Tag Archives: Google

Add Your Facebook Friends & Photo’s to Google+

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Luke

There’s been countless articles posted on Google+ in the last few weeks. Is it a Facebook killer, a Twitter killer, a LinkedIn killer a Foursquare killer? The truth is it’s probably none of the above. An interesting stat I picked … Continue reading →

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How Google+ Can Succeed: Privacy, Mobile & No Ad’s

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Luke

I read through a fairly lengthy article on Wired.com this morning detailing the last year of progress in delivering the new Google + product. I haven’t tested the product yet so these are only my thoughts on how a superior … Continue reading →

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Google: Now Search by Image & Voice

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Luke

Google is constantly updating its search feature, be it a little tweaking to add signals form social media, or this handy new feature that allows you to search using an image. The image can be one thats already online, one … Continue reading →

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Irish Social Media Statistics (May 2011)

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Luke

Updated June 21st with Foursquare data. I’ve been collecting data on social media in Ireland since the last post back in February on the Neworld Blog. There’s certainly enough new data to warrant an update. Overview Let’s start with some … Continue reading →

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Facebook, Bing & Google: 10 Reasons Why Social Search is Flawed

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Luke

Last October I posted on how Bing and Facebook were going to integrate their search offering, to bring social signals deeper into search results. This week Bing announced even greater integration with Facebook. This raises a number of concerns, which … Continue reading →

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Social Search: Bing ‘V’ Google

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Luke

The turf war between both internet search engines heated up this week as the two companies released the latest updates of two of their search products. The Bing Bar version 7 and an update of Google Social Search aim to … Continue reading →

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Groupon’s New Big Deal

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Luke

With the news that Google is about to purchase the group buying website Groupon for between $3 and $6 Billion dollars the rise of the two year old website has been nothing short of meteoric. Founded on November 11th 2008 … Continue reading →

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How Google Works (Infographic)

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Luke

Nice infographic that came courtesy of The Wall blog. How the complex search beast Google works. Full size available here.

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Google New For All Thats New at Google

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Luke

It can sometimes be difficult to keep up to date with all the new services and updates to existing products Google release. From a simple search function the company has diversified into a wide range of online activities, all aimed … Continue reading →

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Google Instant: Faster Than the Speed of Type

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Luke

Google have a habit of releasing several products in and around the same time. Over the last few weeks we have had Priority Inbox, Gmail Calls and Realtime. Last night the search firm announced the biggest change to its search … Continue reading →

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