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Google has acquired Clever Sense, both companies have announced. Clever Sense is the maker of the Alfred mobile app, which focuses on personalized local recommendations.
The app uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to discover the type of places you like so its recommendations become highly personalized... |
14 December 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Google may not be doing so great with the 'social' web, but it's faring much better with the 'local' web, the other big trend of the moment. No doubt, its Android bet has paid off, but there are still plenty of opportunities in the mobile and local space. One that hasn't been realized so... |
14 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Google is focusing on several areas at the moment and one of the big ones is local and location as well as the social elements related to them. While Google has a solid presence in the space, thanks to Google Maps, it's looking to expand it by integrating more functionality beyond the mapping service.Essentially... |
6 May 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Google keeps expanding Hotpot, its social, local recommendations service. Friends are at the core of the experience and Google is determined to get a social product right for once, so most recent changes center around this aspect.The latest small addition, the possibility to see all the recommendations from one frien... |
20 January 2011
12:07 GMT |
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Google is doubling down on efforts to conquer the small business market. Not that this is something new, Google has been trying to crack the potentially very lucrative advertising market for years, but it's now starting to look like it may have a chance. Beyond a greater number of products aimed at small busines... |
30 December 2010
05:51 GMT |
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There local and hyper local markets are mostly untapped as far as the web is concerned and there's no shortage of companies wanting a piece. So far, few have managed to make much inroad, but the lure is too great to pass up. Yahoo is making a move with the re-launch of Yahoo Local, in beta.The new Yahoo Local is... |
9 December 2010
10:36 GMT |
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Google has introduced a new search feature that should make local searches a lot more interesting. Dubbed Google Place Search, the name says it all, it enables users to find places rather than websites. This may not seem like much of a change, but it completely turns on its head the search results paradigm used so fa... |
28 October 2010
06:16 GMT |
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Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, is resigning the role she held for more than a decade to take over Google's efforts in the emerging 'location' market. Initial reports that have been later confirmed by Google indicate that along with her new position s... |
13 October 2010
03:54 GMT |
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The ‘local’ web promises to be the next big frontier for anything having to do with search, advertising and all manner of other services. Google obviously wants to own the ‘local’ space as well and has been making several big moves in this area. The most recent is the new Google Places, or rat... |
20 April 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Twitter has made it official, the new Local Trends feature is now available for everyone. It enables users to set their location and see the trending topics from their country or city. For now, the feature has a rather limited location selection, but Twitter says it's working on expanding it. When the feature m... |
27 January 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Twitter already owns the real-time information game and now it's making a play in another hot web trend, local info. Some users have begun noticing a new feature dubbed Local Trends, which does exactly what you'd expect: it lists the trending topics in your area as opposed to globally. Twitter has confirmed... |
23 January 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Google sure likes giving stuff away, most of its services are free for regular users, but it's not exactly out of the goodness of its hear, the ads it serves on most of them more than make up for the losses. And Google isn't done yet, it’s always looking for ways to get more ads to people while still being... |
8 January 2010
04:08 GMT |
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It looks like Google is trying to recoup on the past year going on an acquisition spree after staying quite on that front for a while. It has done some pretty big deals, AdMob, On2 and some smaller ones and is now said to be in talks with local business directory and review site Yelp and is apparently willing to she... |
18 December 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Twitter is pushing ahead on two fronts with just one move. The company is now launching a new Sign-Up API which allows users to sign up for the service from any third party site or app which implements it. For now, the API isn't public but has already been implemented by online local guide Citysearch. This last... |
7 December 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Local businesses are the hot market right now for online services. Most big businesses have a pretty solid online presence at this point and the competition is pretty fierce in this area. Local businesses by contrast don't really have the resources to establish a very well though-out web identity and, so far, t... |
7 December 2009
04:48 GMT |
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The Google News team always hurried with their predictions about features being implemented and mostly they were right. Some minor exceptions don't count, like the fact that they won't check for updates if they are included in the same article and will only present the original story, no matter how many add... |
7 February 2008
16:41 GMT |
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"I think - tide turning - see, as I remember - I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of-it's easy to see a tide turn-did I say those words?" You all know and love him, it's your George Bush! Let's give him a round of applause as he goes off the stage.I actually thought of this quote from the Ameri... |
11 December 2007
05:07 GMT |
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Two weeks ago, YouTube released 9 regional versions of the online video sharing service to allow the residents of several countries to access their own version of the product. Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, UK and US where the lucky countries that received a new version of the famo... |
3 July 2007
04:05 GMT |
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The parent company Google updated the popular YouTube with regional versions for numerous countries including Italy, France, Brazil, Poland, Spain and UK. Although it was rumored that Google wants to release a local version of the online video sharing service, it denied all the speculation, and now several countries ... |
19 June 2007
08:51 GMT |
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