Have you already tried the redesigned Facebook Groups? Well, I was curious to check it out and try creating a “secret” group with a few of my friends, just for fun and to see how Groups work, but I found a funny warning message that made creating the group impossible: “User is a member of too many Groups. Ask them t...
Google Instant: live updating search results
Imagine if you could instantly see search results as you are typing a query, without the need to hit the enter key, as it happens with Google Suggest query refinements.
As you keep adding words to the query, the results would change, showing also different ads.
Well, Google is testing instant streaming search result...
Free VoIP phone calls from Gmail
Yesterday Google announced a new Gmail feature that allows free phone calls in the US and Canada, just by clicking on the “Call phone” button at top of the chat list.
International calls are supported too and cost just $0.02 per minute.
The voice and video chat plugin for Gmail has been recently updated to run also ...
Twitter Tweet buttons about to launch, TweetMeme goes down
According to Mashable, on Thursday Twitter will launch the official Tweet button, a convenient way to share webpages and articles, that will also display the URL share counter.
The Tweet button may not be as revolutionary as Facebook’s Like button, but it could become an important ranking signal for real time search...
Google Me on Chrome OS: a Facebook and iPad Killer
Rumors about Google Me, the new social network that would compete with Facebook, never cease to spread, and one of the features that could make it a serious challenger is social gaming integration. A standalone Google Games platform could be in the plans, considering the investment in Zynga and the acquisition of Sl...
Google to battle Facebook on Social Gaming ground
Tomorrow Google will announce the acquisition of Slide, a social gaming apps and virtual communities developer, that marks another cornerstone in Google’s strategy to build a social gaming network that could challenge Facebook’s domination.
After the $100-200 million investment in Zynga, the biggest online social ga...
Google Place Pages vs. Facebook Pages
Earlier today I was reading a Local SEO Guide article on small businesses that prefer creating a Facebook Page instead of (or before) a Google Place Page.
The advantage of a Facebook Page vs. a Place Page is clear: You can promote your products or services on a platform with a large user base that facilitates conve...
Is Facebook Questions the new Fountain of Truth?
Facebook Questions is a new Q&A feature, similar to Yahoo! Answers, that is currently being released to a small portion of users on Facebook. This new application aims to exploit Facebook’s huge user base to provide crowdsourced answers to users asking for opinions, advice and recommendations on any subject.
Answe...
Image Ads in Google Image Search
Google Image Search implemented infinite scrolling and other features inspired from Bing that improve user experience and prepare the ground for a new ad format: Image Search Ads.
The Official Google Blog doesn’t mention Bing obviously, but describes instant scrolling (Google will load 1000 results organized in “p...
Holy SEO! The Vatican on Google
If you search for “vatican” on Google, the first result that shows up is not the PR9 official website of the Vatican, or the Wikipedia page for the Vatican City, but instead you will see a page titled Vatican: the Holy See, the homepage of www.pedofilo.com.
The website is currently down, but it’s still showing on th...
