eWeek Google Watch Latest search engine news blog articles from eWeek Google Watch. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/eWeek+Google+Watch.html eWeek Google Watch News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57711 John Battelle has been on a roll of late, opining on a number of Internet topics I hold near and dear, particularly the competitive dynamic of the Big 5 of the Internet. Those would be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook, and all of their walled gardens, another Battelle topic du jour. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:51:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57622 Could Google Glasses one day join Google Goggles in the pantheon of the company's popular products? Perhaps. But, please, enough p-words. 9to5 Google said Google is building special glasses the look like Oakley's Thump MP3 sunglasses that actually have the computing firepower and features of today's high-end smartphones: That means voice input, output and a navigation system on board. There is a display with a computer interface and control buttons, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:24:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57542 One of the big knocks on Google Wallet, the company's smartphone-based mobile payment service, is that it's only been available on one phone to date - the Samsung Nexus S from Sprint. That is no longer true. The Wallet app may be intalled and used on Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Nexus handsets fueled by SIM card from AT&T. Droid Life dropped the news , which stemmed from a Feb. 1 upgrade to the Wallet app. A Google spokesperson told me: Yes, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:40:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57420 One of the leading knocks on Google's freewheeling, open approach to the Android Market is that it's leaves the application store more susceptible to malware and lots of spammy apps. Indeed, Symantec, Lookout Mobile and other security firms have reported a significant rise in Android Market malware in the last 12 months. And with over 200 million Android devices in the market, with 700,000 being activated daily, and over 300,000 Android apps in the Market, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:32:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57311 Google continues to leverage its good work in HTML5 to enable its productivity and collaboration applications to work offline. The company is now letting users make any Google Docs available offline from their Android smartphone or tablet computer. This covers documents, Google presentations, Google spreadsheets, uploaded images, and files in formats such as .pdf, .doc, .xls and .ppt. Users may do this with or without a Web connection. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:29:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57243 Google is getting a lot of flak about its new privacy policies, some of it warranted and some of it not. The fact is that Google has been heading along this path for years. One could argue the first indication was the Dashboard Google set up in 2009 to provide users more information about how they are creating data in Google's applications. http://www.eweek. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:58:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57185 There is a long-held belief that the majority of Google App customers are small mom-and-pop shops, ranging between 2 and 10 employees. Technically, that is true of the 4 million-plus businesses using Google Apps. However, there are more companies of scale using Apps than you might think, according to a new analysis by Backupify. While 53 percent of Apps domains are comprised of 10 seats or fewer, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:32:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57022 Danny Sullivan, the Search Engine Land who has been dogged in his criticism of Google's Search plus your world feature, scored a nice interview with the company's search head, Amit Singhal . If you've been following the SPYW coverage, you should read it because it reveals much about the company's mindset concerning the way it took the service to market. SPYW is the personal search feature that incorporates users' Google+ posts and photos in users' search results. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:22:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56914 Google is providing two new perks for Google Music users, including the ability to shuttle their tracks from the music locker and share YouTube videos. Users have been able to upload up to 20,000 songs to the Google Music locker and play them on their Android smartphone or tablet since the full, non-beta service launched last November . However, once the music was there, that's it. Users could simply stream tracks. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:39:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56817 The Verge Founder Josh Topolsky both marveled at and lamented the sheer volume of smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices trotted out at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Topolsky hosted a panel where he pressed Samsung and HTC marketing executives on "whether or not technology manufacturers were simply producing too many gadgets, outpacing real consumer demand with iterative, insubstantial changes. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:23:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56783 Ever since Facebook Product Director Blake Ross unveiled his Don't Be Evil bookmarklet, which uses Google's search indexes to show what Google Search, plus your world would look like if it included results from Facebook, Twitter and other sources, the tech world has been waiting for Google to respond. There will be no response, at least not publicly, not now. As I understand it from speaking with sources familiar with Google's thinking, Google isn't convinced the bookmarkelt, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:57:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56644 Google has upgraded the Hotel Finder travel search feature, adding an option to help users filter hotels by how close they want to be to a place when looking for a place to stay. Launched last July to help travelers narrow their options for hotel stays, Hotel Finder surfaces hotels in densely populated cities by selecting an initial shape for users based on what's most popular. At launch, users could refine their hotel search by cost price per night, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:53:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56550 Over at VentureBeat , Rocky Agrawal is outraged at Google for being "intellectually dishonest" regarding the user engagement the company is seeing in its Google+ social network. As I noted Saturday , Google CEO Larry Page counted 90 million Google+ accounts, but declined to say how frequently users were accessing +, what they were doing there and for how long. These are key user engagement statistics. Facebook shares tons of them. Google won't. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:50:58 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56427 Google Apps, the cloud-based collaboration software for businesses, is set to turn 5 years old next month. Google celebrated early in landing BBVA bank as its largest Google Apps deployment to date, spanning 110,000 employees. BBVA, which is short for Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., is the second largest bank in Spain and 7th largest financial institution in the Western world, according to Wikipedia . BBVA operates in over 40 countries. So it's darned big. Importantly, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:40:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56337 Google has really revved its Google+ engine in this second full week of the new year. One day after I discussed the new Google+ photo meme feature and auto-complete search for hashtags , the company has rolled out a handful of new tools to refine the user experience. I'm going to start with my favorite: the ability to join conversations from search results on Google+ by sharing to a topical stream. Do a search for, say, Android and get the results. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:38:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56235 The Google+ team has added a fun new feature to photos - the ability to add text within pictures. Take this picture I snagged at CES last week. Before sharing it on Google+, I click add text: See here the options to add text above in the middle of, or below the picture: Then I choose the text typeface. You can also write something in the post's text box above the picture: And voila, I share the photo with my stream: Google will be checking for funny, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:41:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56122 I attended the high-tech tour de force known as the Consumer Electronics Show last week for two days in Las Vegas, my second year in a row covering the show. People have painted the show as increasingly irrelevant. Microsoft didn't help when he vowed to pull out as keynote going forward, but CES still draws huge crowds. The Consumer Electronics Association said some 153,000 people attended the show this year, a new record. CEA noted: More than 20, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:24:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56036 With anyone else, we call this outburst chutzpah, but this being media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and Murdoch almost always showing a propensity for saying Murdochian things, we'll view this following Jan. 12 tweetburst via Twitter as de rigeur. Basically, Murdoch called out President Barack Obama and Google over the White House's position on the Stop OnlIne Piracy Act (SOPA), Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:57:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55923 There's little question now that Google has stepped into it big time with regard to Search, plus your world, the feature that personalizes search by incorporating Google+ posts and photos in users' search results. Users who are signed in, are officially sheep to Google's supposed well-meaning shepherd, as the company guides users to a wonderful, walled garden where it can serve them more ads. There's no question there are great efficiencies, along with amusing time wasting, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:15:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55855 One of my last stops here at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 11 was to check out what Marvell Semiconductor had done for Google TV. Few will disagree chipsets aren't as sexy as smart TVs, Blu-ray players or companion boxes, but Marvell aims to be the chief processor OEM for all of those kinds of devices after Intel bowed out gracefully when first-generation Google TV systems from Sony and Logitech failed to sell well. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:15:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55805 Jean-Louis Gassée raised an interesting point about whether or not Samsung, which if you believe the reports is on pace to sell 30 to 35 million phones from October to December, holds some sway over Google, the steward of the Android handsets Samsung has ascended to stardom with in the mobile realm. Google Executive Eric Schmidt said at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 10 that Samsung has become one Google's strongest Android partners. To wit, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:32:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55691 Every year for CES (the Consumer Electronics Show, for the uninitiated), I receive scores of pitches about glasses, wristwatches and other gadgets that aim to augment reality or at least pop it out in a lively way via 3D. When I stop by these booths, I'm regaled with tales from these gadget and gee gaw makers about how their products are the wave of the future. Indeed. Well, after awhile I laughed off a lot of these products because they don't make it to market, or if they do, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:28:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55617 John Battelle offered this great chart above summarizing by strengths and weaknesses the areas where Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon compete, He calls these the Internet Big Five. "For me, these product lines, taken together, are the basis of what we might call "the operating system of our lives," Battelle wrote . Indeed. It's hard to argue with that. Using these companies, we search, socialize, shop game and do just about anything we want to do online. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:30:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55538 The Google Nexus tablet rumor I wrote about here two weeks ago after Google Executive Chairman made some comments received new life from this brief DigiTimes report , which noted: Sources believe that Google will launch the own-brand tablet PC in March-April, featuring a 7-inch panel and Android 4.0 with a price less than US$199 to compete against Amazon. A 7-inch "pure Google experience" tablet would indeed compete with the already successful Kindle Fire. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:43:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55458 On the heels of my post about Google and Facebook locked in a user engagement death match (or more appropriately, Google chasing Facebook here), John Battelle sallied forth with the prediction that Facebook would launch a third-party ad platform. As in, the one Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his lieutenant COO Sheryl Sandberg, and numerous others have denied planning for the last few years. That would be what Battelle calls "FaceSense," Facebook's version of Google's AdSense . Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:42:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55389 Using his Business Insider blog operations as an example, Henry Blodget made a compelling argument as to why Google should pump more money into improving Google Apps. Blodget's predicament goes like this: Of course, because we are occasionally e-mailed Microsoft Office files and need to be able to open them, and because we occasionally need to do things that Microsoft Office apps do well and Google Apps don't, we still keep copies of Microsoft Office on most of our machines. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:03:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55309 Facebook is killing Google, enjoying over 800 million users, half of whom log on to connect with family, friends and colleagues daily. This is the meme that's been boiling over from the tech press in the wake of Nielsen's latest top Web brands list. Certainly, when it comes to user engagement, or time spent online, Facebook wins in a walk, where users spend 4 times as much time as they do on Google : But this has been the case the last couple years, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:48:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55293 I've been off for the past week, but this report from The Next Web caught my eye. It's nothing special - just the annual post about what Samsung is doing at Mobile World Congress in February. For this year, that includes the Galaxy S III smartphones. Recall last year that Samsung unveiled its popular Galaxy S II handset, which has gone on to sell over 10 million units worldwide since April. Those were dual-core handsets, ranging from 1.2GHz to 1.5GHz clock speeds. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:52:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55067 Google continued its annual ritual of teaming up with Norad to track Santa. Google supplies its Google Maps and Street View software for Norad's Santa Site . Starting Saturday, Dec. 24 at 2:00 a.m. EST, Santa lovers can navigate to www.noradsanta.org in their Web browser to track Santa's global trip, starting from the North Pole: No, it's not a sequel to "The Polar Express," but you'd be forgiven for thinking so given the crisp animation. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:06:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54992 Anyone out there like to use Firefox on devices other than their work or home PCs? Firefox for Android, which has 5 million to 10 million users, has been tuned to work better for Android "Honeycomb" and future tablet builds. For example, the Awesome Screen integrates Firefox Sync, keeping browsing history, open tabs, bookmarks and saved passwords across desktop and mobile devices. This type of sync feature, which also super popular on Google's Chrome Web browser, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:30:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54932 Amazon has begun rolling out the promised update for its Kindle Fire tablet. The *over-the-air software package will help remove a lot of the latency we've come to see in the Fire since it launched Nov. 15 for $199. The New York Times columnist David Pogue outlined the improvements as such today : The home screen "carousel," a rotating shelf that holds all of your books, magazines and movies, now stops on a dime when you want it to. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:15:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54830 Take any translation with a grain of salt, but if you believe Corriere della Sera's citation of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, the company will likely launch a Google Nexus-branded tablet based on the new Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" operating system 6 months from now. Possibly even in time for Google I/O in the last week in June. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:22:33 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54760 Google has indexed and cataloged 76,000 images of the Metropolitan Musuem of Art's art collection for its Goggles visual search application. What's especially cool about this is that the Met let Google index thousands of photos or works it doesn't even currently feature on display. What this means is that when you visit the museum and want to learn more about a work of art than what's on its placard, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:31:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54668 As I wrote last week , Google was preparing to let businesses offer check-in deals via the Google Places local search service. That's now come to fruition as a new feature in the Offer coupon creation option in the Google Places dashboard, as first pointed out by the eagle-eyed Mike Blumental . Google confirmed the new service for me and directed me to this Places support Web page , which explains the nitty gritty details. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:50:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54594 Google's mobile software team has been busy building a better iOS application for Gmail. Six weeks after Google prematurely launched a native Gmail app for iOS devices, and 4 weeks after relaunching it with the necessary fixes, Google has added even more features to the program. Gmail for iOS users may now add a custom signature for their outgoing mobile messages, or even a vacation responder. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:21:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54514 Seems everyone is finding it in their hearts to beat up on the Amazon Kindle Fire for its balky navigation and other gross fits and starts. On the other hand, most research firms still see the Fire, which Amazon dubbed its most successful product ever, as the tablet to beat this holiday quarter. Or at least, it's the Android tablet to beat after the iPad! While many analysts have been calling for the $199 Fire to sell 3 to 5 million units for the December quarter, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:48:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54437 Google recently upgraded its movie search capabilities for Android smartphones and Apple iOS devices, making movie discovery along with their showtimes and theaters easier faster and easier to find. If only there were any decent movies out there to see as we speed toward Christmas... but that's another matter entirely. Anyway, instead of basic movie listings, when users search for films on Google.com from their smartphone browser, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:31:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54369 With less than 3 weeks left in 2011, Android OEMs are racing to pump out the last of their smartphones and tablets for people like myself to review (and, they hope, for consumers to purchase for Christmas!). The good news is I expect to get a Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 any day now after receiving a heads-up from Motorola's PR late Friday. The bad news I have no idea when I'll get the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" phone from to test Verizon Wireless. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:43:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54287 The Google+ team has been hard at work, adding well over 100 features since launching the platform June 28 and releasing it to public beta in September. One area that hasn't been addressed much has been Google+ Photos, which were actually pretty solid at launch. What's better than the Instant Upload feature for Android phones? Google+ hopes users try Find My Face , a new feature that lets users tag photos. Over the next few days, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:24:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54228 John Battelle is doing some nice culling for his next book, " What We Hath Wrought ." Normally, I'd shun any book with a title like that because it invokes the dreaded Triple P threat: portentous, pompous and pretentious. But this is Battelle, baby. Even if the title sounds like something an Ivy League essayist wrote, I'll eat it up. So will many others. To wit, Battelle is looking at the Internet Big 5 as the 5 companies shaping the Web for years to come. They are, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:13:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54121 Earlier this year, I wondered when Google+ would be integrated with Google Places. That's as logical of a local business booster as you can get. Take Google's social network and pair it with the company's local business search service. Google is indeed hard at work in this effort. The company accidentally posted help documentation that talks of check-in offers triggered via Google+. As TechCrunch and Mike Blumenthal noted, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:46:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54017 J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz had a sit down with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Openheimer, from whom he gathered that they were not at all concerned by Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet. If they had said that before the Kindle Fire was launched Nov. 15, I'd call them arrogant. Having played with the custom Android slate with a 7-inch display for over two weeks, I can see their logic, and that of Moskowitz, who wrote Dec. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:27:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53955 An interesting meme has popped up over whether Mozilla's Firefox browser is sustainable given the fact that Google's Chrome browser is rapidly gaining on its rival and that Google accounted for 84 percent of revenue last year. That licensing deal, in which Firefox shuttles users to Google's search engine, supposedly ran out in November, Ed Bott noted first Dec. 2 . Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:12:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53857 Google released the first fruits of its ITA Software Flight Search data back in September, providing users with flight schedules and prices to compare several travel options. Users could access Flight Search via the Flights section on the left-hand navigation rail of search results pages, or heading straight to Google.com Flights . That's not nearly as direct as simply searching for the same flights via Google.com. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:14:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53770 ReadWriteWeb's Joe Brockmeier published a provacative post about Chrome Operating System Wednesday. The premise? Google, which behind new-old CEO Larry Page has been trimming a lot of dark matter projects, may want to clip Chrome OS now rather than invest any more money in it or the Chromebooks in the market. The reason? People aren't buying them, partly because they're not as aggressively marketed as other Google products, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:24:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53684 Google Maps for Android 6.0 is a significant refresh, adding indoor layouts for some malls, department stores such as Ikea, Bloomingdale's and Macy's, as well as several airports in the U.S. and Japan. The search engine provider already commands much of the online mapping market for outdoor geographic footage all over the world. With these app tools, Google has signaled its intent to corner the indoor market Microsoft's Bing and others are trying to feast on. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:45:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53595 Google's top search engineers, including Google Fellows Amit Singhal and Ben Gomes, run through a video snapshot of the company's search engine evolution over the last 13 years. None of it is secret, though some of it may seem to have been resurrected from obscurity. Check it out for yourself: Where search came from doesn't interest me. Search as it is today doesn't thrill me. It's a tool, gets the job done. Where search is going promises to be more interesting. Singhal, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:20:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53576 Jean-Louis Gassée has penned a cogent analysis answering many industry watchers' question of: Why should Facebook product a smartphone? Facebook is a social network company that has been intensely focused on improving the tools that keep the social connections humming. Well, mobile is a necessary adjacent portal. Some would say it's going to replace the desktop as the vehicle for Web interactions. For many users, it already has. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:48:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53495 Samsung has made its mobile attack on Apple personal, poking fun at iPhone fanboys and fangirls in a clever ad for its Samsung Galaxy S II. Samsung's self described "aggressive" campaign, called "The Next Big Thing is Already Here," is a TV and online campaign began running on Facebook Nov. 23. Normally when Apple and Samsung engage in competitive jousts, they attack each other's speeds and feeds. This time, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:29:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53440 In a plot worthy of one of campiest, long-running teen TV series ever, Facebook reportedly assembled a top-secret team of top talent to build a Facebook Phone. What happened? The effort, initially code-named "Slayer," a hybrid of "Social Layer, and renamed to the more cute and safe "Buffy," FAILED the first time Facebook tried it. That's the great scoop from AllThingsD's Liz Gannes. I'm thrilled for her because, after breaking the news Monday , Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:19:46 GMT