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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. Search plus your world can’t be good news for the other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as it prioritizes G+ content.

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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

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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. " The mistake. right at that very moment.

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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. With Google+’s Circle sharing feature, you can add hundreds of new people to your network with one click.

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Apple is Creating a “Social Network” the Right Way

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Today Apple launched, quite simply , a “Social Network for Music&#. What’s so powerful is that they’re not really trying to create a social network at all. Apple realizes the Social Graph is just a complement to something bigger. Facebook’s is the Social Graph.

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Is Google Losing Focus?

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When the search giant revealed its attempt at social networking, the news spread through the internet like wildfire. The most obvious evidence being the upcoming changes to Picasa and Blogger: both will soon be re-branded, likely as Google Photos and Google Blogs respectively. Everyone has heard about Google+ already.

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Klout Now Measures 10 Social Media Websites For Influence

Small Business Mavericks

In all, Klout is now measuring your influence across ten different social networks. It’s been measuring the activity on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for some time now. It will soon add Google+, Facebook pages, Yelp, Posterous, WordPress.com, and Quora as networks that it tracks for its users.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

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Find photos from Flickr or Picasa — be sure to use Creative Commons photos — or buy royalty-free stock photography, and put them in your blog posts for added impact. Also, share entire photo albums online via Twitter and Facebook. And not, say, photos of small animals pretending they’re people.

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