Popular voucher search engine BView announced a partnership with Google, which will see BView providing money-saving vouchers on the popular Google Maps search.
Any vouchers created by local businesses on BView will automatically feature in Google Maps, adding tremendous visibility to a sector which has often struggled to reach target customers online. The move enables Google users to save money locally while supporting merchants in their neighborhoods.
Bing, that’s the name of the new search engine, Microsoft is hoping to beat Google with. Let’s just get it out of the way - no, Bing is not a Google Killer. Bing is the new, user-friendly decision engine that offers consumers a better-organized search experience with easy access to relevant content.
The service, unveiled last week at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference in Carslbad, California, wasn’t supposed to make its debut until Wednesday.
At Google’s Searchology event, the company declared realtime search as its biggest challenge. Meanwhile, OneRiot released the first realtime search engine that crawls and indexes content behind links shared on Twitter, Digg and the wider social web (filtering out spam/noise to deliver signal).
OneRiot allows people to find the most reliable, socially-relevant blogs, videos and articles being shared right now from across the web. Filter out spam and conversational noise to deliver the fresh, reliable and relevant search results. In essence, OneRiot does for the social web what Google does for the static web.
Google Street View, a Google Maps feature that lets users see images of streets and the surrounding areas, continues to generate controversy. Since its launch in May 2007, the feature has prompted questions about whether it constitutes an invasion of privacy, complaints about inappropriate images, and even a lawsuit.
Google has just announced a new development, that Google Friend Connect integrates Twitter, the famous micro-blogging social network. Now you can sign into friend connect sites with your Twitter ID. Friend Connect also supports IDs from Google, Yahoo, AIM, and OpenID.
On March 23, 1752, the Halifax Gazette told the story of a tragic romance. The author of the short narrative named neither subject, referring only to them as the Officer and the Lady. A short time after they married, the Officer scolded the Lady for being late for dinner, whereupon she downed a bottle of liquid opium and declared, “Duty and obedience! And this shall end all disputes!” The Lady thereafter died.
This lost bit of history (or legend) can be found at PaperOfRecord.com, which was just acquired by Google. As part of its initiative to digitize newspaper archives, Google completed a two-year sales process for an undisclosed sum.
imeem, the leading social music service, launches mobile advertising platform that offers brands new opportunities to connect with mobile consumers through imeem for Android, imeem’s popular social music application for the Android mobile platform.
Kia Motors America (KMA) is the first brand advertiser to leverage imeem’s new platform, using it to promote the Kia Soul, an all-new compact SUV launching next spring in the U.S. In addition to its mobile advertising program, Kia Motors will have a presence on the imeem.com service through a profile and display advertising on media streaming pages throughout the site.