- RIAA President: Google ?Misused Its Power? by Protesting SOPA
Google abused its trust and misused its power when it blacked out its logo and encouraged its millions of users base to ?Tell Congress: Please don?t censor the web!? At least according to the Recording Industry Association of America?s CEO. - Privacy Group Sues FTC to Stop New Google Privacy Policy
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google privacy policy, which is set to become effective March 1. The complaint was filed today in federal district court. - Google Debuts Chrome for Android
The mobile version of Chrome runs on smartphones or tablets with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or above. Although Chrome for Android was designed from the ground up for mobile devices, it has many of the same features of the desktop version. - 5 'Moneyball' Tips for Search Marketers from Billy Beane
Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane talked baseball, metrics, and people calling him crazy, with an audience of search marketers and corporate executives in a keynote yesterday at Covario?s InflectionPoint 2012 conference in California. - 2 Non-Obvious PPC Split Tests
Simple PPC split testing can provide market insights that allow you to connect deeply and powerfully with your prospects. All that?s required is a willingness to think, wonder, and ask. Here are two questions to jump-start your own deep curiosity. - Facebook Deprecating 50+ Page Insights Metrics ? Are You Ready?
Some metrics will be completely eliminated; others are being replaced by metrics added to the Graph API. If you haven?t already stopped using the deprecated metrics, you probably have your work cut out for you to quickly get the updates in place. - How to Take Advantage of Apple?s Rise to Mobile Market Dominance
Apple is the king of mobile. With an expanding market share, Apple is poised to break records yet again in 2012; though they must improve their iAd inventory to compete with Google. Here are the implications for mobile marketers. - Solve for X: Google?s Answer to All World Problems
Google believes that we can solve some of the world's greatest problems by working together. We Solve for X appears to be more focused on global problems, using them as opportunities to encourage ?moonshot? thinking. - Panda, Fresher Results, Spelling Top Google?s January 2012 Search Updates
A minor update to Google?s Panda update was released in January. This was just one of 14 other search changes Google announced. Others included fresher results, improvements to autocomplete, better spelling corrections, and auto-disabling Instant. - Google Bouncer Security Tool Fights Android Malware
Google said that since security system Bouncer has been operating, malware levels on the Android Market have gone down. The company noted that over the second half of 2011, malicious downloads had decreased by 40 percent.
- Find lectures on nearly any subject with TalkMiner
There are a lot of video search engines on the Web, and plenty of free movies. Trying to find lectures given by actual instructors on classroom subjects is a bit tricky, even with all the video search resources available to us. That's where TalkMiner, a search engine focused on finding video lectures, webinars, and talks, becomes very useful.Search for a subject, perhaps global warming, and TalkMiner will bring results that you can sort by relevance, title, publication date, addition date, number of slides, and duration. You can also search within "channels"; these are video channels curated by specific universities or think tanks. TalkMiner could be very useful for any student looking for specific lecture videos on specific subjects; or, if you're just looking for a bit of information, TalkMiner really makes it as easy as possible to filter through the chaff.
More ways to find high-quality content on the Web
Find lectures on nearly any subject with TalkMiner originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 00:21:12.
- Save money on your next flight with Trabber, a comparison air travel engine
If you've done any kind of searching for flights lately, you'll know that inexpensive, quality flights are getting harder and harder to find.....even if you use the Web. We've looked a few great flight search engines here at About Web Search that make this process as painless as possible: Hipmunk, Bing Travel, TravelMuse. Today, we're going to check out Trabber.Trabber is basically a meta search engine that searches more than 40 different travel sites for the cheapest flight possible. Type in your flight times, destinations, and number of people (you can also specify if you'd like a direct flight), and Trabber retrieves a list of flights for you. You can filter these results by time, origin, stopovers, departure and return time, airlines, prices, duration, etc. I found quite a few flights direct from LAX to La Guardia in NYC for less than $300, not bad!
Best of all, Trabber operates in multiple countries, including Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. Give it a try and see if you can find a flight that fits into your budget.
More travel resources on the Web
- Track Flights and Airport Status with Google Travel
- Find Travel Deals with Travel Search Engines
- The Best Mobile Travel Sites on the Mobile Web
Save money on your next flight with Trabber, a comparison air travel engine originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 00:07:25.
- What are the top social networking websites?
More people than ever before are using the Web to connect with other people via social networking sites. But did you know that while these sites are incredibly useful for connecting with other people, they are also one of the best sources on the Web for finding content on virtually any topic you can think of? Read more in The Top Social Networking Sites on the Web.More about social networking
- Three easy ways to search for people on Facebook
- Search beyond Twitter conversations with Topsy
- Ten Ways You Can Use the Real-Time Web
What are the top social networking websites? originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 00:20:44.
- Take a look at DuckDuckGo
I love discovering useful new tools on the Web. This week, I'd like to share with you DuckDuckGo, a really great search engine with a sort of silly name. Read more about DuckDuckGo in my quick profile.More useful search engines
Take a look at DuckDuckGo originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 00:45:25.
- Stats and the Mobile Web
I don't know about you, but I really like looking at Web statistics. This week, I've been researching the Mobile Web, and I've put together a few sites you can use to see who is using the Mobile Web, what they are using it for, and where growth might be headed. Here are five sites you can use to find all sorts of information about the Mobile Web.More Web stats
- How to Find Google Search Statistics: Google's search statistics are, for the most part, public knowledge. Obviously, some proprietary information is going to be kept from the public, but most Web searchers will find what they need to know with these resources.
Stats and the Mobile Web originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 00:13:22.
- What is a hacker?
The word "hacker" usually brings up a similar reaction in many people - and it's not generally flattering. We hear about hackers in the news all the time, usually for some kind of destructive, chaotic action that messes up a lot of people's systems. However, are there different kinds of hackers? Are all hackers the same? What should we know about hackers in order to react appropriately? Read more in this article titled Bad Hackers, Good Hackers: What's the Difference??
More about online safety
What is a hacker? originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 00:02:43.
- Eight ways to find links on the Web
Finding a link is something that we all end up needing to do at some point. For example:
- Perhaps you own a website and want to see who is linking to your website
- You are looking at a very large website that doesn't offer a great internal search tool
- You need to find a specific word or phrase within the link itself
- You need to limit your search to a specific top level domain
More about links
- What is a URL?
- How to Find Sites That Link To Your Site
- Info - How does the "info" syntax work?
- How to Find a Website
Eight ways to find links on the Web originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 00:56:08.
- Five tips to help you shop safely online
Most of us go online and shop at our favorite shopping sites without even a second thought. We give out our credit card numbers and other sensitive financial and personal information, click "send", and wait with anticipation for our product to arrive in the mail. However, even though the vast majority of shopping sites are indeed perfectly safe and secure, it's just common sense to keep your eyes peeled for a few things in your online shopping experience that will clue you in as to whether the site is safe to shop at or not. Read more in this article titled Five Tips for Shopping Safely Online.
Five tips to help you shop safely online originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 00:50:33.
- Find the best Amazon prices with CamelCamelCamel
If you purchase items frequently on Amazon, or you're looking for some good deals (and who isn't these days?), you'll want to check out CamelCamelCamel, a free Amazon price tracker that helps you buy what you're looking for when the price drops so you can get the best deal.
Search for something specific, browse product groups, see what the top price drops are, even add a CamelCamelCamel widget to your browser so you can always stay on top of what you're looking for. This is an extremely useful site, especially for bargain shoppers!
More bargains on the Web
- Comparison Shopping Sites
- Five sites for free online coupons
- The Top Ten Sites for Online Grocery Shopping
Find the best Amazon prices with CamelCamelCamel originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 00:05:03.
- Use Ninite to manage your downloads effectively
If you're in the market to download a lot of great software (all free, most open source), and you dread the thought of spending hours clicking "Next", then Ninite, a simple bulk-install software updater/installer, is for you.Ninite is about as simple as it gets. Just pick the software you want to install, and the Ninite uploader will do its work quietly behind the scenes of what you're working on with little to no input from you. Software here includes various Web browsers, messaging utilities, media players, image tools, and much more - again, all free. Give it a try!
More simple tools
- Web Search Made Simple
- Seven Ways You Can Use Craigslist
- Ten Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With RSS
Use Ninite to manage your downloads effectively originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 00:11:05.
