Delicious gets relaunched. Google tests related search phrases. StreetView comes to Britain. And more!
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- Del.licio.us
Now Delicious.com, With Improvements
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen... - Google Tests
Related Search Phrases Inline With Search Results
Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for "related" search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result's URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron's blog:... - Do The Google
Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video, it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:... - Comparing Search Engine Performance: How does Cuil Stack Up to Google, Yahoo!, Live & Ask, SEOmoz
- Yahoo! BOSS is easy - meet Yuil
- Report: Google
To Develop A Venture-Capital Unit
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm from the Wall Street Journal reports Google is in the early stages of putting together a corporate venture-capital unit, within Google. Google's senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, is reported to be leading up the new unit.... - Is Google
Universal Search A Walled Garden?
Although Google Universal Search (GUS) is still very much in flux, it's been a part of the SEO landscape for a while now. In that time, there have been some good studies about how often GUS presents video results, and some research into how it ranks videos versus text... - PaidContent, which both lay out some...
- Britain Clears
The Way For Google Street Views; Google Argues No "Complete Privacy" In US
StreetView Court Case
Watchdog clears Google's street cameras from The Guardian reports Britain's Information Commissioner's Office has officially given their approval over the privacy risks with the Street Views option in Google Maps. Meanwhile in the US, Google is arguing in a court case against StreetView that there is no "complete privacy."... - Me.dium
Launches "Real Time" Social Search
Me.dium has introduced a social search engine that blends results from a "real time" index of what people are currently viewing online with Yahoo's full-scale web index. The result is something I've not seen elsewhere—and despite my long time skepticism regarding social search, this approach actually holds promise for delivering...
