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Google goes live with real time expert assistance service Helpouts

Google has gone live with Helpouts, a service that allows you to receive help from experts in a variety of fields using the company’s…

All of Google’s big work perks aren’t really necessary for keeping top talent

There’s enormous competition for software engineers and many companies offer an ever larger array of work perks convinced that it will help them recruit…

Google Hummingbird and its role in the promotion of content marketing

Premium copywriters should be jubilant about Hummingbird. Google’s latest algorithm is able to hone in on good quality writing and reward it with high…

Create your own witchy brew with Google’s interactive Halloween doodle

Nope, Google hasn’t jumped on the sparkly vampire bandwagon (or even the trendy Walking Dead) — the search giant has gone traditional but quirky…

Why yes, Google Plus does have users… 300 million of them

A ghost town you say? Not quite. According to Google, its networking site / online social identity is still growing — it’s now up…

How Google clamps down on Android’s open-source: the key is Google apps

Google is often seen as the good guy of the big corporations operating in the world today. Its informal motto is “Don’t be evil”…

Facebook creating ‘second internet’ in challenge to Google

Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google…

SA goes crazy for Zef, Bieber and Malema: Google Zeitgeist

Pop sensations, both local and international, dominated South Africa’s Google search in 2010. From Justin Bieber to Locnville, Jack Parow to Nicki Manaj, local…

The Zeitgeist in search: Gadgets displace celebrities in 2010

The world of technology trumped celebrities when it came to search queries for 2010 on the world’s largest search engine. Some of the hottest…

Chrome OS: A Google strike at the very heart of Microsoft

Google has announced that there will now be a “viable third choice” in computer operating systems, in addition to Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac…

Google unveils Nexus S

Google has unveiled its second branded smartphone, the “Nexus S“, made by South Korea’s Samsung. Google said the Nexus S, which comes nearly a…

Google changes algorithm to fight ‘troll marketing’

Customers at DecorMyEyes.com expected to find polite, helpful service when they visited the New York-based online glasses store. What they didn’t expect was to…

Google’s Groupon deal makes no sense

Faith Merino at VatorNews reported on Monday that Google had purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion: “… according to an unnamed insider who spoke with…

EU announces antitrust probe into Google

Google received the news on Tuesday that it was to be the subject of an antitrust probe by European Union competition watchdogs. The Commission…

Click to Call: Google releases another innovative advertising tool

With over 97% penetration of mobile phones in South Africa and almost 9-million people capable of surfing the web on their phones, it is…

Three changes to Google ads you should be aware of

While Google Instant Preview pretty much stole the show this month, it wasn’t the only development in the wonderful world of search. Here’s a…

Google turns fashionista with Boutiques.com

Online clothes shopping has evolved from traditional mail-order catalogues plonked onto a website into a multi-billion dollar industry that gives anyone the chance to…

Your next Google phone will be your mobile wallet: Schmidt

A new Google mobile phone, embedded with a chip that makes it a virtual wallet so people can “tap and pay” is poised to…

Google vs Facebook: Which strategy will win?

Google’s most important launch this year was its recent debut of Google Instant search which cuts user search time by as much as 40%….

Google Instant Preview: What it means for site design

Google Instant Preview is a relatively new feature on the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). When a user hovers over a search result, Instant…

Google launches ‘Instant Previews’

Internet behemoth Google has rolled out a new feature called “Instant Previews” allowing Web surfers to sample a website without having to click through…

Five trends from Google that will change how we think about mobile

You’re in a restaurant in France. The menu looks delightful, but it’s all in French and you don’t know what to order. So you…

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