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Finding Photos will Now Get Easier with Google Search!

May 24, 2013 | 482 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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As the number of photos that you have taken increases, it gets overtly difficult to manage them in the photo library or your new device. Searching for the photographs is equally difficult because what you are looking for is visual.

Google Checkout Going Away in Six Months!

May 24, 2013 | 553 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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Here’s a bad news for Google Play developers and merchants who are using Google Checkout as a default payment option and an alternative to PayPal. Google has announced that the service is going away on November 20, 2013.

Although, Google Play developers will be moved to Google Wallet for the payment procedures. Google said that it needs an online payment processing solution for web merchants and has partnered with Freshbooks, Braintree, and Shopify. These are not free services and Google will be offering the services to merchants at discounted migration options.

Google Trends Introduces Monthly "Spirit of the Times" Top Charts!

May 23, 2013 | 494 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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You will now see bold color visualizations in the Google Trends. The reason being, newly introduced "spirit of the times" Top Charts feature that will display over 40 categories of Top 10 lists of people, places, and things, on the basis of the search interest.

Google Adds New Data Types to Data Highlighter Tool!

May 22, 2013 | 494 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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The data highlighter rich snippet market tool by Google is now updated with support for six additional data types. The tool was introduced in December 2012 in order to let tech-savvy webmasters markup their event based data. The tool however, worked only with the event data.

The update can be seen in the help page that displayed six new data types along with the events data type. The additions include:

Updated Google Hangouts Can't Make Phone Calls!

May 21, 2013 | 521 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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The latest update for Google's new unified messaging platform, Hangouts doesn't support the outbound phone calls functionality.

Nikhyl Singhal, director of real-time communication products for Google said that they are working on adding outbound calls for the Chrome and Web extension. However, Hangouts at present supports incoming calls for users only with Google Voice numbers. For users, who want to make phone calls, can use Google Talk till the time the functionality in Hangouts is available again.

Google Offers Introduced in Google+ Stream!

May 20, 2013 | 713 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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The latest from Google is the expansion of Google Offers services to Google+. The Google Offers reminds users of a limited-time deal available at a nearby business, via mobile app or email. With the update, users will be able to see, save, and share promotional deals within their Google+ stream.

Google to Make it Easier for Businesses to Reach Local Customers Searching on Google Maps!

May 18, 2013 | 2,826 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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Whether searching for a bakery store near house or a pizza outlet near office, people want quick, relevant, and useful results from Google Maps. Relevant commercial listings have not only added useful information to Google Maps, but have also helped businesses in connecting with the customers.

Matt Cutts on Why Do You See Multiple Results from One Domain in Search Results!

May 16, 2013 | 1,130 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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At times, searchers see multiple results from same domain in their search results. What is the reason behind? 

Matt Cutts in the latest video gave an answer to: 

Why does Google continue to present multiple results from one domain on a search result? (Does it really benefit the user to have 7 results from Yelp?)

Google gives a Whole New Look to the Google Maps!

May 16, 2013 | 539 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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Google has unveiled Google Maps with a brand new look. "A mapping experience that will help you in finding places you might have not ever thought of search for", is what Google has to say about the New Google Maps.

Google gives a Whole New Look to the Google Maps!

Starting today, the new Google Maps will be available for general public. Let's have a closer look at the features of the improved Google Maps:

Google Snapped Another Link Network, Hitting Several Thousand Link Sellers!

May 16, 2013 | 595 views | by Navneet Kaushal
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After giving several continuous warnings about Google's plans to act strictly against spamming, the search giant has finally acted against another link network.

Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team in his tweets said that Google has acted against "several thousand" link sellers, a part of link network that was involved in buying and selling of links to pass PageRank.