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Why You Should Have a Business Profile on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook

  • January 5th, 2012 by SEM Contributor

It would seem that Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are copying features from each other that it is getting to be difficult to differentiate one social network from the other.
For instance, Google has made sure that its user profiles look and feel like it is similar to Facebook, only simplified down to the basics.  Facebook, on the other hand, has… Read more

For Google, 13 is a Very Lucky Number

  • September 27th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

13 years may not seem like a long time in the grand scheme of things, but in internet years, it’s a lifetime. Consider this; 13 years ago, in 1998, Bill Clinton was President, AOL was still king of the internet, Yahoo had the lion’s share of search engine usage, Windows ’98 was just being released, Netscape was still a contender… Read more

New Chat Rules on Google+

  • September 26th, 2011 by Annie Wallace

Google looks a lot ambitious on Google+ project. Every day it is adding a new feature on Google+. The social networking facet of Google has already crossed 20 million active members. Google+ attracts users from other popular social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter. To attract new users, Google is refining the features offered through Google+.
Google+ venture is culmination… Read more

Google+: Losing Steam or the Calm Before the Storm?

  • September 14th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

From its earliest attempts with Wave and Buzz, Google has had its share of mishaps and failures in their quest to enter the social networking world. Wave died out without even making a tiny ripple in the vast digital sea, while Buzz landed Google in a fight with the FTC over privacy concerns.
Now, they released Google+ and things seemed… Read more

Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus – Can We Really Compare Them?

  • August 30th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

This is clearly the age of being a netizen, so much so that you will find even your next door 12-year old being busy doing something with his keyboard. Take a closer look and I am sure you will find him doing what most grown-ups like doing. Social networking! There have been a host of social networking sites, like those… Read more

Meet the Google Street View Trike

  • August 24th, 2011 by Damian Davila

While you may have known about the Google Street View Car, which has 15 lenses taking 360 degrees of photos and lasers capturing 3D data to determine distances within the Street View imagery, you may have not heard of Google Street View Trike. The Google Street View Trike, a 250-pound, 9-foot, human powered machine, enables Google to map sections where… Read more

3 Reasons Google+ Will Fail

  • July 28th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

According to Paul Allen (founder of Ancestry.com) Google + surpassed 10 million users after only 2 weeks. These numbers may not be extremely accurate, but they seem to support the widely held belief that Google+ is gaining users quickly and it’s hard to deny the buzz coming from the likes of Mashable, the Twitterverse and countless other marketing and SEO… Read more

Google Blends Social and Search with Google+1

  • July 11th, 2011 by Cijo Abraham Mani

Social media is changing every moment with new concepts and products that are being launched. Google, the search giant have now entered the social circle with a strong product Google+ which has both a social networking platform and also a Google+1 button. The button is intended to gain social media recommendation.
A lot of websites have started using the Google+1… Read more

Facebook Smear Campaign Against Google Is a Sign of Power Struggle

  • June 16th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

The backyard brawl that is the tech industry just got a little dirtier. On Tuesday it was confirmed that Facebook engineered a behind-the-scenes smear campaign against its competitor Google. The Daily Beast reports that Facebook hired public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller to spread anti-Google stories to news outlets. The goal of the stories was to raise concerns claiming that Google was invading… Read more

Can’t Remember a Face? Now Google Makes it Easier!

  • April 20th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Leave it to Google to redefine search once again. And possibly keep us all safe from evil-doers with just a click of our cell phone camera.
As it happens, Google is on the verge of making human faces a searchable commodity. Oh, sure, the technology isn’t perfect yet, but it will be in the next year or so. Some folks… Read more