Sherrilynne Starkie

JANUARY 16, 2012

Google is personalizing search results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa photos in a significant new initiative called Search plus Your World. Results may include non-public Google+ photos and posts that were shared with the specific user. Image via CrunchBase.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No need to fret, Google is here. Let''s go back in time to a blog post titled, Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown? And - make no mistake about it - both Facebook and Twitter are not fans of having their information indexed on Google." oh, wait, that sounds a lot like Google Circles , doesn''t it?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 22, 2011

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve written a few times about Google+, but what I haven’t done is told you why your local business should be using Google+ for social networking, marketing, and branding. Your Google profile gets a boost when you use Google+. Google+ is easy to use.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Since I originally published this post, you’re seeing Google do a lot of the things I predicted. Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. Thanks for the traffic! I believe this will all be true, eventually. – Jay).

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JANUARY 17, 2012

It's time to pay attention to Google+. Back in July, I Blogged about Google 's foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook ). At the time, the majority of the discourse surrounding Google+ was about whether or not it would be able to compete in a Facebook world.

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