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Is Google Losing Focus?

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Everyone has heard about Google+ already. When the search giant revealed its attempt at social networking, the news spread through the internet like wildfire. Google IS search. It’s safe to say that nearly everybody knows Google as a search engine. Is this a smart move? So what do you think?

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Search plus your world

Sherrilynne Starkie

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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Why Google+ Is The Place To Be For Local Business

Small Business Mavericks

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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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

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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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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

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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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

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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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

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. Kissing Cousins: Search and Social Media. Thanks for the traffic! – Jay).

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