+ does better than Facebook? The answer is Google+ hangouts, a Skype-like group video chat (and broadcast) feature. Wednesday, the search giant released a number of improvements to make its most-prized social possession more striking.…
Google will keep voice calls to the U.S. and Canada free into 2012 the company announced today, after indicating earlier it might charge for calls at the end of the year.
Google launched calling to standard phones from the Gmail …
Facebook is the most popular Android application — excluding the Android Market app — among Android owners 18 and up. Roughly 80 percent of device owners ages 18-to-34 have used the Facebook app within the past 30 days, according to …
Way to not tick off the privacy hounds, Google!
For its social service, Google+, the company is rolling out facial recognition features, but only if you want it to.
The new “Find My Face” feature is something you have to …
Do you check your Gmail religiously, but can’t seem to make your way over to Google+ to see what your friends are up to? With the new Gmail and Google+ integration, you’ll be able to see friends’ status updates from …
Facebook’s Messenger application may be adding video chat features, according to a rumor on Italian technology blog iPhoneItalia.
The blog’s source is reporting that Facebook has released a beta test of the new video feature to developers only. The rumor …
Here’s a new feature for you Google+ users: You can now make phone calls from a hangout on Google’s social network.
It’s a great feature for when you want to, say, rope a non-Google+ user into a Google+-powered meeting or …
Have you noticed how Google+ seems to be popping up everywhere lately?
We’ve taken deep dives into how Google+ is intended to unify all Google’s web products in the past. At the CloudBeat conference today, we stole a few precious …
Google is bringing its Plus social tools into Google News, one of the company’s more popular web search tools.
Previously, Google News had been showing users the unobtrusive +1 button next to articles to let users upvote or recommend particular …
Guest Post
Below is a guest post by Reggie Bradford, CEO of social marketing software startup Vitrue. The company was recently selected as a launch partner by Google to help brands manage their social presence and engagement with Google+ Pages.
There has …
Google is testing a new design for its streaming video-sharing site YouTube, which highlights elements of the company’s Google+ social network, reports TheNextWeb.
Despite being the most popular online video service in the world, YouTube’s current website design is not …
