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Google announce Google Buzz: social media through Gmail | Kingpin-SEO Agency News

Google might own the world’s most popular search engine and video site, but one area where the Mountain View company isn’t doing quite as well is social media. This is a shame from them, considering the huge amount of money involved in services like Facebook and Twitter. Social media has been growing exponentially for the [...]

Over 3 Days to Walk From Kings Cross to The Angel With Google Maps – A long walk to SES London!!!

On a lighter note than usual… Many of the staff here at kingpin seo agency don’t like London tubes much – something about being cramped in underground with lots of other sweaty people puts them in a bad mood… So when planning Kingpin-SEO’s excursion to SES London, one staff member, Mark, decided to see how long it [...]

Ask Jeeves Produces New Ad Campaign

Ask Jeeves was set up in 1996 as an alternative to other search engines at the time. The general idea behind the website was to find results using natural language rather than having to worry about learning how to efficiently search on more complicated sites. The company also featured a butler called Jeeves on their [...]

Google Social Search in Beta

Google has been looking at trying to integrate information from social media websites into its search engine for some time, but this week the search engine has taken the next step, announcing that its social search feature has finally gone into beta accessible to users. The idea behind social search is to be integrating blogs, photos [...]

How will Google’s Chinese Withdrawal Affect Microsoft and Yahoo?

Following recent cyber attacks on Google.cn, the companies presence in China, Google have recently decided to cease censoring their search results in the country, which will likely lead to a full withdrawal considering such a decision is against the law in China, which heavily censors the internet in a method that has become known as [...]

Google Censoring Search Results… In Australia

Google has been in the news a lot this week as the search giant announced that it would stop the censoring of its search results in China which could lead to the service being shut down in the country entirely, and the offices closed down as it’s likely to be against the censorship heavy Chinese [...]

Facebook Beats Out Google for Christmas Day Usage

We’re used to seeing Google in the top list of websites for pure usage just about every day of the year, at least in American and the UK. But while our own English sights were kept firmly planted on Google over this Christmas period, the Americans strayed on Christmas Day when Facebook overtook Google as [...]

Google Loses Domain Name Lawsuit

Many different sites have tried to court the fame and success of the World’s most popular search engine by creating a domain name and even an entire brand around a similar theme to Google’s. However, Google is quick to deter people by launching lawsuits at everyone and anyone who has tried to imitate their name [...]

French President Speaks Out Against Google Book Project

US Search Engine Google has been attacked by the miniature President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, due to its plans to put much of the classic literature from the entire world in a digital format. Sarkozy has said that he doesn’t want the French part of classic literature put up online to aid the profits of [...]

Google announces cross domain duplicate content tag

What may come as a surprise to some webmasters is Google’s recent announcement that cross domain content duplication will be allowed. Google is recognizing that there are legitimate reasons to duplicate content across different websites. For example if you are migrating to a new domain name and using a Web server that cannot perform server-side redirects. [...]