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Archive for January, 2009

Google Search Results For The iPhone And Android

Monday, January 5th, 2009

The Google Mobile blog came up with an announcement that declared the launch of visually optimized search results These are designed to fit the screens of the iPhone and G1 mobile devices, or Android. Now, users don’t have to worry about zooming in or scrolling down!

Earlier, users were required to manually go to Google.com in the Safari browser for the results update. Now, with this launch, users will view the new results page by using the default Google search box in the iPhone in the Safari browser.

Google Image Search Launches ‘Search-By-Style’ Option

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Google added clip art and line drawings to their image search criteria in order to help users in their search queries. Now, users don’t have to browse through thousands of images to find that ultimate clip art needed to complete their search.

Just choose the style criterion from the drop-down on an image results page in order to restrict your search to either line drawings, clip art, photos or faces.

According to the official Google Blog, “Today we’re pleased to extend this capability to clip art and line drawings. To see the effect of these new options, let’s take a look at the first few results for “Christmas,” one of our most popular queries on Image Search right now.”

Backlinks.com- Data Compromised

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Today in the world of Internet, linking schemes are growing in popularity. Why? As far as link building is concerned, we would like to believe people do it for getting more and more traffic to their websites and of course, money factor is one of the concerns!

News is coming from “linking schemes” world that Backlinks.com has allowed Google to index User IDs, Passwords, Link Sites, etc.
This is one of the examples as to why we should not involve in “linking schemes.”
Read more at Sphinn.

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