Posts tagged Feature
SEO Partner Announces Advanced Backlink Boosting Feature For Epic Pack – PR Web (press release)
Jan 9th
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SEO Partner Announces Advanced Backlink Boosting Feature For Epic Pack
PR Web (press release) SEO Partner's most advanced service package, the Epic Pack just received a brand new backlink boosting feature. Company chief James Schramko talks about the details. As 2012 kicks in, SEO Partner continues its strategic expansion to major global cities … |
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You Can Now Create a Google Account From a Feature Phone
Dec 20th
Google+ just announced that feature phone users can now create a Google account. Googler Mohamed Fouad describes this as an effort to enable the hundreds of millions of people with feature phones but no computer access to create an account.
By visiting plus.google.com from a feature phone browser, users can now create a Gmail and Google+ account. This month, Google has extended features of the Web versions of Gmail and Google+ to allow free voice calls to any phone number. Building features for basic mobile phones helps Google extend its reach to a huge, untapped market for Web services.
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It looks from Google’s screenshots like there will be basic functionality available from feature phones, not just the ability to sign up. It’s hard to imagine using Gmail or Google+ in any meaningful way on a feature phone. But it’s clear why Google wants to make it possible. Just like with free voice calling from Gmail and Google+ to any phone number, now millions more people are within Google’s reach.
See more feature phone screenshots from Mohamed Fouad on Google+.
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Facebook Acquires Gowalla, Tests Negative Feedback Feature, Expands in NYC
Dec 8th
Facebook will acquire privately held social networking firm Gowalla for an undisclosed sum in a bid to improve its location-based networking operations.
Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams revealed the deal in a post on the company’s official …
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Facebook Acquires Gowalla, Test Negative Feedback Feature, Expands in NYC
Dec 8th
Facebook will acquire privately held social networking firm Gowalla for an undisclosed sum in a bid to improve its location-based networking operations.
Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams revealed the deal in a post on the company’s official …
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New InboundWriter Feature Helps Google AdSense Publishers Optimize to CPC
Dec 7th
Eightfold Logic has added a new feature that factors CPC into keyword scores in InboundWriter, their content optimization WordPress plugin. This new addition allows writers to factor in their Google AdSense advertising strategy during the content …
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SEO SpyGlass Software Is Enhanced By Advanced Grouping Feature – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Nov 27th
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SEO SpyGlass Software Is Enhanced By Advanced Grouping Feature
DigitalJournal.com (press release) Com, provider of enterprise SEO software bundled into SEO PowerSuite series, has enabled grouping links in SEO SpyGlass by five crucial factors. Thus, users get sharp insights into link-building strategies of their competitors in an even more handy way … |
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Why are E-Cards the Main Feature of PayPal’s Facebook Payments App?
Nov 18th
PayPal is aiming its peer-to-peer Facebook app, SendMoney, not only to Facebook users who want to send money to each other, but to those who want to drop an e-card in, too. According to a recent study from Pew, 64 percent of online adults use social media to stay in touch with family. Grandma can send her Facebook-addicted granddaugther a birthday card along with a nice chunk of change. Dad can pass along a nice “have fun on me” $50 to his college-aged son after the lad finishes a hard week of finals.
PayPal and Facebook want to bring together the world’s biggest social network, and the world’s largest online payments company – and e-cards may be the bridge to making that happen.
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It fits into a trend we’ve seen recently of retailers are adding e-gift card options. Then there are apps like Apple’s Cards, which lets users create a real, physical cards from their iPhones by taking a photo on your camera, then choosing from 21 designs. Postagram turns Instagrams into postcards for only $0.99 a pop. Both of these give users the opportunity to make e-cards into paper cards. Even Selena Gomez jumped on this trend with an investment in Postcard on the Run, an app of the same persuasion which lets users turn photos from their iOS and Android devices into mailable postcards.
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Google Kills Its Own “Timeline” Feature
Nov 11th
As Google works to emphasize up-to-the-minute search results, it has also quietly killed off a search feature that helped users search for content from the past. As users in the Google search help forum have noticed, the Timeline feature for Web search has disappeared. It helped filter search results for specific timeframes.
Timeline view is still available in Google News, but it only searches certain archived publications instead of all Web results. Google community managers have suggested the normal date range filter as an alternative, but this isn’t a browsable feature like Timeline was. Just as it has done with Google Reader in recent weeks, Google has killed off a feature used by a small but dedicated set of its users.
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In response to user complaints about the disappearance of Timeline, Google search community manager Kelly Fee suggests using google.com/trends or google.com/insights/search for graphs of search results over time, but those tools only go back to 2004, and they aren’t a part of Web search. She also suggests the Google Books ngram viewer, but that’s only for book searches.
Google’s Going Real-Time
The end of Timeline coincides with its implementation of new real-time search algorithms that privilege recent results over old ones by assuming when users want current information. It’s also experimenting with real-time search on Google+, and it’s surfacing recent posts from the social network in Web search. The removal of Timeline pushes users of Google search away from historical content and toward real-time results.
Google can do whatever it wants with its free services, and it doesn’t have to explain itself to anyone. And pushing around smaller products like Google Reader in the interest of Google+ is a sensible business move. But taking away useful features of Google search raises a more core issue.
As Vic Gundotra has made clear, the + part of Google is integral to Google itself. Is it starting to change the company’s priorities? Google’s mission has always been to organize the Web’s information. Is its new social experiment in real-time trends compromising that?
Timeline search screenshot credit: Digital Marketing Rucksack
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Social Signals in PPC: Google’s +1 Feature is Getting Better
Nov 11th
Back in September I wrote about Google’s integration of social and search with the +1 button. In the time since, there has been plenty to discuss as advertisers learned more about this feature and began incorporating +1 buttons on landi…
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