This story originally appeared on CBSNews.com’s sister site, CNET.com. Google is facing renewed privacy scrutiny in Britain, as a U.K. regulator reopens its investigation into how the Web giant’s Street View program gathered personal data. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office announced today that it was motivated to reopen its probe, after information provided in an...Read More
You want to get a clean view of how your website displays to most people searching online, and because Google personalizes (based on things like your browsing history) and blends search results, you want to strip out those customizations. Most browsers today have an “incognito†(Chrome) or “private browsing†(Firefox) setting. Use these options and...Read More
Facebook continues its march across the Internet with the release of its Like button, recommendation feed, comments box and other social plugins as WordPress.org and WordPress VIP widgets. There’s also new one-click WordPress admin options like auto-sharing what users read and auto-publishing blog posts as links from Facebook Pages and author accounts. This is big since...Read More
Flyover view from Apple looks impressive, but is it useful? (Credit: Apple, Inc.) I attended Google‘s mapping press conference last week and, today, attended Apple‘s World Wide Developer’s Conference, where I witnessed a demo of Apple’s new map app for the iPhone and iPad. Although I haven’t looked at them side-by-side, the demos were pretty similar....Read More
Don’t expect a new iPhone, analysts say. Instead, look for new software and hardware rollouts when Apple meets with 5,000 developers, the folks who create the apps and software for Apple products. The big development at this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be new map and photo-sharing features for the iOS operating system that...Read More
Like on-page text content, video seo requires the same kind of indepth keyword research for video to ensure that the right keywords are being targeted. To rank highly in the search engines (including video hosting sites like YouTube), it’s absolutely essential that the right key phrases are selected and used wisely as the ones you...Read More
Apple is expected to reveal its homegrown replacement for the Google Maps application, built into iOS 6, as the highlights of the Worldwide Developers Conference opening Monday. Attendees are also likely to get a peek at that next-generation iOS, which will reportedly launch in the fall for select devices, including a brand new iPhone handset....Read More
Dominate the search engines with SEO Positive “We’re excited about the new possibilities this opens up for our PPC services” (PRWEB UK) 8 June 2012 The new product discovery experience is a move by Google to create commercial relationships with online merchants in an attempt to encourage them to make shopping results more effective for...Read More
Ex-Huffington Post tech chief Paul Berry released a beta version of his new social publishing platform, RebelMouse, this morning–and it’s attracted a press conference full of reporters so far. RebelMouse sorts and displays your social streams in a neat front-page grid, and automatically updates as you add new entries to your Twitter or Facebook profile....Read More
By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc. unveiled an expansion of its Google Maps and Google Earth services, upping the ante ahead of an anticipated new mapping service from rival Apple Inc. The search giant said Wednesday it would start showing three-dimensional images for entire metropolitan areas in Google Earth. Up to this point, the service had...Read More
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