Germans Can Opt-Out Of Google Street View

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As we mentioned last week, Google is now allowing German residents to opt-out of having buildings shown in Google Street View Germany.
The removal request page begins by saying that it’s “a pity” that the user wants to make a building unrecognizable in Street View. Google goes on to explain that

anyone can request removal, including [...]

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How To Rescue Poorly Converting Web Sites

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Twice this year I got the call too late. Two online businesses were in their final death throes. Their owners begged me for emergency help with sinking conversion rates. Both believed that I could find what was “broken,” repair it with some magic usability tape, traffic would flow again and sales would return. [...]

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Where Is Search Going: Google’s Johanna Wright

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With this post, I return to the topic I got sidetracked from a few months back: where is search going? I’ve had the chance to talk to Stefan Weitz from Microsoft, The Search author John Battelle and, this time around, I had the chance to pose a few questions to Johanna Wright, Google’s Product Management [...]

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Living Content: It’s What People Want

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Most web content is barely alive, even when it is first written. It is pumped out by content mills, optimized and uploaded. This kind of bulk content is often referred to as backfill content. I prefer the term “landfill content.” Dead and rotting from day one.
In sharp contrast, living content is quality content. It is [...]

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WATCH! Google Street View Camera Falls Off Car

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Add this to the list of funny and interesting things that Google Street View cameras have recorded — a camera capturing its own demise.
I spotted one of Google’s Street View cars apparently losing its camera near where I live, in Suffern, New York. Everything’s fine as the car travels westbound on Haverstraw Road (you can [...]

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Twitter Search Queries Up 33%, 24 Billion Searches Per Month

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VentureBeat reports Twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone saying that Twitter’s search volume is up 33%. That is 800 million queries a day or 24 billion search queries per month, up from 19 billion as reported in April.
24 billion is a huge number, it is larger than Yahoo and Bing, almost as large as them together. [...]

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The power of Twitter eh?

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Doctors Warn Against Relying Too Much On Google

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Chances are good that you’ve searched for health-related information via Google, Yahoo, Bing, or some of the other health-specific portals. Both Google and Bing continue to expand the amount — and quality — of content they show in response to our health searches. But, based on a recent study, the medical industry says we should [...]

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