The related search links on the top of Google Images search results will be more appealing now. This was announced by Google as the search engine giant revealed that they aim to enhance the entire image surfing experience. No more typing is required as one has to simply hover their mouse over the related search links and Google will hover open an image preview of the first three images that will pop up if the query was searched.
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Bing has launched a new feature titled Linked Pages. This feature is designed to give users an opportunity to better the search results for their own names as well as that of their friends better and more personalized. Here is what Bing says about it, “With people search being such a high volume pastime, we're taking it a step further letting you have more control in how you show up on Bing. Beginning today, with Linked Pages, we’re letting you link websites related to you in search results. Now your friends looking for you online can find what you want them to find. You can also link pages to your friends to help them shine on Bing as well”
Google has now launched video support for schema.org and is directing webmasters to use it to describe their videos on the web.
Here is the official Google word on the same, “We're also launching video support for schema.org. Schema.org is a joint effort between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Yandex and is now the recommended way to describe videos on the web. The markup is very simple and can be easily added to most websites.”
Google is shutting down the direct AdSense For Domains program. The closing down process is divided into stages with the final curtains will fall on April 18, 2012. Google has said that this move will not affect the entire program, only the "direct AdSense for Domains" program.
Google+ always had it and Twitter too, and now Facebook has joined the ‘verified accounts only’ wagon.
What is Facebook Doing?
Facebook will now begin verifying the accounts of celebrities and other public figures. After verification, the user will be allowed to use their public aliases or nicknames as their Facebook name. Also the verified celebrity accounts will be displayed by Facebook advising users to ‘Subscribe’ to their public updates.
Twitter has launched a self serve advertising system for small businesses. Come March, and the small enterprises in the US, will be able to buy ads on Twitter through an automated system. This move by the San Francisco based social network will facilitate for raising huge revenue, competing with the likes of Google and Facebook. This is good news for advertisers too as they won’t have to go through a Twitter sales representative to post their ads anymore.
A report by local-mobile ad network xAd has shown some very promising numbers for the mobile search and ad market. The US based Q4-2011 data has been collected from mobile sites and apps that run the ads of xAd as well as the related user behavior taken into account.
After announcing that Timeline feature will be made mandatory for all of its 800+ million users, Facebook is now ready to take the next logical step or so it seems. Reports that Facebook will soon be making Timeline feature a compulsion for brand pages are doing rounds.
For many Google and Wikipedia are two most widely visited websites. Infact, Google is the reason why most of us visit Wikipedia. Google, co-founder, Sergey Brin believes that Wikipedia “one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet” and “an invaluable resource to anyone who is online”. It is not a hidden fact anymore that Google loves Wikipedia, whatever your Google search query is. There are 99% chances that, if Wikipedia has an article based on query, it will be shown on the first page.
Improving on AdWords sitelinks which was introduced in 2009, Google is now introducing what they call, "Enhanced Ad sitelinks".
Sitelinks are known to increase click through rate of an advertisement by 30% on an average, when compared to those without them. After continuously experimenting in an attempt to make them even better, Google now will be incorporating text ads in the AdWords sitelinks. In other words, if ads in your account are related to your sitelinks, then they will now be shown in AdWords listing too. Here's an example to show you how things will change:
@pagetraffic
